Since Tron: Legacy is coming out tonight (do you have your midnight tickets yet?), here’s how I made my Tron Girl costume for Halloween this year.
“Don’t be afraid to be a fool. Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying yes begins things. Saying yes is how things grow. Saying yes leads to knowledge. “Yes” is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes.” — Stephen Colbert, via Dave
This simple javascript widget displays the last photo you uploaded to Flickr. (I use this with the Flickr iPhone app to always display the last photo I took with my phone.) A fun Labor Day project!
Charmingly half-finished, coffee-stained sketches of San Francisco (mostly the Mission) by Aindrila Mukhopadhyay on Flickr. Great use of Flickr maps too.
Space Explorer by Bill Robinson, who also has a blog and even more awesome flimflammery for sale
“I like retro cartoon pinups. I like fuzzy space aliens. Perfect match!”
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The Mostly-Random Password Generator -
The difference between typing the words “authentic” and “aggregate” is small, true, but multiply it by the number of times you type your password … it’s a lot.
How a web design goes straight to hell -
The hardest I have laughed in a long, long time
“Every time you attempt to parse HTML with regular expressions, the unholy child weeps the blood of virgins, and Russian hackers pwn your webapp. Parsing HTML with regex summons tainted souls into the realm of the living. HTML and regex go together like love, marriage, and ritual infanticide.” — Stack Overflow (via Cody)
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This is possibly even cuter than an axolotl
I also love Jane Solomon’s flash fiction.
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