May12
May07
Average distance to the nearest road in the contiguous United States »
From the USGS.
May05
Twitter API Goes Geo »
I think including geography is going to be the killer feature in the next round of webapps. I’ve been waiting for Twitter to get in on the action. This will be cool.
May02
May01
New Relic »
A whole company forms around the idea of Ruby on Rails scalability. I’m hoping a lot of neat stuff comes from this.
Apr28
Before it broke
It was a little too windy for the Revolution, and I ended up snapping its main spar on a particularly ungraceful landing.
To Launch or Not to Launch »
How to decide when to pull the trigger.
Apr27
Apr26
”Alright, too windy for kites. Just snapped the main spar in my Revolution. Damn. #
Apr22
Apr20
Poynter's Eye-tracking Follies »
A second-opinion to the Poynter Institute’s numerous eye-tracking suggestions.
Manglor »
I cannot remember actually having these toys, but I do remember playing with some sort of action figure with removable arms. Watch the TV commercial.
Update: Yup, I had this one.
Apr18
Apr16
The ampersand »
A brief history.
Up and Then Down »
The New Yorker looks at elevators.
Apr11
Jules Verne illustrations »
The Smithsonian’s archive of original illustrations in Jules Verne’s work.
Watch Phone »
Not the first, but this one actually looks good.
Apr10
Psi Chapter »
A UW Madison fraternity from 1914 to the 1970s.
Taking a quick look at Mental Models »
The cover’s beautiful, and I’ve got a hunch the contents are pretty interesting.
One Page Love »
The best in single-page sites.
Apr03
Yeah no »
A look at an increasingly-used linguistic construction.
The Astrocon Light Ray Gunner »
Chromed fictional space ship of the future. Want.
Apr02
Brits get new coins »
Why can’t US coin design be this good?
Anglo-Saxon attitudes »
The gap between American and British political views is widening.
Mar29
Earth Hour »
Turn your lights off from 8PM to 9PM tonight. Google is playing along.
The 960 Grid System »
Templating for grid-based web layouts.
“The Customer Is Always Right” is wrong »
Allow yourself to fire bad customers the same way you fire bad employees.
Mar24
Thermometer Watch Cufflinks »
Unfortunately, the opportunity to wear the appropriate cuffs doesn’t present itself too often in my line of work.
Mar22
Secret Skin »
An essay in unitard theory.
Stellar explosion is most distant object visible to the naked eye »
It’s located in Boötes, and is about 7.5 billion light years away.
Hire a photographer, get followed, have your picture taken »
Methodizaz will follow you and take your picture when you don’t expect it in an attempt to catch you in your most natural state.
Mar20
Vincent Laforet's faux-miniature photography »
Very cool tilt-shift photography.
This is the weblog of Nick Olejniczak. He's a web developer who loves web standards, works in Ruby on Rails, and is a huge fan of personal publishing. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin with his beautiful wife and their two charming cats.
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