2008

Jul

Programming: The New Literacy

I’ve been using AOL Instant Messaging for a decade. You know what has never worked reliably?...

Video by Gary Vaynerchuk, colorful host of Wine Library TV Gary was in Boston about two weeks ago,...

Jun

Facebook Observations

danielha: I love reading the wall posts on Facebook event pages. Every single post is just someone...

“It is completely unnecessary therefore completely...”
— dynek on the subject of...

I've Had Enough

jakoblodwick: It’s time for me to end this. It’s not about Tumblr, specifically. It’s about the web...

Startups: Diary of a Failed Startup -- the...

mattlanger: We decided today to finally take the wraps off...

Unrelenting Optimism

I’m an Unrelenting Optimist. I’m optimistic that if you pursue your goals unrelentingly,...

Confused & Music

I just downloaded the new “Girl Talk” album, which consists entirely of illegally...

Finally, an accurate representation of how I feel in grocery...

“Which is why I think GTA IV is next-gen’s siren song, and a...”
— Why GTA IV Was the Beginning...

Portmanteau of the Month: Transplendid

Definition: Adj., something that transcends splendor. Mash-up of transcendent and splendid. I was...

99 times out of 100,

99 times out of 100, If someone is upset with you, then it’s helpful to remember people only...

“Any time you ask customers to self-segregate, they will put...”
— Seth Godin (via...

Briefly...

mattlanger: … during this neverending collective journalistic orgasm over the Michelle and Barack...

via jakoblodwick & mylifeinacube If you’re not out...

Interesting discussion on virtual goods, consumer internet, advertising, etc, w/ Boston natives Dave...

I Love a Good Walled Garden

Ok, I’ve beaten this horse before, and I’ll continue to do so whenever the urge...

Woot : EXCLUSIVE: Pre-Real-Time Coverage of...

“The just-announced Scorpion from Ronn Motor Company...

This isn’t my normal blog-fodder, but it’d be a...

May

“Damn you Twitter! Once again, you’ve failed me for the...”
— Me, on my inability to give-up...

Monkeys Control a Mechanical Arm With Their...

Two Days, No Internet

This is no accomplishment for the ages, but since I purchased an iPhone, it has become an...

nickdouglas: konrad: Twitter in 1649

Famous Failures, via Brad Feld

Sunny day, big day

Stop Thinking, Start Knowing: a Glimpse...

I play an interesting and scary game with my friends. When one of us asks “Who was that...

Ben, Jace & I spent the afternoon ‘trap shooting’, which is apparently shooting...

Games With a Purpose (GWAP)

The Metric Revolution

nrbd: I propose that we all start using the Metric System for units and Celsius for temperature....

thakker: Fascinating talk by Joshua Klein about the intelligence of crows, including a clip...

Dumbification and the science of...

PR prodigy & digital renaissance girl, Amanda Mooney, points us this morning in the direction of...

If you don’t think this is cool, you’re having a bad day.

I love my car, I really do. I also love money, I really do....

Friend Portability? Bah, Brightkite &...

There’s a lot of hullaballoo around open standards, and portable data in general. The tech...

Mario World Trance Music, as performed by Mario & Yoshi. Incredible!

thakker: florajasmine: tightgrip: scotth: reddit :...

sqpeg - desaturated - saraliz

100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and...

Clay Shirky on Cognitive Surplus, via John Eckman & Anand Thakker

“The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of...”
— John Milton

Apr

livejamie: This is very funny video from the 50s that illustrates the influence that a group...

via Amanda Gravel

Follow back, y'all

Follow-spam: when someone follows you on a social network, without regard for the value of your...

“Do you remember in elementary school, when growing up meant...”
— Colin Snyder

Spoiler alert: Benjamin Linus is the Final Cylon

(via livejamie) I’m likely never going to conquer step...

Ideas

nrbd: I always have ideas. About everything. I’m constantly - literally - either coming up with new...

Eff Ough.

The letter combination “ough” has nine different possible pronunciations. This sentence contains...

The Adventures of Autocamp 2000

FriendFeed & Socialthing: I don't get...

I’m a user (as in registered, not active) of both FriendFeed and Socialthing, and I’m...

Dana-Farber won't see my money again.

I have respect for their causes, and they do a great service, but I won’t be sending them any...

How much emotion do you put on the web?

I’ve been doing some thinking about my personal interactions, both online and off. I’m...

Coders are destroying search!

Don’t google Python if you’re looking for snakes. Wanna know what bears do in the...

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true...”
— Laozi

Tumblr Community FTW

Earlier today I posted Free Idea #3, which was about two things: first, that it’d be great if...

Google App Engine ported to Amazon's EC2

Free Idea #3

Tumblr is at odds with itself: it encourages site customization, but the dashboard encourages a...

Truncate your RSS? Fine, I won't read...

Truncating your blog’s content in your RSS feed is dumb & aggravating. I appreciate that...

twitter chat

aaronwhite: Blockbuster trying to buy Circuit City? Why?
jimmurphy: To get the hell out of the video rental biz, I guess.
aaronwhite: two losers make a winner?
jimmurphy: Yahoo, MS and AOL seem to think so.

Zombie + Robots is like Peanut Butter & Jelly. Thanks to Larrison Gomez for his unique view of...

I just left fingerprints in Tom Brady's...

My day got off to a good start: 75 degree weather in Boston, and met a few more interesting...

“As open source takes hold — in the form of software,...”
— Om Malik (via artistspaid)...

Thanks to all!

Today, I turned three-to-the-third! (27) Thanks to all my friends, family & well wishers! Boston...

Google App Engine: Exciting & Slimy?

I’m excited by the Google App Engine. Creative developers should ultimately be able to focus...

Flrtng

thakker: flrtng. v (present participle). Flirting via any one of the many “Web 2.0” online...

Ten Thousand Cents

reCAPTCHA: Stop Spam, Read Books

Taggers + coders = ?

Last week I attended an event called “Drinking & Drawing”. I contributed 16 frames...

My brother’s band, The Informant, just released this track. Check it out. If you are serious...

“I finally learned the difference between a model and a...”
— Nathan W Burke & his...

Social Media Investments (no, not...

Pamela Seiple (aka pamelump) makes some great points about the value of using Twitter. In my...

thakker: Did you ever wonder what the Pythagorean Theorem really means? This animation was really...

Anybody else excited for tomorrow?

I call this “My Favorite Dream”, it’s a great little animation I put together with...

PSA: Opportunity only works when you're...

When opportunity knocks, it’s usually a quiet tap. The onus is on you to open the door, and...

marco (via tylerriewer)

via www.worldofwarcraft.com New “bard class” in...

Mar

Hipsters are the Future

Imagine a kind of Eloi-esque utopian future, where all of our physical needs are met (either by a...

“Paparazzi” shot of me from Tumblr/Rockband...

Just bought a new camera, please excuse my hyperbole!

(via chin7) Awesome animation. I want to talk to the author!...

What animal has a grandfather, but no...

The Drone bee has no father, but does have a grandfather! Each & every time! Here’s how it...

“‘Free’ is a euphemism for ‘Please’”
— Adam Conroy This is a great...

PrankDialer.com - Rick Roll'd!

nrbd: Black holes don’t mean to destroy everything.

What animal has a grandfather, but no...

Email me your answer, and feel free to repost the question. Friday, I’ll share the answer with...

“[Twitter] is like hangin out in a bar with the Internet”
— Jim Murphy I agree with Jim:...

“‘Facebook!’ is the new ‘Cheese!’”
— my brother, 19, on camera...

Coding, Lesson 1: The Fundamentals

All coding is divided into three parts: Critical thinking Trial & Error Googling for...

marco: nath: Look at the sky, pick a random object, hold...

Hey Generation-Free: What Sites Do You Pay...

The Future of Marketing + Advertising Fun slide deck. (Really… a fun slide deck? Yes.)

Why is Easter Before Passover This Year?

My Twitter Digest: 2008-3-22

New haircut, pre-pubcrawl

My Twitter Digest: 2008-3-21

My Twitter Digest: 2008-3-20

Tumblr folk: Anyone want to help get the ‘bugs’...

My Twitter Digest: 2008-3-19

My Twitter Digest: 2008-3-18

Embed iCal in your desktop as a text...

Mileage & Momentum

There’s that frustrating moment while driving we’ve all experienced: you’re...

nabeel: the crew at sxsw: the crew at sxsw

My parents, married 30 years, have co-run an interior design...

Why aren't you working for a startup?

My new favorite website

Smell of Success

Today’s weather is finally warm enough to open the windows, greeting my nostrils with spring +...

Your product is your marketing. Full...

Here at SXSW, Apple doesn’t bother with a booth, schwag, party or any other...

Rockband + tumblr party

“For the last decade Apple has been wowing the crowds and...”
— ReadWriteWeb (on Apple’s...

“it was an astonishing case of Nuclear Fucking Fail.”
— Master of 500 Hats: The...

De-incentivizing Captcha Cracking

Today at SXSW, Ian Muir led a brief discussion on how to prevent captcha cracking. One of the...

Tonight’s fortune cookie

[Redacted] is no longer listed as...

joelaz: The most depressing feature of Facebook’s News Feed. I’ve seen this once before,...

iPhone Apps

The news is really great: The iPhone gets enterprise features (Exchange) and will soon have an...

Click the picture to watch a very funny catch-up trailer....

“When you sit back and wait until you are perfectly prepared...”
— Pamela Slim - Escape from...

Feb

Leap Day

One of my first tasks as a software intern, was to write code-analysis rules to help prevent the Y2K...

You pop the trunk, I pop the hood. Ferrari. Thanks to...

God bless the alpha testers,

For they are the software-martyrs of the Internet! More seriously, our secret-little-web-startup...

(via yourdp kansieo.com, poortaste)

Static & Strong Typing

I can’t take it. I really can’t. I see moronic post after moronic post, all over the...

Portal's 'Still Alive' coming to Rock Band

Masala Art in Needham, MA has a unique bar experience: you...

SXSW

I’m going to be attending the Interactive portion of SXSW this year, March 7th - 11th in...

by the geniuses at Woot

I don't care about your damn network.

CNN? CBS? NBC? ABC? MSNBC-HIJK-LMNOP? I don’t care about your damn network. I think...

I’m up from my previous best. I’ve been told by...