“It’s amazing how much chutzpah you have when you have no idea what you're doing.”

On Pins and Needles: Stylist Turns Ancient Hairdo Debate on Its Head.

“…a clear proof that what he said was stupid.”

The Enlightenment’s ‘Race’ Problem, and Ours. (Via hubski.com)

Imagining a Drone-Proof City. (Via hubski.com.)

A Bug in Google Webmaster Tools?

One of the sites I host for a friend recently experienced an “increase in not found errors” at Google’s Webmaster Tools.

Looking through the list of corresponding URLs I noticed that most of them contain parts of an image element’s title attribute, like:

In effect, the faulty link Google is complaining about looks like this:

domain.tld

Do the webmaster tools interpret the href in the title attribute as ordinary link attribute or is the HTML flawed? What is going on?

“One of the many oddities of the English language is the multitude of different names given to collections or groups, be they beasts, birds, people or things. Many of these collective nouns are beautiful and evocative, even poetic.”

The sound of the dialup, pictured. (Via reddit.com)

Hey, mainstream media, today is European Privacy Day! What about some coverage for the rest of us?

Christoph Kappes: »[…] die Kulturtechnik des „Bloggens“ weitet sich aus.« (Via textdump.antville.org.)

Programmer Interrupted.

If you want to version and/or share your stuff but you are afraid of the big corporate silos (and rightly so) I would like to recommend to you SparkleShare from my heart.

It’s free, open source, self-hosted and quite easy to set up. You might need some (or someone with) server experience for the self-hosting part but besides that it works like the other folder sharing services by dragging and dropping files on your desktop.

An inspiring piece of software especially for those people, who are not into version control and other magical geekery.