Chippendale’s new tower in Sydney judged world’s best tall building – This building is in our neighbourhood and I go past it twice a day. It’s gorgeous. I wonder if the award voters gave it extra points because it’s opposite the monstrous carbuncle of UTS?
Month: November 2014
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KAPOW.
How to Kick a Guy in the Balls: An Illustrated Guide – Between this article and some of the others linked on MetaFilter, @SusanSchorn makes me want to take up kickboxing again. RAWR!
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Epic eye roll.
Can Quitting Your Job Help Stop War? – The Atlantic – OH PLEASE. They found one guy who claims he quit his job over his refusal to pay federal income tax and spun it out into a ridiculous story of wannabe hipster Thoreaus. What about the guy who “doesn’t wear shoes” yet is some how still in talks with Ryan Seacrest to produce a TV show? How does that tie into the stupid clickbaity headline? Ugh. There’s a decent story about early retirement that could be dug out from under the bullshit, maybe. I hope Mr. Money Mustache sees it and tears these guys to shreds.
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Shared today on Twitter
RT @HypeDC: @web_goddess We will release the Nike x Liberty Holiday Line late November in limited Quickstrike numbers online and at our Pit…
RT @reinteractive: It’s your last chance for the year! #learntocode at our November #Rails InstallFest in Sydney! http://t.co/Ii8c1bUSV2
@SerriLaw Hahaha, congrats! 🙂
@RoseRed_Shoes @drkknits WHOA to both of you! Those are out there. 🙂
An iMessage that made my heart leap. I sent her a bunch of links and she’s now booked for a Ruby on Rails course. 🙂 http://t.co/J1YvxeqAtv
Reading: “What we know about Telltale’s ‘Game of Thrones’ video game” http://t.co/tcmaum85fr
Reading: “Sauced: Sausage Gravy” http://t.co/hAhVHVJj3j
w-g: The Greatest Knitting Patterns in the Universe – My hand knit Weasley sweater is featured in this io9… http://t.co/slzkrBHRR2
Reading: “Innovative new Type Nine keyboard for iOS 8 takes you way back to 1993” http://t.co/a16JLb0lqA
@JM77 I know, right? 🙂
@JM77 Hey BTW – I’m having trouble tracking down a specific Android tablet that’s crashing app. Does Ausdroid have a big test collection?
Reading: “Alex From Target: The Other Side of Fame” http://t.co/X8L2IVVrnC
w-g: Can Quitting Your Job Help Stop War? – OH PLEASE. Eye rolling these dirty hipsters so hard it hurts. http://t.co/RUP02G2y05
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Weasley Sweater
The Greatest Knitting Patterns in the Universe – My hand knit Weasley sweater is featured in this io9 geeky knitting roundup from 2010! I just noticed it in my referrers tonight. Random.
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Productivity
A Step-by-Step Guide to Having an Incredibly Efficient Day – I am a sucker for productivity articles. But holding off on my coffee til 9:30? That’s crazy talk.
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Mmmm, donuts.
Glazed Hand-Crafted Doughnuts Arrive in Sydney, glazed doughnuts, broadsheet sydney – Broadsheet – Heh. Hipsters. Also, they claim to have invented the concept of cereal milk glaze. Somewhere Christina Tosi is rolling her eyes…
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Automatic sleep tracking!
Help article: What has changed in the latest tracker update? – Whoa. I just checked my Fitbit app and was confused to see it had sleep data for last night. I forgot to click the button to put it in sleep mode, but my graph is there. So I checked the latest firmware upgrade and discovered that the Force now does this automatically. That’s really cool! (The update also included the long-awaited Caller ID feature, which is pretty sweet. I keep my giant iPhone in my handbag and never hear when it rings. Now my Force vibrates and displays the caller name. So tomorrow, right?)
Updated to add: Whoa! I also figured out I can trigger the clock face just by double-tapping the Force. Not clicking the button; just hitting it. So cool! I really should read the actual release notes when I install upgrades…
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But no Bruce Willis.
Landing on a comet: A guide to Rosetta’s perilous mission : Nature News & Comment – “Never before has a space mission put a lander on a comet.” That is so amazing. You can watch live online or follow along on Twitter.