Neatlinks Archives, page 20

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

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.”

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

Four excellent talks by Miško Hevery on writing testable code:

• The Clean Code Talks — Unit Testing
• The Clean Code Talks — Don’t Look For Things!
• The Clean Code Talks — Global State and Singletons
• The Clean Code Talks — Inheritance, Polymorphism, and Testing

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