My Leica year comes to an end

A year has passed since I began my delayed gratification photography project—an attempt to broaden my horizons by limiting myself to a Leica M3, one lens (50mm), and one type of film (Tri-X), for one year (as recommended by Mike…

Mac and cheese

I discovered that the lone celeriac in our fridge had developed a bad spot—but the rest was fine. I didn’t want to make another puree, so I looked in the pantry and found a bag of green lentils. Somehow the…

Ford Custom 500

An immaculate 1966 Ford Custom 500

AMC Pacer X

Nice balls, Pacer X

Red Karmann Ghia

Taking a page from the Red Car School of Photography

Malibu Classic

In the not so distant future, station wagons will be classic cars. Just a Chevy Malibu Classic

Naturally desaturated

Saab 96, #nofilter

Pink Cabriolet in the Mission

San Francisco’s pink Volkswagen Golf Cabriolet One of my favorite “car photos” is the Pink VW Cabrio on Pine Street, so I was delighted to stumble upon the pink Golf once again on my way home from work yesterday. I…

Searching for parents without certain children in SQL

I want to query for parent records (those on the one side of a one-to-many relationship) that have no children that meet a specific set of criteria. The parents in the result set may have no children at all, or…

Heavy: Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations #

For future reference: Hear Ye, Future Deep Throats: This Is How to Leak to the Press #

What a headline: Has the US become the type of nation from which you have to seek asylum? #

I just stumbled upon the best Wikipedia article ever: Bristol stool scale (with diagram!) #

Four excellent talks by Miško Hevery on writing testable code:

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Two great posts on the old olive trees in Majorca: Majorca a woodsman’s walking tour and 1000 year old trees and amazing woodlands in Majorca #

Edward Snowden is a national treasure:

“It’s important to bear in mind I’m being called a traitor by men like former vice president Dick Cheney. This is a man who gave us the warrantless wiretapping scheme as a kind of atrocity warm-up on the way to deceitfully engineering a conflict that has killed over 4,400 and maimed nearly 32,000 Americans, as well as leaving over 100,000 Iraqis dead. Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American.”

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So crazy it just might work: Coffitivity (via How the Hum of a Coffee Shop Can Boost Creativity) #

Damn: Time Cover Story Wrongly Attacks Atheists for Not Helping Out Victims of Oklahoma Tornadoes #

Wow, the Pardon Edward Snowden petition has 119k signatures #

Sincerely in Adweek: Hyatt Hotels Combines Facebook With Snail Mail: Chain tests utility-minded Postagram app #