2008

Jul

livejamie: Everybody hurry and add Andy Gilmore to your...

Walmart won't print my photos

Walmart has a policy of not reprinting photos that “look professional.” So even though...

Did I remember to embed my links?

Which library web app should I use?

Dear fellow Tumblrs, I currently have a small collection of books listed in a LibraryThing account,...

“Last week, almost 1,000 jobs were eliminated in the American...”
— Save the Press All these...

Oil Prices: Who's to Blame?

Tiled Backgrounds Designer

Scanned Images, Engravings and Pictures From...

Eating a croissant sandwich and Laughing Cow cheese for lunch. French food = made of win.

Jun

Back in the office for Monday. Might actually get to work on some ads today. Yay!

“…in that world of the perpetual present tense — post...”
— NYT’s Lawrence Downes on...

The Name of the Rose: including the Author's...

“The brain does not simply gather and stockpile information...”
— How Lies Live and Grow in the...

The Internet Vs. The Care of Your Soul

On Religion, Public Policy, and Obama

“I think it was important, a little bit for the stability...”
— John McCain on the preaching...

Packaging up ARCs. Publishing is so glamorous!

“The problem I am pointing to, however, is […] a simple...”
— Language Log’s Geoffrey Pullum...

This is Ruby, our West Highland White Terrier. Usually...

coffeejection: (noun) a pot of coffee consumed by the other members of the office before the person...

The Power of Books by Mladen Penev. (via szymon)

Back in Kentucky, in a new apartment, with a new puppy. Exhausted.

Moving once again

After six months together in Bloomington, Ashley and I are pulling up our roots again and moving...

Coffee things are all packed up, so I’m having instant for breakfast. But it’s all okay!...

Scanning negatives is proving to take a little longer than I thought it would. Pressing on.

Ashley and I are packing up for our big move — and we just...

On the home stretch now for the summer term — with all this school work to do and packing at home,...

“You know, basically it’s a Google. What you can find...”
— John McCain, who is using...

Back from adventures in Ft. Wayne. Had to drive through the disaster area to get there — scary.

The NYT has another amazing interactive tool for examining...

The Indiana Daily Student has a fantastic slideshow on...

“Growing great tomatoes is like having a baby. You either...”
— NYT — Tomato Catch-Up. Ashley...

Indiana feels like Florida — hot, humid, and windy. Makes me look forward to going to the actual...

Using .htaccess Redirection to Standardize...

What Newspapers Still Don’t Understand About...

The NYT now wants me to see an ad every time I visit their...

Terry McAuliffe Is Wonderfully Deranged

Sudden downpour on the way to class. I had an umbrella with me but it was insufficient — still...

May

Not having a very productive day. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

The underachiever’s to-do list. Via peterwknox, via caro.

So very very tired. It’s a struggle just to keep my eyes open.

Waiting for the Barbarians (Penguin Great...

Border Agents, Lured by the Other Side

Up early to do a little homework. The story of my life.

I am getting a Westie.

Emily Gould - Exposed

Sitting on the couch watching old movies & doing PHP exercises.

“What’s the best thing you could be working on, and why...”
— Paul Graham: Good and Bad...

Totally in love with “Learning PHP 5.” Thanks @jiconoclast.

Diving into PHP.

Trip to farmers’ market, then picnic in the park. Too bad I’m feeling sick.

“The magic of this is that an enormous amount of assistance...”
— Aid at the Point of a Gun -...

Trip to Target has yielded several items in preparation for the coming dog. Said items are all...

Secret Life by Jeff VanderMeer

Obama also takes change from the tip jars at...

Slate Magazine - Letter to a Young...

The Lunsford Collection: Bruce Lunsford......

“It put me in a different mode. It slowed me down: ‘Look at...”
— Former detective Vernon J....

Apr

School computer wipes out grades |...

“This secondary scam isn’t run to defraud money from...”
— slacktivist

“How odd that the rich should so often be able to shield...”
— Whatever

Foreign Affairs - How Biofuels Could Starve...

If God Is Dead, Who Gets His House?

Worst Campaign Idea Ever?

“…industrial agriculture is not only unsustainable,...”
— Wendell Berry has a letter to...

This is the single biggest productivity booster that I know...

Chinese artists responsible for 60% of the world’s oil...

“But in the very best novels the animals want to talk, or the...”
— Jonathan Lethem, via The...

Why Obama is no elitist

“…my Bible year taught me something that I wish I had known...”
— A.J. Jacobs (via azspot)

Via soupsoup. Oh, Calvin & Hobbes. Who wants to buy me...

Fairuse obliteratus: Rowling to testify in...

aatw: Jordan Crane’s amazing cover for Michael Chabon’s...

Other Dangerous Historical Events Hillary...

The Irrational Atheist

Mead Releases New Grad-School-Ruled Notebook

Shift-Cmd-Cover

Happy Blog-iversary

Today marks the one-year anniversary of this blog. I’ve had many, many blogs over the years;...

Disraelia: A Counterfactual History,...

Battlestar Galactica is being advertised on the NYT’s...

Is theatre sci-fi's final frontier?

What Every American Should Know About the...

Mar

Mundane science fiction

Walker Percy on Kierkegaard The Moviegoer is probably my...

“There are some theories that when Hillary was talking about...”
— My law professor

Knox'd: Where Knoxville finds information

Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader Locked Up: Why...

Color War 2008 — What does it mean??

The Official CAPTCHA Site

Novelists Strike Fails To Affect Nation...

Why We're Powerless To Resist Grazing On...

“But I also noticed this line: “Unlike traditional,...”
— Orcinus

The Coming Death of Paper as an Information...

Journalism blog aggregator

100 Things to do with Google Maps

1,000 True Fans

“In fact, the physical act of moving your possessions from...”
— I Write in Brooklyn, Get Over...

Feb

Is Twitter Down?

The Power of the Printed-on-Demand Word

What's new at Starbucks: 3 changes

Robert Love: Graphs without Explanations It’s things...

Not only is Tumblr radar back, they’ve also added a...

Abilene Christian University is announcing a...

A disruptive Web presence in four steps

Here’s a brief business plan I’ve been kicking around for a few days. Comments? Pick that cool...

No Country for Long Movies

How Grainy Cameraphone Pics Bankrupted...

Addressing the didn't-see-'em factor

Obama stiffs, stifles national press

Bright Lights, Big Conference

Blogger, Sans Pajamas, Rakes Muck and a...

Here's to un-asked-for gains

So, a story of mine that I didn’t really like (and that, as I recall, my editor didn’t...

Whoa. Now the list of people I’m following is sorted by the order in which I began following...

dannygarcia: For those of us that didn’t go to design...

Don't Worry, WikiLeaks

Duty Calls — xkcd

Can we finally bury the "bloggers only...

Reinventing Journalism On The Web: Links As...

About EveryBlock's maps

Scientists Would Turn Greenhouse Gas Into...

Restricted trailer for “Pineapple Express.” Judd Apatow has been on fire lately! Via...

Playground Blues

Wikileaks Shut Down by U.S. Court

Today’s thought: I didn’t get a degree to be...

Ratings: Storytelling No Match For Flashy...

Guantánamo, Evil and Zany in Pop Culture

“Anyway, Barak Obama really plagiarized the constitution, and...”
— Ashley

“The decline of Vaudeville had very little to do with the...”
— Journalism is NOT the problem...

The amount of corn it takes to produce 75...

Bailiffs soon will carry bright yellow Tasers...

Social Bookmarking For Journalists: 101

“If I built a news organization from the ground up it would...”
— The Journalism...

Using Twitter to deliver news: a few early...

Mobile is the future of the Web and news

Layoffs: 'NYT' Cutting 100 Newsroom Jobs This...

Gawker's Nick Denton on the State of Blogdom

I Love You, but You Love Meat

ESPN Page 2 - Just how tough are NASCAR...

A Primeval Tide of Toxins

“Newspaper video is no ego, no narration, real action, real...”
— Twitter / Mindy McAdams

Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting...

How an election should be covered

Student leader apologizes for e-mail with...

Nonvoter guilt

I keep feeling vaguely guilty that I’m not voting today. Then I remember that Indiana isn’t part of...

60° today and 17° Sunday? WTF, Indiana?

Shield law for journalists: Will it protect...

“WikiLeaks.org, a user-editable Web site that anonymously...”
— CJR: Wikileaked onto A-10 (via...

“…so the ACLU basically filed suit as soon as the law...”
— Press & constitution prof...

Better than Free

In search of the distraction-free computer...