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Category Archives: One-link-ers

These are posts that consist of a link out to an article, with perhaps a line or two of commentary, but not much else.

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Aaron Sorkin Conjures a Meeting of Obama and Bartlet

Posted on October 15, 2008 by kirabug

Regardless of which side of the political aisle you sit on, if you’re a fan of The West Wing you’ll enjoy this article.

Posted in One-link-ers | Tagged politics, the west wing

Test your color IQ.

Posted on October 10, 2008 by kirabug


FM 100 Hue Test
. I got a 12. I think that’s good.

Posted in One-link-ers | Tagged colors, graphic design

Bananas and Ham — Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together on Flickr – Photo Sharing!

Posted on October 6, 2008 by kirabug

Bananas and Ham — Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together on Flickr – Photo Sharing!.

I deserve bonus points for never ever ever coming up with this idea, or considering cooking it — even though it contains three foods I really like.

Posted in One-link-ers | Tagged banana, ham, hollandaise sauce, scary food

How Wall Street quants lied to their computers

Posted on September 29, 2008 by kirabug

Now that some of the vague-but-panicked headlines have started to pass, we’re starting to learn what happened in the trenches to allow the market to go whacky. I’m not a huge math fan, being not-so-great at it, but I appreciate a good analysis, and this is a good analysis of one aspect of the mortgage problem.

Posted in One-link-ers | Tagged investing, wall street

xkcd

Posted on September 19, 2008 by kirabug

I did not do this with my new staple gun, but the temptation was there once I realized that Easyfire really means easyfire.

Posted in One-link-ers | Tagged controlled mayhem, sears, tools, webcomics, xkcd

Websnark: A brief note, referring to a New Englander of note.

Posted on August 18, 2008 by kirabug

A reminder of what a famous poem (or two) really says.

I love Websnark because Eric write this type of post, as much or more than I love his posts on webcomics.

Posted in One-link-ers | Tagged poetry, robert frost, websnark

17 questions to help you build a better website

Posted on August 18, 2008 by kirabug

Doc Holds Fourth: Questions to ask for any UX project was posted to one of the information architecture mailing lists I’m on. If more folks thought about these things before even building a website, the web would be a much nicer place to be.

Posted in One-link-ers | Tagged iai, information architecture

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