Wedding Update

I’ve been particularly quiet these last couple of days because I’ve been working on the new wedding website. Well that and slogging through some data analysis for a journal article. Anyway, head on over there and let me know what other CSS nightmares I’ve caused. http://tying.the.knot.org PS: No, I didn’t plan that when we got …

Diversions: Gravity Hook

From the people who brought us “Canabalt“, there’s now Gravity Hook HD. It’s only available online at the moment, but it’s coming soon for the iPhone. I’m already kinda into it. It’s not Canabalt, but it’s still pretty fun. Like Doodle Jump with different mechanics.

Prosecute the Parents

Story of a silly, pointless, avoidable death: here. Seriously, who cares why the 3-year-old messed with a loaded gun left on the table. Prosecute the parents for endangering the child by making a loaded weapon available. Somehow making this the fault of the Wii, which does not come with a “solid black automatic-looking type mechanism” …

Mad Men meets Barbie

I’m a big fan of the AMC original series Mad Men, but somehow I think the Brooks Brothers suit designed by the costume director was a better product tie-in: Betty Meets Barbie as Mattel Launches Mad Men Collector Dolls

Perspectives on Programming

Lately Mike Taylor over at the Reinvigorated Programmer has been on a roll with a couple of interesting blog posts (at least interesting enough to make Slashdot). First he blogged about deterioration of programming into pure drudgery and more recently he’s disagreed with Dijkstra on the value of BASIC as a first programming language. Here …

Why I Love Cars

Since I just posted about the Corrado, and I sometimes get asked about my fondness for cars, I thought I’d take the liberty of linking to an article from Esquire magazine that just about sums it up for me: The Conversion of an Apathetic Driver Any questions? (OK, that’s a picture of the R8 — …