June 2012
5 posts
“The recession, which devastated auto sales, brought the company to the brink of...”
– “Chrysler posts best quarterly profit in 13 years” (via barackobama)
Notes EM: this is how you start a takedown! →
evgenymorozov:
The first paragraph of Matt Cartmill’s review of Donna Haraway’s Primate Visions book. It appeared in the International Journal of Primatology (Vol. 12, No. 1, 1991)
This is a book that contradicts itself a hundred times; but that is not a criticism of it, because its author thinks…
Watchcbsfilms:
Exclusive Valentine’s Day clip from Beastly
May 2012
78 posts
Tumblr Staff: A large segment of custom domain... →
staff:
A large segment of custom domain blogs experienced an outage earlier this afternoon with roughly 3.5 hours of intermittent availability.
The interruption stemmed from an issue in the way this blog traffic gets load balanced (distributed across our servers). This system has been undergoing a…
Watchbiancavirina:
CLICK THE SQUARES.
THE WHOLE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS.
THIS THIS THIS THIS!
Varsity Bookmarking: My Job Pt.1 — I have no idea... →
pieratt:
I am the CEO of Svpply, Inc., a social shopping S-Corp operating out of New York City. My company has been the recipient of over half-a-million in investor dollars, for the stated purpose of building an unknown, 3,000-member web service into a cultural phenomenon, and I truly have very little…
Pixel Politics: Pixel Politics is BACK! →
pixelpolitics:
…with a surprise!
Do your Wednesdays feel joyless and empty now Parliament’s in its summer recess? Does 12 o’clock pass without event, leaving you deflated and depressed?
Prime Minister’s Questions is every political nut’s favourite time of the week and we all deserve to enjoy it whenever we…
But Seriously...: How to Update Facebook From... →
justinbee:
Facebook provides each user with a unique email that they can use to update their Facebook with. This way you can email a status update, picture, etc. without needing to access the site or the app, plus it works with any email address.
We can use that email address to cross post from Google+,…
Justin Halpern: A Conversation With My Dad →
justinhalpern:
(My dad and I, 1983)
So yesterday the TV show based off the twitter feed, and my book, Shit My Dad Says, was cancelled. I worked on the show for the last year. It was a bummer, until I remembered that I got a TV show based off a twitter feed and a book and was basically the luckiest…
bitdrift: Markdown to the rescue! Formatting code... →
bitdrift:
In case anyone is wondering, the only way to post formatted code blocks in Tumblr is to use Markdown (OK—other than adding pre and code tags by hand—which is a lot messier than the Markdown method. Trust me).
You might need to change your settings if your editor is using a different mode (mine…
hey amber rae: Letting Go: The Power of Closing... →
heyamberrae:
Just five months ago, I had a major panic attack in my TriBeCa apartment. In the middle of hosting a weekly meeting with my team, my body began shutting down. I couldn’t breath properly and I felt such deep anger and anxiety that I didn’t know who I was in that moment. Tears began to form and…
jack dickey webspace: Guess Which One Of These... →
jackdickey:
Is it Charles McGrath, who wrote “Robert Caro’s Big Dig,” (New York Times Magazine, 12 April 2012):
It’s not writing that takes Caro so long but, rather, rewriting. In college he was such a quick and facile writer, and so speedy a typist, that one of his teachers, the critic R. P. Blackmur,…
Entire Tamriel Landmass built into Skyrim.
ppsh-41:
I didn’t know if this was posted yet on tumblr, so I thought I’d do it. The landmass of almost all of the provinces in Tamriel, has been put into Skyrim. All which are inaccessible(without console commands) and which serve absolutely no purpose in the game. Why are they there? I personally don’t know. But take a look at the effort Bethesta put into these seemingly pointless landmasses.
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Alan Quatermain: My Review of the Kobo App →
quatermain:
Given the immense amount of vitriol in the iTunes Store reviews against Kobo’s “decision” to remove the store from our app, I posted a ‘review’ of my own, explaining the decision. I felt this was about the only way I could let people know that we haven’t just decided, capriciously, to yank…
Land of Celebration and Bells: Homestuck Title... →
thepageofhopes:
Who doesn’t want to know the Homestuck Title they would have in the game?
EDITED: Added more Aspect info, Changed how Rage and Doom work, and added one Syllable Titles!
Edit 2: Added A better 1w9 title, and one syllable ones for different genders if needed.
More edits: Alt titles added
This…
Octopress: A Blogging Framework for Hackers →
thechangelog:
I’m sure that you’ve heard about Jekyll, but have you heard of Octopress? Well, Octopress 2.0 just surfaced and it’s definitely something that will get the hacking blogger happy.
Octopress is a framework designed by Brandon Mathis for Jekyll, the blog aware static site generator powering Github Pages. If you’ve ever picked up Jekyll to start a hacker blog, you were probably...
mynt - Python-powered static site generator →
thechangelog:
There’s no shortage of static site generators lately, but most are very blog-focused. Mynt from Andrew Fricke aims to deliver true CMS flexibility in a Python package. Mynt supports custom date and tag-based archives, Jinja templates, Markdown posts, and YAML front matter.
Check out the nicely done docs site for usage and options, or drop into #mynt on IRC.
Theming Tumblr
matthewb:
Over the past couple of weeks I created a custom theme for Tumblr, which you can see here if you’re reading this post via the Tumblr Dashboard orRSS.
The process was largely fun and easy. After many CMSintegrations with multiple user-facing templates, it’s refreshing to work with Tumblr’s single-page approach. The Tumblr engine derives every page on a user’s tumblelog from a single...
A shot of JD: The most popular Tumblr blogs →
I was thinking about this earlier. No-one pointed me to a list, and I couldn’t find an existing one, so I figured out a very vague, possibly totally inaccurate one out using Compete. I basically listed the subdomains that receive most visitors, which may mean that sites with custom domains…
