A recent report has concluded that the London’s surveillance cameras have solved one crime per thousand cameras per year.
These are lovely headphones that look a little different from your average Sonys, Grados, or Sennheisers. They also come in white. Please buy them and tell me about it so I don’t have to.
Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage | Backblaze Blog
It’s cool to read about a company or group finding a problem and solving it, but it’s even cooler when that group shares their solution with others. For free. Open source hardware is a growing area of interest, and it’s particularly interesting in the area of high cost, typically centralized systems like SANs.
The Warehouse Comic: August 5th
(text while hovering: “YEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHH!”)
xkcd: August 21st
Derivative indeed.
In honor of Louise’s visit to our home in Oakland, I baked a buttermilk cake with lemon-and-thyme-glazed pear compote!
And then I rudely ate a piece with Ben before she arrived.
Though it’s topped with pear, it’s not your typical fruit/jam-filled cake. The pear compote topping is actually steeped and partly pureed in a lemon and thyme syrup. The buttermilk cake is lightly sweet, dense, and crumbly. (I folded creme fraiche into the batter, to give it some zing.)
Epicurious says to make a Greek yogurt ice cream to accompany, but I am lazy. Luckily Ben discovered it is delicious with chocolate ice cream. (You know how some cakes are so sweet the ice cream actually cuts the sweetness? This is not that kind of cake.) It is a cake that is great for summer! Even when the heat is overwhelming, this cake is just right.
Punctuation, excitement!
You can find the recipe here.
My colleagues at Salesforce put together this excellent post about how the User Experience team incorporates user feedback and makes it a part of product design. Congratulations to Anshu and Marni on their great work. via User Experience Blog
Grilled pork chop with tomatillo apple honey salsa that Katherine made. This was a really delicious dinner. via foundwhile
Why does Dog look so angry?
Dog and Bear take a new, fulfilling approach to life.
Sketchy quality due to snazzy, unfamiliar equipment! On the plus side: updates more regularly, with full color on Sundays. Keep sending those suggestions :)
Love.
Bear does so much but doesn’t brag . And it all looks fun! Bear is amazing.
Dog and Bear are productive. August 2009.
Amidst is a new site that is designed to “keep track of places you’ve been and discover places you want to go.” Ok, that’s cool. I’ve got Yelp and roughly a million other sites, but this one is well designed. In particular, their sign up form is simple and short. Well designed forms are rare, and the sign up form is an especially important one to get right. Even better, the site has just-in-time sign up (longer discussion at ala)—search for something and decide to save it? Sign up at the moment an action requires it, not before.
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