Past designs of this site; some made the cut, some didn’t
As I work on the next version of my site's design, which is coming along quite nicely I might add, I figured now would be a good time to take a stroll…
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Risa Fukui: The Darkness Of Graphical Papercut Reflections
Incredible Although I remember doing something similar to papercut art in school, nothing I ever did came anything close to what Risa Fukui is able to do. "Papercutting doesn’t work without a…
Royal Mint: New coin designs revealed
The Royal Mint, responsible for the management of the monies created for the Royal Crown, held a competition in 2005 where they had received 4,000 unique entries to redesign their coins. The…
Unrealized architectural projects of Moscow from the 1930s to the early 1950s
Hot on the heels of my unrealized designs for this site comes something I saw, starred, and never got back to a few months ago: Unrealized architectural projects of Moscow from the…
Baron Woolen Mills by Heather Armstrong
Baron Woolen Mills Heather Armstrong, also known as Dooce due to the domain name of her Web site, is an excellent photographer. I recommend perusing all of her photos – but you…
Blurb
Blurb, seemingly, is a really great way to make books online using your digital photos. I haven't tried it yet but if their site says anything about their company/books, I think you…
Classic photos recreated with Legos
Tiananmen Square Mike Stimpson does an excellent job recreating classic photos using Legos. Some of the most notable photos include: Tiananmen Square (pictured) V.J. Day Times Square Lunch Atop a Skyscraper More…
Get a job! Use a Job Board.
Looking for a job? Might I suggest looking through the various Job Boards that have popped up over recent years? You might just find what you're looking for. 37signals' Job Board The…
Keegan Jones is coffee shop hopping
Keegan Jones, whom I spent some time with in New York City late last year, is visiting his hometown in Missouri. He has a pretty neat idea for how he is going…
SCR DROPCLOCK
A screensaver featuring numbers in Helvetica type falling into water in super-slow motion. I have to say that while I don't even use a screensaver, I'm sitting here tempted to buy a…
“We just posted loads of clips all over the freakin’ place!”
Ever since Viddler announced that Tubemogul now supported Viddler as a distribution point, we've been seeing this more and more. People that upload their video to every single video sharing site in…
Cabel Sasser’s C4[1] talk: Coda Confidential
Cabel Sasser, designer and co-founder of Panic, talks at the C4[1] Conference for Indie Macintosh development about the development of Coda, some of Panic's design decisions with the application, and much much…
iPhone in macro
More or less testing
My brain dump after upgrading to WordPress 2.5
Can you believe how far blogging has come over the last few years? I can't. I could go on and on about the history of blogging, how I've used it over the…
21 Amazing Alternate Uses for Vodka
I particularly like the 21st use: 21. If all else fails, just turn the bottle up and drink it, nothing will matter anymore anyway! (Source: 21 Amazing Alternate Uses for Vodka by The Life…
Viddler breakfast
Jason made the Viddler team, at least those of us near the office today, some breakfast.
Chippewa Lake Park, today
Chippewa Lake, a now abandoned theme park in Ohio, was once a booming park full of ride enthusiasts and families on vacation. Now it is a rundown, dilapidated and overgrown patch of…
Chris M. Johnson wants to bring it all together too
Chris M. Johnson is also going to start to consolidate his "stuff": "One of the problems with all the new and wonderful applications that are coming about as part of the Web…
Jeremy Wheaton Photography
Jeremy Wheaton, brother of Wil Wheaton (writer, actor), recently won a prize for one of his photos (this one actually). After bouncing around on his site for a little while, I must…
Love – by Eliza Devroe
Eliza Devroe, my wife, captured a nice photo at a 50th Anniversary party that we attended this past weekend. I'm linking to this photo for two reasons. I think it is a…
Peel away wine labels
Finally! Someone has made some progress in innovation of wine labels. This one allows for a peel away portion to help you remember the wine later on. I know that a lot…
Poll: Should my site send Twitter notifications?
Ironically you may be reading this note because you clicked on a link from my Twitter account. My site is setup to post links to Twitter, every 15 minutes, if there was…
Asaph – Beta
Dominic Szablewski recently created a really simple blogging system called Asaph. "Over the past few weeks I developed Asaph – a small blogging system, that allows you to instantly post links and…
Assaulted NY Times reporter is not pressing charges
I just have to link to this. A reporter from the NY Times was assaulted for trying to take photos of people putting up illegal posters. Here is why the reporter isn't…
Rick Astley interviewed about \”Rickrolling\”
Rick Astley, interviewed by the LA Times, talks about "Rickrolling": "I think it’s just one of those odd things where something gets picked up and people run with it,” Astley said. “But…
The Complete Making of Indiana Jones
Although this link, specifically, is more about the cover of the book being revealed for the first time, I just wanted to say; Do want! (Source: Star Wars: Community The Complete Making…
New growth
Some buds are starting at the top of this Birch tree.
A few steps closer to bringing it all together
You may have noticed a few new categories here lately. I've been making a few adjustments, tweaks, additions, and edits to this site since making my goal to bring everything together here….
Comparing Safari 3.1 and Firefox 3 Beta 4
My friend Jon Christopher compares using Safari 3.1 and Firefox 3 Beta 4 as his primary browser and as a browser for developers to use to build their sites. He once again…
If by 800 followers you mean…
My first post to Twitter, and I can't believe I'm actually confessing this, was about watching Dancing with the Stars with Eliza. That was over a year and a half ago. As…