Semifat Sediment

links for 2009-07-05

2009-07-05T08:00:44Z

NBA Salary Cap FAQ

(tags: nba business salary cap faq)

links for 2009-07-04

2009-07-04T08:01:20Z

Bridge Worldwide 2009: Cannes Cyber Lions Gold - Pringles Can Hands

(tags: advertising banners pringles dialogue)

links for 2009-07-03

2009-07-03T08:01:21Z

The Movie Clapper Board Generator - fodey.com - Create images and animations

(tags: movies generator)
TweetCraft - Home

You got your Twitter in my WoW!

(tags: worldofwarcraft twitter plugins)
Indian Court Overturns Gay Sex Ban - NYTimes.com

'“The inclusiveness that Indian society traditionally displayed, literally in every aspect of life, is manifest in recognizing a role in society for everyone,” judges of the Delhi High Court wrote in a 105-page decision, India’s first to directly address rights for gay men and lesbians. “Those perceived by the majority as ‘deviants’ or ‘different’ are not on that score excluded or ostracized,” the decision said.'

(tags: india lgbt)

links for 2009-07-02

2009-07-02T08:00:54Z

East Bay Express | News | You're Not an Environmentalist If You're Also a NIMBY

'For the inner East Bay to grow the way it should, it will have to overcome the region's well-developed not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) sensibilities... There is a growing realization that no-growth activists have to step back and look at the bigger picture.... If you live in an urban area, you can't call yourself an "environmentalist" and continue to act like a NIMBY by blocking new housing.'

(tags: california eastbay urban cities density)
icantdeci.de

'a techno-crutch for the chronically indecisive'

(tags: crowdsourcing quizzes decisions web2.0)
emptyage : Are You Going to San Francisco

'If you're going to come here, even if it's only for a year, you should make the most of it. And to do that... you need to embrace what's unique about it.'

(tags: sanfrancisco living cities home)
Hire your own personal Starcraft tutor for as little as $20 an hour | Fidgit

wut?

(tags: craigslist starcraft teaching korean)

links for 2009-06-30

2009-06-30T08:01:04Z

Game design and the Printable CEO « Balthazar Auger

'At first glance it looks like just another GTD-oriented series of charts, but closer inspection reveals that the series draws inspirations from techniques used in video games.'

(tags: working workingplay gamedesign)
The Printable CEO™ Series

'Born from a desire to focus my time more productively. For me, that means things that make my freelance practice sustainable and fun.'

(tags: working management time workingplay)
Look at This Fucking Hipster Basher by Robert Lanham - The Morning News

An overview of the semiotic ouroboros that is hipsterism/hipster backlash.

(tags: hipsters culture trends)

links for 2009-06-29

2009-06-29T08:00:47Z

Old News about Icons » UIE Brain Sparks

(tags: icons design usability)
Language Log » Slang affixation: it’s all mystery-y-ish-y

'You might think that -y would resist suffixation on words already ending with the /i/ vowel, but you would be wrong. Mark has found a ton of "double-y" words in the wild, like jealousy-y, technology-y, and secret identity-y. The nonce formation that takes the cake, though, is mystery-y-ish-y.'

(tags: language grammar slang suffix y)
PreservationNation » Blog Archive » Today’s the Day: Celebrating Stonewall 40

'Absolutely all of us were flamboyant back then, both in dress and manner. We wore silk scarves and beads and baby blue bellbottoms (we were just taking hippie a few steps further) and we also styled our longer hair.... So, when you see the pictures today, we may look like drag queens, but we were really only “fem and fierce.”'

(tags: lgbt stonewall)

links for 2009-06-28

2009-06-28T08:00:43Z

Ulster Force Says It Has Disarmed - NYTimes.com

'One group, the Ulster Volunteer Force, said it had destroyed its entire stockpile of weaponry during a secret June 12 meeting with disarmament chiefs. The other, the Ulster Defense Association, said it had handed over its first, unspecified portion of its arsenal and would continue the process in coming months.'

(tags: ireland peace disarmament)

Today's walk.

2009-06-27T22:33:30Z

Walking up the wrong face of Grand View Park. Logs were placed here to step the trail, but inattention and erosion have pushed them around, forming terraces out of which flowers grow, and the path now running alongside this impromptu garden is just sand and loose rock. The path glitters in the sun (it's 1:00 PM). Some of the shine is silica in the sand and stone; most of it is glass from broken beer bottles. Parks are imagined as a respite from the city that surrounds them, but the city always finds its way in.

Grand View Park is basically grass and trees grown over a sand dune, which is piled up over a big rock, which sticks out of the top of a hill. The view for which the park is named shows off the bay, the Golden Gate Bridge, and the ocean. For some reason, I have to climb up to a spot like this to remind myself that San Francisco is enveloped by water on three sides. The city covers itself so thoroughly that it becomes easy to imagine the whole world as buildings with a sprinkling of parks, and that the only water to be had comes out of a tap. Sometimes you get lost wandering around the park and forget that you're surrounded by the city; sometimes you get lost wandering around the city and forget that you're surrounded by more.

links for 2009-06-26

2009-06-26T08:00:59Z

The bitter end « Tomato Nation

'Imagine existing in that funhouse body for ten minutes, living with the irreclaimable warping, knowing that you're a part of history, and doomed. I don't apologize for liking his music, or excuse anything else he did, but I have to wonder what the autopsy will say about his heart, and if it just broke, in the end.'

(tags: jackson obituaries pop)
Michael Jackson, Pop Icon, Is Dead at 50 - NYTimes.com

'Michael Jackson, whose quintessentially American tale of celebrity and excess took him from musical boy wonder to global pop superstar to sad figure haunted by lawsuits and failed plastic surgery, was pronounced dead Thursday afternoon at U.C.L.A. Medical Center after arriving in a coma, a city official said. Mr. Jackson was just 50 years old, having spent 39 of those years in the public eye he loved.'

(tags: jackson obituaries music pop)
Michael Jackson is dead [Updated] | L.A. Now | Los Angeles Times

'Paramedics responded to a call at Jackson's home at 12:26 p.m. He was not breathing when they arrived. The paramedics performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation and took him to the hospital... pronounced dead by doctors this afternoon after arriving at a hospital in a deep coma, city and law enforcement sources told The Times.'

(tags: jackson celebrity pop death)
Gamasutra - News - Opinion/Round-Up: Social Gaming - Where's The (Creator) Fun?

When did Gama turn into a fansite rather than an industry news site? Comments thread has some interesting stuff.

(tags: socialgaming socialgamingsummit gamasutra)
Fee increases at Golden Gate Park move ahead

The botanical garden is spared a gate fee, but other services are not so lucky.

(tags: goldengate sanfrancisco parks fees budget)
Levitated | Invader Fractal | Flash MX open source

'A region of space filled recursively with 15 bit combinatoric objects affectionately called Invaders.'

(tags: spaceinvaders fractal procedural pixels)

links for 2009-06-25

2009-06-25T08:02:27Z

Jun-26-09: Innovation, Design & Serious Games Exchange 2009, San Francisco | enthiosys agile product management

Unconference for people working in games for product research, design, etc.

(tags: conference gamedesign seriousgames)
http://www.mikejamesclothing.com/

T-shirts to celebrate your favorite area code. (No 612 or 503, though? Boo.)

(tags: tshirts areacode local)
MUNI Shirts

Shirts to celebrate your favorite (or least favorite?) bus/rail line.

(tags: sanfrancisco tshirts transit muni local)
Gamasutra - News - Jacobs Out As EA Combines BioWare, Mythic Operations

Muzyka head of the combined studio, Zeschuk CCO, Denton COO, Jacobs gone.

(tags: bioware mythic electronicarts gamesbiz)

links for 2009-06-24

2009-06-24T08:01:04Z

Protections for Transgender Workers - NYTimes.com

'The guidelines will be in an updated federal handbook for managers and supervisors to be distributed and posted online in the next couple of months, and they could also be included in other materials for managers. They will list transgender people — those who identify their gender differently from the information on their birth certificates — as among several groups protected by antidiscrimination laws.'

(tags: lgbt transgender working government)

links for 2009-06-23

2009-06-23T08:00:56Z

Flip Flop Fly Ball

'A love of baseball plus a love of infographics equals Flip Flop Fly Ball.'

(tags: baseball visualization)
The Minnesota Monthly Pizza Personality Type Indicator - Twin Cities Taste - Minneapolis, St. Paul, Minnesota

I'm apparently an ANCL, for what it's worth.

(tags: pizza personality quizzes food)

joshleejosh.com.

2009-06-22T00:24:57Z

I've had a surprisingly busy weekend (by my own standards, at least), but somewhere along the way, I found time to finally do something with joshleejosh.com, which I had registered a while back and completely forgotten to do anything with. It's basically just a list of links to my other online presences -- this blog, Twitter, FB, etc. -- but with a little bit of gratuitous indirection and Javascript thrown in.

At last, the quest to wrest control of my name from all those dead senators, financial analysts, and random college students begins! Today, a game of ego-Concentration, tomorrow the top of Google.

Anyway, if you could all poke at the page for a minute and let me know if you see any bugs (besides the ugly, I-obviously-drew-them-in-five-minutes graphics, which I'll fix sometime soon), I'd appreciate it -- especially if you're running any version of IE/Win. JQuery is supposed to be nice and cross-platform, but it was so easy to work with that my paranoia makes me think it must be broken somehow.

links for 2009-06-21

2009-06-21T08:00:50Z

twitter magnets | a delicate push

(tags: twitter poetry magnets flashgames)
Cristina Nehring's A Vindication of Love. - By Meghan O'Rourke - Slate Magazine

'Impatient with the bromides of our therapeutic age, Nehring is trying to make a case for love as a source of suffering. For her, love is a heroic act because it involves suffering.... Her zeal can seem adolescent. But her view usefully jolts our goal-oriented view of marriage and restores a vision of love as itself the quest that rewards brave vulnerability—an oxymoron not to be underrated.'

(tags: emotion love romance romantic)

links for 2009-06-20

2009-06-20T08:00:49Z

Telara Tribune

Fan site for HoT.

(tags: heroesoftelara fans forums)