Nemesis vs. archenemy, music videos, iPhone, Corvallis
A friend told me about this article (from April 1, 2004) the other day. I like it: “The Importance of Being Hated” by Chuck Klosterman. “In this golden age of enmity, friends are for suckers. What you need are a pair of well-chosen foes.” Now I can tell my nemesis from my archenemy. Excellent. Also: […]
Photography, fruits and vegetables, technology
Photography I’ve browsed through a number of non-Flickr sites lately that have provided excellent inspiration for my own photography projects. Here are some: Scott Wade’s Dirty Car Art Gallery “Rubik’s Cube Sandwich,” which I plan to make someday (but with different, more colorful fruit and vegetable ingredients) James D. Griffioen‘s photo sets, including Feral Houses […]
Web development, technology and the End Times
Web development Here are some useful articles and handy resources for web developers: “Create your own private Twitter site using WordPress“ “Automate Your Home Using ioBridge and Twitter“ jQuery Week Calendar, inspired by Google Calendar “List of Really Useful Tools for CSS Developers“ “HTML 4 Considered Harmful“ URI/URL escaping chart Social media This is interesting: […]
Da Vinci Days, movies and ice cream
I attended da Vinci Days in Corvallis on Saturday, which was the second day of the annual festival celebrating art, science, and technology. It was pretty fun. I posted some photos to Flickr and tweeted a bit. We spent most of Saturday afternoon in Darkside Cinema at the da Vinci Film Festival encore. I loved […]
Cats, technology, webcomics and art
Instead of writing about this weekend’s da Vinci Days, here are a bunch of categorized links. Cats and bats I, for one, welcome our feline overlords: “Cats ‘exploit’ humans by purring” and “Cats Do Control Humans, Study Finds.” So, I guess we should work harder to exploit cats for our amusement (catsploitation?), like the Moscow […]
Movies, Microsoft, music videos, Nietzsche, art
It is time, once again, for another blog post where I loosely sort two weeks worth of random pop culture links. Movies I still want to see Moon. The Daybreakers trailer looks interesting too (it’s good to see Ethan Hawke in a sci-fi film again). I wonder when The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus will be […]
Sasquatch! Music Festival, logos and photography
After the WebVisions conference last week, I headed north into Washington for the Sasquatch! Music Festival. Here are the bands I saw at Sasquatch! on Saturday, May 23: Blind Pilot, Doves, M. Ward, DeVotchKa, Animal Collective, The Decemberists, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Crystal Castles. I also caught the last couple of songs from the sets […]
Map projection, technology, street art, Auto-Tune
As has become the norm with this blog, here are about nine days worth of links I’ve stored up. Cartography and fonts These are very cool maps: Here & There: a horizonless projection in Manhattan. Also see the following blog post for some map inspiration: Here & There influences. Font Fight is all-out typeface-off. It’s […]
Swine flu apocalypse, WTF and sparkly unicorns
As we all ponder the swine flu apocalypse, here are two Google Maps of international swine flu cases that I found helpful: NPR’s Confirmed Cases Of Swine Flu Across The Globe and H1N1 Swine Flu. There hasn’t been a case confirmed in Oregon, yet. Now, to counter the influenza epidemic/pandemic panic, below are eight days […]
Tweeting cat door, social apps, college basketball
I thought this was very cool: “Twitter-Enabled Cat Door Tweets a Kitty’s Comings and Goings.” The cats have RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags on their collars. A connected laptop automatically tweets each time the RFID door is activated. You can follow Gus and Penny (the cats) on Twitter. Coincidentally, the clever guy who set this […]