March 2008
53 posts
re: Getty...stock... →
An interesting take on the Getty buy-out and it’s ramifications on the stock industry.
February 2008
97 posts
“Heroes have to always, at the heroic decisive moment, break from the crowd and...”
– Philip Zimbardo, in How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib [Wired Magazine]
Lost: The Time-Loop Theory →
I don’t even know much about the show, but this is a hoot to read!
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Tumblr is getting cooler all the time. →
Shout. also, http://www.tumblr.com/browse
Photonic: A Flickr desktop client →
Wow. This definitely looks like the best non-Flickr Flickr app out there. (One more reason to upgrade to Leopard…still been holding out on that…)
Interesting perspective from Chase Jarvis →
Can’t say I disagree with him. Although I don’t fully agree that we’re already at the point that he and the original article at Wired describe…yet.
Apple's "Find Out How" Videos →
The new video tutorial section on Apple’s website is simply stunning. The whole experience is beautiful in form and function. The videos themselves are spectacularly well-produced—and numerous!—and the way everything is presented on the site is a clinic in elegant, informative web design. Big kudos to the designers and content creators at Apple. In the same vein, check out...
New things hapnin'...
Just wanted to give a brief update on what’s going on with me these days. I’m getting ready to leave my job at Range, and start work for another web company with some really great potential. Overall, I’ve really enjoyed my time at Range. I’ve learned a lot, made some good connections and some really good friends. But it just felt like it was time for me to move on. At my...
Top 10 Bad Things That Are Good For You →
I love this.
...who shouldn't win jack...
Juno.
Who SHOULD Win.
Best Picture: No Country For Old Men
Best Director: The Coen Brothers
Best Actor: Daniel Day Lewis
Best Actress: Marion Cotillard
Best Supporting Actor: Casey Affleck
Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett
Animation: Ratatouille
Art Direction: Sweeny Todd
Cinematography: The Assassination of Jesse James
Writing (adapted): No Country For Old Men
Writing (original): Michael Clayton
Really cool optical illusion. →
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“I watched qualified, passionate people worked nearly to death while mindless...”
– Chez Pazienza: Say What You Will (Requiem for a TV News Career) A good article about the news media’s over-all stupidity and lack of relevance.
Chuck Klosterman's Great Man Theory
If you want to be A Great Man, you need to fail (at least once). We live in a staunchly literary world. We understand almost everything (and everyone) within the context of a narrative that’s written by circumstance and reality; each person’s history is a little story where they are the main character. As such, historical figures are remembered for the things they accomplish and the victories...
Somebody got a really good deal. →
“Sometimes the truth of a thing is not so much in the think of it, as in the feel...”
– Stanley Kubrick
Pixish, Spec Work, and Graggers →
I gotta admit, this is a very reasoned response to the calls for lynching (including mine) that have been going out over the Pixish “spec work” issue. Derek Powazek is a good diplomat. He’s handled the backlash very well I think. And he makes some good points. It will be interesting to see where this goes.
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Flickr Photo Syndrome
I think Flickr (and really the way images are viewed on the internet in general) has had a marked adverse effect on how we’ve come to view—and to make—photographs.
This is probably obvious to everyone, but I realized tonight that many photographs that would look AMAZING as large prints simply don’t look all that good on Flickr. They lose their mystique and end up looking...
I am in love with Aperture 2.0
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jacksonpollock.org →
This is endless fun. (hint: click to change color, spacebar to clear screen.)
jstn:Big L & Jay-Z radio freestyle from 1995. ...
potential begins at the plate →
A fascinating post. I’m intrigued, very intrigued.
James Duncan Davidson on Aperture 2.0: "They... →
I’m personally so glad to hear that Apple is actually reaching out and truly listening to real professionals when it comes to Aperture development.
Wow. Castro resigns. Amazing. Too bad nothing much...
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Wikileaks.org under injunction →
This is fascinating! Both in the fact that Wikileaks.org even exists (I hadn’t heard of it until now), and in the recent turn of events.
Sorry for the Feed Mixup
My apologies to anyone subscribed to my RSS feed. I just realized (after a friend asked me why all kinds of weird stuff was appearing in my feed) that I had neglected to update my feed info on FeedBurner after I recently switched my Tumblr account name. So basically, my FeedBurner was grabbing somebody else’s Tumblr feed and passing it along. Awesome. Yikes! So sorry. (For the record,...
“…living in big cities [is] invaluable because you increase the odds of...”
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan [via A Photo Editor]
“Seriously, who did the producers of Juno pay-off to get the Best Picture...”
– Me.
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Tumblr's rich text editor.
It rocks. Just thought I’d share that. I just discovered a sweet little trick…If I’m editing in the Rich Text mode (even in the Tumblr bookmarklet popup window) and I want to ad an image from the web into my text, all I have to do is simply drag and drop the image. Yeah, that’s right. Just drag it into the text area. It fills in the proper HTML img tag for me in the...
matchbox labels →
Endless hours of retro-artsy goodness. Fun stuff. Sure wish you could get matchboxes like this now. [via Signal v. Noise]
TweetStats for bendelaney →
Apparently I tweet a lot at 4am and almost never at lunch-time. Huh?? In the words of Raleigh St. Clair: “How interesting…how bizarre…”
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Watch“…and I command things to be AWESOME”. I used to hate this guy. Now I think he’s rad. [edit: ok, I now think it’s actually “…and I DEmand things to be awesome…” But, I like my original interpretation better. :-)]
“What that company needs is to stick a finger down its throat, vomit up the...”
– Rory - Neopoleon : re: Microsoft
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Pixish - Stupid Is, As Stupid Does →
Great, and scathing, take on the new “Pixish” by the great John Harrington. He’s right. This site is nothing but bad news.