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“UFO: Alien Invasion”, an open-source clone of the X-Com/UFO games, now has an OSX port available. That requires trying out, then.
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“FixtureReplacement is a Rails plugin that provides a simple way to quickly populate your test database with model objects without having to manage multiple, brittle fixture files.” Looks very handy indeed.
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“With money, it seems, it is not familiarity, but unfamiliarity that breeds contempt.” People are less good at estimating the value of unfamiliar currency, no matter what it says on it.
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Collaborative mapping and annotation of skateboarding spots. Nifty – and I quite like the Ferro-esque type everywhere.
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“I thought, why not build a relational database in HTML? So I did. I even got inner joins working.” This is insane. Great, but insane.
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“Rubular is a Ruby-based regular expression parser. It’s a handy way to test regular expressions as you write them.”
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Forty+ years of Sports Illustrated, all under one roof online, and free. Worth it for the photography alone, even if you’re not a sportsfan.
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“…the same topic kept coming up, over and over… you can think of it as an amalgamation of crowd theory, human terrain mapping, and social simulation. It is the science of groups; it is a new kind of quantitative political science.”
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“For now, I’m back doing the stuff I love: coding some web projects, and designing text again after far too long.” Dean Allen is back, and it’s lovely to have him. Wishing you the best, Dean.
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“It looks like Nick Kallen’s wildly popular has_finder plugin will be making its way into Rails 2.x in the form of named_scope” This is excellent news.
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“The tone of the opinions reminded me of the Daily Mail attitude to social networking sites. The resonances were so strong that I decided to conduct a quick experiment…” Eerily accurate text-substitution fun from Jeremy.
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If you’re using Lightroom to manage your photos, you are probably serious about your photographs. […] if you are indeed serious, then practicing good color management is essential.
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Lots of choice quotations here, but most are too long for a 255-char delicious box. Changing this prevalent perception is going to be hard; changing gaming is as hard. Lots to chew over int he coming years, really
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Remarkable series of images by Chris Jordan depicting rates of consumption in America through exhaustive diagrams. Staggering when you see them in close-up.
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“When you find new information, you get an opioid hit, and we are junkies for those. You might call us ‘infovores.'” … We are programmed for scarcity and can’t dial back when something is abundant.” So that explains it.
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“a superhero’s costume is constructed not of fabric, foam rubber, or adamantium but of halftone dots, Pantone color values, inked containment lines, and all the cartoonist’s sleight of hand.” Michael Chabon on the escapism of costume.
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“Rajesh [Thind] investigates the way we view the lens and the way it views us.” Gosh, this made me very uncomfortable and somewhat angry.
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“My current hypothesis is that there are at least three positions of prominence in each segment — three ways to be number one, if you will: The First One, The Free One, and The Good One.”
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“We showed thousands of random colors like this to people on Mechanical Turk and asked what they would call them. Here’s what they said […]”