yjsoon

Is it actually week 26? Half the year is done? Hooray!

• Googling with Bing (CollegeHumor) – Bing really is a pretty good way to Google. Hint from my friend Steve for those in Singapore and other third world areas – set your region to USA to get all the features.
• Notes Still Sucks – A foul-mouthed rant about a product that deserves every drop of bile poured onto it.
• Report: 90% Of Waking Hours Spent Staring At Glowing Rectangles (The Onion) – Oops.
• Hands Down, The Best Facebook Vanity URL (TechCrunch) – Well done, internet! You win grand prize!
• And Data for All: Why Obama’s Geeky New CIO Wants to Put All Gov’t Info Online (Wired) – I found this interesting as a government lackey who deals with sheets and sheets of numbers, and also with many people who want portions of these sheets and sheets of numbers.

I’d provide attribution, but I’ve thoroughly forgotten where I got all these links from. I barely remember who wrote about what when I click through my Twitter feed links.

Carwash, originally uploaded by yjsoon.

Sunday morning at the nearby gas station.

• App For That – If you need an oddly amusing website that plays off an iPhone slogan, there’s an app… for… no, no, I can’t do it. But these guys can.
• Hot Stuff in a Squeeze Bottle – New York Times article on Sriracha, the amazing Thai/Vietnamese spicy sauce. I used to apply this stuff liberally on burritos and tasteless dorm dining hall food.
• Why I Unfollowed 45,000 People On Twitter - ”Everybody following everybody isn’t a networked community; it’s a madhouse.” Seriously.
• Cover Story: Finger Painting: The New Yorker Blog- It’s the artist, not the tool. Great publicity for the app’s creator, though.

Picnic, originally uploaded by yjsoon.

Day at the park with volunteers and athletes from Special Olympics. Damn shame that the website is down while the National Games are coming up – stupid local vendors.

I seem to be averaging five comics a month, which is not quite twice-weekly but not too shabby I guess. Also, working in some longer-term plot points, but don’t hold out for a coherent storyline or anything.

• May 28 A Love Spurned. Also, CYBORG CHICKEN
• May 17 Emo Rodentator Is Emo
• May 13 Deliciousness at.. ah, forget it
• May 10 Fear The Wobbly Tofu
• May 3 Deliciousness At Second Sight
• April 27 Fear The Evil Tofu
• April 19 Deliciousness At First Sight

I like meaningless metrics of time.

• Hypercritical – Ars Technica – John Siracusa on criticism, and/or being critical. “I am the Steve Jobs of this sandwich!”
• Hivelogic – Top 10 Programming Fonts – spoiler: the winner is Inconsolata.
• Tweeting Too Hard – Tweets deserving of the shiny “I AM VERY IMPORTANT” badge. So annoying! Can’t stop reading!

Metal Plant, originally uploaded by yjsoon.

Taken while waiting at Novena. I’m quite enjoying the camera effects programs on my iPhone — so far, I’ve bought Camera Bag, Cool FX and Photogene. I generally use one or two per photo, but I’ve found each to be useful in its own way.

Some things that came to my attention lately. I’ll try and post a few more on occasion.

• What The Trend: Twitter trends, explained. Please stop coming up with stupid hashtags (also: decrying the death of mainstream media everytime you “scoop” a news organisation).
• IE6 Update: Help kill IE6 with an IE6-like information bar. Tempting.
• Designing Convertbot: So pretty.

Chicken in the City, originally uploaded by yjsoon.

WHAT YOU LOOKING AT

Photo credit – jnwn. Edited with CameraBag for iPhone. Not entirely related to the stupidchicken webcomic.

The old workplace, originally uploaded by yjsoon.

My friends and I are teaching a programming class for Sec 1 and 2 Infocomm Club kids back at the old workplace / alma mater.

I miss teaching. This helps a little.