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"Nobody checks the signature. Credit card signatures are a useless mechanism designed to make you feel safe, like airport security checks. So my question was, how crazy would I have to make my signature before someone would actually notice?"
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In spite of some fuzziness regarding the difference between various historical forms of fascism, I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it.
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Contacts: Download all your contacts from Outook, Plaxo or your phone and print them out in your Moleskine. Export your contacts in Vcard format and choose how you want them printed.
Events: Schedule the events you are attending and fit them in your Moleskine. Look out for the iCal file of the event and then choose what you want to print out and the layout.
Content: Set up the page with your image and text and print out your MSK page to put into your Moleskine. Choose the image from your desktop and write out or copy and paste the text.
bubbl.us – free online mindmapping
01-Apr-09
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Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you do brainstorm and mindmapping online. Create colorful mind maps online, Share and work with friends, Embed your mind map in your blog or website, Email and print your mind map, Save your mind map as an image.
Writing softwares (for Mac and Windows)
23-Mar-09
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A list of links to good writing and scriptwriting softwares for Mac and Windows.
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TextExpander saves you countless keystrokes with customized abbreviations for your frequently-used text strings and images.
PopChar
14-Aug-08
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Easily type umlauts and foreign characters – a better Character Palette – with Unicode categories. Tired of searching and remembering keyboard combinations for umlauts and other special characters? Want to get the most out of your fonts? Then PopChar is the right tool for you. PopChar makes "typing" of unusual characters easy without having to remember keyboard combinations.
VoodooPad
14-Aug-08
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VoodooPad is a garden for your thoughts. Plant ideas, images, lists and anything else you need to keep track of. VoodooPad grows with you, without getting in the way — no fences to box you in! Type in notes, highlight important words or phrases and create new pages. Drag and drop folders, images, applications, or URLs into VoodooPad — they're linked up just like on the web. With powerful search, nothing will be lost or out of reach.
Uncle Bobby's Wedding
06-Aug-08
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"But if the library is doing its job, there are lots of books in our collection that people won't agree with; there are certainly many that I object to. Library collections don't imply endorsement; they imply access to the many different ideas of our culture, which is precisely our purpose in public life."
Thsrs – The Shorter Thesaurus
09-Jul-08
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How can you intelligently get across a complex thought in just 140 characters without needing to use ugly abbreviations. Useless and brilliant by Ironic Sans.
Wikipedia Cheatsheet
28-Jun-08
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Wikipedia article formatting cheatsheet
Stewart Butterfield's resignation letter
19-Jun-08
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Flickr cofounder Stewart Butterfield's full and bizarre resignation letter to Yahoo!
MagCloud on demand magazine printing
18-Jun-08
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MagCloud enables you to publish your own magazines. All you have to do is upload a PDF and we'll take care of the rest: printing, mailing, subscription management, and more. Of course, there are other print-on-demand companies out there, but MagCloud is t
We Feel Fine
17-Jun-08
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Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the "feeling" expressed in
nciku
26-May-08
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Chinese characters and pinyin dictionary. Lets you handwrite the character you need to translate.
