- Hugh Hefner: Teen Cartoonist
- Have you ever ordered any of these secret restaurant menu items?
- Congratulations to the Gators, who won their first NCAA Indoor Track Championship this weekend. (It’s nice when the football team has a running back who spends the offseason being one of the fastest sprinters in the nation.)
- A solar-powered iPhone charger is a pretty cool idea.
- Almost everyone I know uses a computer on a daily basis. Almost nobody I know understands the differences between files, applications, and websites. That’s why Apple is doing the smart thing by hiding all of that.
- “Bad programming is easy. Idiots can learn it in 21 days, even if they are dummies.”
- The best way to learn about database design is to design databases. It sounds simple. It gets more complicated when you try to design a database to manage gay marriage.
- There are quite a few pearls of wisdom in the 2009 annual letter to shareholders from Warren Buffett.
- Somebody needs to buy me these boots. They are awesome. Size 11, please.
- This was a sort of depressing headline to see in my feed reader: Once-revered South Carolina lawmaker freezes to death alone.
- “Faced with a flood of headlines on an ever-increasing variety of topics, we shut off. We turn to news that doesn’t require much understanding — crime, traffic, weather — or we turn off the news altogether.”
- I’ve been looking for a way to run three displays from my MacBook Pro for over a year now and not found any that weren’t ridiculously expensive. And then I came across this guy running four displays!
- Geek out with this awesome CSS3 Generator.
Posts tagged “MacBook Pro”
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- If you are (a) a man or (b) a woman, you should read Kay S. Hymowitz’ Love in the Time of Darwinism: A report from the chaotic postfeminist dating scene, where only the strong survive.
- Fascinating facts can be found with a statistical analysis of graffiti found at the University of Chicago Library.
- I never knew there was a name specifically for the edges of uncut book pages.
- In 1959 the Santa Susana Field Laboratory suffered a partial radioactive meltdown, leading to the contamination of the neighboring hills in Canoga Park. Now a group of Oak Park tenth-graders — Teens Against Toxins — are trying to reverse that contamination with a bake sale. (The cities of Simi Valley, Thousand Oaks, Oak Park, and Chatsworth all have extremely high rates of cancers similar to only one other place in the world: Chernobyl.)
- There are literally hundreds of t-shirts in my closet, and I swore I wouldn’t get any more. But I must have this one. (Maybe I will have one of my other ones turned into a sleeve for my MacBook Pro.)
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Switching to Mac: Top Ten Things I Like
In which I write about switching to Mac
Converting to Mac
In which I finally bite the bullet