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Spolsky:
I had a chance to visit 7 World Trade Center today, the newest office high rise to open in New York.
Instead of having up and down buttons outside the elevators, there’s a numeric keypad, where you key in the floor number you’re going to. Then an LED display tells you which elevator to wait for. […]

Rainer Brockerhoff, long famous for being averse to version control, dips a toe into the svn waters:
Apparently any hypothetical geek with the necessary masterful understanding of the subversion client and server will by definition also be convinced that a GUI interface will be wimpy and superfluous. (He will probably also believe the same of Xcode.)

I definitely need one of these:

One of the more entertaining Twitterers I follow is

Timothy Ferriss outlines how his four hour body program helped him gain 34 lbs of muscle in 4 weeks.

Lolcat: “the practice of uploading or otherwise distributing humorous photos of cats, especially to forums”

As learned from waiting for Rentzsch to open C4 registration.

Napkin Folding Guide

Oh man…
Thousands of people have been ‘fleeced’ into buying neatly coiffured lambs they thought were poodles.
Entire flocks of lambs were shipped over from the UK and Australia to Japan by an internet company and marketed as the latest ‘must have’ accessory.
But the scam was only spotted after a leading Japanese actress said her ‘poodle’ didn’t […]

Apple has created a great video seminar for those who IPhoto users switching to Aperture.

Url2Thumb is a handy-dandy command line tool that creates a thumbnail picture of any website.

Brent Simmons:
Remember, every time you touch the mouse, God kills a kitten. Use the keyboard if you have a heart.

Theocacao:
Literally, every time I worked with a web development app, there was an initial honeymoon period, then I’d think “this is ridiculous,” and go back to a text editor, Safari, Terminal, and Transmit for uploads. It’s like all other web development tools were designed by people who weren’t actually building websites.
Now, I’ll be honest. There […]

Matthew Bookspan outlines how he managed to delete his /usr directory on his Mac after which, naturally, nothing worked.
Is this the same Matthew Bookspan of Attensa?
Was this folder mentioned in the Mac documentation? Nope. Was this folder name something easily discovered online? Reasonably so, although I didn’t think to go looking until after […]

Vacuous Virtuous has created a Cocoa Digg library using the newly available Digg API. Cool.

Apple has posted a bunch of music video footage of the band Modest Mouse playing in front of a green screen.
They are inviting would be video directors and editors to download the footage, mix in their own video and vision, and enter the final product into a contest. A great chance to get […]

Is it just me or is the UK ‘Mac’ more handsome and the UK Windows much uglier than the US versions?

MacApper is letting the cat out of the bag, revealing Panic’s new app (one day early) to be Coda:
I guarantee you will be impressed by the user interface in Coda. I never used to be impressed by jazzy special effects, simplicity, and elegance in my applications, but Panic really delivers on this front. If this […]

Last night I had the pleasure of experiencing a Japanese Kaiseki tasting menu at Kaiseki-Sakura in Toronto. The experience was fabulous and has set me off on an entirely unproductive surfing expedition of all things Japanese.
You can’t surf the foodie web long before stumbling on the the ascerbic and hilarious Waiter Rant. Funny […]

Until this explanation of kerning pairs, I really had nooooo idea.

What wonderful new product are the industrious engineers at Panic releasing on Monday?

If you’re using XCode don’t forget to disable ZeroLink
Unless you have a large project, the problems ZeroLink causes surpass the time saved by not linking. While ZeroLink has its place, most developers are better off not using it, and Apple would be better off turning off ZeroLink initially.

Who are the men of Coca-Cola Zero?

Glenn Wolsey interviews Will Friedwald and talks about his ITunes Collection, allegedly the worlds largest:
849 GB | 172,150 tracks | 809.2 days
2,935 artists | 11,561 albums
iTunes library database file - 282 MB
iTunes library XML file - 259 MB
Essentially the problem is that iTunes was designed for people to buy music from the store, to put […]

Blogmate is an alternative blogging plugin for Textmate with a nice graphical palette for managing posts and categories.
The directions are clear and entertaining:
Blog ID — this hateful parameter is something Dave Winer made up one day to make all our lives miserable. Yes, you need to enter your Blog ID or BlogMate will not work. […]

Dave Dribin coaxes Kings Quest into running directly on OS X.

The Fishbowl had an unpleasant experience recently when trying to re-activate Newsfire.
When it came time to re-register NewsFire, I was told that my email address was not valid. I sent off a quick support mail to NewsFire’s author, David Watanabe, and got the following reply:
While you may now activate your software again, the evidence suggests […]

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Noodlesoft has a brilliant idea to handle Mac installs even if the user tries to just run the app from the downloaded DMG:
“My suggestion? When your app launches for the first time, check to see if it’s on a disk image. If so, offer to install it for them. If they accept, you copy it […]

Google Mac Blog on the newly released Google Cocoa API:
“Google Calendar, Google Base, Google Spreadsheets, and generic Atom feeds like Blogger are supported now in the framework, with access to more services already in development. If you are a Mac developer, I hope you’ll join the open-source project and help us make even more Mac […]

Waffle:

Was DHH being an ass? No.
Were the Twitter folks being asses? No.
Were the random comment trolls in various weblog comment threads being asses? Most assuredly.

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