ThinkGeek :: Women's Trench Coat from SeV
11 weeks ago by epersonae
18 pockets with "Weight Management System" - intriguing.
clothes
misctech
gifts
11 weeks ago by epersonae
FastMac | Product - U-Socket
february 2012 by epersonae
wired-in socket with USB ports. I think this is a more elegant/attractive solution, even if a bit more work
home
misctech
february 2012 by epersonae
Sound Economy with Jon Talton | Jobs on jobs: They ain't coming back | Seattle Times Newspaper
january 2012 by epersonae
"Yes, slave labor does have that advantage."
misctech
politics
january 2012 by epersonae
A Literary History of Word Processing - NYTimes.com
december 2011 by epersonae
“The story of writing in the digital age is every bit as messy as the ink-stained rags that would have littered Gutenberg’s print shop or the hot molten lead of the Linotype machine,” Mr. Kirschenbaum said, before asking a question he hopes he can answer: “Who were the early adopters, the first mainstream authors to trade in their typewriters for WordStar and WordPerfect?”
writing
history
misctech
december 2011 by epersonae
Data Furnaces Could Bring Heat to Homes - NYTimes.com
november 2011 by epersonae
"In the coldest climate, about 110 motherboards could keep a home as toasty as a conventional furnace does."
misctech
eco
home
science
november 2011 by epersonae
Less Human Than Human: The Design Philosophy of Apple | The Awl
november 2011 by epersonae
"For someone who thought that taste was connected to originality, one can't help noting that Jobs's taste was derivative in the extreme" Excellent essay on Jobs, some of the midcentury industrial designers, and William Morris.
arts
misctech
design
november 2011 by epersonae
Wondermark » Archive » #770; Race to the Top
november 2011 by epersonae
Includes absurd stickers for maximum awesome.
misctech
weird
funny
november 2011 by epersonae
A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
november 2011 by epersonae
Something I noticed in the video (w/out audio) is that when the kid was asking Mom for a recipe, Dad was RIGHT THERE. (Getting a beer, apparently.) WTF casual sexism?
design
society
misctech
november 2011 by epersonae
Steve Jobs’s Real Genius : The New Yorker
november 2011 by epersonae
“Well, Steve,” Gates responded. “I think there’s more than one way of looking at it. I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.” I find this genuinely hilarious...and find that I like Gates a little better for it.
misctech
history
november 2011 by epersonae
The Unsocial Network: Why Google Is Wrong to Kill Off Google Reader - Forbes
october 2011 by epersonae
Why google reader is an "anti-social network" and why that's a good thing. Much like pinboard, actually.
google
webdev
misctech
blogosphere
october 2011 by epersonae
Die, VPN! We're all "telecommuters" now—and IT must adjust
october 2011 by epersonae
::sigh:: (That's all I have to say about that.)
science
misctech
october 2011 by epersonae
Rip Rowan - Google+ - Stevey's Google Platforms Rant I was at Amazon for about…
october 2011 by epersonae
Too long & ranty to summarize, but quite interesting!
webdev
google
misctech
october 2011 by epersonae
What Everyone Is Too Polite to Say About Steve Jobs
october 2011 by epersonae
"a great man's reputation can withstand a full accounting"
misctech
history
politics
october 2011 by epersonae
Xobni Brings "Smartr" Social Intelligence Apps to Gmail & Android
september 2011 by epersonae
giving these a try. not sure if the Gmail widget is going to take up too much screen space.
google
misctech
android
september 2011 by epersonae
xkcd: File Transfer
september 2011 by epersonae
"Every time you email a file to yourself so you can pull it up on your friend's laptop, Tim Berners-Lee sheds a single tear." seriously, there's still nothing simpler than sneakernet.
misctech
funny
september 2011 by epersonae
A Short Rant About Hosting (Pinboard Blog)
august 2011 by epersonae
"Quick quiz: can your entire sales staff be replaced by a nicely formatted HTML table? If the answer is 'yes', then you are subtracting value and wasting my time." actually made me laugh.
misctech
webdev
august 2011 by epersonae
SparkleShare - Sharing work made easy
june 2011 by epersonae
want to keep an eye on this. (no windows version yet.)
opensource
misctech
june 2011 by epersonae
Atop TV Sets, Cable Boxes and DVRs Drain Power - NYTimes.com
june 2011 by epersonae
“I don’t want to use the word ‘lazy,’ but they have had different priorities, and saving energy is not one of them.” LAZY. In other news, cable companies still suck.
eco
misctech
june 2011 by epersonae
How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at Learning How to Code - Technology - The Atlantic
june 2011 by epersonae
Project Euler and the process of learning how to program.
academia
misctech
june 2011 by epersonae
An ethical bargain - O'Reilly Radar
june 2011 by epersonae
"As corporations we may be sociopathic, but even a sociopath knows that awkward questions aren't just uncomfortable, they're bad for business."
marketing
socialmedia
misctech
june 2011 by epersonae
Computer Science for Fun - cs4fn: Knitters and Coders: separated at birth?
may 2011 by epersonae
I almost/sorta learned how to knit in the winter of 1996/97, but never followed up on it.
crafty
misctech
may 2011 by epersonae
US FTC investigating Google's dominace of the Internet search industry - The Economic Times
may 2011 by epersonae
I got into a brief argument at one of the tech meetups downtown about whether Google could be considered a monopoly. (This is another reason I need to reread -- and make notes on -- The Master Switch, because it helped me get a better grasp on the topic of anti-trust in information industries.)
misctech
google
politics
may 2011 by epersonae
F.lux: software to make your life better
april 2011 by epersonae
curious to see how this works.
misctech
april 2011 by epersonae
danah boyd | apophenia » A Customer Service Nightmare: Resolving Trademark and Personal Reputation in a Limited Name Space
april 2011 by epersonae
"In a neoliberal environment, individuals have become corporatized just as corporations have become people. The lines are getting increasingly fuzzy."
society
misctech
facebook
socialmedia
business
april 2011 by epersonae
Legal disclaimers: Spare us the e-mail yada-yada | The Economist
april 2011 by epersonae
"Lawyers and experts on internet policy say no court case has ever turned on the presence or absence of such an automatic e-mail footer in America, the most litigious of rich countries."
society
misctech
april 2011 by epersonae
Don’t Call Me, I Won’t Call You - NYTimes.com
march 2011 by epersonae
there are a very few people who I like to talk to on the phone, and a very few number of kinds of conversation that I find easier on the phone. otherwise, DO NOT WANT.
personal
misctech
march 2011 by epersonae
Open Attribute
march 2011 by epersonae
for one-click formatting (?) of CC-license attributing.
copyright
webdev
photography
misctech
march 2011 by epersonae
Seldom a love story: IT and end users - O'Reilly Radar
march 2011 by epersonae
"Prioritization must be determined by the business, not an IT staffer who's just trying to do the right thing."
productivity
misctech
march 2011 by epersonae
Much of Rural America Still Struggles With Broadband Access - NYTimes.com
february 2011 by epersonae
sweet that the local library leaves their wifi on all night so people can get online in the parking lot.
politics
wifi
misctech
urbanstudies
february 2011 by epersonae
Rediscovering WWII's female 'computers' - CNN.com
february 2011 by epersonae
lovely story, just added the documentary to my netflix instant queue.
history
gender
misctech
february 2011 by epersonae
Don't Make Me Steal
february 2011 by epersonae
some of the pricing particulars are odd, but in general, I'm with this. I'm more than happy to pay (a little) or use the library if it's easier and better.
security
arts
library
misctech
february 2011 by epersonae
The Day Apple Became Nathan Myhrvold « Mike Cane's xBlog
february 2011 by epersonae
"for this continued vandalism they expect a 30% — in Myhrvold’s delightful turn of phrase — vig?"
mac
business
writing
misctech
february 2011 by epersonae
Gizmodo: best free texting apps
december 2010 by epersonae
For between me & C, I'm also thinking about using Google Talk. (They
recommend Google Voice.)
Android
google
misctech
recommend Google Voice.)
december 2010 by epersonae
MetaFilter | Community Weblog
december 2010 by epersonae
This is a test of posting to pinboard on my phone by email.
Personal
android
mobileweb
misctech
december 2010 by epersonae
6 reasons event organizers should adopt the Conference Anti-Harassment Policy | Geek Feminism Blog
december 2010 by epersonae
"Think of it like a seatbelt: hopefully you’ll never need it, and maybe it’ll make a few folk uncomfortable, but you’ll be happy it was there if you have to slam on the brakes."
gender
society
writing
misctech
december 2010 by epersonae
White, male startup companies get funding for being white and male. | Geek Feminism Blog
november 2010 by epersonae
"In other industries—and if uttered by someone without a university education—people would call it “sexism”, “racism”, and “ageism”, but not in the technology venture-capital industry" -- also, amused by the "Remington Steele" suggestion in the comments.
gender
finance
misctech
november 2010 by epersonae
google-refine - Project Hosting on Google Code
november 2010 by epersonae
"a power tool for working with messy data, cleaning it up, transforming it from one format into another, extending it with web services, and linking it to databases like Freebase"
misctech
november 2010 by epersonae
What a Hundred Million Calls to 311 Reveal About New York | Magazine | Wired.com
november 2010 by epersonae
"a pilot program in Brooklyn sponsored by OpenPlans that scouted areas needing bike racks by encouraging people to “take pictures of places where there are bikes locked up to every object in sight—to show the demand.”" lots of good stuff here, but this bit gave me an idea...
bpac
politics
local
olympia
bicycling
misctech
urbanstudies
november 2010 by epersonae
Gov Docs online - can you trust them?
october 2010 by epersonae
interesting take from a librarian on authenticity etc. (fodder for a future blog post?)
politics
history
library
misctech
october 2010 by epersonae
Jake Poznanski - Debugging Behind the Iron Curtain
october 2010 by epersonae
"the story of how and why, in late summer of 1986, Sergei decided to move his family out of the Soviet Union" freaky.
history
politics
science
misctech
october 2010 by epersonae
My Decade at Directions on Microsoft « MattyDread
october 2010 by epersonae
"Remember Kremlinologists? That’s what Directions on Microsoft is. Only about Microsoft."
misctech
october 2010 by epersonae
The Big Lie About Private vs. Public Innovation | NewAmerica.net
september 2010 by epersonae
"The next time someone tells you that the private sector is the engine of innovation in the US economy, laugh in their face" - indeed.
society
politics
misctech
september 2010 by epersonae
rc3.org - Victims of economic restructuring are people too
september 2010 by epersonae
"It wasn’t strategic thinking that led me to choose software development, it was the realization that I didn’t really like interviewing people."
society
finance
politics
misctech
webdev
september 2010 by epersonae
I give you the ability to do this because I trust you | MetaTalk
september 2010 by epersonae
linked purely for this: "no ordinary person can compete with the shrewd cruelty of a bunch of programmers convinced that they are right and their opponents are retarded apes" which sums up the problem with the hacker culture as described in the Hackers book.
philosophizing
misctech
september 2010 by epersonae
Roberta Williams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
september 2010 by epersonae
from Hackers. Near as I can tell, there would not have *been* a Sierra On-Line if not for her interest in storytelling.
history
gender
misctech
september 2010 by epersonae
Jude Milhon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
september 2010 by epersonae
quote from Hackers: "She noted the lack of female hardware hackers, and was enraged at the male hacker obsession with technological play and power. She summed up her feelings with the epithet 'the boys and their toys'"
history
gender
misctech
september 2010 by epersonae
Margaret Hamilton (scientist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
september 2010 by epersonae
from Hackers. noticed that she was born the same year as my dad. "Before her developmental contributions, the on board flight software needed to land on the moon did not exist."
gender
history
space
misctech
september 2010 by epersonae
How To: Install and Browser Test Your Site With Google Android Right on Your PC |
september 2010 by epersonae
this is for an old version of Android.
android
mobileweb
misctech
september 2010 by epersonae
Installing Google Android for Mobile Browser Testing on Mac OS X |
september 2010 by epersonae
Same instructions, basically, for Windows, although there's one little step in another tutorial that may or may not matter.
android
mobileweb
misctech
september 2010 by epersonae
U.S. Officer In Afghanistan Mows Down PowerPoint Rangers | Danger Room | Wired.com
august 2010 by epersonae
not really so much about the *PowerPoint* as it is about the inanity of military bureaucracy.
war
politics
misctech
august 2010 by epersonae
Dan Ariely » Blog Archive Back to School #1 «
august 2010 by epersonae
"Even Skinner had a trick to counterbalance daily distractions" email = skinner box (and I've tried a variant of that trick, too. it helps a lot.)
psychology
blogosphere
productivity
misctech
august 2010 by epersonae
A Review of Verizon and Google's Net Neutrality Proposal | Electronic Frontier Foundation
august 2010 by epersonae
This is the first thing I read that helped me actually understand the proposal.
google
politics
mobileweb
misctech
august 2010 by epersonae
CSSquirrel : Comic: Kyle Weems
august 2010 by epersonae
that's me in the hat, supposedly. ;) linked blog post is interesting. yeah, the swearing might've been a bit much.
gender
personal
arts
misctech
webdev
august 2010 by epersonae
So you want to hire a ninja, do you? | Mettaprogramming
july 2010 by epersonae
"What if I told you that ninjas are just zombies with black bags over their heads?" (interesting little gender-tweak there in the middle, btw. blink & you might miss it.)
gender
psychology
productivity
misctech
webdev
july 2010 by epersonae
Microsoft Launches Outlook Facebook Integration [Exclusive]
july 2010 by epersonae
ye gods and little fishes.
facebook
blogosphere
weird
misctech
july 2010 by epersonae
Lab tests: Why Consumer Reports can't recommend the iPhone 4
july 2010 by epersonae
"Our findings call into question the recent claim by Apple that the iPhone 4's signal-strength issues were largely an optical illusion caused by faulty software" -- also, apparently likely to be a more significant issue for lefties.
mac
mobileweb
misctech
july 2010 by epersonae
Is Google App Inventor A Gateway Drug Or A Doomsday Device For Android?
july 2010 by epersonae
interesting take, comparisons to early WYSIWYG are probably well-founded, both in good and bad aspects.
android
misctech
july 2010 by epersonae
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