links for 2008-09-26
Posted in links on Sep 26th, 2008
How commercials ought to be Enthralling. (tags: television commercial ad howto humor towatch)
Monthly Archive for September, 2008
links for 2008-09-25
Posted in links on Sep 25th, 2008
YouTube – Palin’s experience in just 12 minutes You need to watch this. Sarah Palin is the least experienced candidate for VP. Ever. (tags: politics video lessing)
Pay No Attention To The Man Behind the Curtain
Posted in social issues on Sep 25th, 2008
Or in this case, the man behind the Palin or Wall Street bailout negotiation. The Republicans and the McCain campaign have done a masterful job of changing the subject of this Presidential election. For weeks not it hasn’t been about John McCain and Barack Obama, it has been about Sarah Palin instead. And now that [...]
One of the best parts about having your own website is the endless opportunity for tweaking and fiddling. I’ve gone back and forth a couple of time on how to incorporate links I’ve posted to my delicious account; should they be in a “links of the day” posting, or just captured in the sidebar. I’m [...]
links for 2008-09-24
Posted in links on Sep 24th, 2008
P&F: The Programmer and the Elves: a Fairy Tale (tags: humor fortran programming funny coding wisdom tales) Schneier on Security: The Two Classes of Airport Contraband I’m still not convinced that anything we’ve done in the last 7 years would stop another 9-11 style event. (tags: airport security tsa schneier interesting toread) 10 Books that [...]
links for 2008-09-23
Posted in links on Sep 23rd, 2008
Hiding in Plain Sight – washingtonpost.com (tags: election2008 johnmccain sarahpalin politics toread) Op-Ed Columnist – Cash for Trash – Op-Ed – NYTimes.com (tags: krugman nyt economy bailout bad_idea toread)
The Power of Assertiveness
Posted in life, social issues on Sep 23rd, 2008
I rarely, if ever, give out my work email address. I have enough personal email addresses, that I don’t need the one my employer provides for anything other than work related correspondence. Sometimes, however, in order to get information from a vendor or software support center, I have provided my work email to people outside of [...]
links for 2008-09-22
Posted in social issues on Sep 22nd, 2008
Microsoft’s “I’m a PC” Ads – made on a Mac – Boing Boing (tags: mac humor apple windows microsoft television ads) naked capitalism: Why You Should Hate the Treasury Bailout Proposal (tags: toread interesting politics economy bailout subprime credit_crisis) New York in Black and White – Wired New York Forum Very impressive collection of black [...]
links for 2008-09-21
Posted in social issues on Sep 21st, 2008
Grasshopper escapement – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (tags: wikipedia animation clock escapement) Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive – Former Secretaries of State to next President: Get over it. Get real. Be smart « – Blogs from CNN.com Thank you, thank you, thank you. (tags: politics ideas toread election2008) How Long Could You Survive Chained to [...]
Learning to Shave
Posted in life on Sep 20th, 2008
For my 15th or 16th birthday, my parents gave me an electric shaver. At the time I only needed to shave every few days, and the speed and convenience of the electric was a good fit for my teenage approach to shaving. Over the years I’ve had many replacements of that original shaver, all but [...]