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Month: October 2014
Living with a lion
In the early 70s, Tippi Hedren–of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds fame–lived with her husband, teenage daughter, and a cat…but not your ordinary house cat.
(via Kottke.org)
31 Years
My parents celebrated their 31st wedding anniversary today. I’m so thankful that they found each other. via
Napping snake
Today on my lunch break I saw this snake napping on the side of the road…at least I assume it was napping. Its eyes were closed and it didn’t seem to mind that I was creeping in so close.
A blast from the past
Thank you @faitherina for reminding me of this. This show was the highlight of many Saturday mornings.
Introducing Carrot
Many landing pages for new tech products follow a very standard layout and structure. It’s one that Apple popularized, and that others have copied repeatedly.
Introducing Carrot pokes fun at the trope, showcasing the familiar vegetable in the popular product marketing format of the day. Here’s the pitch:
Carrot is designed with you in mind. It’s a seamless experience, meticulously crafted, from beginning to end. It’s not just a vegetable, it’s what a vegetable should be.
This is some clever work by Dan Angelucci, who says it will “massively disrupt the vegetable sector.” (HT Adactio)
Aaron, are there prizes for participation?
Appleoctopus
After last year’s government shutdown
20th anniversary of the blog
The Guardian had a short piece celebrating the inventor of the blog, Dave Winer.
Twenty years ago this week, a software developer in California ushered in a new era in how we communicate. His name is Dave Winer and on 7 October 1994 he published his first blog post. He called it Davenet then, and he’s been writing it most days since then. In the process, he has become one of the internet’s elders, as eminent in his way as Vint Cerf, Dave Clark,Doc Searls, Lawrence Lessig, Dave Weinberger or even Tim Berners-Lee.
Naturally, Dave also had a personal reflection on pros and cons of his 20 years of blogging.
In 20 years of blogging and developing software for blogging, you meet a lot of people, and some of them do share love with you. To me that was always the wonder of blogging. I remember very clearly, in 1999 or 2000, looking at a blogroll and seeing dozens of names, mostly people I had never heard of, all of whom had blogs. It was at that moment that I realized that it had worked. But I was in for a rude shock when I clicked the links, they were all talking about me, and they didn’t like me! Oy.