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Straight From The Horse’s Head
My wife pointed out this unusual plaque over the entrance of a skyscraper in lower Manhattan. This thing just begs so many questions. Is it made out of zinc? Is there a lot of zinc in Jersey? Is zinc...
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WML : Mr. Squeek No More
Here’s yet another edition of WML – What Michael Learned. And the subject of today’s post is one of the things that I hate as much as I love hardwood parquet floors – squeaks. In SAT-speak I am...
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WML : Screw You, Computer Hardware Manufacturers!
Continuing with the screw theme, let me share with you another piece of fastener lore that I’ve learned over the year. As any person who ever cut her hands on ragged edges of cheaply made computer...
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The Deadprogrammer Tarot Project
For a very long time I wanted to create my own Tarot deck. Complex symbolism of classic Tarot decks such as the Rider-Waite-Smith makes it next to impossible to recreate them faithfully in photographic...
View ArticleThe Fantom Photo Album
Being a fan of photography has its upsides and downsides. On one hand photographers notice more things. Beautiful things. Unusual things. Things that only can be seen through the lens of the camera...
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How the Starbucks Siren Became Less Naughty
[update] Starbucks logo changes again. You are probably here because you looked closely at the Starbucks logo and were a little confused about what is depicted on it. Is it a mermaid? What are those...
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Mu
I’ve been shopping for Japanese calligraphy scrolls lately. I wanted to purchase a scroll with a kanji “yume“, but instead ended up with “mu” instead. I purchased it without knowing what the character...
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Memex is Here
I think I finally found a piece of software I was searching for all of these years, the Memex that Dr. Vannevar Bush predicted. Too bad that the good ol’ leader of the Majestic 12 is not around to see...
View ArticleHunting Heads and Developing Back Ends
I’d like to share with you a few thoughts about tech recruiting. This is not a post about how to write resumes, read resumes, ask or answer tech interview questions. Enough is written on the subject by...
View ArticleOn the Importance of Lube
As a response to meaningless discussions about microformats, standards, widgets and other unimportant web gunk I wrote an article Deadprogrammer’s Hierarchy of Web Needs. The gist of that post is that...
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