hober tumbles elsewhere

EMACS TAKES ALL THE FUN OUT OF INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:29:45 -0400

arielwaldman: RT @qdot HOLY SHITTING FUCK IT'S INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY http://capslockday.com
adora: @arielwaldman CAPSLOCK IS FOR WIMPS! HARDCORE GEEKS SHOUT WITH THE SHIFT KEY!
hober: @adora actually, hardcore geeks type normally, then use C-x C-u (bound to 'upcase-region').
adora: @hober I humbly concede, however...is that as fun as using your left pinky to "floor it" while pounding on the rest of the kbd? I think not.
hober: @adora what can I say? Emacs is an elegant weapon for a more civilized age.

gina: via tamar

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:44:41 -0400

gina:

via tamar

How To Launch Software

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:38:42 -0400

How To Launch Software:

h3h:

One of the infrequent times that I completely agree with Aaron Swartz and completely disagree with 37signals.

Hear, hear.

geekkink: stackcrash: Leave Steve Jobs Alone!!! (via...

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:37:28 -0400

geekkink:

stackcrash:

Leave Steve Jobs Alone!!! (via BedheadBlog)

gtmcknight: karmcity: Watching people work on their laptops in a coffee shop is like watching...

Thu, 29 May 2008 12:36:52 -0400

gtmcknight:

karmcity:

Watching people work on their laptops in a coffee shop is like watching people drive. Everyone is in their own little world, oblivious to the fact that they’re making a tortured face while reading a strange e-mail, or smiling wildly while watching a YouTube video.

I see you!

gtmcknight: via superselect

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:50:41 -0400

gtmcknight:

via superselect

"…sales of Guitar Hero and Rock Band brought in more revenue in 2007 than digital music downloads..."

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:41:58 -0400

“…sales of Guitar Hero and Rock Band brought in more revenue in 2007 than digital music downloads from services like iTunes. The two videogame franchises made their respective publishers $935 million USD combined, while digital music sales came in at about $835m.”

- Primotech (via gtmcknight)

Muxtape Launch

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:59:14 -0400

muxtape:

Muxtape is up, you can create an account and start using it right away. Here’s my muxtape. The feature set is minimal to start with, but expect rapid developments. This tumblr will serve as a changelog and to highlight new features as they evolve. Your feedback is greatly appreciated!

Please, Do Not Be Alarmed.

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:21:00 -0400

emptyage:

Dearest Reader,

I am not in Texas.

I am not driking avocado margaritas, taking ecstacy, or having run ins with the law. I do not have a MacBook Air, I do not use my iPhone in flight, and I have never, ever, called myself a Web Communities Strategy Developer. Or a Social Web Applications Design Strategist. (Although I have met people who do, and, no, I don’t know what it means either.)

No, I’m just Shadow Twittering Austin’s annual South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive festival. Nothing more. It is all shenanigans.

I realized I probably needed to spell this out after I received an alarmed phone call from my mother, who subscribes to my site feed, and had seen something that alarmed her. I had forgotten that, since making the switch to Tumblr, my Twitter feed is republished here. Mea Culpa, Mom. For you, and everyone else, here’s the deal:

Twitter came into its own last year during SXSW. It marked a tipping point, where it really took off. And when it did, it temporarily turned useless for me, at least for the duration of the festival. As everyone twittered about their flights, food, panel discussions, random celebrity sightings, tacos and subsequent bowel movements, I found I had no reason to read.

This year, rather than ignoring the whole thing, with seemingly every Web-something-or-another professional once again converged on Austin, I decided to play along.

So there I am. In Austin. Drunk. Foolish. Recklessly and unknowingly wealthy. Using pointless hashtags in my 140 character messages, and generally espousing the kind of optimistic hyperbolic nonsense that would indicate I have no memory of the years 1999 and 2000 when everyone with any sense realized it’s just a business, and not some sort of Utopian Flan we shall all consume together in glory!

But it is just a business. And if you ever fucking forget that at the end of the day your only purpose is to deliver to your customers what they need, you shall soon be back to tapping your trust fund. If you are not already.

In the meantime, however, you can join me in Austin, where I shall drop names and acid with equal abandon. It shall not be true, but perhaps it will be fun.

Yours,

Mat

"Haskell, OCaml and their ilk are part of a 45-year-old static-typing movement within academia to try..."

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:21:15 -0500

“Haskell, OCaml and their ilk are part of a 45-year-old static-typing movement within academia to try to force people to model everything. Programmers hate that. These languages will never, ever enjoy any substantial commercial success, for the exact same reason the Semantic Web is a failure. You can’t force people to provide metadata for everything they do. They’ll hate you.”

- Steve Yegge (via dancroak)

dphiffer: Left: All the water in the world (1.4087 billion...

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:41:40 -0500

dphiffer:

Left: All the water in the world (1.4087 billion cubic kilometres of it) including sea water, ice, lakes, rivers, ground water, clouds, etc. Right: All the air in the atmosphere (5140 trillion tonnes of it) gathered into a ball at sea-level density. Shown on the same scale as the Earth.

(via garfieldminusgarfield)

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:05:33 -0500

(via garfieldminusgarfield)

samreich: Could also be, in order, a uniped with a cane, a...

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:02:53 -0500

samreich:

Could also be, in order, a uniped with a cane, a ghost, and a dancing hippie.

heh

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:07:04 -0500

Shawn Morrison: What are you up to tonight?
Me: I was thinking about building a scale model replica of the Brooklyn Bridge out of matchsticks.
Me: And then murdering the first 3 people I see on the street.
Me: And then watching The Princess Bride.
Shawn Morrison: So you have plans.

Tumbly Goodness

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:11:37 -0400

Tumbly Goodness:

I tumblelog over there, not over here.