January 2008
35 posts
Ruby regular expression editor →
TOTALLY Rubular.
10 Simple Ways to Do Only Three Things Today →
If I could make this work, I’d be the happiest boy in puppetland.
My favorite thing about this Starbucks? The teen with the huge beret writing a tortured blog entry about how nobody takes him seriously.
l:celebration, fl. One difference between real and synthetic small towns is that in Mayberry the barista can afford to LIVE in Mayberry.
finally a new TMBG podcast. Worth the wait.
internet cafes are leaving money on the table by NOT having ex-pro wrestlers available to guard your laptop while you poop.
for some reason, the spoodley smooth jazz stopped and the theme from “taxi” started playing. How very random.
Cinematic Titanic →
Joel and the rest of the original MST3K cast are back, and I, for one, am stoked.
l:panera bread, mall at millennia, orlando, fl. Smooth Jazz is neither.
long day
The sleeveface Pool →
Best. Flickr. Pool. Evar.
sometimes I’m blown away by something as simple as a yogurt lid. It’s a long story.
the IDEA of scriptaculous is so much better than it’s break-everything-except-firefox fartiness
the carnage wrought on the average digestive system by veggie sloppy joes should not be twittered about under any circumstances. So I w …
RSS in Plain English →
I am going to subscribe my parents to Common Craft’s feed.
Eloquent JavaScript →
Sweet online book with a nice console for trying the examples. I need to spend some more time tinkering with my favorite language.
enjoying a laptop-free day (and ruining the Amish streak by twittering)
(from the site) flipmydesign.com brings the web... →
the new mobile safari version of Campfire is bad ass.
@benstein you are in direct and flagrant violation of the Responsible Twittering Act. The authorities will be waiting for you when you land.
Don't make the Wii Jedi Knight game suck! Petition →
“1032 examples, 0 failures, 12 pending
what’s up now, bitches‽”
– Ben, interrobang-pimp-slapping RSpec.
Resetting lost MySQL password →
This saved my bacon this morning. Good stuff.
whenever Ira Glass mentions that David Sedaris is coming up next, I feel like I won something.
Ready to leave my car at the dealership and roam the earth like kane from kung fu.
Evidently 30 minutes of oil change time translates into more than an hour (and counting) of actual, human time.
Unobtrusive Javascript →
Another win for the good guys — definitely worth a look-see.
Installing RMagick on Leopard (without MacPorts or... →
Nice run-through, and an appropriate snipe at MacPorts and Fink. I had to do a little jiggery-pokery with the URLs (as was described in the comments, more or less), but good stuff.
Keep Moving Forward →
EXACTLY the kind of rant I subject my family to whenever we go to EPCOT.
McDonald's →
Okay - I hate flash interfaces, and I’m not huge on McDonalds, but I have to admit that there’s something extremely bad ass about this UI. And I’d roll my own grandma for a McGriddle, hold the sausage.
How to become a vegetarian →
Give it a whirl. Good for the environment, good for your karma, and good for your prodigious booty.