Matt Mullenweg’s suggestions for starting a bank
With so many lessons to learn from, and so many companies doing such a bad job or being dug in too deep, now seems like the perfect time to start a bank….
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A late lunch
A late lunch with a few friends on a hot Thursday.
Can we please disable Tumblarity? Please.
(via fightfirewithariot) Except this is exactly what is happening. Tumblarity has increased the amount of content on Tumblr, that is indesputable, but it probably hasn't increased the amount of unique or even…
Hands on with the Canon EF 1200 f/5.6L Lens
Hands on video with Juan A. Pons from Outdoor Photo Gear using a Canon EF 1200 f/5.6L lens which measures 38 inches, weighs in at 36 pounds, and costs $120,000. Interestingly enough,…
KFC’s Double Down Chicken Sandwich. Deplorable. I need one.
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] "If it tastes good, it is probably bad for you." We've all heard this saying and for the most part it is true. Although I tend to like all…
Tag channels by Tumblr
I think this is a genius feature. Tag channels by Tumblr combines a normal tag search with a slider to filter your results based on the number of times something was "liked"….
\”Always on\” by Adam Lisagor
Better writing about the iPhone 3GS' camera you will not read. Via John Gruber.
Another Orbweaver
Eliza spotted this little guy yesterday. Left him alone. I have enough pictures of cross orbweaver spiders.
The Broph
As if we could hide from the Broph in a pub.
Zen-coding, snippets for the rest of us
Jonathan Christopher of Monday By Noon talks about snippets and zen-coding, a "Set of plugins for HTML and CSS hi-speed coding", in a nice piece about his experience with same. I've been…
Project Retweet
Retweeting, or the act of relaying a tweet to your followers with attribution to the original author using 'RT @username msg' in a message on Twitter, is about to change a bit….
Reblog from Google Reader
The Google Reader team has added Tumblr to its new "Send to:" list. Nice.
This is not Things roadmap, yes it is
More opaque than transparent but I believe this is a pretty good mix. Cultured Code shares some insight into upcoming version(s) of Things. More software companies should offer insight like this.
Workspace pano
Inspired by Chris Masto's Workspace shot on Flickr – here is my way-too-messy desk. Made with Pano for iPhone.
All in a day’s catch
A few photos from fishing the other night with my friend Johnny. I posted a pretty wicked toothed Walleye on that night but we ended up with a pretty decent catch in…
Les Paul, guitar legend, is dead
I'm not a guitar player, but I'm a very, very big fan of guitar players. The world lost perhaps the most influential slayer today. Les Paul has died.
Major security problem on WordPress.com (a non-issue, see update)
Summary update: If you read this entire post you will learn that it was only my Wordpress.com account, and the account of the company that I had access to, that was affected….
What I learned from the WordPress.com situation today
Have you ever said something and say "That didn't come out right"? What about this? Have you ever been a little less than patient and do or say something a little bit…
Why you don’t need a URL shortening service if you use WordPress
I was in the mood for a long post title. Sue me. My thoughts on URL shortening services are pretty public but that doesn't mean that I don't have a need for…
Grrr teeth!
This guy had some wicked teeth!
Re-watching The West Wing
Easily one of my favorite TV-series of all time. Thanks to Tim Crowe for reminding me. Tim, you've just taken up a huge portion of the rest of my summer. And I…
Facebook acquires FriendFeed
TechCrunch reports that Facebook has acquired FriendFeed. I suppose my question last week about who uses FriendFeed now has an answer: Everyone that uses Facebook.
These aren’t the droids you’re looking for URLs
Page not found. Error 404. Those of us that build Web sites for a living have all had to deal with creating these pages. Planning for people to stumble across a URL…
Does anyone use FriendFeed? If so, how?
I'll try to keep this a short and sweet question, but this one does have a bit of background so let me catch you up. FriendFeed is leading the way in many…
Setting thumbnails on Viddler
A feature that has been sorely needed on Viddler since day one has now finally made it out of cold storage and onto the main site. Using an image that you upload,…
Swag
The Sambo Swag in his natural habitat.
Twitter’s trending topics have disappeared
Lately Twitter's Trending topics have been full of nearly worthless junk and people asking "Why is ______ trending?". I hope that their removal from the home page is both temporary and evidence…
Weird Al: C.N.R.
The White Stripes Weird Al Charles Nelson Reilly JibJab = Weird Al: C.N.R.. There is no way in the world I would miss this.
Why Google Chrome for Mac is important to get right
I've been playing with recent developer preview releases of Google Chrome for Mac and I got to thinking about how important it is for Google to get the Mac version of Chrome…
How to: Use the Viddler API with CodeIgniter
Me, on The Viddler Developers Blog: "The Viddler team is using CodeIgniter more and more for our internal PHP projects. Obviously we need to use CodeIgniter with the Viddler API quite a…