November 2009
Naming Names
Posted by on Sunday, November 22, 2009 - 2 comments
This 1999 Salon.com article on corporate naming practices is a great read, even ten years later (thanks to Isaac for the link). • Disclosure: I preferred the name Cardinal over Firefox and I work for a company called silverorange.
Viewing PDF Files without Adobe Reader
Posted by on Friday, November 20, 2009 - 10 comments
I noticed an interesting feature at the end of the Google Chrome OS Demo video today. Apparently, you can pass the URL of any publicly available PDF file to Google Docs and it will act as a plugin-free PDF viewer right in the browser. • To view a PDF file without any plugins, append the URL of …
A Brief Guide to American Highway Fast Food
Posted by on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 4 comments
My friend and scotch-enthusiast, Ian Wiliams, has written a brief guide to American road-side fast-food for his fancy wife. Here are some highlights: • On Taco Bell: • ““With a enough Medium™ sauce, pretty much everything remains vaguely interesting, even if the aftermath - especially in a …