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I’m finally getting around to writing about The Last Crusade. The third Indiana Jones film, The Last Crusade, is as close to my favorite as Raiders of the Lost Ark.  Unlike The Temple of Doom Crusade gets back to Indy’s roots. Same friends, same mission, same pace. Beat the Nazis!  I believe if you aligned the story […]

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Todd Troxell, Viddler‘s system admin, does actually exist.

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Brett Wilson A few weeks ago I had lunch with Brett Wilson, CEO of TubeMogul, and we were talking about the partnership between TubeMogul and Viddler. We also talked about surfing and family, but for now we’ll focus on TubeMogul and Viddler. A few days later I asked Brett if I could ask him a […]

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This is a pretty neat tip from Tekzilla (friend Tekzilla on Viddler), one that I never knew about, but that I think will come in handy.  If you’ve ever connected your iPod or iPhone to your computer, you’ve no doubt scene the graph in iTunes showing you how much of your space is used for […]

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Over 1 year in the making!  Well, not really, but it has been over a year since version 1.2 of the widget was released.  Now, with version 1.3, the Ta-da List widget is back in action and has been updated to accomodate the changes that 37Signals made to Ta-da List in a recent update. The […]

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My good friend Gary Vaynerchuk, host of Wine Library TV, has had the privilege of making some rounds on network television programs such as Nightline, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, the Ellen Degeneres Show, and The Big Idea – so I thought I’d keep a catalog of these appearances here. Here are Gary’s television appearances, […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I couldn’t think of a much better title for this link, so I used the title from the actual ManBabies.com web site.  ManBabies.com, essentially, is a collection of altered images with men holding babies but having their heads swapped. While the purpose of this site originally was to showcase Dads with their […]

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When I was a kid Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom was one of the more gory movies I had ever seen.  Men having their hearts torn out while they were still living, alligators (which were being portrayed as crocodiles) ripping flesh from bone in a death roll, and voodoo practicing children stabbing dolls.  For a child, all […]

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If you are a fan of American Idol, particularly its contest style format with judges, auditions, etc. then you may like Mahalo Daily‘s method of finding a new co-host. When I saw that Mahalo Daily was sharing Vlog Idol on Viddler, I actually started watch all of the episodes when they came out.  I wanted […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] On Friday, while I was at Viddler HQ fooling around with Rob, I noticed my friend Dan Rubin twittered the following: "if I ditch cable, buy an AppleTV and only watch shows I’ve BT’d (I’ll pay for movie rentals), I’ll save myself over $600/year (ATV included)" Allow me, first, to decrypt this […]

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You could just get lost on Amazon, couldn’t you?  Every single category seems to have a never ending list of subcategories, each with their own products as you drill down.  I have never "shopped" on Amazon.com.  I’ve purchased a few things on the site, usually by someone linking to a product, but I’ve never just browsed around. […]

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This is great.  Joe D!, as he is known on Flickr, decided it’d be neat to deface, I mean – artistically improve U.S. paper currency by adding some doodles.  He managed to create an entire Flickr photo set dedicated to this hobby.  Here are a few samples: Some of my favorites (pictured) are the Spartan, […]

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In February Eliza and I went to dinner with some friends here in Pennsylvania.  In the foyer of the restaurant we ate at was this chef guy that I took a photo of with my iPhone. Today I noticed that he is also in Lisbon, Portugal.  Small world. Source: Lisbon: Campo Pequeno.

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Rob, a Monster drink, and a laptop. The usual scene here at ViddlerHQ.

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plasq continues to amaze.  Adding onto the Comic Life brand, which includes Comic Life for Mac and Windows, is Comic Life Magiq.  What is the difference?  Comic Life Magiq is a big brother to Comic Life, it has more "pro" type features like image editing, and it is Leopard-only. "With creative features rivaling ‘Pro’ applications, […]

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Drool. To be more specific, Open Road TV visits San Francisco’s Presidio, which is now a National Park, and goes on to explain its many changes over the years.  One of the places they stop, is at George Lucas’ Industrial Light and Magic campus. "Explore San Francisco’s fabled Presidio, now a national park, and go […]

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Raiders of the Lost Ark debuted in movie theaters in 1981, when I was only one year old.  I don’t remember the first time, nor how many times, I saw this movie – but I do know that I loved it as a child, and now I know I really enjoy it as an adult too. Sure […]

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Coming this summer:  Sprint vs. Apple.  Instinct vs. iPhone.  Who has got the guts to win? I’ve seen this reported in a few places, that Sprint is going to spend $100,000,000 on a marketing campaign aimed directly against the iPhone.  Why am I the only one that loves this? For the first time in nearly […]

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I am not even sure how I came across this site.  A few days ago I found myself browsing Dan Phiffer’s Web site and I have to say, it is probably one of the more innovative sites I’ve seen in a while. There are some drawbacks, however: After visiting the site numerous times you kinda […]

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Catching up on Indiana Jones, in style.

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I don’t think I’m alone in this thinking either.  On Mac OS X Tiger, when you searched for something, the list that appeared is much like the list that appears now, under Leopard.  Leopard’s speed improvements for these searches, when compared to Tiger, is undeniable and welcome.  Where Spotlight in Leopard begins to break down […]

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Have you checked the weather today?  Oh, but have you checked the weather on Saturn today?  Neither did I.  But it seems, according to yesterday’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, courtesy of NASA, that there is an electrical storm on Saturn that has lasted at least 3 months. Saturn. Early March, 2008. Extraterrestrial storms are not […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] The crew over at the Iconfactory, who are the creators of Twitterrific among many other things, are doing a tribute to Indiana Jones this month.  Here is a snap of my desktop, which I took using Skitch, to see the icons and one of their desktops in action: You too can sport […]

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I am not well versed in CSS.  I can get around.  I can make a site look pretty good in Safari and horrible in Internet Explorer (look at this site in IE for a great example).  But I’m a hacker at best.  I fiddle with CSS until something looks right, I don’t follow conventions or […]

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Taken while walking to get coffee.

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I am neither a Cowboys nor Bills fan, but I still went to a Monday Night Football game there. Must have been for booze.

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Too many choices? I’d like to think just enough.

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My friend Sameer Barkawi, distinguished actor, and fellow writer at TUG.n (though I’ve been absent for a while) recently jotted his thoughts down about Iron Man.  Here are a few key points from the review. "Would I recommend this film? I think so. It’s not a strong recommendation, though. Consider it an appetizer for the […]

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One of the many days of working at Panera. This one Eliza, Chris, and Andrew were there.

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You know that ringtone you hear in the iPhone ads?  It is the same ringtone that is not included on your iPhone!  I have no idea why, either. I just downloaded it, dragged it into iTunes, synced it onto my iPhone, and tested the ringtone.  It is great.  It is loud.  It progressively gets louder […]

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The first floor in a parking garage.

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Keegan Jones‘ (among others) Ta-da Lists Widget is down! The erring widget. I began reusing Ta-da Lists recently when I found out about the iPhone support.  It works beautifully.  When I think of something while I’m on the go, I can add a ta-da list item with my iPhone painlessly.  When I’m back at my […]

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Taken somewhere around 2am while walking in downtown Pittsburgh.

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San Francisco from Dolores Park in July 2007. Another beauty from the iPhone archives.

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Reminders are good. Learning new things is good.  So you might look at this list, of 21 Ways to Shoot Better Photographs, as either a list of reminders or a list of new things to learn.  Either way, it is good. I think the most important ones, for me, are perspective, framing, intentional empty space, […]

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Yesterday I went to shoot photos just off of a highway near my house, a place that I have wanted to shoot for at least a month.  Each time I drove by this spot, in the little view of the area that I had while exiting the highway, it looked like there was a marsh […]

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Ok so, the album cover art wasn’t real, if you haven’t already figured that out.  I had a lot of fun for the few minutes it took to put the cover art together and so I thought you might want to also take a crack at it. Photoshop my friend Andrew I’ve created a zip […]

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The image above is, supposedly, the longest set of driving directions that you can find on Google Maps.  Some guy named Alan Taylor has taken the time to figure this out, and although you could custom drag a longer set of driving directions, he’s pretty sure this is the farthest one. While other countries, and […]

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My friend Andrew approached me to do something I’ve wanted to do for some time; design album cover art.  Andrew’s new album, gonna scccrrrape you sucka, drops in a couple of months and so I thought I’d give you all a preview of the cover: Parental discretion is advised. Look for gonna scccrrrape you sucka […]

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Finally taking the time to go through each page in the manual. Eliza and I have had this camera since last fall and although I’ve been using it, I’m just now getting a chance to really kick the setting’s tires.

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In the world of photography there is a mantra that you’ll sometimes here about; embracing limitations.  It is where, even though you are only equipped with a camera that isn’t feature rich or technologically advanced, you embrace those limitations and still create interesting images.  You come to grips with the things that your camera can […]

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Help expand my echo, echo, echo chamber, please.  I try to link to things I find interesting in hopes that you too will find them interesting.  However, my view of the world is as narrow as my own two eyes – and so I’m hoping you’ll help me find even more interesting things to link […]

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All of the mobile photos you see here on my site are taken with an Apple iPhone and then emailed to my Web site for publishing.  It appears that Flickr users are also using their iPhone’s to upload photos to the Web. As of: May 1, 2008 Somewhat recently, according to this graph (pictured), the […]

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Sadly, the title of this note, is mostly true. The World’s Cities: Moscow. To help quench my perpetual thirst for knowledge about things I know nothing about (the very definition of learning, I’d guess) I read a book (pictured) about Moscow. This book is not very long, is filled with illustrations, and was written prior […]

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GGW! Normally that accronym would be reserved for late-night commercials about incredibly inexpensive DVD-sets with future women that will sue Joe Francis. But not this time. This time GGW refers to NASA’s celebration of the Hubble Telescope being launched 18 years ago!  And so they’ve put together a site of awe-inspiring images that Hubble has […]

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I know it isn’t even 10am yet, but lets just call this the "link of the day" shall we? Nina Katchadourian decided, in 1998 no less, to repair broken spiderwebs around the home she was living in at the time.  She used red sewing thread and a few dabs of glue. Here is what she […]

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The Apple Blog’s Bob Rudis reviews a new feed reading application called Times which is set to be released at the end of this week.  As Bob states; feed readers are pretty prevalent, but I’ve never seen one that displays aggregated content in this manner.  Here is a quick screenshot. An example view in Times. […]

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The Apple Blog’s Bob Rudis reviews a new feed reading application called Times which is set to be released at the end of this week.  As Bob states; feed readers are pretty prevalent, but I’ve never seen one that displays aggregated content in this manner.  Here is a quick screenshot. An example view in Times. […]

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