January 2010 Twenty-eight posts

31-Jan-2010

Snowed yesterday A lot. It caused the event I was going to go to: NC jQuery Camp, to get postponed till later in February. I’m still looking forward to a North Carolina adventure in coding. So we were snowed in Saturday, except for some preliminary snow shoveling I did. Today, Sunday started at 5am and I went...

javascript snow weather
30-Jan-2010

I finished Red Remover Altogether, Red Remover was pretty hard. If I finish a silly Flash game I don’t necessarily take a screenshot, but this one was pretty darn hard.

flash games
27-Jan-2010

Apple to retcon the PADD PADD = “PADD” is an acronym for Personal Access Display Device, a hand-held computer interface, used as early as the 22nd century and well into the 24th century. Supposedly Apple Computer of Cupertino, California will be retconning the PADD in about an hour. I will defer to Jason Kottke on what the best sources of...

apple computers ipad scifi star-trek
25-Jan-2010

Why can’t American airport security be run more like Israeli? While North America’s airports groan under the weight of another sea-change in security protocols, one word keeps popping out of the mouths of experts: Israelification. That is, how can we make our airports more like Israel’s, which deal with far greater terror threats with far less inconvenience. “It is mind boggling for us Israelis to...

Israel terrorism travel
25-Jan-2010

The Comics Journal: Online & Off For some cultural things I much prefer the journalism about a thing more than the thing itself. Sports is one area, for example, I really enjoy the reporting of Bob Costas and HBO’s Real Sports show. Another area where the reportage gets more attention than the thing itself is in comics. You may or may...

comics
25-Jan-2010

Prop 8 Trial Coverage If you were interested in Proposition 8 court coverage from those working against Prop 8, you might check out: http://firedoglake.com/prop8trial/ and http://prop8trialtracker.com/.

california gay-marriage
24-Jan-2010

A trapped moment from July, 2009 Part of running WordPress is that when you start a post, your draft will get saved. It looks like on 21 July 2009 I cut and pasted this — I think from a quick email I sent with my cell phone to Leah while I was visiting my Grandparents for a while. Thanks for the...

family jean-crawford joseph-james-crawford memories
24-Jan-2010

Brian Eno, always interesting You can read selected quotes below or simply click through to: On gospel, Abba and the death of the record: an audience with Brian Eno: On the intensity of ideas: “If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas. You...

Brian Eno interview
24-Jan-2010

People ages 1 to 100 Wonderful. People In Order: 1. Age from James Price

videos
23-Jan-2010

“Information Architecture” explained Making the rounds:

information-architecture