“groovy mother...”

I will confess to having fallen somewhat head-over-heels in love with Things as a TODO list manager over the last couple of days. Requires some light symlinking-to-an-iDisk to “sync” across machines, but offers the right levels of “This is a task for today/soon/sometime” to help keep me organized. Next step: Play with the iPhone app.

“ONLY BUILD STUFF FOR YOURSELF. That’s the Golden Rule of Building Stuff. If you’re planning to build something for someone else, let someone else build it.”

Another handy REST post. The API I’m building at work currently only uses GET & POST, this helps explain that it’s still “RESTful”

MODE 7 lives! Teletext viewer for iPhone.

SPOILER, natch. Internet theorising about a non-obvious subtext to Braid’s story. If Portal was a video-game short-story, is Braid a video-game poem?

A good “Wherefore REST?” post.

Suspect I will be referring to this a lot over the next week or so as I bring my blog code up to snuff with the impending Django 1.0 release. (Currently have 95% working, but the hackedup comments code will take a bit more work…)

The best use of Mechanical Turk so far: Paying people pennies to draw cats and supply cat stories.

Ernest Borgnine delivers a pitch-perfect stage whisper on Fox News.