A while ago I upgraded my Portable Firefox (now called FirefoxPortable) and due to the name change and a significant brain fart, lost my bookmarks. (Annoyed Grunt). So until I get over the psychic scarring, I’ll be posting a lot of links here. Feh. Really useful free software for Windows. Simple index of useful templates […]
Compact Appliances. That pretty much sums it up. Well, except for the combination appliances.
My current favorite tools are Stim-U-Dents and TiddlyWiki. I recommend them to all!
Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern, Hofstadter. Non-fiction.
After reading her name, I expected Deborah Jakubs to look like Deborah Jacobs but, you know, with a goatee and a gold sash.
The Historian, Kostova. Yes. I found very little to dislike about this book. I hear that lots of folks disliked it, and my librarian speculates that there may have been a reflexive "I don’t like genre fiction" effect. It’s enough to make me sympathize with Harlan Ellison’s quest to get his works out of the […]
I am linking to this story about 3d video clips of the sun solely so I can say "Coronal mass ejections? Sounds like spring break at Cabo!" The nine-o’clock show is completely different from the six-o’clock. Try the veal. Tip your waitresses.
Despite its understandable focus on business, I found this article on how becoming great at anything takes a lot of practice extremely interesting. I was especially struck by the notion of "deliberate practice", and how it’s the only practice that matters when seeking improvement.
Yet still more research into how to do something that will almost certainly be misused. I do wonder whether Flexitral‘s theory would allow them to reduce the "hundreds" of chemicals the olfactograph requires. Update: poking around Flexitral’s pages led me to this bit of marketing to a narrow audience: "the first carnation aromachemical incorporating a […]
Flights, ed. Sarrantonio. No. It’s perhaps not entirely fair to dismiss the entire collection, but the first half convinced me that I would be better off skipping the second half. I had a bad feeling about the collection from the word "Extreme" in the subtitle, and this feeling was reinforced by the presence of a […]