January 2012
2 posts
December 2011
1 post
November 2011
3 posts
Ah, Red Saturday. The day when we all put leftover Thanksgiving cranberries on our breakfast cereal.
October 2011
5 posts
If Nick Punto isn’t in the lineup, does he still get to come out for meetings on the mound?
Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of... →
The announcement that Nexus One users won’t be getting upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich led some to justifiably question Google’s support of their devices. I look at it a little…
Richard Stallman speaker visit →
September 2010
1 post
Racial justice for the Minnesota Twins: The... →
Ugh.
July 2010
2 posts
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning →
Fascinating (but, for a parent, scary): The Instinctive Drowning Response — so named by Francesco A. Pia, Ph.D. — is what people do to avoid actual or perceived suffocation in the water. And it…
First day in my new cube. I could get used to this… http://yfrog.com/jbk8zyj
June 2010
2 posts
Bitter Brewer, baseball (not pictured: Betsey, blizzard). http://yfrog.com/28jp0j
Just in case anyone is curious, The Killer Angels is still amazing.
May 2010
4 posts
I’m now Website Architect/User Experience Analyst for the UMN Libraries. Rolls right off the tongue, I know, but I’m pretty excited.
If the woman on this train talking loudly about Schoolly D is any indication, I must be in Philly.
Alert the smug: I’m pretty sure that deleting your Facebook profile is the new “I don’t own a TV.”
The suite life of Betsey and Cody: http://yfrog.com/6xorblj
April 2010
2 posts
Twitter / Sasha Frere-Jones →
Lady with curly grey hair, talking loudly on phone and windmilling free arm: “It’s called a CIPHER. They get into a half-circle and RAP.”
Albino deaf girl, just let my fat jowly mouth slam... →
March 2010
9 posts
Enter Sandman →
#609; In which Natalie finds the Fallacy →
Your cat breaks into the kitchen cabinets to eat cookies, too, right?
What A Wonderful World →
Treme →
Shared by Cody
Dammit, David Simon. Are you going to make me get HBO again?
Can the FCC repo call letters if you’re using them wrong? See my childhood top 40 station, WLOL: http://j.mp/cYbynI
#601; The Discovery that Changed the World →
First Look: How Penguin Will Reinvent Books With... →
So for the time being at least we’ll be creating a lot of our content as applications, for sale on app stores and HTML, rather than in ebooks. The definition of the book itself is up for grabs.
What’s three days long, unpaid, and rhymes with Pawlenty? Furloughs!
February 2010
5 posts
Sometimes I worry Facebook knows too much about me. Then it serves up an ad next to my profile that reads, “Considering Seminary?”
Mama Said Knock You Out →
Prince Rehearsal Videos from 1984... →
First batch of homebrew in over ten years. Pleased to say it’s solidly drinkable. http://twitpic.com/12bjez
The Castrating Woman: Rising from the Unconscious... →
So the Superbowl provided us with the hypertrophied virility of the actual competitors, the symbolic virility of the technical designers, team owners and advertising execs, the castrated fellows…
September 2009
5 posts
Paul Wall shoots an entire music video on an... →
Empirical User Experience Design Through Action... →
I haven’t fully fleshed out this idea, but I wanted to write about it and see if there was anyone else who had done something similar already. What I’m talking about is a numeric way of measuring…
Just audiophile talk →
Just audiophile talk
Chrome Plated Jackboots →
What are the political threats of the 21st century going to be? Politics changes over time, so it’s fair to say they’re going to be different from those of the past. However, history has a habit of…
Cultural Influences →
One of those moments in a back-alleys of Lhasa - straight up breakdancing with the 8 - 12 year old crowd. Their parents will have been watching Bollywood and Nepali pop videos, they’ve…
August 2009
4 posts
Why Kids Hate Twitter →
My kids think Twitter’s bullshit.
Sony announces Reader Daily Edition, free library... →
It flew under the radar until a quiet leak this morning, but Sony’s just announced the Reader Daily Edition, as well as updated Mac-compatible eBook Library 3.0 software and a new…
Nike P-Rods, and Falling for the Okey-doke →
Big Boi Meets a Penguin →
July 2009
4 posts
Bump Not Sage: Saving 4Chan →
AP News Registry →
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Huh?
Daring Fireball: Charging for Access to News Sites →
Upton Sinclair’s adage comes to mind: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
Not an Upgrade — an Upheaval →
The transition here is like the spread of the ability to drive, from paid chauffeurs to the whole population. We still pay people to drive, from buses to race cars, and there are more paid drivers…
June 2009
3 posts
Karroubi's Unlucky 7's? →