Forestry.io

Someone is building another way to wrangle static site content gracefully. I’m always interested in things like this to reduce friction when posting something to a jekyll site, but they always seem to be designed as a subscription service or heavy desktop application.

Clawtar – Adaptive MIDI Controller

I use TouchOSC to control Lightroom when editing photos, and I haven’t tried Clawtar yet, but it looks like it could be pretty great for people using MIDI as it was intended.

The Steam Summer Sale!

It’s the most! Wonderful time! Of the year!

That Time President George Bush Resigned from the NRA

There was a time when some Republicans weren’t so afraid of Big Gun’s rebranding of consumerism as patriotism.

Hardcover as 12″

“Why Hardcover is the New Vinyl”

The topic of many discussions at our dinner table — is (and should) the printed copy of a book (be) the Collector’s Edition of a work?

Taibbi is the New Thompson

Donald Trump crushed 16 GOP opponents in one of the most appalling, vicious campaigns in history. His next victim? The entire Republican Party

President Obama Stops North Carolina From Peeking In Your Pants

I’m pleased to report that Genital Inspection Teams in North Carolina are now barred from performing The Carolina Peep. Thanks, Obama. (No, really.)

tmate is a shared tmux

High nerdery. A way to share tmux sessions with peers for shoulder-surfing.

If Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the 2016 presidential candidates, gender will be part of the campaign in an unprecedented way.

“If men dislike Clinton more [than other Democrats], it’s partly sexist,” says Featherstone. “If you hate Hillary because she reminds you of your ex-wife, that is sexist. If you dislike Hillary because she has dedicated her life to the neoliberal polices that have screwed you, as a working person, that’s not sexist.”

Decoder ring: “shrill“, “opportunistic“, and “because cankles” are also sexist.

Women dislike Trump at what appears to be an unprecedented level for a national politician.

Source: Women Hate Donald Trump Even More Than Men Hate Hillary Clinton

“…women exist primarily in terms of their relationships to the men…”

To briefly recap: Before last Tuesday’s primaries, a “super PAC” called — you really can’t make this stuff up — Make America Awesome ran ads on social media targeting Mormon voters in Utah. The spots showed images of Donald J. Trump’s wife, from a 2000 photo shoot with British GQ. “Meet Melania Trump. Your Next First Lady,” read the text, over a shot of a sultry, nude Mrs. Trump, curled up on a fur. “Or, You Could Support Ted Cruz on Tuesday.” (Ted Cruz was not pictured.) Naked Lady Politics — JENNIFER WEINER