I’ve been missing Jack Lessenberry’s columns lately and discovered that the old feed I’d made with Dapper had finally choked off. For those of you who like to keep up with Jack and are frustrated by the limited feed(s) provided by the MetroTimes, here’s a new one, thanks to Dapper.

Short version: Help me fund a project to help teach 6th graders math by providing physical “manipulative” aids for a classroom at my old middle school: Making Math Make Sense in Mrs. B’s Classroom.
If you watch the Colbert Report (or listen to NPR as much as I do), you’ve probably heard about DonorsChoose.org. The […]

My contribution to the LazyWeb today: Brownstoner user Polemicist asks for a way to hide frequently obnoxious “guest” comments on Brownstoner. I write a bookmarklet. Drag the following link to your bookmark toolbar and click it on any Brownstoner post and it’ll hide the guest comments for you.
Hide Guest Comments.
I’ve only tested […]

Amanda tapped me awhile ago for a game of blog tag:
1) Link to the person who tagged you.
2) Post the rules.
3) Share six non-important things / habits / quirks about yourself.
4) Tag at least three people.
5) Make sure the people you tagged KNOW you tagged them by commenting that you did.

When writing/coding, I frequently find […]

This is not a photoshop job. I kid you not. (Photo by Michael O’Kane).

Ask him about his campaign for Brooklyn Borough President.

So I get lots of ideas for really stupid web projects. For reasons I don’t understand, I feel guilt for not releasing my useless web toys into the Internet cosmos. Perhaps my retroactive New Years resolution will be to make more of these, since I just built one: Single-Serve.com — inspired by this […]

About once a week:
Me: “No bag. No bag. No, no fork. No napkins. No. No I have it all back at the office. No, just this.”
Halal guy: *smiles and laughs*
Me: Thanks.
One thing I love about NYC lunch time operations is the insane efficiency of busy lunch joints — especially street vendors and deli cashiers […]

When I lived in Ann Arbor, I liked the principles of the co-housing communities there — push the cars to the edges; create actually useful common spaces both to make it easier to live in a smaller space (community workshop; spare guest rooms) and to help build community amongst neighbors (large community kitchen and occasional […]

The folks from my favorite email list host provider CampaignMonitor have taken a cue from the well-established Web Standards Project (which has had considerable success at getting browsers to act more alike) and launched today the Email Standards Project. I’m not the biggest fan of HTML email but having recently dealt with issues around […]

Firebug is one of those rare tools that so fundamentally changes the way you do something (in this case web development, especially javascript) that, once you get used to it, you can’t quite remember what life was like without it.
As a quick example, today I found myself faced with the necessity of doing […]