links.lmorchard.com - #rant

Don't Give Your Users Shit Work

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:00:07 +0000

Some people still like shit work. They can spend an hour moving Twitter accounts to special Lists, and then at the end of it look back and say “Boy, I spent an hour doing this. I really accomplished a lot today!” You didn’t. You did shit work.

Tags: #circles #google #gtd #productivity #rant #shitwork #social #tech

Clifford Stoll: Why Web Won't Be Nirvana - Newsweek.com

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:24:24 +0000

This sounds so much more funny when read with a REALLY sarcastic voice. "Baloney. Do our computer pundits lack all common sense? The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works."

Tags: #culture #future #history #internet #predictions #rant #retro #stoll #wrong

Bitch, Co.: Tweet to an Anonymous Account

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:46:31 +0000

"For the anonymous release of agency induced angst"

Tags: #agencies #bitchco #design #funny #rant #twitter #web2.0

best of craigslist : "Dear Red States..." A Letter From The Blue!

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:05:14 +0000

Tags: #blue #craigslist #crazy #humor #politics #rant #red #states #usa

REST APIs must be hypertext-driven » Untangled

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:36:35 +0000

"What needs to be done to make the REST architectural style clear on the notion that hypertext is a constraint? In other words, if the engine of application state (and hence the API) is not being driven by hypertext, then it cannot be RESTful and cannot be a REST API. Period. Is there some broken manual somewhere that needs to be fixed?"

Tags: #apis #http #hypertext #rant #rest #webdev #webservices

uncov / Nobody Gets Laid At BarCamp (barcamp)

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:23:06 +0000

"Basically you sign up to come pitch your useless startup to a bunch of other jerkoffs who are pitching their useless startups, and it doesn't stop until everyone gets a full release."

Tags: #barcamp #barcampblock #funny #grousing #rant

Daily Kos: Stupidity is not a defense.

Fri, 26 May 2006 00:09:30 +0000

"These people are not stupid. Not even Chimpy. He may be dumb, but he ain't stupid. These people are plain evil."

Tags: #funny #politics #rant #stupidity

Don't click here [Scribbling.net]

Thu, 03 Nov 2005 15:35:58 +0000

"Click here to download my newest song, entitled I think you're an idiot and need to be told explicitly how to interact with the Web."

Tags: #funny #rant #webdev

The Blog | Cenk Uygur: If You're a Christian, Muslim or Jew - You are Wrong | The Huffington Post

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:01:09 +0000

"We are driven to war after war, violence on top of violence to appease madmen who believe in gory mythologies."

Tags: #rant #religion

Idle Words: A Rocket to Nowhere

Fri, 05 Aug 2005 13:51:26 +0000

"As tempting as it is to picture a blood-spattered Canadarm flinging goat carcasses into the void, we know that the Shuttle is the fruit of what was supposed to be a rational decision making process."

Tags: #nasa #rant #science #shuttle #space

Prepare to get screwed by digital rights management

Mon, 25 Oct 2004 20:37:19 +0000

"I just wish one of you spineless but very rich companies had the balls to stand up and do the right thing for the consumer."