What happened to culture in the last 40 years, in a nutshell: during the Vietnam war, there was music in the charts about the Vietnam war.

Oh bother, Internet Jackass Day again.

“When I die, spread my ashes across the Internet.” — http://carolinewalp.com/93767/838663/prints/the-best-thing-that-has-ever-happened-to-me …

I went to get food just before sunrise. Returning home on empty country road, I flew into the pale red dawn.

Note to self: if some sites (like, oh, Google) won’t load in Firefox over a SOCKS proxy, try setting network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to true.

“No matter how long you procrastinate, it doesn’t get earlier.” —Günter Eich

“You can live either under US domestic policy or under US foreign policy. Take your pick.”

Evolution of social networks from blogs to FB: more and more like hearing someone breathe and less and less like listening to them talk.

The difference between the tiniest amount clutter and zero clutter is bottomless.

system("chmod 777 " . $_COOKIE["$sessionid"]); # http://t.co/mkcLw9wH

Have you seen the Javascript Scratchpad in Firefox 7? Shift+F4, or look in Tools → Web Developer. The console got a do-over as well.

about:config → browser.urlbar.doubleClickSelectsAll → false

@pinboard: You needed tests long ago: all those “oops, I broke feature X – fixed now, sorry” moments. (Going without memcached OTOH: sure.)

“98% of the time I am right. Why worry about the other 3%.”

@lkm: On competing — hell, *iTunes* competes with free, and successfully.

Firefox 5 is a speed demon. How I’ve longed for this day: I can mothball Chrome now – or specifically, relegate it to a Flash/PDF viewer.

“Apple denies that, based on their common meaning, the words ‘app store’ together denote a store for apps.” http://goo.gl/YLh3F

@gruber: Now if only you’d finish the thing…

“Tradition is not a business model.” —Jeff Jarvis

If in doubt, eschew abstractions. A big ball of mud is less unpleasant than lots of shims jammed sideways into inflexble wrong abstractions.