Category Archives: Pals
The Fish that Fell in Love with the Moon
Once upon a time, there was a fish that fell in love with the moon. While other fish swam in water warmed by the sun, our fish waited for the cool moonshine and the rise of his beloved moon.
He loved the moon and everything about her. He loved her delicately laced surface, the [...]
An explosive tale about airport security
I really really dug this post about carrying gunpowder through airport security.
You can’t create a secure airport that is worth traveling through. The solution isn’t to figure out every possible way that people can attack airports and prevent those… That’s an insolvable problem. A better way is to find people who are trying to hurt [...]
In The Name of Science!
Sometimes a revolution begins with a simple idea. Edwizzle has such an idea.
We demand video in the name of science!
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 [...]
How Ning made me a chump and how you can avoid it
The problem with Software as a Service is you don’t own it.
You get it for free, but you don’t have a stake and you don’t have negotiating power. Instead, try to work with services that give you an exit plan or that have the safety stamp of an aGPL license.1
Who cares?
Let me back up and [...]
Also posted in User Experience Tagged antichump, bitrot, freedom, long, my.own.cloud, ning, ownership, property, SAAS, tl;dr 6 Comments
How to make money from market volatility
A friend recently wrote me about a strategy he heard for exploiting market volatility. I get these questions sometimes because I’m in finance, and because I’m in finance let me be up front. I’m not giving you financial advice here. I’m not an advisor, I’m not competent, you should probably close this page now and [...]
Also posted in Economics, Get.rich.quick, Money Tagged charts, etfs, finance, moolah, tl;dr, volatility, volatility drag 2 Comments
My Best Books of 2009
I like to read.
Here are the best books I read this year.
Nonfiction
Born On A Blue Day & Embracing the Wide Sky by Daniel Tammet
Yes, it’s two books, but it’s really about the same subject. Daniel Tammet is an autistic gay savant synesthete. He won the unusualness lottery. The first book is his life [...]
Bringing Something to the Party
I just noticed that Paul Carr has released his new book, “Bringing Nothing to the Party: True Confessions of a New Media Whore” as a Creative Commons BY-NC licensed download for the US. And the, um, rest of the internet.
I’m going to read it on my hot new Droid phone, but there’s only a [...]
How to Migrate from Wordpress.com to Wordpress.org
ordpress.com is great. They’ve got a great freemium model that allows anyone to get hooked up with a blog with the swiftness. I’m a huge fan, but of course there are limits in what you can do when you don’t have your own hosting. They have limitations on plugins and themes and so [...]
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