April 2008
49 posts
WatchKittens-Coca Cola Box Video - Metacafe
I guess it’s just a cat kind of day!
You Look Nice Today | A Journal of Emotional... →
Once a week, this podcast makes me snort out loud.
Three guys talking and joking. Reminds of the old Dr. Katz cartoons, but if it was just the patients talking to each other.
Check out Peak Hair for the talk on male merkins.
LITE PANELS - LED lighting →
Hmm… Low power portable lighting. Intriguing.
pixel socks! →
The d20 socks are pretty awesome.
Ask Hoefler & Frere-Jones →
Why is typography and font design so utterly fascinating?
A minimalist, natural approach to kitchens from... →
Some things to think about when we design our kitchen.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - The... →
Now you too can beat your head against the desk!
TypeRacer →
Now you can be a nerd and race people using WPMs insteads of RPMs! Fun, if you like to type.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-27) →
Screeching Weasel
The Mountain Goats
Unwritten Law
Descendents
NOFX
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
“The basic unit is [a group] which varies from three to twelve or fifteen in...”
– If you’re working in a big group, you’re fighting human nature
Sounds like the Patrol Method to me!
Discworld Reading Order Guides →
For my own future reference.
WatchIt’s Prom Season at The Daily Monster.
Osmo Wiio: Communication usually fails, except by... →
I like the part about the six people that participate in a two person conversation.
Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to... →
I don’t know why I’m linking to this. The first game made me beat my head against the table. I don’t think I ever got further than the Vogon ship. But still… it’s Douglas Adams!
“Good sense is the most equitably distributed of all things because no matter how...”
– René Descartes
Octarine: The Imaginary Color of Magic →
Read two more Discworld books during vacation. When I came home—a color article on Octarine!
Rands In Repose: Saving Seconds →
Why don’t I keep a blog? Because this guys writes it for me.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-20) →
Less Than Jake
Descendents
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Bad Religion
Simon & Garfunkel
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
The Nerd Handbook →
This is me. Read and understand.
“I was walking down Fifth Avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep...”
– The Inimitable Emo Philips
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-13) →
Bad Religion
Less Than Jake
Billy Joel
They Might Be Giants
Millencolin
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
WatchWii + Imagination = Crazy Delicious
bacon bra on Flickr →
I’m being good and not linking the photo directly. When you feel you’re in a safe place, click and view the future of mammary support.
Long, but fascinating interview with James Cameron... →
Ten Thousand Cents →
100 Dollar bill drawn in ten thousand different pieces. Make sure you check “About The Project.”
“1. The Devil won that fiddling contest, right?
2. Because isn’t that...”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Thirty-Nine Questions for Charlie Daniels Upon Hearing “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” for the First Time in 25 Years.
GimmeSomeTunes... Sometimes
Just when I decided that GimmeSomeTune was awesome and that I’d be sticking with it, it stopped working! Looks like an uncaught exception. I’m sending the stack trace to the developer. Back to Sizzling Keys for now!
The World's Most Extreme Photography Equipment →
Do want.
Measuring the Color of Light - James Duncan... →
Wow, never seen an article that make color temperature seem so interesting!
GimmeSomeTune →
Trying this out right now. It may displace Sizzling Keys as my iTunes controller. Of course I had to reset all of the hotkeys to match my reflexes.
First impression is that it’s built by a programmer, not a designer. That’s ok for me. I like the built in lyrics fetcher too! If the Last.fm feature synced up a playlist like iScrobbler, it’d replace two apps in one!
Google App Engine →
Now you can run web apps on Google’s infrastructure! I’m on the waiting list.
WatchLarry Lessig (of Creative Commons fame) gives a great talk on content usage, copyright and regaining our vocal cords.
