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![New Yorker cartoon for my biking and/or running friends.
[via: newyorker.tumblr.com: http://nyr.kr/yOzeNo]](http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyzubv5nPw1qav5oho1_500.gif)
New Yorker cartoon for my biking and/or running friends.
[via: newyorker.tumblr.com: http://nyr.kr/yOzeNo]
(Source: newyorker.com)
“(The US has) separate laws that protect our health records and financial information, and even one that keeps private what movies we rent. But there is no law that spells out the control and use of online data.”
(Source: The New York Times)
“If someone comes in and asks for a recommendation and you ask for the name of a book that they liked and they can’t think of one, the person is not really a reader. Recommend Nicholas Sparks.” — 25 Things I Learned From Opening a Bookstore - jlsathre - Open Salon
This brief post is intended for someone who may be googling for terms like: “Image disappears randomly on some browsers, not others” or “the tab to the advertising media kit section of our website disappears” or “why does one image disappear from a page when I use Chrome, but not when I use another browser?” Oh, and did I mention that the name of the jpg is advertise.jpg?
Here’s what you should do:
1. Turn off all the browser’s extensions and plug-ins.
2. You’ll likely see the image that disappears — because it’s not disappearing. This is a good thing.
3. Enable the Adblock extension and you’ll likely discover that’s what is causing the issue.
4. If so, you’ve probably named an image something like, “advertise.jpg”
5. If you can, rename the jpg to something that doesn’t make an adblocking filter think that it’s an ad.
We are now returning to regular programming.
Austin Kleon: Instagram as an Artist's Sketchbook -
Name: Austin Kleon, @austinkleon
Bio: A writer who draws. [Click for more.]
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Nick Bradbury: A big reason software is still so unfriendly is that most developers spend very little time understanding how non-geeks experience the tech we build. We surround ourselves with fellow techies and start thinking everyone uses software the same way we do, so we keep building stuff for ourselves.
The only way we’re going to stop spending so much time giving free tech support is by making stuff that’s easier to use and less breakable. It’s when we step into the world of non-geeks, where people type URLs into Google’s search box instead of the address bar, that we start to understand what we’re doing wrong.
” —
Nick Bradbury: No More Free Tech Support
Just one of the classic lines in a letter sent by an emancipated slave, in response to his former master who had mailed him a letter requesting he come back to Tennessee to work on the farm:
“Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me.”
(via Letters of Note: To My Old Master)
“Scott Adams: You can argue all day long whether a car’s engine is more important than its wheels, but unless you have both, the car is useless.” — [Note: By pointing to it, I’m not endorsing the point of view put forth in this blog post. However, I thought this quote has a universality to it worth noting. Via: Scott Adams Blog: Who Benefits More? 01/27/2012]