Archive for 2009
Color Powered: ColorBox
A light-weight, customizable lightbox plugin for jQuery 1.3
I will be using this on an upcoming project. This particular lightbox is excellent, and by all appearances highly customizable.
11 Dec, 2009
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Miter Saw Station
This is the perfect design for the new addition come Christmas. Yeah. I picked out my gift.
The 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia
A list of the 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia is a guaranteed time waster. Can’t wait to dive into this list. However, if you scroll down to the bottom of the page before you bother reading these, take note of the second list of 50. That’s right, 100 articles to read. Fantastic.
Why the plutocrats will return
Given the government’s insatiable appetite for cash, it’s only natural that it would prefer to tax plutocrats, spending some of that money on poorer Americans, rather than move to a world where poorer Americans earn more (but still don’t pay that much in taxes), and the plutocrats earn less, depriving the national fisc of untold billions in revenue.
The government’s interests, then, are naturally aligned with those of the plutocrats — and when that happens, the chances of change naturally drop to zero.
Analysts Predict 1 Billion+ Mobile Web Users by 2010
One the more notable predictions in the near 20-page report is in regard to the growth of the mobile industry. Under the headline “Mobile Devices on a Path to Eclipse PCs”, the analyst firm claims that in 2010, mobile devices will increasingly become a strategic platform for both commercial and enterprise developers. However, the report backs away from the implications made in that eye-catching title by clarifying that the firm is not (yet) predicting the “death of the PC,” rather that mobile devices will no longer be seen as “subservient to PCs.” Instead, says IDC, mobile devices will be viewed as primary client platforms.
The limits of good vs. evil thinking
One response is: 1. “These people behaved dishonorably. I will lower my trust in their opinions.”
Another response, not entirely out of the ballpark, is: 2. “These people behaved dishonorably. They must have thought this issue was really important, worth risking their scientific reputations for. I will revise upward my estimate of the seriousness of the problem.”
30 Nov, 2009
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
30 Nov, 2009
College isn’t the place to go for ideas.
Rational Thought: A Chart That Should Keep Progressives Up at Night
Some rational progressive thought. This is the kind of person I think I can enjoy a discussion with.
What does this mean for the progressive agenda? First, it is vital that we prioritize our goals, a process that is going to require us to drop many of them, as difficult as that may be. Second, we need to come to terms with what “higher taxes” is going to mean in practice. U.S. taxation is actually as progressive as in Europe because we have taken so many families off of the income tax rolls. The added boost to raising taxes on “the rich” is much smaller than the revenue that could be raised by broadening the tax base so that we were not so reliant on upper-income families to pay for the benefits of government that everyone enjoys.