Daily Meh

GUIs

Cameron Hunt and Marco Arment don’t like cross-platform graphical user interfaces, because...

Oct 31st

Theocacao: Satisfying UI Design is Often...

Oct 31st

Police: Boy playing with matches started...

Oct 31st

Ranter

Oct 31st

The Web is Agreement (via psd), check out the full version...

Oct 31st

The Steampunk Keyboard. I’d hoped for an actual...

Oct 30th

“The cinema is little more than a fad. It’s canned drama....”
— Charlie Chaplin.

Oct 30th

Anonymous edits to English Wikipedia (almost)...

Oct 30th

Soon we’ll know what that much-circulated todo list...

Oct 30th

The Universe of Discourse : Undefined...

Oct 30th

Dizzying, from FFFFound.

Oct 29th

“The Texas State Library and Archives Commission is declaring...”
— State report says Texas has...

Oct 29th

Top 87 Bad Predictions about the Future

Oct 29th

New Definition for Myocardial Infarction...

Oct 29th

Spam

I just got an email from someone I didn’t know, looking very much like spam, saying...

Oct 28th

Urban Dirty: Free texture stock photography

Oct 28th

Semantics

Semantically, a chronological list of blog posts is an ordered list—perfect for the <ol> tag....

Oct 28th

“A lot of people feel like we’re pretty much...”
— New York Times senior software...

Oct 28th

The Blum Blum Shub Algorithm

Oct 28th

A Crash Course in the Mathematics Of Infinite...

Oct 27th

From the Thinking Forth book. It’s available under a...

Oct 27th

“Calvin: A painting. Moving. Spiritually enriching. Sublime....”
— From (naturally) Calvin &...

Oct 26th

Rare Bill Watterson Art

Oct 26th

Google Experimental Search

Oct 26th

davidthedesigner: this made me smile #26.

Oct 26th

“I’m officially fed up with people who use nonsensical...”
— Obeastiality. But is that...

Oct 26th

Thought

Are there any countries other than USA whose inhabitans have stolen the term for an inhabitan of an...

Oct 25th

12 [Sarcastic] Reasons Why Gay Marriage...

Oct 25th

“How long are we to continue a search before we have a right...”
— — William Dembski, in...

Oct 25th

This is How You Pronounce Ubuntu

Oct 25th

Review: Stephen Wolfram, A New Kind of...

Oct 25th

“Ethics is the normative science of conduct of human beings...”
— Says aatw. Unfortunately (or...

Oct 25th

White Is the New White

Oct 25th

Floating Utopias -- In These Times

Oct 24th

“At the time of the French Revolution of 1789, only about...”
— Lingua Franca. (hat tip)

Oct 24th

The 10 Most Terrifyingly Inspirational '80s...

Oct 24th

Historian: World was created 6010 years ago

Oct 24th

High Purity.

Oct 24th

Future to Newspapers: Jump in the river

Oct 24th

“The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clockface maintained since...”
— Doomsday Clock.

Oct 23rd

SCRAPBOOK :: Firefox Extension

Oct 23rd

Google Translate: sarkozy sarkozy sarkozy

Oct 23rd

Libertarian limit, reblogged from hospitalville.

Oct 23rd

Urban Legends Reference Pages: The Golden...

Oct 23rd

I turned Windows into a Mac. Haha. Yeah, bet you did. (via...

Oct 23rd

The Internet? Bah!/ Hype Alert: Why...

Oct 23rd

An Apology

When I named this ‘log Daily Meh, I had no idea how many blogs there were with names of the...

Oct 23rd

Platonism in Metaphysics (Stanford...

Oct 23rd

“I habitually click and drag to highlight text while reading...”
— New York Times Kill...

Oct 23rd

Bob Jones University Dress Code

Oct 22nd

Möbius gear (one with the topology of a möbius strip)....

Oct 22nd

What Al Gore doesn't understand about climate...

Oct 22nd

Ongoing conflicts

Oct 21st

Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard

Oct 21st

Russian Protests: The Deleted Scenes

Oct 21st

A STORE OF ROTATING RINGS: PRODUCTS ON THE MOVE.

Oct 21st

Norwegian Collection of Potential...

Oct 21st

A virtuoso muse

Oct 20th

What the F***?

Oct 20th

“If desktop Linux is always “getting better”, why...”
— Says Marco. I’m going to...

Oct 20th

“I f%$king hate c*&% s**@ing mother%$&*ing linux.”
— Travors: Me. Installed it on...

Oct 20th

Women send panties to Myanmar in protest

Oct 20th

Watson Loses Cold Spring Harbor Post

Oct 20th

“Whenever GNU/Linux trumpets a excellent or polished UI,...”
— So says Cameron Hunt. I...

Oct 20th

Rowling Says Dumbledore Is Gay

Oct 20th

Via Attention Deficit Department, from FFFFound .

Oct 19th

Road sign warning about polar bears, from Svalbard, Norway,...

Oct 19th

11-1-07 « Davidville

Oct 18th

“Of course the people don’t want war. But after all,...”
— Hermann Göring, 1946, to...

Oct 18th

Oh, good grief

Oct 18th

Number of inhabitants per doctor, a world map

Oct 17th

Clojure

Oct 17th

glitching

Oct 17th

Industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes’s 1929 idea of a...

Oct 17th

Astrophysicist Replaces Supercomputer with a...

Oct 17th

John Wilkins invents the meter

Oct 16th

Good Math, Bad Math : Dirty Rotten Infinite...

Oct 16th

Cover of XTC’s 1978 album, Go2, via Creative Review.

Oct 16th

Google's UI designed for Google

Oct 16th

win4k - interactive forth programming...

Oct 16th

“This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.”
— List of problems solved by...

Oct 15th

A Garden of Varied Delights is 1/4 as popular on tumblr as...

Oct 15th

Edge-Serpentine Gallery: FORMULAE FOR THE...

Oct 15th

Gore Derangement Syndrome

Oct 15th

Voting up or down is dead

Oct 15th

Top Down Operator Precedence

Oct 15th

More nice “In Rainbows” cover art, from...

Oct 15th

Reddit error screen. They used to have more witty ones, if I...

Oct 15th

Rewriting Tools for Mozilla 2: Moving Forward...

Oct 15th

Are we missing a dimension of time?

Oct 15th

The Grief That Made 'Peanuts' Good

Oct 15th

Supposedly, a Daily Mirror frontpage from January 2003....

Oct 15th

Great. Now I wonder what the previous nine levels are. (Via...

Oct 14th

By now, everyone has probably seen the various cover art...

Oct 14th

A Beautiful Mind

Oct 14th

The Staying Alive Game

Oct 13th

Layer Tennis, Match 3

Oct 12th

I'd like to introduce you to someone very...

Oct 12th

Peace!

Can’t find any English language source on it yet (update: here’s one), but Al Gore and...

Oct 11th

lines and colors

Oct 11th

“Humphrey Potter was a lad employed to turn off and on the...”
— Source.

Oct 11th

Quiet Times

This ‘log may be a bit quiet for the next few days, due to limited internet access until...

Oct 11th

Map of the Internet Address Space

Oct 10th

Exploits of a mom at xkcd. The alt text is even funnier.

Oct 10th

LOLCat Bible Translation Project

Oct 9th

It started with cheeseburgers. Then theism. Now, finally,...

Oct 9th

Update on the Target accessibility lawsuit

Oct 9th

Solar powered ferry, from Inhabitat.

Oct 9th

Yesterday was International Cephalopod Awareness Day....

Oct 9th

9rules: Staying True To Your Purpose

Oct 9th

“This service has been around for quite some time and I...”
— Christian Montoya’s Web...

Oct 9th

You and Your Research

Oct 8th

SeaSteading -- Homesteading the High Seas

Oct 8th

The Conch Republic

Oct 8th

Oceania -- The Atlantis Project

Oct 8th

D-E-F-I-N-I-T-E-L-Y

Oct 8th

The San Diego Virgin Mary, and More Proof God...

Oct 8th

17 year old Bianca Passarge of Hamburg dresses up as a cat,...

Oct 8th

Euler's Constancy

Oct 8th

A Prayer for Archimedes

Oct 7th

Year of the Dolphin

Oct 7th

Roman calendar

Oct 7th

5 Myths About Sick Old Europe

Oct 7th

Old Picture of the Day

Oct 6th

Python Magazine issue #1

Oct 6th

Quit Assigning Version Numbers to the...

I’m going to say it, and I’m far from the first nor the last to do so. Assigning version...

Oct 6th

Your Personal Moon. That’s a lamp. (via)

Oct 5th

Ironic Sans: Reader takes Histogram Idea even...

Oct 5th

Whohoo. I actually had one of these during my school days....

Oct 5th

So, my background image is gone...

But not voluntarily. The server that holds it at imageshack seems to be down. If it’s not back...

Oct 4th

The Last Language War / Language Trolling...

Oct 4th

In 1972 Paul Rand designed what is now one of the most...

Oct 4th

Sputnik 1

Oct 4th

USING COLOR IN INFORMATION DISPLAY GRAPHICS

Oct 3rd

freshmeat.net: Editorials - Excessive code...

Oct 3rd

Last day of life all planned out, down to the...

Oct 3rd

Amnesty International ad, full size.

Oct 3rd

Not normally a fan of anything that matches the regex...

Oct 3rd

A History of the Social Web

Oct 2nd

“In cryptography, Kerckhoffs’ principle (also called...”
—  Kerckhoffs’ principle.

Oct 2nd

Babies who regularly watch Disney's Baby...

Oct 2nd

Creative Review interviews $ehvermögen from Lichtfaktor, a...

Oct 2nd

Scientists breed see-through frogs: Frog Scientists at...

Oct 2nd

“maybe i’m naÏve and don’t spend enough time in...”
— lonelysandwich. I’m not...

Oct 1st

Slashdot Turns 10 But You Get The Presents

Oct 1st

Radiohead fans to pick album cost

Oct 1st

Nokia ad campaign, full size here.

Oct 1st

...?

How come Smashing Magazine, with its haven of links on web design, usability, typography, and so on,...

Oct 1st

A Neighborhood of Infinity: Arboreal...

Sep 30th

FIFA World Cup Posters

Sep 30th

The obscure game-theory problem that explains...

Sep 30th