Random 60: Holding onto wishes
[viddler id-20a6d41 h-357 w-420] Random 60: Holding onto wishes Favorite on Viddler. Do you hold onto wishes, or things, too long? I do too. There are boxes and boxes worth of stuff…
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The $1 bird feeder
I've wanted to have a bird feeder on one of our windows for a while. I've looked a few times for one and somehow turned up empty handed. Last week Eliza returned…
Weigh in: March 29, 2009
The first full week of the new diet effort is over and done with. The response from this round has been great. I really like having family and friends join in on…
Blockbuster coming to Tivo, iTunes?
Dave Caolo on TUAW, who is apparently from Scranton, remarks on statements made by Blockbuster's Vice President of Digital Entertainment Kevin Lewis that Blockbuster will be offering content through Tivo soon and…
Random 60: Penmanship.
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] [viddler id-839cf217 h-357 w-420] Random 60: Penmanship. Favorite on Viddler. How is your penmanship? My penmanship is little more than chicken scratch. Since I've started writing more I've been…
Stunning Light Art Performance Photography
LAPP, or Light Art Performance Photography, are long-exposure photographs of people playing with light in different ways. The site is in flash, and I'm still linking to it. That should tell you…
Random 60: Are you camera shy?
[viddler id-da2e49dd h-280 w-420] Random 60: Are you camera shy? Favorite on Viddler. Do you find yourself shy around cameras? Maybe you have no trouble chatting with your friends at bars but…
Coaching a Community by Laura Brunow Miner
Some of us in the "community" space think about these topics every single day. Seldom do we get a good soapbox to talk about them. Laura Brunow Miner, editor in chief at…
How to: Soften butter quickly
Great how-to article from Simply Recipes on how to soften butter quickly. I guess jamming it into the microwave for a few seconds isn't really 'softening' butter, it is more like melting…
MarsEdit 2.3 is out and supports Tumblr
You may have seen me quip about MarsEdit the other day on Twitter. Really, though, it is an excellent piece of software that should be given a go by anyone that writes…
Quietube now supports Viddler
Quietube, which I linked to the other day, removes all of the cruft from around videos on sites like YouTube and now Viddler and Vimeo. Here is an example of what the…
Random 60: Doing what you love, not what you’re good at.
[viddler id-5c5b7c71 h-357 w-420] Random 60: Doing what you love, not what you're good at. Favorite on Viddler. Please consider sharing this on Twitter. Thanks. I often find myself doing things that…
Trailer: Where The Wild Things Are
Where The Wild Things Are looks great. I'd have more to say but I don't want to take up too much time as I believe this trailer will be getting removed from…
Wolfenstein 3D now on the iPhone, but wait, there’s more
id Software recently released Wolfenstein 3D for the iPhone. This is fantastic news. The game that started the entire first-person shooter genre is now on the iPhone. But there is more. id…
Calorie needs
Pat Dryburgh, my dieting nemesis, wrote up what I think is a thoughtful approach to his diet. He explains how he measured his current caloric intake and then researched what his intake…
Glims for Safari
Glims for Safari is a input-manager hack (I think) that enables a few 'nice to have' features. First, it adds favicons to tabs. I am not sure about you, but the new…
Quietube
You've probably seen this elsewhere already… but this is just like Readability in that this small bookmarklet removes all of the cruft around YouTube videos leaving you with just the video to…
Random 60: Reading.
[viddler id-7eba55b5 h-357 w-420] Random 60: Reading. Favorite on Viddler. In this fast paced, Twitter-powered world it seems like all we do is consume shorter, and shorter bits of data. First it…
SEPTA fail
The FAIL meme strikes again! This time it is my friend Albert Yee, whom I've mentioned before, that is setting up a fail blog for SEPTA (or the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority)….
Why grow sentences?
Related to Growing Sentences with David Foster Wallace: Shaun Inman nails it. "This is how I design. This is how I code. This should really be how I write." Word Shaun, word.
Philly Beer Week 2009 coverage
My friend Tony Green, whom I've mentioned before, has done an excellent job covering his experiences at Philly Beer Week 2009. I've always had aspirations to attend this event in Philadelphia and…
Random 60: What to do about Flickr?
[viddler id-c77e0a5c h-357 w-420] Random 60: What to do about Flickr? Favorite on Viddler. I've been a Flickr member since mid-summer 2004. I've been a Flickr Pro member for nearly as long….
The Diet – Part Thrice!
Guess who's back? Back again! The Diet is back, tell some friends! You read that right. The Diet is back. And, like a Phoenix, it is back in a whole new way…
Growing sentences with David Foster Wallace
This is an excellent post by the hardest working blogger Jason Kottke, who just so happens to be a big David Foster Wallace fan, about writing from a book by James Tanner,…
Random 60: Coffee.
[viddler id-5db033e0 h-357 w-420] Random 60: Coffee. Favorite on Viddler. Soooo you're having a cup of joe, some mud, an expresso, a Starbucks, or maybe you just call it coffee. No matter…
Random 60: HD TV – The choices are endless!
[viddler id-329a6f7 h-280 w-480] Random 60: HD TV – The choices are endless! Favorite on Viddler. In the market for a new TV? You'll be going HD. But what to buy? LCD?…
Ben Franklin TechVentures
Date taken: February 10, 2009. In the lobby of Ben Franklin TechVentures is this neat piece of metal/art of the Ben Franklin logo. Viddler is annexed in this building.
Random 60: Can not find writing paper in stores!
[viddler id-b365dbdf h-357 w-420] Random 60: Can not find writing paper in stores! Favorite on Viddler. I know that writing letters is at an all time low – but is it so…
Ok Brightkite, this is what I need
Party time is over, so I feel it safe to write a formal, public request for some of the things I really need from Brightkite. I realize that some of the things…
The new SimplyRecipes.com
Simply Recipes, which used to live at elise.com/recipes/, now has it's own domain SimplyRecipes.com. It also has a slightly updated design, information architecture, and more. One thing I did like was that…