Typewriter

Did you know the QWERTY typewriter, and the typewriter itself were invented by a Milwaukee resident, Christopher Latham Sholes? Unfortunately he sold his share for only $12,000 to Remington, while his partner James Densmore insisted on royalties and made $1.5 million.

Since the o and the 0 keys were just one key might be why a lot of people say "Oh" for "zero".

It's amazing how many variants of the keyboard there are. I've never use any of them, but it would be interesting to try ones like the Maltron.

What is the most widely used character in English. The Space.

Don't be so proud

That droid you called a near-sighted scrap pile,
just delivered the Death Star plans to the rebellion.
That smuggler you called a scruffy looking nerfherder,
is marrying the Princess of Alderaan.
That protocol droid you called a mindless philosopher,
is fluent in over six million forms of communication.
That hermit you called, "just a crazy old man,"
was once a general in the Clone Wars.
That wookie you just called a walking carpet,
just received a lifetime achievement award.
That crop-dusting farmboy you call wormie,
just destroyed the Death Star with a proton torpedo.
That technological terror you've constructed,
is insignificant next to the power of the Force.

Dubstep video Pumped up kicks

Dylan really likes this.... Calls it robots ate my brain... Marquese Scott Popping maybe some Locking, too.



Turns out this guy was in RemoteKontrol which I vaguely remember from SoYouThinkYouCanDance...

Remote Kontrol Reel 2011 Xcel Talent Agency from Xcel Talent Agency on Vimeo.

Use encodeURIComponent over escape

Why?

Page Navigator

Having worked on a few gallery metaphors, page navigation, here is one that combines them all... I expecially like the jump to end track button like a DVD player.

Click on the picture in the middle to get to the NYT Navigator. (This link might change or go away, not sure if it's a true PURL.)

The gallery jump at the bottom grows/shrinks as you hover, there are other navigational tools like for/rev +1/-1, also for end/rev beg. Grid view is a little awkward for a large number of pages - Mac finger scrolling not working here. Email, print, buttons.

Jackson Util Polymorphism Problem

Here's a forum post about the problem. I'll take a look at the jackson code this weekend, maybe I can contribute a fix. It seems it is just the way in which the class to descriptor relationship is looked up that is the problem.

Color Blind Visualization Tool

Need to see what your site looks through someone else's eyes... check the Color Oracle.

Antikythera Mechanism: Ancient (Physical) Computer

This is fascinating device... Never heard of this before today. From the 2nd century BC! The Antikythera Mechanism . Nature did a video of the mechanism.

Really Rosie

Still some of my favorite music as a kid kid.

Pride Seeing Your Products in Public

Last week at Wal-Mart, picking up a backup drive for < $100, a man commented on how all my boys were wearing packer shirts. I mentioned somehow in the conversation, how I got to work on the Packer's fan ring site, and he showed me he had a ring ordered from there, ordered by his wife for his birthday.

Facebook fb:friendSelector broken

I went to demo my old trusty Planet Gifts app yesterday. But now, you can't send planets.

Here is the ticket #19634, if you'd like to vote on it. Sounds like it has been broken for a few weeks, taking down multi-friend selector with it.

Doesn't work from the test page either.

SpaceCollective

Interesting design theory for future environs.

JavaScript Performance Presentation

Here's a quick javascript presentation with examples I put together for the Jostens Java[script] User Group: js-perf.

I tried it out later that evening at the Apple store, and it runs ok on an iPad 2!

CSS Lint ANT Task

I’ve been adding the JSLint ant task to several projects, it helps make sure the JS is tidy and follows some conventions.

It looks like there is a CSS Lint codebase out there, but no ANT equivalent…

This sounds like a good nice to have.

John Elliott

Went to see John Elliott at the Bookcase in Wayzata. He went to high school with my wife at Wayzata over a decade ago, as he put it during the Clinton Administration. None of these videos compare with the energy he delivers in person.

Here are some videos of his songs

Teenager in love:


National Anthem: which our kids love because they can shout out, "Superman, Spiderman!" in the middle.



Yesterday some roses: one of my favorite songs so far by John:



Feet to the fire a close second:

TED Talk on Self Assembling Machines

On TEDtv