Errata

Luna (Taken with instagram)

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:13:15 -0500

Luna (Taken with instagram)

Luna, all grown up now (Taken with instagram)

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:02:11 -0500

Luna, all grown up now (Taken with instagram)

The [REAL] Current State of Web Design

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 10:40:56 -0400

solipsism:

unimatrixzxero:

bradleyjoyce:

The text before the link in the tweet said “Web Design Trends 2010” and since I’m in the field, I clicked. I had to laugh out loud when I saw the title along with this view (15” mbp)…

We want it all, and we want it now! merlinmann: Everything…and...

Wed, 12 May 2010 14:13:55 -0400

We want it all, and we want it now!

merlinmann:

Everything…and “More?”

This strikes me as a really weird UI decision.

Tim O’Reilly on venture capital

Thu, 06 May 2010 10:31:51 -0400

Inc. Magazine via Kottke:

O’Reilly says he sometimes wonders what would have happened if he had raised venture capital and given his company a chance to get really big. But he sounds more amused by this question than truly troubled by it. “Money is like gasoline during a road trip,” he says. “You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations. You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn’t be about the money.”

Photographic proof that civilization is highly...

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:51:46 -0400

Photographic proof that civilization is highly overrated.

endlessgalaxy:

ghostgrl:virgineyes:annaszczekutowicz:(via anthonyyyy)

It’s all in the spin, baby. This guy should get a job in...

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:39:26 -0400

It’s all in the spin, baby. This guy should get a job in Greenpeace’s marketing department.

snailey:

Taken from here.

One good reason to save the planet.

"It isn’t the mountains to climb that wear you out, it’s the pebble in your shoe."

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:25:01 -0400

““It isn’t the mountains to climb that wear you out, it’s the pebble in your shoe.””

- Muhammad Ali

Technology art with an organic touch. Nicely done. POPMECH

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:23:49 -0400

Technology art with an organic touch. Nicely done.

POPMECH

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the..."

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:45:06 -0400

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”

- Kurt Vonnegut

Once they’ve seen the big city, how ya gonna keep ‘em down on...

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:36:00 -0400

Once they’ve seen the big city, how ya gonna keep ‘em down on the farm?

nedhepburn:

There was a cow roaming around Pershing Square. It wasn’t there for any reason. It was just hanging out. You can’t see them, but behind my car are the cops. The cow cops. Coming to take it away, or give it a ticket, or something. The closest dairy farm in Altadena is some 30 miles away. Someone - or some thing - perhaps some cosmic loophole - had seemingly very recently just left it standing there.

It looked so normal just standing there on the corner of 6th and Olive, looking for all the world like it was waiting for the light to change. It didn’t seem out of place. People just seemed to walk around it while talking on their cell phones. A homeless guy wheeled his cart around it without giving it a second look. While I was taking the picture I noticed a kid and his Dad (The kid is in a red shirt, next to the cow). The kid pointed at it while his Dad kept walking, dragging the boy, who seemed transfixed on the cow on the sidewalk.

It wasn’t that the Dad or the homeless man, or the people talking on their cell phones didn’t see it. It’s a huge animal. I just noticed that other than the cops, the child and myself, nobody else seemed to care.

This is why I don’t miss living in El Lay. Not cows — got nothing against ruminants in general, or bovines in particular — but the general cluelessness.

Whither ChromeOS?

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:51:46 -0400

Remember ChromeOS? Google’s once highly-touted browser-as-operating-system was going to be a Really Big Thing in the netbook space. But as a friend pointed out to me today, we haven’t heard bupkis about it in a while now.

There are two extremes in product development: the Apple Way, where you say nothing about what you’re working on, torture and kill anyone who spills the beans, slave away in utter secrecy, finally springing your product fully-formed upon the waiting market like Athena from the forehead of Zeus.

Then there’s the Microsoft Way: start pimping your product while it’s nothing but bullet points on a PowerPoint slide, talk endlessly about your “roadmap”, continuously solicit “buy-in” from a multitude of partners, catch flak in the trade press every time you rethink your strategy or tweak your feature set, and ultimately deliver your product behind schedule, over budget, missing major promised features, leaving the market saying “Is that all?”

Google has stayed mostly between the two extremes, tending toward the big-mouthed Microsoft Way. But with Apple dead-set on cutting their legs out from under ‘em in the mobile space, perhaps they’ve realized the wisdom of keeping their mouths shut.

solipsism: O M G What he said.

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:45:07 -0400

solipsism:

O M G

What he said.

Secrets of the biggest selling launch ever

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:53:00 -0400

Secrets of the biggest selling launch ever:

The ever-enlightening Seth Godin:

Apple reports that on the first day they sold more than $150,000,000 worth of iPads. I can’t think of a product or movie or any other launch that has ever come close to generating that much direct revenue.

He then goes on to identify ten things Apple did — and does — to make it happen.

If you work in marketing and don’t read Godin, you should. The guy’s posts are like a master’s program in bite-sized, daily classes. Genius.

Best. Car ad. EVAR. In the words of Steve Martin, “Let’s...

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:36:00 -0400

Best. Car ad. EVAR.

In the words of Steve Martin, “Let’s get small!”

Seriously, folks, this ad just screams “fun.” Nice work.

The old guard doesn’t “get” the iPad

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:28:00 -0400

Some folks still don’t get it. First, Cory Doctorow ranted about how the iPad is evil because it’s not all Open Sores or something. Then there’s that notoriously cranky curmudgeon Dave Winer:

And pragmatically, experience has shown that the winning computer platforms are the ones you can develop for on the computer itself, and the ones that require other, more expensive hardware and software, don’t become platforms. There are exceptions but it’s remarkable how often it works this way.

So, the fact that you can’t program for the iPhone has really killed the iPhone. Um… except it hasn’t. And I don’t think any Wii apps were programmed on the Wii. Ditto the Nintendo DS. Or the PS/PS2/PS3/XBOXen, TiVo, PalmPilot, Treo, Garmin GPSs… You get the idea.

Basically, this is just Winer saying, “You kids, with your newfangled mobile devices, get off my lawn!“

What they really don’t get is that developing for the iPhone/iPad is tons easier than developing for Windows, Linux (sorry, Cory) or even Mac OS X. But for the low, low price of just $99 (call now!), anyone with a Mac can program for the iPhone/iPad, too. Or you can do it for free, with nothing but HTML5/CSS/JavaScript. In fact, it just may be the most accessible platform for creative coding since the Apple ][ — a fact that seems go completely over their pointy heads.

In the Good Old Days of Geekdom, the bare-metal hardware was the platform where you learned and developed. Now it’s the hardware/OS platform. The opportunity is still there, the platform has just evolved. But not all of the geeks out there have.

While Apple changes the game, Microsoft changes a name.

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 10:37:59 -0400

While Apple changes the game, Microsoft changes a name.:

Might as well cut to the chase and name it “Windows Mobile Irrelevant.” Thanks for playing, guys, now just go away already.

"Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read."

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:25:00 -0400

“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend.
Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.”

- Groucho Marx

Watershed, or Waterloo?

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:00:00 -0400

I’m hoping there’s a silver lining for Conservatism in yesterday’s passage of sweeping healthcare “reform”: a realization by Republicans that the noisemongers in their lunatic fringe have been leading them into the wilderness; that all the shrill-yet-empty obstructionist bloviation of the last twelve months did nothing more than rally House Democrats — from Blue Dogs to socialists — against them.

So the GOP can console itself with the moral victory of sticking to their “values.” As Pyrrhus said, “Another such victory, and I am undone.”

Missouri University Women’s Shooting Club, 1934. Or, “We got yer...

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:16:53 -0400

Missouri University Women’s Shooting Club, 1934.

Or, “We got yer Women’s Liberation riiiiight here.”

Errata

Luna (Taken with instagram)

Luna, all grown up now (Taken with instagram)

The [REAL] Current State of Web Design

We want it all, and we want it now! merlinmann: Everything…and...

Everything…and “More?”

Tim O’Reilly on venture capital

Photographic proof that civilization is highly...

It’s all in the spin, baby. This guy should get a job in...

"It isn’t the mountains to climb that wear you out, it’s the pebble in your shoe."

Technology art with an organic touch. Nicely done. POPMECH

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the..."

Once they’ve seen the big city, how ya gonna keep ‘em down on...

Whither ChromeOS?

solipsism: O M G What he said.

Secrets of the biggest selling launch ever

Best. Car ad. EVAR. In the words of Steve Martin, “Let’s...

The old guard doesn’t “get” the iPad

While Apple changes the game, Microsoft changes a name.

"Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read."

Watershed, or Waterloo?

Missouri University Women’s Shooting Club, 1934. Or, “We got yer...