“ The net is phenomenological. If you do a letter-perfect imitation of a jerk, you are one.
— Bruce Baugh (via Making Light)
Coyote Tracks
A scattered collection of thoughts, links and found objects
§ Coyote Cartography (home page)
§ Coyote Cartography (home page)
Sep 13
Sep 11
“ What is the greatest threat facing us now? People will say it’s terrorism. But are there any terrorists in the world who can change the American way of life or our political system? No. Can they knock down a building? Yes. Can they kill somebody? Yes. But can they change us? No. Only we can change ourselves.
Aug 03
The “LOLcats” phenomena re-imagined as a turn of the century comic strip
Jul 26
Jul 16
“ Cruft is the stuff that accumulates on code over time. Cruft has no odor, but it stinks. Cruft has no mass, but it weighs the code down. Cruft can’t be seen, but it’s ugly. Cruft cannot be young, it’s always old. Cruft can’t be deliberately added, it only appears when you’re not looking. Cruft can’t be explained to managers, except through awkward car analogies. They still won’t get it because managers drive well-maintained elegant foreign cars like BMW’s, which gather no cruft. Programmers understand, because their Fords and Chevys are practically built of cruft. Harley motorcycles should have cruft, but noise dissipates cruft. Cruft is mysterious.
— MarsDefenseMinister (on Slashdot)
Jul 12
“ We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area.
— Major Mike Shearer, UK military spokesman (via BBC)
Jul 10
Jul 03
Jun 29
“ All told, the launch looks like it is going according to master spinmeister Steve Jobs’s brilliant marketing plan to take away all attention from Paris Hilton yammering on about her time in the pokey. And for this gift alone, we are in his debt forever.
Jun 28
“Skepticism about the phone is perfectly reasonable. It’s being marketed as a revolutionary device, and they don’t come along that often. What about the battery? What about the stupid AT&T network? Will it scratch? Will I be able to type on it? Is it way too expensive? Is it really all that different from my current phone? All reasonable questions. But much of the criticism I’ve seen seems driven by little more than sour grapes at the possibility that Apple could make something like this work as advertised, and deep irritation that a large group of consumers might be willing to pay for it if they did.”
Jun 26
No matter how nuts you think someone is, there is always someone else vying for the title.
Jun 18
Jun 06
May 31