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September 1, 2008

Russian police love freedom of speech.

And the right to bear arms.

Lexblog needs a Software Engineer.

It's a fantastic job for a wonderful, longtime Airbag client.

Indie fever.

A report on "The genesis, culture and economy of a community of independent software developers on the Macintosh OS X platform."

Red vs. Blue gets animated.

Meh, machinima or bust.

September 2, 2008

Sell your Apple stock now

and then get ready to buy a lot of it.

Obama Tax Cut Calculator.

"Barack Obama will cut taxes for over 95% of American families."

Waffle House Wedding.

Jesse, you mean you could have had a wedding like this?

What's wrong with Steve Jobs?

An educated opinion from the medical world.

A fabulous look at infographics used in the movie I.O.U.S.A.

Lovely art direction.

Typophile is looking for an intern.

Long hair hippy people need not apply.

Doorways.

September 4, 2008

Salon opens their own Newsvine wannabe.

Considering that they've owned the Well for a while, I'm surprised it took this long.

Travel to Jupiter

One poster from a wonderful collection.

September 7, 2008

Fall is here and that means a lot of new television.

Metacritic has the best coverage of what's new and when.

Apple has already figured out cut-and-paste for touchscreen.

Ok Paul, why'd you axe this feature?

Canada's government has been dissolved in effort to elect a conservative replacement.

"It will be Canada's third national ballot in four years."

September 8, 2008

Huge addition to Basecamp!

Thank you Jason & Co. we've needed this for sometime now.

Getting ready for Big Bang Day.

We are all gonna die.

Esquire brings e-ink to the racks.

Must have. Must have now.

Row D Seat 5.

Don't ever take a photo of Gary Coleman, he will run you over.

Don't truck me bro!

Tom Bradey is out for the entire season.

I wonder how much the insurance policy is worth.

Robert De Niro's restaurant sells endangered tuna.

Ethan, you should go check it out before they stop.

I really, really, really wish I would have known about Design Revival earlier.

Dang.

NBC Universal may hand over it's advertising sales to Google.

Crazy.

ExpressionEngine 2.0 has been delayed.

No worries guys, take your time.

Electoral projections done right.

There are several principal ways that the [our] methodology differs from other poll compilations.

September 9, 2008

Spore gets an average one-star rating at Amazon.

Nice work EA.

Transmit, the king of FTP applications, is ten years old.

Fetch is dead, long live Fetch!

"Don't mock the Constitution. Don't make fun of it. Don't suggest that it's not American to abide by what the founding fathers set up. It's worked pretty well for over 200 years."

Go baby go!

September 10, 2008

Battle for the Whitehouse.

Jib Jab what?

September 11, 2008

The Peacock hath given AppleTV owners the gift of free HD.

Thanks for pulling your head out NBC.

September 12, 2008

GameSpy Technology is looking for an Apple Developer.

Demand to work with Col. Todd Northcutt.

September 13, 2008

Seventeen people are now dead from the Metrolink collision.

More deaths are expected.

September 14, 2008

Train engineer ran a red light while texting on a cell phone.

After this accident, I have zero confidence in trains.

The Unstoppable Robot Ninja got some new clothes.

And to celebrate he used enough bullet points to kill Powerpoint.

The Architect says McCain has "gone one step to far".

Imagine that.

Bank of America buys Merrill Lynch.

Pay attention kids, one-hundred year history is being made right now.

September 15, 2008

David Foster Wallace hanged himself last Friday.

Very sad.

Despite the financial meltdown, WSJ.com will unveil a new design tomorrow.

Let them eat Myspace.

Alamofire is causing problems over at Facebook.

Thank for making something too cool, jerks.

Is "Funnest" a word?

Brownyn, tell me you're going to respond.

Wraith of the Lich King goes live November 13th.

Can't wait to see the new areas.

September 17, 2008

"Wallace is the only one whose work consistently makes me ache with the impossible desire: I wish I could write like that."

Be the ball.

New GTA IV content coming this fall.

More pigeons please.

"As recently as January, Mr. McCain argued...that Americans were better off than they were eight years ago."

He shouldn't be drinking out of aluminum cans.

September 18, 2008

Herb Kelleher on why Southwest Airlines rawks.

"...our principal advantage at Southwest and in this milieu is the fact that we're so strong financially."

September 19, 2008

"Wasilla is just plain ugly, it's not a pleasant place to live. It's not thought out. And that's a shame."

I can vouch for that.

"Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation."

— John McCain

Forget water boarding, just have terrorists ride a train in LA.

Hmm...what would it take to get Cheney on the Metro...

September 21, 2008

On editing Consider the Lobster.

For those whom have never read the story, here.

Streamlined.

"This is a road in Lancaster, California that makes music when you drive over it."

Sadly, it's about to be destroyed due to complaints in the neighborhood.

Garrett points out every reason why I don't waste money on live concerts.

He forgot one though: most bands can't sing for crap.

In the future all graphic design will be created by computers.

Humans will only be used as a power source for the machines.

Kim vs. Garcia.

I hope everyone watched this fight. If not, don't miss the replays.

Agua Onyx.

Dead sexy.

Excitebike.

For Waxy.

Blackberry to focus on Mac support for early 2009.

Looking for any reason, any reason at all to stop using AT&T.

John Adams and Tina Fey bring it home.

That's how I would have voted.

September 22, 2008

The rotating grid illusion.

Rad.

Helvetica Alphabet T-Shirt.

Khoi, can I assume you already have the entire collection?

"The X-Men in this book are not superheroes."

Can't wait to see this. The teaser images are amazing.

"So if anybody can help me be done playing this lady Nov. 5, that would be good for me."

— Tina Fey

Ah come on, Gladiators is nothing by not stop heart pounding drama.

Liberal Media needs to stop attacking Hollywood.

United States of France.

From lé Josh.

"Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency."

Nice try.

September 23, 2008

Communication Arts Interactive Annual 14.

TED is the only content driven site to make the final show.

Web Standards 2008: Three Circles of Hell.

Croft I can't tell you how disappointed I am that you're not the first comment. Dammit!

Immigration gum balls.

Candy makes a great visual aid.

"I come from Arkansas, I get why she's hot out there," Clinton said. "Why she's doing well."

Obama doesn't stand a chance.

Even the developers don't like the Facebook redesign.

This is what happens when you role out too much change, too soon.

Marvel is working on Spiderman the Musical.

Lame.

September 25, 2008

Permanent Press.

Mister Retro does it again.

September 26, 2008

Palin's shift on ''Troopergate''.

Nothing to hide, eh?

In a perfect world Narayan and I would take the day off and stroll 63rd street.

Someday.

WSJ portraits.

September 27, 2008

Notes on last nights debate.

Looks like it went as expected.

September 28, 2008

Looking for meaning in Paulson's unshaven chin.

I think it shows a man who is doing what he can to handle global stress.

Alaskan Way is in the way.

It's yucky.

Top ten Newman films.

I've got to see The Hustler.

Anchorage hold another anti-Palin rally.

More people and more demands.

I'm sad to learn that Wargames was really a remake of Fail-Safe.

And WOPR has nothing on Walter Matthau.

September 29, 2008

"Even as [banks] were sick, dying or dead, their Web sites had a chipper, customer-service vibe."

They should have just stuck to the free toaster routine.

Khoi, I hope you like huntin'.

Oh, and the Bible. You had better brush up on the Old Testament.

Hong Kong gets unlocked iPhones.

Cost of the devices are about three times higher than the AT&T price.

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life.

Great but when does the movie come out?

Another private space program breaks orbit.

Awesome, now where's my rocket car?

Jargon Boy.

Amazing work. Take five and look around.

Look, if it can snow on Mars then why can't we have snow in California?

Earth is getting screwed.

I really hope AppleTV isn't being replaced.

I just bought one for Pete's sake.

Obama hungry!

Replace food with a keg and I think you've got a better idea.

David Sedaris reads David Sedaris.

Just one of the many reasons why we all should support NPR.

September 30, 2008

Bankruptcy, not bailout, is the right answer.

"Bankruptcy does not mean the company disappears; it is just owned by someone new."

Playing Portal on Panasonic's 150-inch HDTV.

Meh. Make it Call of Duty 4 and then I'll be jealous.

Criterion Collection may be downloadable in the near future.

I can go without a rocket car for another year, make it happen.

"We aren't going to have a shantytown in Central Park again. It won't be like the 30s."

Still everyone should practice their hobo code just in case.

The Singapore Grand Prix.

I'm hoping someone at Red5 got to see this up close.

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