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December 31, 2006

Why email is broken.

If email came to me as a paper airplane I would happily reply.

Mozilla Operator.

I hope Safari adopts similar functionality.

The best of ChangeThis in 2006.

Kick off the new year with a little light reading.

The Ridge.

A proper test of HTML based email.

For future reference.

Burning Crusade goes gold.

Have fun without me.

The most played games on Xbox Live.

I can't believe BFMC is so far down the list.

The year in comics.

Top five lists for the best writers, artists, books, etc.

Thirty-five ways they screw you at the drive-thru.

Time to Sadam the airlines and insurance companies.

Relics of the ancient world loom in the Roman sunlight.

Can Apple stay successful if Jobs steps down?

Ask Gil.

Sir Vacuum.

Designer and inventor James Dyson has been awarded knighthood.

Peter Gabriels TED presentation.

"if injustice happens and a camera is there to capture it, can it be ignored?"

Cameron likes Transcending CSS.

Me too, especially pages 204 and 205.

The widths of rights-of-way required to move 15,000 people in an hour.

Trains win. Now if only Amtrak could get past puberty.

Joichi Ito on World of Warcraft.

Mark you may find this interesting.

TMN best videos of 2006.

OK Go wins for conducting such a masterful coup.

Monocle, "...global affairs, business, culture and design."

I can not wait for the first issue.

Microformats icons.

Very, very nice.

Jeff is looking forward to palm trees on the front lawn.

Is it warm enough to bring the dinosaurs back yet? That would be so cool.

Traditional fist fighting In South Africa.

Fight Club, Joberg style.

U.S. death toll in Iraq hits 3000.

Does this mean we get a discount on Freedom Fries?

January 1, 2007

Faces of the dead in Iraq.

A chronological memorial of U.S. causalities.

Broncos team member killed in drive-by shooting.

"...the third NFL player to be shot in the past 12 months and the first to die."

Elected leaders snub President Ford.

That's pretty low, even for politicians.

January 3, 2007

One of many concept art walls.

January 4, 2007

Scientists want celebrities to fact check before they shoot their mouths off.

On the other hand, people who listen to celebrities need their head examined.

xPad opera.

Garret is back in drivers seat of the most under appreciated Mac app ever.

January 5, 2007

Bill Cahan, Gatekeeper of Design.

What a tool.

January 8, 2007

The Police are rumored to be thinking about an anniversary tour.

Two drops of pee came out when I read the headline.

January 9, 2007

Time magazine's plastic surgery bandages come off.

Hmmm, I wonder how long it took them to re-Photoshop the NYT.

Peenote.

A new addition to the Machead lexicon.

Sealand is for sale.

I guess the off-shore hosting scheme didn't work.

January 11, 2007

Whoooah Savage!

Best game soundtrack ever.

Hi, my name is Wired and I'll say anything to generate traffic.

First rule of Internet prostitution: Attack sacred cows.

January 12, 2007

David Beckham is coming to the Galaxy!

Ole, ole ole ole! Ole, ole!

Time warp hover taxi.

iPhone won't revolutionize the mobile web landscape.

Good to see not everyone is chugging the Kool Aid.

Design this.

Reminds me of my very first job.

Phil Borges at TED.

Mr. and Mrs. Powazek, you're going to want to see this.

Pictures and video of Jeff Bezos' space program.

Note the Discworldesque logo.

AT&T operations center.

Looks impressive but can they play Tic-Tac-Toe on the big monitor?

Dear Al Gore, suck it.

People of the northeast, please send blankets and wooly mammoths.

Web standards stole my truck.

Best session title ever.

I'm in the movie business, how about you?

Now if I can just get a cameo. I look fantastic in lab coat.

Five ways to clean up your snail mail.

Ryan knows best.

Inc 500 adopting social media twice as fast as Fortune 500.

Dear Fortune 500, give me your money and I will give you "social media".

Smithsonian's interview with Steve Jobs in 1995.

Jeff, see if the company will send you to Cupertino for an update.

"I'm wondering if NFL teams should have fight songs instead of playing...Guns N' Roses every game."

Yes, they should.

Christopher Guest.

Great interview despite the authors need for lithium.

Axel Erlandson and the Tree Circus.

When they can grow a tree into a Klein bottle, then I'll be impressed.

I wish we had had this in Alaska, stupid arctic weather.

Bonus: checkout the design of the information display.

There is a small mailbox here.

Got Friday?

Goodbye Cingular.

Never liked the orange asterisk guy anyway.

Removing DRM from TivoToGo.

The way Tivo treats Mac users is shameful.

Five-second tests.

I prefer to use six-seconds personally.

Saddam and Osama.

How did I miss this? Stop your Friday now and watch.

Overweb3D, it's patented technology!

Never mind the greek text and non-working links.

January 13, 2007

Sharkies.

World of Warcraft surpases 8M subscribers.

That's almost $1B in annual revenue (considering that Chinese players don't pay a fixed monthly fee).

The Pirate Bay wants to buy Sealand.

Absurdity duplicates itself.

January 14, 2007

"Doesn't good writing take the audience into account?"

Maybe it's time I stopped writing solely for the hell of it.

Contactizer 3 Pro.

Blends many Apple and web productivity apps into one.

January 15, 2007

Spicing up your marriage the high tech way.

The only non-iPhone Apple story on the Internet today.

Feds open criminal investigation in Apple's stock scandal.

Probably a government funded play to get their hands on a few iPhones.

The whole story about that toxic spill and the Clear Channel "monopoly."

Lovely headline. Shame they coulnd't work in bat robots or sea squids.

U.S. Embassy in Athens was hit with a missle.

Haven't we declared war already? Shrub, you're slipping buddy.

The podcast recipe.

A free Pro guide from Apple.

Twitterrific.

From the nice boys at Iconfactory.

Pale observance.

From days gone by.

Soviet roadside bus-stops.

"Next stop the wild and crazy."

Airbag Industries sees all.

And there is nothing that we are not aware of.

January 16, 2007

Aleksey the Great.

The Borat of Yale.

Giuliani for President Campaign is looking for a web designer.

Despite your personal politics, that's going to be a fun job.

Comment no. 10,000.

We need to have a parade.

Go Barack, go!

Suck it Hilary.

January 17, 2007

Seeking 80's looking model to eat cheese.

Dan, this is your new calling.

Designing identities for small companies.

Where's the part about recovering from Illustrator?

"...if they held a gun to my head and told me they would pull the trigger if I didn't come up with an editorial strategy for the leading newsmagazine, I would say, 'Go ahead and shoot.'"

Roger Black on Time's redesign.

Dwell on Vancouver.

It pains me, cuts me deep, that I can not live there.

January 18, 2007

The other Iraq.

For your next vacation.

Faux Klingons.

Takei out.

January 19, 2007

Vista Sideshow.

Why are they so huge?! Is there an embedded VCR that I'm not seeing?

The One Who Showed Mercy.

I love artwork like this. More please.

SEED Magazine is looking for temporary design help.

If I wasn't chained to California I'd be there in a second.

January 20, 2007

Talent Is Not Enough: Business Secrets For Designers.

Absolute must have. I wish I had this years ago.

January 21, 2007

The Laws of Simplicity, Law 1: Reduce.

Thanks Todd. Looking forward to the next installment.

Design's lack of notoriety and respect as a substantive cultural activity is due in part to the lack of productive resistance.

Interesting article but it feels too short to draw such a bold conclusion.

January 22, 2007

Taking power, sharing cereal.

I'd rather watch this than American Idol.

Naked Trucker and T-Bones with Will Ferrell.

Looks like it could be funny? Need to see an entire episode.

Dinner at Schwa.

Looks amazing.

Fast web browsing with Lynx.

What's next? Fast texting with pagers?

January 23, 2007

Pirating the 2007 Oscars.

When will Pirate Bay host their own award ceremony?

January 24, 2007

Question of the day.

One-hundred and fifty words to a free iPod.

January 25, 2007

The look of 300.

Stunning.

Don't just read: Think.

Burn the witches! Burn!

Web 2.Clueless.

Enough already, it's time for this bubble to pop. Please.

January 26, 2007

NYC Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual from 1970.

Letraset goodness.

The Best Use of Web 2.0 Award from AdWeek?!

KAHHHN! KAHHHN!

"I love it when in a newspaper gets exactly the right typeface!"

Me too Roger, me too.

Beatles stamps.

Ordered.

Fill in the blanks initiative.

The Design Encyclopedia could use your help.

Ricky Gervais meets Larry David.

And just in time for Friday.

Every ad in Times Square.

I'd love to see a night-time version. Thanks Jeffrey.

Elections.

Ladies and Gentleman: Bravado.com.

Only the best, starting at $100k.

"Vista's not all that much slower than what you're running now."

Shouldn't it be much faster? Microsoft you're going to the wrong way.

January 27, 2007

Running Movable Type on OS X with FastCGI.

Time to upgrade.

Vista: Why no one cares.

Time Magazine throws down.

YouBube gets the checkbook ready.

And you thought Jackass was bad for the future of our society...

An interview with Bowman.

Doug, I'd like to hear more about your thoughts on "Gesture UI".

Pimp That Snack's Cadburry Creme Egg.

Yucky.

Leibovitz takes on Disney.

Fantastic! Can't wait to see these in print.

Casino Royale hits stores on March 13th.

Now you can fast forward past the lame poker scenes.

January 28, 2007

Ottobot.

January 29, 2007

Free font manifesto.

Great type, great price.

Shrinking Cities.

A study of places where people are leaving en masse.

PDF mags.

Lots to see here.

Zombies vs. Robots.

I love the style and tone of the artwork. I hope there's a trade version in the works.

Duke basketball report with Coach K.

A great behind-the-scenes look at college basketball.

SXSW.mobi.

It's Austin for your phone.

Bruce Campbell on his roles in the Spiderman franchise.

Let's hope for more Brisco County Jr. screentime.

Intel's Penryn could ship inside Macs at the end of the year.

Six-point saftey harnesses will be required.

Sweden to set up embassy in Second Life.

I'll setup my own capital when the graphics are better.

Newly Minted.

Upgrade now, it may just save your life one day.

January 30, 2007

iLifesavers.

But where is the red one?! Dammit!

Scoobietron.

There is no wizard behind the curtain.

Ogilvy partners with Technorati.

Jim Avery, I'd love to hear your reaction.

January 31, 2007

I wish actors would stick to acting.

Like I give a ratts ass what Josh Hartnett thinks he knows about science.

Molly joins the IE7 team to help get their act together.

Good luck, don't let the monster swallow you whole.

"Snap Preview is creating a problem while trying to solve a problem that never existed in the first place."

It's evil and must die.

Got sour grapes?

I support my friends, not a list.

Stonehenge builders housing found.

Also known as the first Animal House.

MT Enterprise and Microsoft Office 2007.

For Kevin.

UK Get a Mac ads.

Can't wait for the German versions.

Death rabbits.

Boosh!

This entry x where it should have y.

Confessions of a Yelp abuser.

The "Wow" starts now?!

Has anyone started a deadpool for Windows yet?

February 2, 2007

Boeing 777 wing ultimate load test.

Watch this an I assure you turbulance won't freak you out as much.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows!

Best title yet.

Now you too can be Jack Bauer.

Stupid clueless daughter optional.

Boston needs to ligthen up.

Don't let fear get the best of you.

WORST. ROBOT. DAY. EVER.

"Order Here" part kills.

That's not just any 1959 Cadillac.

I wonder if they would take a web design company in trade...

Where's my iPod?

Oh to be wanted by a game company.

How to grok (that means understand) web standards.

I still say it smacks of butter and waffles.

Photoshop CS3 preview: The new interface.

Just make the beach ball go away and I'll be happy.

"She designed a plumbing system inhabited by a bluegill fish to detect an attack on the drinking supply."

I'm going to install this over the weekend but mine's going to use a cougar.

Who will be the big losers when the Internet revolutionizes television?

General Electric.

Get Humanized.

Awesome work Naz!

BFD.

It's interesting to see how much web design is influencing newspaper design.

iPhonica: Vol. 2.

Icon series inspired by the iPhone interface.

Intrigue: 11.

Lovely.

Hail wallet.

Hurry, they're gonna go quickly.

T-shirts for wearing while walking in Boston.

A collection.

Continue reading "T-shirts for wearing while walking in Boston." »

Imitating a scanner darkly.

Not for the feint at heart.

Continue reading "Imitating a scanner darkly." »

Airborne.

Nice air!

Continue reading "Airborne." »

Poetry in Paint.

Because you can never get enough Jasper Johns in your day.

Continue reading "Poetry in Paint." »

Disney has sold 1.3M movies through iTunes.

I wonder what the ratio of Pixar vs. the rest of Disney is.

February 4, 2007

AirPort Extreme 802.11n unboxing photos.

I got mine this morning and it's unbelievably fast.

"Why did you add this button to the user interface?"

Dilbert continues to deliver.

Jetman.

That looks like a hell-of-a-lot of fun.

Apology accepted, Captain Needa.

Been there, done that.

The "bros" over at BMW Club Malaysia have a sense of humor.

Unlike the red-necks who send me hate mail in response to used airbags.

Tron revisited.

I wish they would do more with the franchise.

February 5, 2007

What hands can do.

Another classic commercial from our German friends.

Rainbow parkade.

Torture

and Office Jungle. The best commericals from yesterdays men-hitting-men challenge:

Seattle.

February 6, 2007

When astronauts attack.

I blame Tang.

"Web 2.0 Usability and design experience is required."

Porque?

"When Disney tries to be hip, it looks like a good-natured dorky kid trying to act cool."

Not everything in life needs to change.

Back in 1994 it was alright to use animated gifs, tons of white space, and marquees...

Wow, you learn something new every day.

Coolest Star Wars art I've seen in a while.

And they kicked it off with Boba Fett!

February 8, 2007

A dollar short and a day late, not.

Nice work fellas.

North Korea ready to talk nuclear disarmament.

The Whitehouse has to be doing the happy dance.

February 9, 2007

Win $25M for the most innovative way of sucking harmful greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere.

Unless they throw in the Branson's Earth ball, forget it.

February 13, 2007

R32!

Please tell me it comes with six-point harnesses.

February 21, 2007

Seven ways to ensure customers will not hate you.

Hey, I have put my spin on things, you know that.

February 22, 2007

Caravans.

February 23, 2007

Interchange.

February 24, 2007

Shaving your head to beat the narcs.

White trash knows best.

Happy Dance Tron vs. DJ I Hate My iPod.

I blame Myspace.

Walmart, in South Carolina.

Tell me that's before/after a hurricane. Someone, anyone?!

February 26, 2007

CompUSA to close 100 stores.

They should save themselves the trouble and liquidate everything now.

Gifts from the GDR.

Ah the communists and their brick gift coal.

North America vs. the A-241/BIS Device.

"Notice, of course, that they leave Cuba intact."

Web 2.0 University?!

Really? Seriously, is this the best that mankind can do right now? Really? Oh, that's too bad. Any chance reptiles might want to take over again?

February 27, 2007

White House photoblog.

February 28, 2007

Ryan Irelan on the Hivelogic Radio Show.

For the ladies.

Muhammad Ali in the ring fighting Oscar Bonavena, Madison Square Garden, December 7, 1970.

"I find myself wondering if the "new era" of marketing is quickly becoming the cluttered noise that it is hoping to rise above."

Stick with the classics and common sense.

Jungle Cruise Skipper Night.

A comedy show where all the performers are former Disneyland Jungle Cruise skippers.

March 1, 2007

Unfurl.

One of my own favorites.

Blueeyes magazine.

Rick, click through as fast as humanly possible.

March 2, 2007

The last bag.

Only Santa Claus has one better.

March 5, 2007

Twists N' Turns On Every Page.

The China problem.

"Huge horizontal markets have no echo chamber, no niches, no easy entry points."

Starbucks is publishing a magazine in Japan.

The official website look interesting.

Star Wars paper models.

Bobba Fett owns.

Yaris is your SXSW buddy.

By the way, not many people know this but Yaris is Japanese for Yugo.

Laying your energy line.

Not to be confused with current level of terror threat assessment.

"Contestants have to jump over a shark."

It's like Tracy Jordan says, "live every week like it's shark week."

Biofuels may not be so bio after all.

For the rocket scientist.

March 6, 2007

300 seconds of 300.

Can't wait to see all of the seconds.

March 7, 2007

Waiting in the Pits.

Outrunning the meme police.

So many punchlines in one cartoon. Wonderful!

March 8, 2007

Tii-Shirt.

Need one for the Nunchuck.

The eMusic Lookup is worth the visit alone.

Ryan's utility belt keeps getting bigger and better.

March 9, 2007

A commercial message.

I've always been taught that when Coudal calls you don't say no.

March 13, 2007

Tips on storytelling by Ira Glass.

I forgot to reference these beauties in our panel. Click and soak it in.

Crowd clout.

A trend briefing memo.

March 16, 2007

In a world, where Richard Gere can not cook

and a Rat who loves great food.

March 20, 2007

Silhouette.

March 23, 2007

You're a ball buster!

Thank you Milton Bradley.

March 24, 2007

Visual language.

March 25, 2007

When renaissance fairs attack.

Who taught Sony how to do marketing online?

March 26, 2007

NIke is looking past Wieden + Kennedy.

Ad agencies need to get online. It's stupid they have lagged for so long.

Verbarius clock.

It's the NPR of clocks.

March 30, 2007

I will start podcasting tomorrow if Santa brings me this.

The price is right now!

Shaun, have fun in Tennessee.

Of couse with neighbors like this it's hard not to.

Green, Buena Vista.

Mark Coleran, visual designer.

Watch the large reel and get ready to drool.

What We Call The News.

Jib Jab does it again.

April 1, 2007

A Lego robot has been constructed to play a perfect game of Wii bowling.

Nerd translation: SkyNet now online and craving nacho cheese from a can.

April 2, 2007

Aflac can suck it.

April 4, 2007

A new study finds that having cancer striken friends may improve your physique.

El-oh-el.

Disney resorts had record attendence in 2006.

That reminds me, I haven't been to Disneyland in a while.

Gorgeous.

Can't wait to see these babies in person.

April 5, 2007

Zoomquilt.

Still trippy.

April 7, 2007

Rustic fields.

Bank Proof Machine.

Jim, try to get one of these babies for a cameo in 72°.

April 8, 2007

Ten good reasons why Army men are better than action figures.

That said, nothing, absolutely nothing beats any Boba Fett action figure.

April 9, 2007

Legohead owns.

April 10, 2007

Dell Ideastorm.

It will be interesting to see how well this works.

April 12, 2007

LBJ had JFK killed?

I've heard theories with the Mafia, the CIA, and the Cubans but never the Vice President.

April 16, 2007

The largest McDonalds in the world.

Ok, now I have to go see that place.

I could have sworn that God was against Idol worship.

Then again, I didn't go to refrigeration repair school so that I could start calling myself a bishop.

April 25, 2007

Launch.

May 2, 2007

Momergency kit.

Cute.

May 8, 2007

My Grandpa taught me how to pray.

If Fray was around, this would have to be on the cover.

A first-glance approach to the No Asshole Rule.

Quoted in full because the truth dictates nothing less.

Turntable Lab 04.

I don't think anyone can top how cool this store is.

May 9, 2007

It's so important to stay hydrated.

And out of your parents basement.

May 14, 2007

Asshat!

May 16, 2007

Grids.

May 18, 2007

How to give the perfect man hug.

Very important information.

May 20, 2007

A cubicle with a view.

So I take it the one on the left is the union supervisor?

"...the business is service not software."

Ditto goes for the design world.

May 21, 2007

The Cult of Ramsay.

Where's the website badge?

May 22, 2007

David's favorite NPR voices.

Mandalit del Barco p0wnz.

May 25, 2007

Ponte Vecchio.

May 28, 2007

"You know what they say about dark and stormy nights..."

Wherein Bronwyn alters a tale.

That's one slick laptop.

Too bad it will require Winblows Vista.

Recaptcha.

Digitize books while you validate that form.

The Vader Project.

A wonderful exhibition.

May 31, 2007

We all need headlines!

Oh, and short-shorts, we need those too.

The Story of Pixar Animation Studios.

I hope the book is better than the cover typography.

Dave, here's a workspace for you.

Looks like something out of Blade Runner.

Gapers Block celebrates four years.

You've come a long way baby.

The courtyard at Sultanahmet Camii.

June 4, 2007

Badonkadonk Land Cruiser.

Ethan just bought one of these chick magnets.

On the way to Yellowstone.

June 5, 2007

Rigadoon.

A tale of oil platforms and vacation.

June 7, 2007

State Street.

Letting go.

Shedding the material world always feels good.

Growing up.

Wow.

June 12, 2007

The Traveling Wilburys remastered!

I only wish we had more to listen to.

June 13, 2007

Powerlines.

June 14, 2007

Replicate.

An open-source (?) food project.

June 15, 2007

Enjoy is coming.

According to the NDA that's all I can say for now.

June 18, 2007

Camp Naked Terror 6.

Jason, you look good in daredevil. Wear it often.

Rue de Dunkerque.

June 22, 2007

222/158/42.

Congratulations Brian. I'm sure everyone will miss you, dearly.

June 29, 2007

Four hours on a hot Sunday afternoon in the OC.

Joost rolls hard—OC style.

July 2, 2007

Kwik-E-Mart.

Check the hot dogs for flies!

July 6, 2007

Ollie Kottke.

Congratulations Jason and Meg!