The Core Dump
The Core Dump is the personal blog of Nic Lindh, a Swedish-American pixel-pusher living in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Book roundup, part 20
Includes The Antidote, One Nation, Under Gods, Losing the Signal, The Todd Glass Situation, The Last Policeman, The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, Beacon 23, Killing Pretty and Queen of Fire.
Building a static site for an investigative journalism project
Things to consider when planning to build a site on a compressed time table.
How to learn things you’re not interested in
A simple tip to help you learn things your brain wants nothing to do with.
The one sentence rule
Nic gets in touch with his inner life coach and offers up a simple rule to find out if an idea is good or not.
Closing loops
It’s not how much you have to do, it’s how many things you’re doing at the same time.
Jade Helm and the fever swamps of patriotism
Did you know the U.S. government is planning to invade Texas? Well, it’s not. Nic attempts to explain.
Book roundup, part 19
Lots of fantasy and sci-fi in this installment plus a book about sports! Includes Boy on Ice, Difficult Men, Restaurant Man, The Red Line, Cunning Plans, Seveneves, Nemesis Games, Bitter Seeds, The Mechanical, Angles of Attack, and City of Stairs.
Let’s all chill out about the iPad sales numbers
Turns out “it's just a big iPhone” is a stroke of genius.
In this day and age, when the increasing complexity of modern life leaves one barely any time for reading …
—Proust (1919) (via James Gleick)
Book roundup, part 18
Nic is sad about Terry Pratchett's passing. Includes No Land’s Man, Idiot America, Something Coming Through, The Burning Room, Foxglove Summer, and The Dark Defiles.
BlueBuds X and Jabra Revo Bluetooth headsets review
Bluetooth headsets are maturing rapidly and these are both good in their own ways and for different purposes.
It is the folly of too many, to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of a kingdom.
—Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) via The QI Elves on Twitter
Another shot of wet socks against net neutrality
The Republic prints another sad editorial about net neutrality. Nic’s regard couldn’t be any lower.
Against net neutrality
The Arizona Republic prints a willfully ignorant editorial against net neutrality. It makes Nic unhappy.