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December 2009 Posts

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  1. Dec 1: A taste of our sliders party (3)
  2. Dec 6: How to buy an MEI Voyageur pack (8)
  3. Dec 12: Edsel and Thunderbird on Pine Street
  4. Dec 16: Maple Glazed Bacon Apple Donut (2)
  5. Dec 17: Leaf-Wrapped Lovelies (1)
  6. Dec 19: Christmas lights refracted in a glass of water
  7. Dec 20: Popcorn on the cob (1)
  8. Dec 21: Haloscan going the way of the dinosaur (6)
  9. Dec 21: Homemade Holidays (2)
  10. Dec 25: Merry Christmas from Austin (2)
  11. Dec 26: A Mighty Fine Lunch (4)
  12. Dec 30: Enchanted Rock: wet and cold (3)

December 2009 Neatlinks

Tue, Dec 1

Rave New World, ha! (0 comments)

I could have written this same thing, word for word: How I Hire Programmers (1 comment)

Wed, Dec 2

This is insane: Neutra Face : An Ode On A Typeface

Thought about Futura but the em space was to wide
even when condensed, no, i’ll use another type
Gill sans the G is wack when it’s in lower case
Avante gard you make me hard but helvetica you’re played

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Thu, Dec 3

I love this rhyming couplet in the lyrics of Camera Obscura’s song The Sweetest Thing:

You challenged me to write a love song
Here it is, I think I got it wrong

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Fri, Dec 4

Accidental poetry: Threw my phone up against the window… (0 comments)

Sat, Dec 5

This looks promising: Kitchen 4B: Smoked Ribs at Home (2 comments)

Mon, Dec 7

They are their own caricatures: Portraits of Power: An interactive portfolio of portraits by Platon of world leaders, with commentary by the photographer. (0 comments)

Möbius Bagel, I love this (0 comments)

Must have! Gnome Chomsky (0 comments)

Ok, this is just too cool: Star Wars Line Up (and I’m not even that big a Star Wars fan) (0 comments)

Tue, Dec 8

I wonder if this will make it to the Ubuntu repo? Google Chrome for Linux goes beta! (0 comments)

This is watchable: The Tetris God (2 comments)

WE GOT THAT B ROLL!!

“I was just in some b-roll and I loved it!”

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I just used Firebug to change the background color of Flickr from #FEFEFE to #FFFFFF so I could take a screenshot of the multilingual WAR IS OVER posters to include in an old post with a perfectly white background.

Am I normal? (1 comment)

Wed, Dec 9

XKCD awesome: The Sun (1 comment)

Thu, Dec 10

Of all the “gift guides” out there, this is one of the coolest: A Gift Guide for Canners (0 comments)

To read later: A Typeface for the Underground (0 comments)

I have my money on Bruce: My Reaction to Eric Schmidt (0 comments)

My new fav time-lapse: Manhattan bridge wiggles (0 comments)

Fri, Dec 11

Photoblog worth checking out: Gianni Galassi PhotoGraphia (0 comments)

Tue, Dec 15

Yes!

an API is not about programming, data structures, or algorithms—an API is a user interface, just as much as a GUI. The user at the using end of the API is a programmer—that is, a human being. Even though we tend to think of APIs as machine interfaces, they are not: they are human-machine interfaces.

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To watch later: Swell Season on Boing Boing Video (0 comments)

Wed, Dec 16

I have a small collection of Google Doodles, but this is pretty cool: Doodlewatch (0 comments)

Holy cow, Yokoo of Etsy fame on the front page of the NY Times: That Hobby Looks Like a Lot of Work (0 comments)

FM loses its first engineer: Andy’s Last Supper (0 comments)

Thu, Dec 17

Is Sous Vide the new microwave? (3 comments)

Man this looks good: My Type of Yule Log: Pork Roulade with Sausage, Pistachios and Chestnuts (and Cider Gravy) (0 comments)

Great step-by-step photos: Tackling a turducken (0 comments)

These are neat to flip through: Behind Photographs Project (though I wish there was some accompanying text) (0 comments)

Fri, Dec 18

The camera holster market is expanding: DIY, Bigg Lugg, Spider… (0 comments)

Currently reading and liking It’s OK Not to Write Unit Tests (I wish I’d had this when I wrote What is “test-driven development for web applications”?) (1 comment)

Sat, Dec 19

It seems like everyone these days is talking about the Panasonic GF1 with the 20mm f1.7 lens (I’d love to see it side-by-side with my K7+35mm macro, and I’d certainly love to take it walking around the city for a few days, without plunking down $1000) (0 comments)

Cute: The Wedding? I’m Here for the Cookies (0 comments)

Mon, Dec 21

Cool: Vespa four-seater (0 comments)

Tue, Dec 22

How to not get mugged: never leave your apartment (with apologies to Maciej, re: How To Not Get Your Blog Hacked) (0 comments)

Google is so “cute” sometimes: What Browser? (0 comments)

I’ve often wondered, what actually is activated about activated charcoal?

Activated carbon, also called activated charcoal or activated coal, is a form of carbon that has been processed to make it extremely porous and thus to have a very large surface area available for adsorption or chemical reactions.

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Thu, Dec 24

He has a name! Helvetica Man (0 comments)

Quote of the day: It’s not a disorder if you channel it into something productive (1 comment)

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