March 2008
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Muxtape easter egg
jstn: Every song uploaded since Saturday night around 7:30 works on the iPhone. The rest of them will be available soon. It takes a while to buffer over EDGE, but not as long as you might think… when’s 3G coming out again? Very exciting news. Thanks Justin.
Offices and The Creativity Zone →
This is a great article on the office/no office dynamic. His description of a typical office environment is so spot-on it’s scary.
The Science Of Sleep →
The Latest Findings In Sleep Research. Same stuff we’ve heard before, but still fascinating. Makes me want to get more quality sleep.
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Muxtapes just got RSS.
Icon is in the upper right. Handy! Will be cool to keep track of new additions to my favorite muxtapes. Here’s my feed if you care.
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South Park full episodes... →
…all of them.
Muxtape Baby →
Tape 1 is live. Many more to come. I need to figure out my “approach”. Themes will definitely be in order. Will narrow it down more as I go. Thousands of people everywhere are having a major John Cusack moment tonight.
“Sometimes you have to fight for momentum. Its not like starting a car, more like...”
– steve wylie
So...yeah...that worked...
jstn: re: http://muxtape.com 4000 songs, 2000 users, 7 hours…
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1Password →
This is one of the most useful Mac apps I’ve ever seen/used. I bought it as part of the “MacHeist” software bundle and I honestly stayed away from it for months, thinking I didn’t need it. I finally fired it up and was amazed. I would now recommend it heartily to anyone who is tired of trying to keep track of any sensitive information (be it internet passwords, bank account...
Adobe, you're lazy.
I’m pissed. I just upgraded to Adobe Creative Suite 3 - Master Collection. The whole kit and kabootle. And mostly, I love it. The new interfaces are wonderful (at least compared to the old ones. They’ll never be perfect.) What baffles me is that they didn’t do JACK to Fireworks! It’s still the same old interface! Come on, Adobe! I know, it’s not the MOST popular of...
Holy Logomania, Batman! →
Seriously, there is some great stuff here. I mostly hate most modern logos (except for a handful of good ones.)
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An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth →
Great stuff here.
Tinkering with Safari 3.1 →
…Embedded fonts (so cool)…WebKit transitions/effects, WebKit rounded corners, other slightly abnormal CSS usage. Just playing here. (Warning: not meant to be viewed in anything else except Safari 3.1. Seriously.)
Safari 3.1 HTML5 Media Support →
This is rad. Oh, if only all the browsers were this cool.
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DOTHETEST →
This is brilliant. Simply Brilliant.
DIANE von FURSTENBERG | PROJECTS →
I think this video is beautiful. The whole project is actually pretty interesting.
Teardrops on my bubble-gum heart
tps:Teardrops on my Guitar by Taylor Swift …the most fabricated, fake, piece of garbage that intelligent adults or anyone over the age of 8 shouldn’t be listening to. While I haven’t paid any attention to the rest of the song I’m sure it includes the following words: rainbows ponies or unicorns bubble-gum butterfly-kisses fluffy clouds
PhotoShelter Redesign. →
A very nice new look. Cleaner, snappier, and definitely less 90’s feeling in general. This makes me even more confident in selling my images there. I love it when people get things right…(seems so obvious, but it’s surprising how rare that feeling can be.)
DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com →
This is clever! And useful!
“Bush got us into Iraq, JFK into Vietnam. Bush stole the election in Florida;...”
– David Mamet, from “Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal’
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Thoughts on "Home"
Jenny Vorwaller had some very eloquent things to say about the idea of “home” over at her blog. I think she’s on to something when she says, …standing outside the frame of normal reference and examining my lifestyle from the vantage point of a foreigner is beautiful. and now i realize that never living anywhere else would be a tragedy, because it would mean never truly...
More Expensive Placebos Bring More Relief →
I love stuff like this.
iPhone Woes...
I just received a replacement iPhone from Apple because my former one was dropping calls like mad. Well, I was singing their praises for so quickly sending me a replacement…until today…
The new one is not dropping nearly as many calls. No, this one just doesn’t bother joining the network at all. “No Service” is all I’m getting now. If I’m lucky, it will...
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41 Hilarious Science Fair Experiments →
I was laughing out loud at some of these.
“Until Apple came to town…”
– Jason Fried’s take on the iPhone announcements today. I agree with him. This is really really huge. Watch the keynote.
Twitterrific coming to iPhone. →
(of course.) What I really want though is for iPhone Twitterific to also have “Sonic Twoosh Technology” (the sound effect that happens upon a perfect twoosh). And the kicker would be if they gave us the ability to customize the sound! With the iPhone, you could just record your own “Twoosh” sound using the built-in mic. THAT would be cool. Let’s inundate them with...
Could I take that shot? Did I?
todd says: When critiquing a photographer’s work I sometimes wonder, “couldn’t anyone have taken that shot?” But I’m realizing, what makes a great photographer is that they DID take that shot. maybe it was something just sitting out there waiting to be looked at in the right light, at the right angle… maybe it was something completely conceived within the mind of the photographer and then...
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of...”
– Thomas Paine
crgslst.com →
A radical little piece of AJAX-y goodness. Nicely done.
The Rubber Room →
Listen to this episode of “This American Life”. It’s fascinating…shocking actually. I had heard that something like “The Rubber Room” existed in NYC, but I never knew much about it. For those that don’t know…it is literally a purgatory for public school teachers. In fact, “purgatory” is the most perfect definition I can think of for it. A...
