Gallery of adaptive and responsive web designs. Good thing to keep in the back of my mind for a site redesign.
Being a man means taking control of your life and being responsible for yourself. A man does as he chooses, while a boy does as he should. However, some men never make this leap; they struggle with carving out their own path in life.
So they flounder. Because they've never actually figured out what they really want in life, they end up picking life goals they think they should have simply because everyone around them–/society/television/family/religion–tells them they should have those goals. In short, they should on themselves.
An old man, going a lone highway,
Came, at the evening, cold and gray,
To a chasm, vast, and deep, and wide,
Through which was flowing a sullen tide.
The old man crossed in the twilight dim;
The sullen stream had no fear for him;
But he turned, when safe on the other side,
And built a bridge to span the tide.
"Old man," said a fellow pilgrim, near,
"You are wasting strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day;
You never again will pass this way;
You've crossed the chasm, deep and wide-
Why build you this bridge at the evening tide?"
The builder lifted his old gray head:
"Good friend, in the path I have come," he said,
"There followeth after me today,
A youth, whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm, that has been naught to me,
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be.
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building this bridge for him."
By Will Allen Dromgoole
The New York Times details its partnership with Assange and other newspapers and the process behind the release of the State Department cables.
This is definitely the coolest Kinect hack I've seen so far. Somebody should probably patent this if it's not already.
The Kinect's multi-camera layout can be used to capture some fuzzy, but astonishingly effortless 3D maps of real world locations and objects.
How does a web service respond when a government is stealing its citizens' passwords?
Apple has created a prototype of a payment terminal that small businesses, such as hairdressers and mom-and-pop stores, could use to scan NFC-enabled iPhones and iPads, Doherty said. The company is considering heavily subsidizing the terminal, or even giving it away to retailers, to encourage fast, nationwide adoption of NFC technology and rev up sales of NFC-enabled iPhones and iPads, he said."Near-field communication" is very similar to the technology used in gas station speed passes, highway toll tags, and ID badges like mine. It's already available in Google's latest Android phone, the Nexus S, and as the article says, a potentially huge cut of payment processing fees is at stake in the adoption of a new payment method.
Buying RAM is for people who don't know how to write algorithms.
Algorithms are for people who don't know how to buy RAM.
The phrase is not a statement that information should be free. It's not a statement that sharing information is an intrinsic good. It's also not saying it's impossible to keep information not-free. Just difficult.As much as we don't like the idea of our government keeping secrets, I believe there are things that should be.