This video compilation of people doing everything so wrong for products “as seen on TV” makes me laugh every single time I see it. I lost track of it for a while and found it again today, so now you can enjoy it with me.
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Two-for-One Black Friday Special
I get to link to two people who delight me: Andy Ithnatko and Jonathan Coulton. Amazon Advent 02 – “Mr. Fancy Pants” by Jonathan Coulton – Andy Ihnatko’s Celestial Waste of Bandwidth (BETA) “In his live show, Coulton introduces ‘The Future Soon’ as the thoughts of a 12 year old boy during the Eighties, lying …
Movable Type Documentation #mt
Presented here for your education is the Mostly Complete Movable Type Documentation (as of November 17, 2012). From my brief introduction to the 476-page compilation: > It is not my intent to present this compilation of Movable Type documentation pages as my original work. In fact, the only original piece of this document is this …
Joss Whedon on 2012 election
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxF9FDIjuIY] Do you like Joss Whedon? I’m a fan. Stumbled across his commentary on politics/zombie apolcalypse on Mlkshk.
Fantastical-esque BusyCal 2
Shawn Blanc mentioned that BusyCal 2: “added a Fantastical-esque Menu Bar extra that lets you view your schedule and crate events quickly with natural language.” I’ve had a BusyCal license for many years and switched to Fantastical in the past year. I have read nothing substantial about the latest version yet, and I’m sure it’s …
Sparks – building a list of ideas
Steven Berlin Johnson, author and well-known DEVONthink user, recently described what he calls his spark file. It’s a rambling document with no organization where he stores his hunches and questions. This is why for the past eight years or so I’ve been maintaining a single document where I keep all my hunches: ideas for articles, …
Updates mean more updates coming
I’ve had a few days off to recover from having my wisdom teeth ripped out of my skull, which gave me plenty of time to muck around in the guts of a new CMS. Clicking on either the CaSt Blog or Linked List (they’re over to the right at the moment) will take you where …
Netflix casts presidential vote with video release
We watch a lot of Netflix and I subscribe to the company’s feed of video recently released to “Watch Instantly.” The feed pushes out new titles with a brief synopsis. I’ve never seen one longer than about 35-50 words. Never, that is, until today. I clocked the synopsis for Dreams from my Real Father at …
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Movable Type: a blessing and a curse
Movable Type–updated to 5.2 just a few days ago–is a professional content management system from which to launch a blogging platform. I have no doubt it is fully capable of presenting anything an accomplished admin can imagine; however, those new to the system must overcome the scattered documentation. A basic glossary would be helpful. The …
CaSt, now with FancyZoom!
From here forward, I plan to use Cabel Sasser’s FancyZoom to allow readers to click on photos and enjoy, well, a fancy zoom. Cabel is known for Panic’s shockingly good software (I recommend Coda 2, which helps me develop this site alongside BBEdit) and yes, he shares his personal thoughts at Cabel’s Blog LOL. I …