Heard any good books lately?
So asks Neil Gaiman on NPR in a story on audiobooks.  It makes for riveting listening, thanks to Gaiman’s ability to make the mundane fantastic and because he has a mesmerizing British accent that holds me rapt.
Gaiman makes the point that audiobooks continue on, strong as ever.  The rise of the [...]

In what now seems like an eternity ago, I saw Nathan Huening of Sprocket House give a talk at Refresh The Triangle back in July on Edward Tufte.  Nathan’s talk was his attempt to highlight Tufte’s main points about design.
Looking back, I don’t remember all the points Nathan highlighted, however, at the time the ones [...]

At the May raleigh.rb meetup, Kevin Smith gave a talk on alternative databases, in which he covered CouchDB and Redis.
The talk convinced me that Redis would be the perfect database to underpin Get Encouraged.  Redis is a key-value pair database that is blazing fast: perfect for a small Twitter app that really only needs to [...]

A while back I wrote about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.  In a serendipitous coincidence, NPR ran a story recently that directly relates to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: Shakespeare Had Roses All Wrong.  While the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis isn’t mentioned, it clearly is involved.
The story touches on languages and how gender in languages affects thinking.  It is highlighted that [...]

In my spare time I’ve been working on a small project called @getencouraged.
If you can’t guess by the name, it involves Twitter.
You can find it here: http://encourage.ruzuku.com/
The idea behind the project is that you can visit the website and get a stream of encouraging quotes whenever you want.  You can also follow getencouraged on Twitter [...]