Tag Archives: Incentives
Review: Makers by Cory Doctorow
I loved this book. Forget my review and go get it now, it’s wonderful. If you don’t have the scratch right now, that’s ok: Cory Doctorow walks the talk and has published his book under a creative commons license. You can get “Makers” for free at his site as a pdf, as html, ePub, or as [...]
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The NYC Government IT has given up.
My buddy Ian has a great post about his experience trying to find out if he had to move his car. Seems the DOT updates this info on Twitter rather than putting it out on their own website. Now that’s just crazy, but I know why. Sam used to work for the city and I’ve [...]
Why the Business Hates the Software Developers
Inspired by “Why I Hate Frameworks” So I wanted a custom spice rack, one that would really help my restaurant, but I didn’t want to build it myself. I’m no carpenter. I hired one though. “Can you build me a spice rack? Here’s what I need – “ “Just a sec,” he interrupted. “I’m going [...]
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That Loathsome Phrase
“Someone has too much free time!” My hackles rise, my humours boil, and my smile disappears when I hear this. It is a defense of sloth, a milquetoast reproach of work and effort and love. But this post isn’t about that horror of a phrase. It’s about the folks who use their free time. The [...]
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Let’s not applaud yet.
I’m just waking up on sunday morning and I throw on the news. NBC has found this family of butter trolls and given them a nutritionist and a physical trainer man. It’s three months later and they show the before picture of dad. He was 303 pounds, 6’3. Three months and he’s lost 28 pounds. [...]
Internet Explorer, Firefox Preview release and porn.
I’ve recommended to a number of my friends and coworkers that they get firefox for a nicer time browsing this here interweb. If you are still using Internet Explorer, it’s important that you get it updated rightnow. There is a current vulnerability in IE that means simply looking at a .jpg can let bad guys [...]
Is your internet provider cheating you?