November 2008
21 posts
pragmati.st: Getting Google Notifier for Mac To... →
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Using Choosy as your default Mail app on OS X
If you use Gmail (or any web-based email for that matter), and have multiple accounts, and use Fluid with each of them, you might have wished for a way to select which account to use when you click mailto links. It turns out that Choosy can help, but it takes a little work.
First, open Mail.app then open the preferences for mail. On the “General” tab is an option for default email...
WatchMetal Heart (via Vimeo). I’m usually not a fan of the fake-miniature tilt-shift effect, but in this case I find it positively charming.
“The Internet is the greatest generation gap since rock and roll. We’re now...”
– Schneier on Security: The Future of Ephemeral Conversation. It’s going to be a long, painful transition.
Amazon Web Services Blog: Mathematica on Amazon... →
Way cool.
“Death is a disability, not a superpower. It’s hard to run with a cold, let...”
– Simon Pegg on why the undead should never be allowed to run. I must admit that I’m not a fan of horror movies in general, but I do have a soft spot for zombie flicks.
“Therefore I recommend not including the meta tag, or, if you are forced to...”
– Good advice from Hixie’s Natural Log (via)
“This idea - that excellence at a complex task requires a critical, minimum level...”
– Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers. I’ve always heard 10 years cited as the minimum amount of time required to reach expertise, but I find the 10,000 hours figure more compelling: it emphasizes effort instead of time.
“If you’ve written an application for the iPhone, you’ll eventually encounter a...”
– furbo.org · Debugging with backups
“It’s almost like we’re the last group you can be openly bigoted about.”
– Jeanne Rizzo, CEO of the Breast Cancer Fund, in What It Felt Like to Be Equal
Peekabootique →
“Peekabootique will offer quality, gently used children’s clothes, furniture, toys and other goods at affordable prices.” Grand opening in Putney, VT on November 28th.
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The Mysterious “Save For Web” Color Shift →
Nice writeup, though the comments actually have more meat than the post itself. Now I need to fire up CS4 and see if anything’s changed…
Frustration-Free Packaging →
I doubt that brick-and-mortar retailers will offer Frustration-Free Packaging any time soon, which sadly means that I have yet another reason to shop online instead of buying locally.
“let X = the sum of many powers of two = …111111
now add X to itself; X +...”
– HAKMEM ITEM 154 (Gosper). (via Trivium)
“The divergent series are the invention of the devil, and it is a shame to base...”
– N. H. Abel on Divergent Series—from Wolfram MathWorld. w.r.t. my last post, I’m surprised to find that for many topics in mathematics, Wikipedia has become a more prominent reference than Eric’s venerable MathWorld. A sign of the times, perhaps?
