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August 1, 2008

Mow.

Courage is grace under pressure. McCain showed it when he was a prisoner of war...but he is not showing it now.

I keep hoping for a return of the Maverick but all I see is another Bush.

Walmart no likey the idea of President Obama.

If that doesn't sway you I don't know what will.

"Have they caught the anthrax killer?"

I'm happy they are at least still working on the case.

August 2, 2008

I've got a better one, ready for six months and client won't return phone calls.

Gotta love those non-profits in Massachusetts.

August 3, 2008

"I have no idea why Yahoo took so long to beat the ugly out of delicious. I'm just glad they didn't beat the good stuff out in the process."

Agreed.

Farve went back to the Packers for one reason: cheese curds.

Behold the power of cheese.

"It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!"

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, dead today at age 89.

How to setup NetShare.

Side note: Apparently it's been removed once more from the app store. Asshats.

August 4, 2008

Visual proof that ComicCon has Nuked the Fridge.

Warning: Possibly not safe for your eyes.

I can't believe this passed for journalism at the Journal.

My subscription has been canceled.

"Design Product" Syndrome.

Saved for future reference.

"What is coming out of our ground?

This didn't happen twenty years ago."

Obama is looking for a web designer.

Dawn, you should go back into web design for a while.

August 5, 2008

The BBQ Song.

Don't watch if you are remotely hungry.

Apparently Mars is made of rocket fuel.

Lets strap a space ship on the north pole, spark it, and hit warp factor eleven.

Logo trends 2008.

Dubai International wins the cake.

"It's not in the Bahamas, not in Second Life, and not in Dubai. It's in Raleigh."

Ryan, do you have the t-shirt yet?

Edgar Frog talks about Lost Boys: The Tribe (Two).

"We're not recreating The Godfather here..."

Thirty years of Lego people.

Nothing beats the Fett.

August 6, 2008

Spontaneous, unobtrusive usability testing software for website designers.

And it works to save the ape population. Nice.

Apple has the capability of deactivating apps installed on iPhones.

I'm sure Blackberry has the same ability as a security precaution.

Trinity Broadcasting Network worth close to $1B.

Time these folks get got.

August 7, 2008

"The catchall term 'designer' works for some, but I hate the generality."

I feel the same way about 'emperor' and 'exhaulted one'.

Building a Dynamic Website with ExpressionEngine is now at ten episodes.

In the last show Hunter was shot trying to help orphans.

"A trillion dollars for backed beans? I didn't know they had Whole Foods in Zimbabwe!"

Black is brilliant, as always.

Gone.

Flipped collars are back baby!

That's it, tomorrow the pant legs get rolled.

Pakistani leaders are trying to impeach Musharraf.

Holy toledo! Good luck with that.

Under the Waves.

If for some reason the Earth gets sucked into a black hole this weekend...

here's why.

August 8, 2008

Russia invades Georgia.

This can't be good.

A&E Television is looking for a senior web designer.

That could be a very cool gig.

Improving your design and development workflow with Subversion.

Listen to Ryan, he knows what the hell he's talking about.

August 9, 2008

Noncompete clauses no longer work in California.

"As long as you don't steal trade secrets or confidential information, you can do what you want."

Bernie Mac has died from pneumonia.

Sad.

Netshare likely to be banned.

AT&T is the worst phone company, ever.

August 10, 2008

Bush's bikini diplomacy.

Sponsored by Nike.

No more Star Wars movies, ever.

Someday, not in my life time, they'll be remade like everything else.

Misforgivings of the mobile signature.

"...unlike desktop sig files, mobile sigs have emerged as a method to excuse and educate, rather than to provide a curriculum vitae."

OMG they killed Chef.

Funny, I don't remember a treadmill being the cause.

Making time to make.

Saved for right after I finish this one thing.

August 11, 2008

Paris--New York--Shanghai.

Brilliant.

August 12, 2008

PngThing.

As recommended by Nathan.

August 13, 2008

DIY Madden 09 packaging.

Do it up right and get Favre in the proper jersey.

"In humans, brain size correlates, albeit somewhat weakly, with intelligence...male brains are bigger."

Rimshot.

"[McCain] will do as George Bush did, which is to make technology an issue related to how he raises money to run the government or to fund campaigns, and not as an independent issue that is important to grow America."

— Lawrence Lessig

Pancake Savior.

While his powers are strong, they don't hold a fork to Lutefisk Savior.

August 14, 2008

The terrorist watch list being used as punishment against Bush administration critics.

I love our new police state, it's nifty.

More Shutterthumb goodness for your iPhone.

It just makes the phone.

August 18, 2008

"The new cold war is on like Donkey Kong. All my friends are calling Russia the Russian empire now."

— John McCain on the situation in Georgia

Musharraf has resigned.

Wowwie, wow, wow, wow.

Fourteen ways to use Twitter politely.

No. 7 : Remember everyone can hear you.

August 19, 2008

First notes from Liz Danzico's brilliant presentation.

Thanks Jeremy.

Pole vaulting.

An animated infographic.

Trixie goes HD.

Would only be better if some THX sound was thrown in.

Push has been pulled from future iPhone firmware.

The iPhone is feeling more and more like a beta product.

August 20, 2008

Quicksilver needs a designer.

Luke I love working with you but you ought to consider applying.

Tim Sale, KCRW Guest DJ.

Must listen: Will only make you appreciate his own work even more.

August 22, 2008

Daring Fireball is the 117th most hated thing in the world.

Keep trying John, maybe you can unseat Lindsay Lohan.

Myst is the game that will never, ever, ever, ever die.

Just waiting for the day when it's a free toy inside specially marked boxes of Lucky Charms.

August 23, 2008

NYU is looking for a web developer.

I wonder if employees get free tuition.

August 24, 2008

Grapey the grape-lovin' jumping spider.

He died doing what he loved.

Pottery Barn's Star Wars bedroom.

Holy 1977!

The new JFK Terminal 5.

I'm going to need a reason to fly to NYC soon.

August 25, 2008

Cuban gets all Flawless Victory on an Olympic referee.

Look at that kick. It's totally the high kick from Karateka.

Reading long pages of sans serif type was "genuine torture".

True of false?

If Terry Gilliam directed Transformers as a TV variety show.

What, no monkeys?

Dave Shea reminds the Internet why he's brilliant.

Though my guess is that Lauren is the real brains behind the code.

Top twenty five Dear Adobe submissions.

"Stop creating new features and make your software fast, stable and straightforward."

"Some of this anthrax may have come from Iraq."

Two thumbs up!

Jim Lee posing with Tron guy out of costume.

Oh, uh, wait a second...

Sometimes, it definitely pays to check Amazon MP3.

"The new Lindstrøm album Where You Go I Go Too is 3 tracks, but clocks in at almost 55 minutes. It's $9.99 on iTunes, however Amazon MP3 just sees the 3 songs and charges $2.97."

August 26, 2008

Lil' old Airbag has been nominated for Blog of the Year.

Screw the Prius, I'm taking the limo into work today.

Show Ged some love.

A lot of work went into that list, punch it.

Would be Obama assassins converge, apparently, on Denver.

FBI says no one is a "credible threat".

"The conception of web designer as information architect depends upon a vision of cyberspace not unlike the vision of physical space held by René Descartes (1596-1650)."

Throw on Harris Tweed and continue reading.

Later today 37signals will go all Max Headroom.

Today's topic: Free promotion. Next week: How to sleep your way into a Max Basecamp account.

"The transformation of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome from a baseball field to a football field."

I want a follow-up next spring!

New Blackberry is having 3G problems as well.

Doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out that AT&T is the problem.

Can a typeface reflect a culture?

Good question, let's ask London.

"If you want to be original you have to accept uncertainty and have the capability to recover when your organization takes a big risk and fails."

Ah, if only most clients would be so brave.

Why do people think Obama owes the Hiliary anything?

What is this, Jr. High?

James Jean to stop producing cover art for Fables.

Thanks for the ride while it lasted!

Clone Wars easter eggs.

Saved for when it comes to DVD.

Coda now includes support for Subversion.

I wish more people made amazing software like Panic. Airbag loves Panic.

Holy Crap will you look at the Moon Patrol print?!

Dear Santa, I have been so very, very good this year.

August 27, 2008

IE6 to die March 2009.

Mark your calendar, show your support.

Dukakis apologizes for us ever having to deal with Bush.

Geez, by that logic Churchill should apologize for Hitler.

Downhill.

Interface design quotes.

Where's the Richard Saul Wurman?

How do you decide to friend someone?

Cash helps, a lot.

The proper way to boil an egg.

For the Rocket Scientist's future reference.

"Moscow is the most capitalist city in the world.

Most designer brands in Moscow, St Petersburg and elsewhere add somewhere between 20% and 40% on top of their prices for the Russian market."

August 28, 2008

"Featuring turn-by-turn guidance from K.I.T.T. and synthesizer lights that accompany the voice directions, this GPS makes fantasy a reality."

No Turbo button? Not impressed.

"Siouxland residents, many of whom consider themselves connoisseurs of fine food, a city is not a city without an Olive Garden."

I can't add insult to injury.

August 29, 2008

Hugh, this should be the official t-shirt of SXSW.

Make it happen.

August 31, 2008

The patchy return of New Orleans.

A "walking tour" of three neighborhoods post-Katrina.

Stop outsourcing roles in Pro-Obama videos.

A message from Creative Artists for Barrack and American Jobs.

Aaron Sorkin tapped to create a movie about Facebook.

Send it straight to VHS.

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