December 2011
1 post
October 2011
2 posts
Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It
emptyage:
Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something nastier. Social Security and Medicare are going to be diminished, at best. Hours worked are up even as hiring staggers along: Blood from a stone looks to be the normal order of things “going forward,” to borrow the business-speak. Economists are warning that even when the economy...
June 2011
5 posts
Salman Khan - Let's Use Video to Reinvent... →
We were talking about this at work this morning - really amazing idea.
Short logic: Groupon IPO: Pass on this deal →
shortlogic:
Groupon has filed its S-1 and hopes to raise $750M in its initial public offering. Given they’re currently losing a staggering $117M per quarter, despite revenues of $644M, they’ll be burning through that cash almost as soon as it hits their account.
At the moment, it’s costing them $1.43 to…
May 2011
2 posts
Alternatives to Omnigraffle
Trying out a few alternatives this week: Balsamiq and Mockingbird to name a few. So far unimpressed with the lack of layers…unless I’m missing something……
April 2011
2 posts
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Three projects I worked on while Asia Society were...
This is quite extraordinary, three projects I worked on while Asia Society were recognized as Official Honorees in the 15th Annual Webby Awards: China Boom and Homeland Afghanistan micro-sites recognized in the Education category: http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current_honorees.php?media_id=96&category_id=21&season=15 and the Yoshitomo Nara, Nobody’s Fool mini-site recognized in...
March 2011
3 posts
The Yoshitomo Nara site I worked on while... →
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February 2011
8 posts
New Drink for the Old Drunk - Crooked Fingers. The Bell House, Brooklyn. February 19th, 2011
“You Must Build a Fire” live from Crooked Fingers’ recent performance at The Bell House this past Saturday. This show was so f&*king amazing, I don’t even have words to describe it. Eric Bachmann is truly one of the most talented singer/songwriters I have ever had the pleasure of seeing live. Craig and I talked to him after the show - relived our version of the infamous...
HA! Who Is Arcade Fire? →
Cross-browser testing from your browser →
Google Art Project →
January 2011
11 posts
This is pretty cool...if I had an iPad :/ →
Google reader client for the iPad.
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How Facebook responded to the Tunisian Hacks →
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Interesting review of The Net Delusion by Cory... →
Particularly caught my attention after spending yesterday evening at the Personal Democracy Forum’s symposium on WikiLeaks and Internet Freedom.
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Mozilla Proposes "Do Not Track" Addition to... →
Interesting approach…
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there are still people out there going “Well, Yahoo certainly will never shut...
– Jason Scott [textfiles] (via bisceglie)
ALSO: http://blog.delicious.com/blog/2010/12/whats-next-for-delicious.html
December 2010
9 posts
ITP Winter Show 2010
This semester, as I meandered through the sensory stimulating insanity of the ITP Winter Show, I found myself really enjoying simplicity - which was, strangely enough, often produced by students in the Intro classes (possibly an indication of amazing talent in the class of 2012??).
I thought ByteLight by Jack Kalish and Gabriella Levine, an installation of switches and lights representing an...
Wikileaks and the Long Haul →
Clay nails it
November 2010
3 posts
This is bullshit →
Comcast blocking Netflix as reported by the NYTimes
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a...
– Robert A. Heinlein
Kangaroos
Alex: c++ is fucking retarded
me: sounds like it. damn
Alex: it's like a bunch of kangaroos got smoked heroin
and took a nice sane language like c
and said "mannnnnn, we should like… make c smoke heroin!!!!!"
and then the koala bears came and were all like...
"that's the best idea evar"
"because c is too simple and nice"
"we gotta make a language do all this back-asswards shit"
"fuck libraries and shit, lets ALL GET FUCKING MUPPETED OUT!!!!!!"
and then they did it
thus c++
goddamn australians
bunch of fucking criminals
October 2010
6 posts
Nice - Be the Mayor →
What is a Dictionary?
Interesting thing happened today: my daughter Mya’s teacher is apparently not pleased with me because she asked all parents to purchase a “physical” dictionary for students to use at home to look up words they don’t know and instead I have opted to have her search for the meanings to words on one of several online dictionarys.
Putting the argument often associated with...