Benjamin Franklin’s daily schedule, as reproduced on Flickr by Nick Bilton. There are worse ways to structure your time than this, that’s for sure.
I should spend more time addressing Powerful Goodness. That’s where I’m going wrong, I think
Changelog of the day
16 August 2009
From the TeamFortress 2 Classless Update:
Added a color blind option to add a Jarate icon above enemies who are busy accepting a terrifying existence where they have no dignity.
That’s Jarate, the Jar-based Karate, if you weren’t aware.
Yep, still in love with Valve.
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Simon Parkin interviews Martin Hollis. As with much of what Martin says, it is gentle, readable, and dotted with nuggets of purest gold. And the word "teleportage". Martin's a lovely, lovely chap, and he really, really knows his stuff; reading this should convince you of that.
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The city, it turns out, is there for you to SPEND MONEY IN. And augment the hell out of. No grim meathook future in 2015 Singapore, that's for certain…
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"This is a selected list of gairaigo, Japanese words originating or based on foreign language (generally Western) terms, including wasei-eigo (Japanese pseudo-Anglicisms)." One of my new favourite Wikipedia pages; there is some fascinating stuff in here.
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"My other half says I’m losing it. But I think that as an enthusiast kernel developer she doesn’t have the right to criticize people." Generating ASCII pie charts with a single SQL query. It's a very, very big query. It's a bit crazy.
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"During peacetime, hats have been instrumental for men to let the non-hatted know just who is wearing the hat around here." I love Valve and I want to kiss them lots.
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Yes it is. Jolly good, and the music will drive you crackers.
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"It had been a rough day, so when I walked into the party I was very chalant, despite my efforts to appear gruntled and consolate." And so on.
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"You've already received more letters from me than any living relative of mine has received to date. Truly, hope all is well with you and high school isn't as painful as I portray it. Believe in yourself. Think about the future once a day and keep doing what you're doing. Because I'm impressed. My regards to the family. Don't let a day pass without a kind thought about them." For many years, Alison Fields was penpals with John Hughes. This is a lovely story.
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One great big massive thread in which the Left 4 Dead story gets dissected to death – with lots of excellent screengrabs – by perceptive fans. Good stuff: as usual with Valve, there's so much story in the world.
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Words With Friends: it's like Scrabulous, but on your iPhone, with push notification. There is little more that needs to be said, other than that it's a very good implementation with some nice UI detail.