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It is no secret that I want to see The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Due to traveling to and from my brother’s house in North Carolina – circumstances, unusual or otherwise – have kept me from getting to the theatre. Sameer Barkawi, friend and film-student (oh, and actor), has written his thoughts on the…

Funny how just last night, lying in bed, Eliza and I were discussing this movie.  Today, after going through my feed reader ((Which I’m so far behind on it isn’t even funny.)) I see a link from John Gruber’s Daring Fireball to Kevin Cornell’s blog post about his working on a graphic novel for The…

A nine year old boy in my area recently won a trip to Australia with National Geographic. "For Benjamin Wilken, it was the chance of a lifetime. He wrote a 300-word essay on how he became a young explorer, attached a photograph he took, put it in the mail and now, months later, he is…

Yesterday I saw a link from Jason Kottke’s blog to a trailer for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a new movie starring Brad Pitt.  I immediately watched the trailer and was intrigued by both the style of the movie and the story.  Jason also linked to a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald of…

Firefox for iOS just hit the App Store and will work on iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Why would you use Firefox for iOS? Benjamin Mayo of 9to5Mac: You might want to use Firefox for iPhone and iPad if you use Firefox on the Mac, due to UI similarities for the browser chrome or just…

Derek Sivers, on his newly rejuvenated personal blog, on Quality, quoting Benjamin Joffe: In Japan, if I ask almost anyone what quality means, they’ll say, ‘it’s perfect – zero defects’. Japanese culture emphasizes the importance of striving for perfection. Fascinating yet strangely unsurprising yet still a great reminder of a read.

Or, maybe we should call it Talk Internet now? Talk radio still sounds better. Anyway… Dan Benjamin, who like me has always been a very big fan of talk radio, has launched a new network for audio podcasts called 5 by 5 Studios. I’ve listened to the first few episodes of each of his shows…

In case you’ve been living under a rock (where in the world did that phrase originate?) you probably know about Dan Benjamin‘s extremely simple, yet incredibly useful and valuable, step-by-step tutorial for installing Ruby, RubyGems (including Rails and mySQL) on Mac OS X Snow Leopard. I recently had the need to upgrade each of these…

Jason Fried recently wrote a tip for speakers that start off their presentations at conferences or any type of public speaking by saying "Sorry, I didn’t have time to prepare better" or something along those lines. His tip? Don’t say that. Jason is right. You shouldn’t say that. It makes people begin to wonder why…

If you know Justin Blanton you probably know two things about him: 1) He works way too hard. 2) He has a critical eye.  Neither to a fault. In fact, I believe this makes for a combination suited for reviewing. In this review Justin describes his experiences with the BlackRapid R-Strap, a shoulder strap tailored…

If you run a web service, I want you to take a moment to learn from the recent response by 37signals regarding their 2hours of downtime they had the other day. Here is what I said about it on my linklog. "37signals responds to downtime, perfectly. They start with an explanation of what happened, then…

Gary Vaynerchuk in London Photo credit: The hard working Tara Hunt For those that do not know Gary, Wine Library TV, or Cork’d – let me take a second to catch you up to speed. Gary Vaynerchuk is the Director of Operations for Wine Library and began his career in wine at the ripe age…