A library is external

August 14, 2013
A library is an external human memory.
-- Frederick G. Kilgour

Website 4 the day:
Multiplatform open-source programming language:
http://haxe.org/
 

A life form with six or more legs

August 14, 2013
A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.
-- Robert A. Heinlein

Website 4 the day:
Learn web or smartphone programming for $25 to $49 per month:
http://teamtreehouse.com
 

Who wants to hear?

August 12, 2013
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? .
--- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927

Website 4 the day:
Ethiopian multiplication:
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Multiplication
 

Scouts' knot-tying class

August 11, 2013
Our Boy Scouts' knot-tying class went off without a hitch.

Website 4 the Day:
High speed photos and explanations:
http://www.youtube.com/user/destinws2
 

We went to Atari

August 10, 2013
So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we' ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'
-- Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.

Website 4 the day:
Feynman videos:
http://www.richard-feynman.net/videos.htm
 

Recite at a play

August 9, 2013
Why do you recite at a play but you play at a recital?
-- Steven Wright

Website 4 the day:
Windows secret weapon:
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/windows-wmic.html
 

Every Tom, Dick and Harry

August 8, 2013
Every Tom, Dick and Harry is named Sam!
-- Samuel Goldwyn

Website 4 the day:
Open Source media player:
http://xbmc.org/about/
 

How lying is done

August 7, 2013
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
-- Adrienne Rich

Website 4 the day:
Share keyboard/mouse on multiple systems:
www.inputdirector.com/
 

If my husband ever

August 5, 2013
If my husband ever met a woman on the street who looked like one of his paintings he would faint.
-- Jacqueline Roque, wife of Pablo Picasso

Website 4 the day:
Limit access to named websites:
http://keepmeout.com/en/
 

All men

August 5, 2013
All men are created unequal.
-- Robert A. Heinlein

Website 4 the day:
Develop games:
http://gamesalad.com
 

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