September 2008
50 posts
August 2008
43 posts
Okay, it doesn't suck
jamiew:
mikehudack: Dashboard v4 is kind of awesome.
Everyone’s a hater at first amirite?
Apple-minus-minus makes the font in dashboard more sane. But then everything seems to narrow. :-/
San Francisco guide to New York neighborhoods →
So you’re moving from San Francisco to New York. You liked your cute neighborhood and tasty burritos and you hope to replicate this existence somewhere in the Big Apple. Well kiddo, that’s impossible. Everyone knows there is no such thing as a good burrito in NYC…
(Mostly for Darrell)
The Action Office
darrellsilver:
Nikil Saval in N+1 discusses the Birth of the Office and his short-lived career as a freelancer in New York.
There are many like me — too many. I have to get up early in the morning to find a seat, which I claim with a valuable laptop. I’m afraid to get up to use the bathroom — the other freelancers might not steal my laptop, but they’ll certainly steal my seat.
No matter...
WatchiHologram - iPhone application on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Holy crap this is so cool.
“Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.”
– Zappos.com CEO -Tony Hsieh: Passing on best quote I heard today… (via kareem)
A new viewer's impression of a typical Mad Men...
peterwknox:
New York, 1960s
Elevator, Madison Avenue
Man: Work is the most important thing we do!
[smoke]
Other Man: It makes us each important.
Other Man: We may be married but we’ll never grow up!
[smoke]
Other Man: Women! Always going to the bathroom together, watching the kids, and nagging! They’re so different!
Other Man: Haha, yes, it’s true! Let’s leer at the secretaries on our...
“Rather than print out an article to read later, we hit “Read Later”…”
– Four Reasons Our Printers Are Getting Dusty - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
Instapaper gets a quick mention in the New York Time’s Bits Blog. Yay, Marco!
rickyv:
I saw Patrick reading The Fountainhead today and so I asked him to respond to any email I write to him this week in the voice of someone who just stared reading The Fountainhead for the first time.
E-mail from me to Editorial:
Had a meeting with <BRAND> this morning and they really loved our ideas.
Great job, everybody.
E-mail back from Patrick:
I didn’t create those...
LOL Bush: The president at the Olympics |... →
Martha Stewart is a Genius. A Comedy Genius. →
strle:
Whatever, Martha! will debut Sept. 16 at 9 p.m. (EST)/6 p.m. (PST)
on the Fine Living Network
This is so smart for so many reasons, I’m actually kind of shocked it’s real.
What a brilliant way to start transitioning the brand away from depending on Martha and Martha alone.
“Not long ago, we came up with an interesting set of facts: A billion hours ago,...”
– Roberto Goizueta, in a Coca-Cola Company annual report (via unalone)
Now that is scale. Wow. (Wikipedia says it’s 1.5 billion a day now.)
Using your browser URL history to estimate gender →
Smart!
(via imkevin)
The Tumblr dashboard is like an e-mail inbox that...
(via imkevin)
Keeping It Real.
kenyatta:
From an email exchange between Eric, Ellie, Jamie and I regarding the Rocketboom-Sony deal:
On Aug 5, 2008, at 12:50 PM, kenyatta cheese wrote:
Hey Eric.
The Sony deal will have no effect on us whatsoever. By the way, Eric, I don’t know what you’re watching at home but the new XBR® Series of Sony Bravia® Televisions are just outstanding! With high fidelity and brilliant color,...
“Years ago, I got my mail (the old fashioned kind) once a day. It took twenty...”
– YES.
via Seth’s Blog
NetShare - iPhone tethering over EDGE or 3G →
touchapps:
This app lets you use your iPhone’s internet on your Mac.
“NO. What’s “funny” is how America is about 10x better than the...”
– Stewart Butterfield