http://jeffhottinger.com/blog -Jeff Hottinger, spouting BS as usual Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:55:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Someone else agreeing with me that prizes at work aren't a good idea: Carrots, Sticks, and the Paradoxes of Motivation: "output" (Via 43 Folders.) http://jeffhottinger.com/blog/2008/carrots-sticks-and-the-paradoxes-of-motivation Whew, a big flutter of chatter in the news last week about some recent scientific findings: the gases let off by shower curtains are bad! That's right folks: those foul, chemical-smelling, plastic-manufactory odors that you smell when you open the package of a new plastic shower curtain are actually noxious ... http://jeffhottinger.com/blog/2008/thank-god-for-science I just discovered the best feature of the Virtual Console on the Nintendo Wii: you can leave games paused infinitely just by returning to the Wii Menu. Not such a big deal for the Super Nintendo and later games with Save functionality built-in, but this is huge for NES ... http://jeffhottinger.com/blog/2008/infinite-pause The new iPhone SDK comes with an iPhone simulator named Aspen Simulator, which is a full iPhone emulator and includes a few built in Apps including the iPhone Safari (Mobile Safari, Safari Touch?). Using this simulator is a sweet way to test how webpages look on an iPhone without using ... http://jeffhottinger.com/blog/2008/use-iphone-simulator-for-web-testing Every feel like saying this? "Don't say another Goddamn word. Up until now, I've been polite. If you say anything else - word one - I will kill myself. And when my tainted spirit finds its destination, I will topple the master of that dark place. From my black throne, I ... http://jeffhottinger.com/blog/2007/majored-in-talking-shit Read this today, it's connected to the way my point of view has been evolving lately. There's also a nice bridge here between "the nature of things" part of it all and the "why are we in this predicament" view of society at large. I'd been thinking mostly about the first ... http://jeffhottinger.com/blog/2007/just-do-it-anyways Found this awesome video on Digg: Story of Stuff. It's a 10 or 20 minute video about production, the supply chain, and consumption suitable for children's education but with the truth instead of abstractions and suspiciously missing value judgements that I fear most educational material features. I didn't think I needed to ... http://jeffhottinger.com/blog/2007/even-a-child-could-understand-this I just moved a number of posts here to "private" status, just to make sure I don't cause any stupid issues for myself. Pretty lame, but I'm shy anyhow so I hardly needed the excuse. http://jeffhottinger.com/blog/2007/moved-several-posts-to-private Common's new album: Finding Forever is firstly awesome, but also has this cool detail of the Chicago skyline on the cover art that reminds me of the header image up above. Cool! http://jeffhottinger.com/blog/2007/commonalities Recent comments about "the hacker" character in modern movies and TV has lead me to a potentially uncomfortable realization. Penny Arcade posted a comic strip Monday on the matter. A couple weeks before goldenfiddle posted a chat transcript on the same idea. I think they were both inspired by Die ... http://jeffhottinger.com/blog/2007/the-original-hacker