Fred Yankowski

A very simple DIY plan for a flash diffuser. - Fred Yankowski

Another plan for building a cheap flash diffuser. - Fred Yankowski

How to build a "beauty dish" flash diffuser useful for portrait photography. - Fred Yankowski

Sam Smith calls out the crimes of the "fiscal terrorists". - Fred Yankowski via Bookmarklet

"And so the president listens to fiscal advisers who are treated as wise men rather than as fiscal terrorists and the media respectfully quotes them with not one sign that they were among those who helped Wall Street do to the world what Bernie Madoff did to his clients and in a far more deadly fashion than even bin Laden. " - Fred Yankowski

Part of a short series of articles about teaching physics. This one discusses just-in-time teaching, and personal-response systems (clickers). - Fred Yankowski

"The following twenty-five checklists and cheat sheets are concerned mostly with those who own Web sites and businesses; but, the links below also serve as information that Web users and consumers can use to gauge the privacy measures in place for any given company’s Web site or public office." - Fred Yankowski

Talk to your preteen self. Do something out of your routine. Think about what terrifies you. Ask someone else what they think your dream is. Pretend you have amnesia. Write "I want to..." thirty times and start filling it in. Throw away your plans. - Fred Yankowski

About a fellow who experimented carefully with different diets and behavior in a scientific approach to solving some health issues. - Fred Yankowski

"This is so visually stunning an object that on first encounter it's hard to imagine you're looking at a garden vegetable rather than an alien artefact created with molecular nanotechnology. But of course, then you realise that vegetables are created with molecular nanotechnology, albeit the product of earthly evolution, not extraterrestrial engineering." - Fred Yankowski

"Confidence is ... about feeling like you have options. Whenever you have at least one other option in life, you feel relaxed, safe and cool because if the one thing doesn’t work out, you’re not going to die. "Strive for excellence in something you love. When you commit yourself to a higher principle of excellence, that will always be at least one other option for you to fall back on." - Fred Yankowski

Claims that American children spend many fewer hours at school and doing homework compared to other modern countries. - Fred Yankowski

The posts generate a lot of likes and comments which pop them to the top of your feed often - but we're happy you can hide them if you're not interested too. - Nathan Chase

This short TED talk is about the lesson of success -- passion, work, focus, push, ideas, improve, serve, and persist -- and how success maintained only by keeping on with those eight factors. - Fred Yankowski

Brief listing of the "50 ways" from the book of the same name. - Fred Yankowski

Brief example of REST in a trivial application. - Fred Yankowski

Summarizes a percentage-based fluid layout scheme and some related techniques for fluid layout. - Fred Yankowski

Nice summary of the background and justification for the REST (Representational State Transfer) approach to web-based services. - Fred Yankowski

"there is a different approach to visualization that had been shown in a number of published studies to be significantly more powerful. It’s called process simulation and, true to its name, it focuses on visualizing not the outcome or goal, but the steps and actions needed to get there." - Fred Yankowski

Amazingly solid so far. Works fine for FriendFeed and (so far) PeopleBrowsr. Each chrome tab shows up as a separate process in Activity Monitor, although most are marked as "not responding" even though the tabs work. No Flash support, which is not a big deal for much of my use. - Fred Yankowski

Well, Chrome on Mac can't deal with untrusted security certificates. Damn ... I have to deal with a lot of those at work. - Fred Yankowski

Can't seem to view PDFs, or even save them to the local disk. - Fred Yankowski

Strange that the online version is missing one key sentence from the print version in the Chi Trib, and that was one of the most moving parts of the whole piece. - Fred Yankowski

I've been in contact with Ben on the FriendFeed team about both searching by, and hiding by, API-based services (such as blip.fm, Likaholix, and Flickchart). They're aware and it's in their court to add this functionality. You can also submit Flickchart as a suggested service here to expedite the matter: http://friendfeed.com/about... - Nathan Chase