6 design principles for life inspired by subway system maps
Well-designed living takes a bit of well-applied map smarts.
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Fixing a (Time Warner) cable box when all the buttons stop working
Sometimes the magic elves powering our various devices overcome the spell forcing them into the mindnumbing labor of making buttons work.
Barack Obama’s inauguration speech: man, I’m exhausted already
Mr. President, that is one huge to-do list. I’m all for making America, the world and the known universe a better and more equal place for all, but sometimes I think we Americans are fighting so much with each other because we’re just a bit tired, like two-year-olds at the end of a vacation on … Read more
Defensive URL claiming
It’s exhausting. So many services to make my life easier are just making it harder. This one, old to you but new to me: http://gplus.to/ Great; it allows me to share a short URL with “hellotumo” at the end that links to my Google+ profile. I didn’t feel hugely compelled to grab this, but I … Read more
Finding vs. found
Numerous technologies are attempting to save us time by making choices about our media consumption for us. Netflix suggests movies. The NYT recommends articles. I like Pandora’s version of this so much, I paid for the upgraded service. As amazing as this is, it makes me wonder about what we’re losing. In the past, I … Read more
Tracking Google Nexus 4 availability
I’ve been repeatedly visiting the Google play store to see if the 16gb Nexus 4 is available. All that heavy clicking got very tiring. After fruitlessly searching for a way to take scheduled screenshots of the page that would automatically upload to a page on this site (Page Crescent Page Saver was the best option … Read more
America’s place on the Hero’s Journey: Stage 5 (approach)
In the video above, you get a succinct description of the structure of heroic stories (via Animal). Real life refuses to follow such tidy formulas, but I’m pretty certain I’ve paid a visit to all of the stages, though never in a neat or necessarily progressive order, and never in a systematic or timely fashion. … Read more
How to embed specific cells range when embedding a Google spreadsheet
With a test spreadsheet and Google’s guide, here is how you can embed specific ranges of a Google sheet: 1. Publish a sheet to the web by going to File – Publish to the web. Click on Embed and grab the iframe embed HTML code. I publish the “Entire Document,” but you can be more … Read more
Facebook wants to sell your email inbox. Happy Thanksgiving.
There’s no reason I should be writing this on Turkey Day, but I was taking a news-reading break, and this particular update is one of those “Facebook is about to make you mad” stories, so I couldn’t resist. Facebook wants to let anyone email you at your @facebook.com address, Reuters reports (the Facebook announcement is … Read more
Why RSS feeds are better than Twitter
Because I usually get a link with no commentary on it — a moment of quiet amid the clamor of yet another URL washing against the steadily fracturing shores of my attention span. So I would read, “‘Social Risk’ Test Ordered by China for Big Projects,”not “China figures out bulldozing over people like they do … Read more