November 2009
1 post
Noah Brier: Making Stuff on the Internet →
This resonated inside of me this morning.
In reality I think that’s the most important thing to seeing your vision through: Being able to make it happen without having to rely on anyone.
October 2009
5 posts
Jeff Rock on authoring iPhone Apps via Flash CS5 →
All those things add up to a non-reliable entity becoming your single point of failure. And lest we forget, Adobe can barely write Objective-C apps themselves. We’re still waiting for an update to CS4 that makes it not crash when you move the mouse too fast. You really want to trust them to manage your memory, translate your code and keep up with Apple’s SDK?
Let me know how that works out for...
Asylum: A Photo Essay →
Amazing.
September 2009
10 posts
Pink for October — Web sites will Go Pink during... →
Show your support this month and turn your site pink.
Tweetie 2: ‘New App’ – Will Spit On Existing ‘Old... →
What a douche.
My thought is that this is a very,very,very Bad Call. I just can’t find a way to think of this as anything less than spitting in the face of existing Tweetie users.
My First & 20
If you haven’t already seen it, First & 20 is a website that serves as a collection of iPhone home screens of some of the coolest designers developers and tech writers.
Each submission contains insight on what Apps that they use and how they use them and offers a glimpse on how each person gets things done on their iPhone.
Here is my unofficial First & 20 submission:
The App...
“Transformers” crew defends Michael Bay and slams... →
This letter is scathing!
So this is the Megan Fox you don’t get to see. Maybe she will learn, but we figure if she can sling insults, then she can take them too. Megan really is a thankless, classless, graceless, and shall we say unfriendly bitch. It’s sad how fame can twist people, and even sadder that young girls look up to her. If only they knew who they’re really looking up to.
Big Contrarian → Tagged. →
This is another great read by Jack Shedd
Part the first:
The Hypertext Markup Language was designed to describe the structure of scientific documents and how they related to one another.
Part the second:
The Hypertext Markup Language is used to describe the way a given screen of information is structured, presented and responds to user input.
Thesis:
Everything wrong with HTML5 can be...
Baseline - a designer framework by... →
This is just great.
Built with typographic standards in mind, Baseline makes it easy to develop a website with a pleasing grid and good typography. Baseline starts with several files to reset the browser’s default behavior, build a basic typographic layout — including style for HTML forms and new HTML 5 elements — and build a simple grid system. Baseline was born to be a quick way to prototype a...
August 2009
21 posts
A Taste for Flesh by Johnathon Williams →
The cause of the outbreak is never important. Exploring the source of a zombie infection has doomed more films than I can remember (Romero’s Day of the Dead chief among them). What’s compelling in a zombie film is not how the dead are able walk the earth and feed on the living; what’s compelling is that they are, and you’d better run fast and shoot straight if you plan to survive.
Fight or Flight: A Very Important and Personal...
“Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.” — Aristotle
Earlier this morning on my way to work I ran into a man that was pummeling a poor defenseless woman in the parking lot of a Rite-Aid near my apartment. Noticing that this girl was in trouble I decided to intervene and I managed to floor...
iPhone Twitter App Tournament: Preliminaries:... →
I promsed a match today, and man have I delivered. Here is the toughest match so far for me to deliver. You might be surprised of the outcome or you may not, read on to find out. After the break you will find the review and the results, along with an updated bracket. Happy reading!
Not sure if I agree with the results, but it’s a good comparison nonetheless.
Birdbrain: Manage Your Twitter Network →
Birdbrain takes snapshots of your Twitter account and tracks changes in your friend and follower lists over time.
Very useful, combined with Birdhouse and Tweetie (Or any of your favorite twitter clients) you can achieve total twitter dominance. I wholeheartedly recommend it.
Also, their icon rocks.
“An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Update: My Minimal Mac
Ever since I contributed to Minimal Mac I’ve been striving to make my computing experience as simple as possible. I’m happy to announce that I finally found a system that works for me. I’ve been able to take my minimal mac-ism to a whole new level using a set of Apps that I now cannot live without.
The Apps are as follows:
Dropbox
I had been using drop box for a while, but...
Mary Jane's Relaxing Soda | Uncrate →
Looks pretty good, but for $30 a 12 pack, I don’t think so.
Twitter Blog: Location, Location, Location →
Now this is going to change things definitely
For example, with accurate, tweet-level location data you could switch from reading the tweets of accounts you follow to reading tweets from anyone in your neighborhood or city—whether you follow them or not. It’s easy to imagine how this might be interesting at an event like a concert or even something more dramatic like an earthquake
Repost: How I Feel About Twitter Noise
Lately, before going to bed I’ve spent some time drafting tweets for future use. Ever since purchasing the Birdhouse app I’ve been a compelled to reduce the random noise on my twitter feed and publish more concise and interesting “tweets” in an effort to not be one of those people that even tweet when they fart.
I’m doing this mostly because of my experiences when...
The psychology of overconfidence : The New Yorker →
The audacity of that prick in front of the American people announcing he was deciding whether or not a firm of this stature and this whatever was good enough to get a loan. Like he was the determining factor, and it’s like a flea on his back, floating down underneath the Golden Gate Bridge, getting a hard-on, saying, “Raise the bridge.” This guy thinks he’s got a big dick. He’s got nothing, except...
July 2009
9 posts
Kuroshio Sea - 2nd largest aquarium tank in the... →
This is more than amazing.
My Minimal Mac
Yesterday morning Patrick Rhone launched Minimal Mac, a Tumblelog dedicated to all things minimal and Macintosh. After reading his tweet regarding Minimal Mac, I decided to send him a picture of my minimal desktop. To my luck and surprise it was the third user provided screenshot he published to the site and I must admit it felt pretty damn cool. But that isn’t the reason I’m...
100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About |... →
The time they are a-changin’.
61 essential postmodern reads: an annotated list →
I’ve read 7 and am working on Infinite Jest and 2666. How many have you read?
Web fonts. Where are we? Will web fonts ever be a... →
The webfont issue dissected and made easy to understand for peanut heads like me.
“The ebb and flow of time makes life unpredictable and fun. Without it there...”
– Myself
Twenty-six things a perfect guy would do and other... →
Another piece of gold from Maddox.
June 2009
9 posts
Joshua Klein on the intelligence of crows | Video... →
Hacker and writer Joshua Klein is fascinated by crows. (Notice the gleam of intelligence in their little black eyes?) After a long amateur study of corvid behavior, he’s come up with an elegant machine that may form a new bond between animal and human.
