Archive for the ‘links’ category

Things that are awesome

August 15th, 2008

In the spirit of Dive Into Mark’s list… Guitar Noise, an awesome blog for guitar players of all levels, especially this section for beginners. An online metronome, because I don’t have an offline metronome. Guake, which lets me access my terminal almost as fast as I can think. Frati Gelato Cafe in downtown Fullerton. rdiff-backup, [...]

Random thoughts and tidbits from elsewhere

August 5th, 2008

When I have random thoughts I write them down, or Jott them, or record voice memos. Sometimes they accumulate into something cohesive and meaningful and less random. This… this is some of the more, uh, entropic stuff. So, Cuil. I don’t think it’ll catch on because people would rather google themselves than cuil themselves. The [...]

Things I’ve learned

April 22nd, 2008

New post by yours truly over at The Blogfathers: Things I’ve learned about parenting and marriage.

game mod

January 26th, 2008

“Someone said that you don’t have to learn how to play an instrument to make music with it. They saw first-hand that the same applies with coding, and that there’s no point in being shy about touching the inside parts of an interactive medium.” Game Mod was a six hour long workshop with the objective [...]

Dangers of blogging (for men)

January 4th, 2008

Investor and prankster Yossi Vardi delivers a careful lecture on the dangers of blogging. Specifically, um, for men. Yossi Vardi: The “dangers” of blogging

Cure for sleep

December 30th, 2007

The cure for sleep is on the horizon! The cure for death won’t be far behind.

5 dangerous things you should let your kids do

December 21st, 2007

Gever Tulley, founder of the Tinkering School, talks about our new wave of overprotected kids — and spells out 5 (and really, he’s got 6) dangerous things you should let your kids do. Allowing kids the freedom to explore, he says, will make them stronger and smarter and actually safer. TED Talks: Gever Tulley: 5 [...]

Google Christmas Card

December 10th, 2007

Awww… isn’t Google sweet in a cuddly-mega-corporation kind of way? Best Wishes for 2008 from Google.

The Story of Stuff

December 5th, 2007

“The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world.”

Free Rice

November 30th, 2007

Briefly reached vocab level 41 and donated 1,200 grains of rice today. Free Rice