Painfully Obvious

Quotation: Penny Arcade

Andrew — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:20:28 +0000

Gabe essentially began anti-anxiety medication and planned a trip for Paris in the same week, possibly even in the same moment, and as an observer — it is literally my job to observe — this was an intriguing process. He wasn’t yet ensorcelled by the chemical, and yet with full awareness of his own agony he went through the previously unthinkable process of putting all this together. It must have been something like jumping from a plane with a strange backpack and a pamphlet entitled “Your Parachute.”

Link: Opera Dragonfly

Andrew — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:45:57 +0000

Chris Mills looks at Dragonfly, Opera’s new Firebug-ish developer panel. It’s not Firebug, but it’s much closer thereto than the competition from IE and Safari.

Link: Dive Into Mark

Andrew — Wed, 07 May 2008 03:03:21 +0000

Mark says it best, once again. Mozilla’s absence from the Cannonball Run–style race to comply with Acid 3 was disappointing. They’d have come in third place, but that’s not the point. If you play, you win. If you make excuses, grumble about the rubric, or quibble over minutiae, you lose.

Quotation: The Onion A.V. Club

Andrew — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:24:04 +0000

It’s never an encouraging sign when a film about the murder of John Lennon has audiences rooting for the climactic shooting, just so a dreary, sordid, worthless film will come to a merciful end.

Link: GitHub

Andrew — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:32:58 +0000

GitHub just went live. No invite required. Sign up and start hacking on Prototype!

Photo: HTTP hurts flickr

Andrew — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:59:24 +0000

HTTP hurts flickr

Merlin is my hero. (Backstory.)

Thought: Ruby’s not ready?

Andrew — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:42:07 +0000

While I don’t agree with the central premise, I think this exploration of Ruby’s flaws is mosly fair and accurate. Individual developers may decide whether it’s worth it to use Ruby in spite of these problems. But the claims made in this section are plainly ridiculous. As ridiculous as asserting, with a straight face, that OpenOffice would be as good as its Microsoft colleague if it simply adopted an animated paper clip.

Review: Day Break

Andrew — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:39:55 +0000

This is the show I’d hoped 24 would be — a high-concept, smart, solve-the-mystery serial with an ass-kicking protagonist. This is the show that pre-empted Lost one winter and never got a fair shake. It lasted only 13 episodes, but that’s the perfect length for a story like this. I love this show dearly.

Quotation: Patrick Appel

Andrew — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:24:45 +0000

I’ve begun to suspect that Mike Gravel’s run at the presidency is just a cleverly disguised experiment in conceptual art.

Link: Hoefler & Frere-Jones

Andrew — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:33:19 +0000

The UK is unveiling some new currency hotness. H&FJ place things in perspective. I’m willing to tolerate the giant purple numeral if only they’d give the one-dollar bill the same makeover as the rest of our bills. Wouldn’t it be nice if our currency, y’know, matched?