May 2008
70 posts
WatchGuitar Hero: On Tour promo video.
Burn After Reading—The New Coen Brothers Film →
A dark spy-comedy about an ousted CIA official’s (John Malkovich) memoir that accidentally falls into the hands of two gym employees (Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand).
WatchRon Burgundy Interviews Tom Brokaw
A near-Twitter built with Google App Engine in two... →
With all the talk about Twitter being open or moving away from Rails I fear the that Twitter may face stiff competition before they can figure out a way to make money.
Here is a perfect example of just how easy it could be to create a Twitter-killer. Eric talks about it his effort here.
The Backpack Journal →
I’ve been finding new Backpack to be the most effective of all the 37signals products. Rather than use Basecamp and Highrise for various tasks, I’ve found the free form flow of information to Backpack to be far superior for keeping tabs on personal information, collaborating internally, or with partners, with clients… whoever.
I think the new Journal feature will be the perfect...
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The Pixar Story →
Last night I watched a little documentary called The Pixar Story. The origins of Pixar is quite interesting. John Lasseter was working at Disney and after seeing Tron became interested in computer graphics for animation. Then after spending eight months doing a treatment for the first CG feature, The Brave Little Toaster, was fired by Disney (he now oversees all animation for the company).
It...
Rands: We Travel in Tribes →
Rand’s talks about how we use Twitter and value we derive from it.
Twitter’s value lies in how it stays out of the way and allows people to easily connect so they can share their thoughts and, more importantly, explore their differences.
Dammit, I wish I read this before I wrote this.
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The Decline of the Blog? →
Today Greg Hoy Twitter’d:
“I am really noticing people are not posting to their blogs anymore. Like everywhere.”
I tend to agree. Its something I’ve been thinking about for the past year as Twitter and Twitter-like sites have increased in popularity. I’ve noticed as the activity in more presence-posting tools like Twitter increase that number of traditional regular...
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Ringr Tumblr Theme →
Since I’ve started using Tumblr a few people have asked me how I’ve put my site together. Most recently with questions of how I added tags/topics to my site.
After a certain point I figured I should just open source the code and design to allow whoever to use it. But before I got a chance to do that I decided to use Tumblr for a few other sites as well. So I put together my own little Tumblr...
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Tumblr continues to add little updates. The latest round is the ability to create pages based on Tags.
Like an idiot, I’ve only been using limited tags on posts, mostly for design purposes. Today I went back and tagged two months worth of posts as well as adding a topic list on the right hand side of flingLog in case anyone is interested in browsing posts by topic.
I’ve had a few...
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The Fastest To Do List is a To Do Photo Album →
You have a camera in your pocket. Why not take a picture to remind you to do something?
I’ve increasingly found that I’ve been the my camera in my phone to capture something than write down notes. Anything that I see in the real world that I want to examine or research online later, I tend to take a photographic reminder.
Like the author, I’ve just been keeping them on my...
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WatchKeith Olbermann tells Bush to ‘shut the hell up’
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Portion Sizes, Then and Now →
As parent you are constantly worrying that your kid is either not eating enough of eating too much. We struggle a lot with finicky eating, or with our daughter not finishing her meals even when we make something she likes. But lately I’ve been wondering if I’m just giving her too much food.
We seem to feed ourselves “restaurant” portions when in reality we could probably...
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App: World Clock Deluxe →
The worst part of working with companies in multiple time zones is constantly figuring out what local time is.
I know it is simple math, but you have to remember all the offsets, and frankly that is just one piece of information that doesn’t seem to fit in my head.
I’ve loved the World Clock in the iPhone, but I lacked something on my desktop that I could glance at when send an...
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“Semantic markup is like sex. Everybody claims to have the same goal, but...”
– Wilson Miner
WatchAnimatronic Wall•E appears on streets of LA. The idea is that it will roam around the Disney theme parks.
This is a really great idea! I can tell you that if my little girl ran ever into a real life Wall•E she would FLIP OUT!
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WatchFamily Guy: Throwing a frog out the window
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Loneliness 2.0 →
“What’s the difference between solitary confinement and freelancing from home? In solitary, they bring you three meals a day.”
Thankfully I get to work with Cyndi who helps keep me company. But if I don’t get out of the office at least once each day I start to go a little stir crazy.
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Google Doctype →
“An open encyclopedia and reference library. Written by web developers, for web developers.”
It includes a lot of great reference material, including HOWTO’s and browser compatibility charts for CSS properties and Javascript methods.
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HIV-positive man sentenced 35 years for spitting... →
“Because a jury found that [the man] used his saliva as a deadly weapon”
Spitting as a deadly weapon? Seriously?
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CBS buys tech news website CNET →
A good play by CBS to be able to extend its news and entertainment divisions to an existing web presence. But the news also signifies yet another fateful step toward all main stream media being owned by the big media companies.
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WatchThe Onion: Historic ‘Blockbuster’ Store Offers Glimpse Of How Movies Were Rented In The Past
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Examiner: iPhone Is 'The Game-Changer' in Mobile →
The Examiner.com published another article about my workshop at Web 2.0 Expo.
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WWDC is Sold Out! →
I gots my ticket, but I have yet to find a hotel.
I am not looking forward to the line for the Keynote. Kelly held a place for me last year and she got there at 7 AM.
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I’ve been doing a little assignment writing lately. When you have a full plate of billable, trying to find the time to write can be a challenge. I often find my best time for writing is first thing in the morning, while I’m drinking my morning cup of coffee. My mind is fresh with new ideas and I want to write them down.
The problem is this period often competes with my desire to...
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Who cares how many Kindles are sold? →
I guess if you are an investor in Amazon then maybe you should care, but I don’t and I don’t really see why anyone should really give a damn.
The way I see it the only questions the average consumer would be asking themselves is:
Would I use an e-book reader?
Is $400 the right price for me?
Can I get one now or later?
I think the real problem with the Kindle isn’t the...
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“I was the first one to introduce the @reply on Twitter.”
– Garrett Murray
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Free online Font Design Tool →
Need a font? Make your own!
It looks time consuming, but I can’t tell you how many times I needed that just right typeface. Not to mention the years that I’ve wanted a font for my handwriting.
I can feel my spare time washing away already.
On a more ponder-ish note: it makes me wonder if the world will need Photoshop in a few years, or if we will be using websites like this to...
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WatchFinally the X-Files trailer is out!
This is probably my most anticipated movie in a summer chock full of blockbuster goodness.
(Higher quality versions available here)
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dotMobi acquires Mowser →
There were those who claimed that the mobile web was dead after Russ and Mike shut the doors on Mowser, a mobile web content adaptation service.
I had a lengthy article planned of all the reasons why the mobile web is not dead, why services like Mowser are pretty important today, tomorrow and in the foreseeable future. With dotMobi picking up the assets and breathing new life into the product, I...
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Mobile Internet For Dummies →
You know that a technology has reached a milestone when a Dummies book gets published. Finally the Mobile Web has reached this milestone with the publishing of Mobile Internet for Dummies.
This is a pretty crucial milestone for the mobile web to have such an important series go to print with a mobile book, which to date hasn’t produced huge sales according to most publishers I’ve...
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Airline emissions 'far higher than previous... →
Airplanes are polluting 20% more than previously estimated. I know the next generation of airplanes currently being built are meant to be more fuel efficient, but we are still a few years off from actually being to see those in the air. In the meantime there isn’t a whole lot you can do to be a “green” traveler.
I’ve been buying carbon offsets with TerraPass for all my...
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WatchThe Democratic Race summarized in 7 Minutes!
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Woman uses 'Back to My Mac' to catch laptop... →
I suppose its one more reason to purchase .Mac.
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“That was a good movie.”
– Cyndi on seeing Iron Man
(So now you know its got to be good!)
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BioShock to become a Movie →
Variety reports that Universal has purchased the rights to turn one of my favorite games, BioShock, into a feature film. They’ve attached Gore Verbinski to direct and John Logan to script the adaptation.
BioShock is perfect material for a feature length film, but they will need to make sure that they adapt it to be a standalone movie, not just a retelling of the game story line. Being...
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Donate to the Burmese Cyclone Victims →
Earlier this week I posted about the cyclone that hit Burma. At the time there wasn’t any place I could find that was accepting donations for aid. Google has set up a page that allows you to contribute to either Unicef or DirectRelief.
The death toll is likely to come near or exceed 100,000 and according to the U.N., 1.5 million people will be effected from the aftermath. The disaster...