Coyote Tracks
Thoughts, links and found objects § Coyote Cartography (home page)
Aug 3, 2007
3:16pm
The Laugh-Out-Loud Cats
The “LOLcats” phenomena re-imagined as a turn of the century comic strip
Jul 26, 2007
5:06pm
Jul 16, 2007
10:14am
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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.
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- MarsDefenseMinister (on Slashdot)
Jul 12, 2007
1:36pm
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We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area.
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- Major Mike Shearer, UK military spokesman (via BBC)
Jul 10, 2007
5:17pm
Jul 3, 2007
4:58pm
Jun 29, 2007
11:59am
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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.
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- Kara Swisher
Jun 28, 2007
2:59pm
Crooked Timber: iPhone watch
“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, 2007
3:28pm
David Pogue: "The iPhone Matches Most of Its Hype"
The first iPhone review
Jun 26, 2007
11:22am
First in Line for iPhone
No matter how nuts you think someone is, there is always someone else vying for the title.
Jun 18, 2007
2:36pm
The Failed States Index 2007
As described by the folks at Foreign Policy.
Jun 6, 2007
10:47am
The Electromagnetic Spectrum
From the geek comic “xkcd”
May 31, 2007
4:39pm
May 28, 2007
7:11pm
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No matter what else I do, my tombstone will be a giant pineapple.
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- Rupert Holmes
May 25, 2007
12:51pm
The Morning News - 2007 Editors’ Awards for Online Excellence
Some very cool web sites, most of which I hadn’t heard of before this.
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