Month: December 2007

XKCD Dating

Male Seeks Female to play Stick Figure from XKCD Comics. The stories of love, passion, anguish and despair on XKCD’s comics speak directly to my soul. Every strip paints the perfect picture of a moment that has played out 1000x in my head over the years. I’ve watched as someone reached out and grabbed those thoughts, throwing them onto paper in what could only be seen as a narration of the happiest moments of the part of my life I haven’t stumbled upon yet. But I’m just a male stick figure. I have no squiggly hair.

Misunderstanding enterprise software

By perpetuating a false dichotomy between the friendliness of consumer apps and the seriousness of business apps, all that Krigsman is doing is giving enterprise vendors cover for continuing to produce software that’s difficult and unpleasant to use.

p ft. consumer software has been more “scalable” for years now. enterprise software is only more reliable in the sense that it doesn’t get used because the UI makes you want to stab yourself.

The Option of Urbanism

In The Option of Urbanism visionary developer and strategist Christopher B. Leinberger explains why government policies have tilted the playing field toward one form of development over the last 60 years: the drivable suburb. Rooted in the driving forces of the economy—car manufacturing and the oil industry—this type of growth has fostered the decline of community, contributed to urban decay, increased greenhouse gas emissions, and contributed to the rise in obesity and asthma.

why doesn’t nyc have 30M people? you could build much denser.

Death By Exercise

The highest death rate is among those who exercise long and hard, and is much higher than that of those who exercise short and hard. Worse, those who do hardly any vigorous exercise had a lower death rate than those who do the most.

can’t be too long now when even jock rags wake up to the marathon silliness.