Archive for January, 2006

Kevin-Nick Vaporblog: Titling

Monday, January 30th, 2006

Okay, so Kevin and I have been talking about putting together a collaborative blog of some kind, primarily as a way to cut down on the link-spam we forward each other and others.

Of course, the primary problem was finding a name. After literally weeks of discussion, we settled on a procedure, by which we each [...]

Approximate Time Watch

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

This is absolutely brilliant. I want one.

A sterling example of people drawing historical connections for no special reason

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

The comments here, while interesting, tend to indicate a genetic relationship where almost certainly we’re looking at sociolinguistic convergent evolution.

The Commonwealth Club

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

The Commonwealth Club, which I had never actually heard of until recently—when they started an advertising campaign on AC Transit buses with people saying, “I asked Yahoo’s Jerry Yang what name came in second,” or “I asked Jordan’s Queen Noor some question about the middle east.”

But now I see they have a podcast, and suddenly [...]

My ongoing quest for text-editor bliss

Friday, January 27th, 2006
My Lifehacker comment on CP Notebook
Tom Morris’s comment
My objections

Most outliners have crappy UIs.

Crappy enough to distract me from what I’m doing, or just off-putting enough to slow me down. A good example of this is the very popular OmniOutliner, which just turns me the hell off. The spartan aspect of the OPML editor [...]

Brick

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

Just saw the trailer for Brick. Preliminary conclusions:

Joseph Gordon-Levitt will be in high school for the rest of his life
Is that Claire from Lost? Apparently.
Also, that other girl, who seems eerily familiar. IMDB tells me that’s Laynie from Everwood, god help us.

Also, the movie looks surprisingly good.

Gender and Suicide

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

There’s a piece by Joan Ryan in today’s Chronicle (it just happened to be sitting on the table next to me) about the “puzzle of male suicide.” Basically, it consists of being surprised that men commit more suicides than women. Of course, it also acknowledges (eventually) that girls attempt suicide more often than men; it’s [...]