Category Archives: Geek

Oh look, I can blog in LaTeX now

Posted on Monday, April 18, 2011 by Jon

Oh hai, I can has LaTeX?

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Posted in Fun, Geek, Math, Random | 2 Comments

“I’ve got pi here, and I’ve got pi there; I’m pi-winning!”

Posted on Friday, March 18, 2011 by Jon

Why pi is wrong, and why we should all be using a new constant—tau, equal to two pi—instead

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My undergraduate student page

Posted on Saturday, February 5, 2011 by Jon

I’m working on my first Intro to New Media paper, and I figured I ought to put a basic site design together in advance.

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Posted in Coding, Design, Geek, Intro to New Media, School, Web | 2 Comments

Whitespace, text readability, and online typography

Posted on Wednesday, February 2, 2011 by Jon

(Mostly uninformed) ramblings about Web design and text formatting

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Posted in Design, Geek, Intro to New Media, Web | 1 Comment

It lets you shoot stuff. And it helps you type faster.

Posted on Sunday, January 16, 2011 by Jon

Type words. Shoot aliens. That’s the premise of Z-Type, an awesome little HTML5 shmup game I found out about yesterday.

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Mortality, digital content, and future-safe archives

Posted on Wednesday, January 12, 2011 by Jon

What happens to our online lives when we die?

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“Good Code”

Posted on Thursday, January 6, 2011 by Jon

xkcd is spot-on, as usual.

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Posted in Coding, Geek, Intro to New Media, Philosophy | 1 Comment