How to: Soften butter quickly
Great how-to article from Simply Recipes on how to soften butter quickly. I guess jamming it into the microwave for a few seconds isn't really 'softening' butter, it is more like melting…
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MarsEdit 2.3 is out and supports Tumblr
You may have seen me quip about MarsEdit the other day on Twitter. Really, though, it is an excellent piece of software that should be given a go by anyone that writes…
Quietube now supports Viddler
Quietube, which I linked to the other day, removes all of the cruft from around videos on sites like YouTube and now Viddler and Vimeo. Here is an example of what the…
Random 60: Doing what you love, not what you’re good at.
[viddler id-5c5b7c71 h-357 w-420] Random 60: Doing what you love, not what you're good at. Favorite on Viddler. Please consider sharing this on Twitter. Thanks. I often find myself doing things that…
Trailer: Where The Wild Things Are
Where The Wild Things Are looks great. I'd have more to say but I don't want to take up too much time as I believe this trailer will be getting removed from…
Wolfenstein 3D now on the iPhone, but wait, there’s more
id Software recently released Wolfenstein 3D for the iPhone. This is fantastic news. The game that started the entire first-person shooter genre is now on the iPhone. But there is more. id…
Calorie needs
Pat Dryburgh, my dieting nemesis, wrote up what I think is a thoughtful approach to his diet. He explains how he measured his current caloric intake and then researched what his intake…
Glims for Safari
Glims for Safari is a input-manager hack (I think) that enables a few 'nice to have' features. First, it adds favicons to tabs. I am not sure about you, but the new…
Quietube
You've probably seen this elsewhere already… but this is just like Readability in that this small bookmarklet removes all of the cruft around YouTube videos leaving you with just the video to…
Random 60: Reading.
[viddler id-7eba55b5 h-357 w-420] Random 60: Reading. Favorite on Viddler. In this fast paced, Twitter-powered world it seems like all we do is consume shorter, and shorter bits of data. First it…
SEPTA fail
The FAIL meme strikes again! This time it is my friend Albert Yee, whom I've mentioned before, that is setting up a fail blog for SEPTA (or the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority)….
Why grow sentences?
Related to Growing Sentences with David Foster Wallace: Shaun Inman nails it. "This is how I design. This is how I code. This should really be how I write." Word Shaun, word.
Philly Beer Week 2009 coverage
My friend Tony Green, whom I've mentioned before, has done an excellent job covering his experiences at Philly Beer Week 2009. I've always had aspirations to attend this event in Philadelphia and…
Random 60: What to do about Flickr?
[viddler id-c77e0a5c h-357 w-420] Random 60: What to do about Flickr? Favorite on Viddler. I've been a Flickr member since mid-summer 2004. I've been a Flickr Pro member for nearly as long….
The Diet – Part Thrice!
Guess who's back? Back again! The Diet is back, tell some friends! You read that right. The Diet is back. And, like a Phoenix, it is back in a whole new way…
Growing sentences with David Foster Wallace
This is an excellent post by the hardest working blogger Jason Kottke, who just so happens to be a big David Foster Wallace fan, about writing from a book by James Tanner,…
Random 60: Coffee.
[viddler id-5db033e0 h-357 w-420] Random 60: Coffee. Favorite on Viddler. Soooo you're having a cup of joe, some mud, an expresso, a Starbucks, or maybe you just call it coffee. No matter…
Random 60: HD TV – The choices are endless!
[viddler id-329a6f7 h-280 w-480] Random 60: HD TV – The choices are endless! Favorite on Viddler. In the market for a new TV? You'll be going HD. But what to buy? LCD?…
Ben Franklin TechVentures
Date taken: February 10, 2009. In the lobby of Ben Franklin TechVentures is this neat piece of metal/art of the Ben Franklin logo. Viddler is annexed in this building.
Random 60: Can not find writing paper in stores!
[viddler id-b365dbdf h-357 w-420] Random 60: Can not find writing paper in stores! Favorite on Viddler. I know that writing letters is at an all time low – but is it so…
Ok Brightkite, this is what I need
Party time is over, so I feel it safe to write a formal, public request for some of the things I really need from Brightkite. I realize that some of the things…
The new SimplyRecipes.com
Simply Recipes, which used to live at elise.com/recipes/, now has it's own domain SimplyRecipes.com. It also has a slightly updated design, information architecture, and more. One thing I did like was that…
How to squeeze decent photos out of an iPhone
An excellent title for this list. My wife Eliza's iPhone photos always turn out better than mine – but, that's ok. She must follow these rules more closely than I do without…
LOST: The Time Loop Theory
I take all theories, especially LOST theories, with a healthy-sized grain of salt. I've read theories, especially just before the beginning of Season Two, that I thought were too incredibly detailed not…
Readability
I'm all for advertising on the Web. But lately it seems that the content to ad ratio isn't in favor of us readers. So, Arc90 is taking matters into their own hands….
Regarding blog comments, again
I'm behind in my reading and even further behind in my writing. Which is why I'm just now finally writing about something I've wanted to since earlier this week even though the…
On Retweeting
I just finished reading Stephen Fry's thoughtful essay and strategy regarding Retweeting. If you are a Twitter user (like me) I suggest you give it a read. Most of us do not…
Photos from the Scranton, PA Photo walk
Before I reveal a few of the photos that I took during our Photo walk this past Sunday in Scranton, Pennsylvania – I wanted to post an update to how it turned…
A fish with a transparent head
This coming via Justin Blanton who says "mind == blown" after linking to a fish with a transparent head. The fish, Macropinna microstoma or barrel eyes, is a bit of an oddity….
Dokdo or Takeshima? Not a tiny issue.
Who owns this relatively small set of islands and reefs found halfway between South Korea and Japan? This has been in dispute for centuries. I find this most recent post by The…