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Seeing Walrus
--In 1969 a 14 year old Jerry Levitan interviewed John Lennon in his hotel room. This year Levitan released an animated short film that uses the inte...
Conservative Call for Peace
--Andrew Sullivan today posted a conservative call for peace that speaks calmly and cogently about the horror of the last six years and the need for ...
Community Code
--Yesterday the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a key provision of “copyleft” licenses (PDF) by reversing a...
Community Photos
--The photosynth crew keeps innovating, their latest video is a hint of things to come in photo tourism and virtual earth applications. What I find ...
Reality Blurs
--The Olympics are theater on a massive scale. The opening ceremony was full of stunning effects (I loved, for example, the use of the stadium scrim ...
Starry Night
--I once made a version of this painting out of little bits of my roommate’s “Sports Illustrated”. Denis has that one. Here is a ne...
ObamaTV
--TechPresident points to a nice blog post by Nancy Scola about Obama’s use of video. Nancy liveblogs an event with Obama’s director of v...
Scrabbeling
--One of my favorite things about Facebook has been the chance to play Scrabulous with friends near and far. I’ve never been a fan of Scrabble,...
Lies from your laptop
--I keep trying to convince Alex that it is not worth paying too much attention to his battery meter. Maybe this article will help? Oh well, I guess ...
FFR: Google Calendar Syncing
--Google announces that it can now sync with Apple’s iCal, without any third party software. I’ll have to look into this more closely and...
Jimmy Carter
--My favorite president, partly because of his focus on peacemaking, partly because he listens well, partly because he had the courage to call Americ...
The case of the dancing baby vs. Universal
--Last year Universal sent a “takedown notice” to YouTube claiming that this video infringed on its copyright. (The video is back on You...
Online journal citations in sciences
--James Evans reports in Science magazine that electronic access to the science literature may be speeding consensus yet narrowing the range of ideas...
FFR: Kid wash
--OK, this looks like fun!
Eternal dance
--Earth and moon, dancing as we swing around the sun. This video, brought to my attention by Discover magazine, shows the moon orbiting the earth. I...
Counting to 4
--Brilliant Sesame Street, with Feist… …and the original, in case you missed it. Or actually, this is how I was introduced to Feist!
Fair Use and YouTube
--If you are mashing up some video for YouTube you might want to review Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video, a report just published ...
Personal Democracy Forum
--I tracked the tweets out of the PDF2008 meeting and it looked like a great event. Many of the keynotes (Edwards, Lessing, Zittrain, and more) are u...
Wall-E
--This weekend we made sure to catch the latest beauty from Pixar. Wall-E is wonderful. I highly recommend it. I love the “day at workR...
Knowing ourselves and each other
--How much can we learn about each other on Facebook? It turns out, quite a bit! The findings, in a nutshell, are: People get each other; SNW profi...
Chinglish
--We like to laugh at malformed English around the world, but what if the last laugh is on us? Andrew points to an article at Wired which describes h...
We are the light
--I just looked at a “briefing” by David Plouffe about the state of the Obama campaign, including a plug for more dollars. What caught my...
Every vote counts
--We are used to thinking of presidential elections as strategic chess games. We’ve all become used to the electoral vote calculus, so many vot...
And continues…
--The continuing rollout of a more conservative Obama… now noting that he opposes the death penalty ruling of the Supreme Court yesterday: I ha...
Happy birthday to…
--Did you know birthday parties were not common until the 1830s, and even then kids celebrating kids’ birthdays only emerged between 1870 and 1...
Now it starts
--I’ve been saying to Mary for most of this year, “I love Obama and hope we can elect him president. But if we do, the peace community wi...
We can do together…
--I just saw this cute button today…
Ugly bike
--I love MAKE magazine, and lifehacker points to this nifty article on making your bike too ugly to steal. Makes sense to me. Of course, I hardly hav...
FISA again!
--We just can’t seem to keep the Democratic caucus in Congress from buckling again and again. The one bright spot in their record was their suc...
Firefox Typography
--Firefox 3 has some nice web typography features. Unfortunately, it seems to get as much wrong as right. Still, a new prominence of type on the web ...
DestroyToday
--Jonnie Hallman has created a site that is interesting on a number of levels. First, I love the domain name and the reveling in “seize the day...
All because…
--…the gays are getting married! Bravo, California!
Beyond JavaScript
--Take note, the world of web is shifting. In a fascinating “strategy letter” written last year, Joel Spolsky presented the past and futu...
20%
--Is Google’s 20% policy drying up?
Father’s Day
--I had a wonderful Fathers’ Day weekend with Alex and Nathaniel. Yesterday we took a great seven mile walk around the neighborhood, reminding ...
FFR: Beautiful cloud
--Wordle.net looks like a place to go for some fine word cloud action.
Grafitti that can’t get you in trouble
--How about drawing in clean on dirt?
I’m voting Republican
--Because…
Scrolling with Collage
--Over the past couple weeks I’ve given a brief presentation about the MDL a couple times. I’m tired of slides and wanted to try somethin...
What may be
--Regular readers will know that I have high hopes for what Obama may do with the kind of organization he is building once he gets to the White House...
Now we don’t have a choice
--I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to work on a few campaigns, and I’ve loved them. The tone of this video is so intimate and so au...
How groups voted
--Amanda Cox does some great work at the NYT, and this latest visualization of how people voted during the Democratic primary is a wonderful example....
This is our moment
--I was feeling a bit tired this evening. Maybe we really didn’t have to go down to the Xcel center. We could watch on tv. But I asked Nathanie...
FFR: Sticker Shields
--Make those park permit stickers more removable with Sticker Shields. (We only have one car, so no intent to use one sticker for multiple vehicles, ...
FFR: Stylish
--I just learned about the nifty Firefox plugin called Stylish that lets you assign alternate styles to web pages and even to the Firefox browser int...
Once upon a home
--For a few years I and my family had the privilege of living in a wonderful house in Ohio. Mary and I lived in the carriage house and were married w...
Unconcerned simplicity
--The folks at 37signals point to an interesting lesson from the building of physical objects. How does this relate to the building of code or the bu...
Innocents
--What will it take to stop this war? Have we killed enough of their innocents? Have we ruined enough of our own? Iraq War vet Jon Michael Turner tel...
Ignoring intelligence
--I’ve long argued that there was nothing seriously wrong with our national intelligence services leading up to the war with Iraq. My view is t...
Boots on the door
--Does this scare you as much as it does me? Government lawyers told federal judges that the president can send the military into any U.S. neighborho...
SecondWashington
--Last week I asked: “If this social network he is building can attract cash to a campaign, just imagine how effectively it can attract talent ...
Um, Perl anyone?
--Haven’t these people ever heard of Perl or other programming languages that could easily process large reports? I guess it is good news that ...
Dissolving plastic
--Daniel Burd, a high school student in Canada, comes up with a way to biodegrade plastic bags in just months. I wonder what “a bit of carbon d...
Welcome to the frozen north
--Of Mars, that is. Pheonix made a safe landing and the pictures started rolling in. I really love that NASA TV is now streamed on the web. Bravo to ...
Storm warning
--We were lucky today. A storm barreled through Minnesota and narrowly missed St. Paul. About 15 miles to the north a two-year-old was killed in Hugo...
Thinking big
--How about the world for a canvas and a GPS tracker for a pen? Erik Nordenankar thought up this extraordinary idea. Hard to believe? Watch the movie...
FFR: Ajax demos
--AjaxDaddy might be a place to go learn some Web2.0 tricks someday.
FFR: Gas temperature
--This little map could get more and more interesting as the coming decade wears on. I can easily imagine gas prices over $10/gallon within five year...
The power of not knowing
--It is always hard to say “I don’t know.” Some of my most difficult supervisory challenges have come from supervising staff who ca...
So there is a term for it…
--…structured procrastination (hat tip to AndrewS). I have been intending to write this essay for months. Why am I finally doing it? Because I ...
Proud Alex
--Wow, today was a big day for Alex. He was confirmed in the Roman Catholic church today. This is something that he decided on his own was important ...
FFR: Mac battery charger
--Just in case I’m ever looking for an external battery charger, this one looks simple and effective.
Why don’t Democrats stop the war?
--This week I got this question from an acquaintance: “The Democrats are refusing to stop the war. Do you understand that??????” Its a va...
Hanging by a thread
--Nice puppeteering!
Bowling for dollars, and much much more
--Joshua Green writes an insightful article about “The Amazing Money Machine” that Obama has built. Two pillars: first, Obama recognized ...
In which I rant
--I got a posting that included this bit from a friend of the family responding to this op-ed this morning: Nicely written article but it does not a...
Couch potatoes
--Here’s a blog entry for my son Nathaniel!
FFR: FontStruct
--This looks like fun!
The Power(house) of Flickr
--Lorcan has a useful post about the Powerhouse Museum experience with Flickr Commons to date. Seb Chan there writes that their 400 images have been ...
Processing.js
--OK, this is big. I’ve mentioned Processing a few times in the past weeks. It’s pretty cool, I just wish I had a reason to use it. Well,...
The Force be with you
--This made me smile…
Perfect is the enemy of innovation
--A brief, but very nice interview with Brad Bird at Gigaom last month. Among many bits of wisdom: “there are some [things] that only need to b...
Playing with Feautor
--We are still working on the Feautor site that Mary brought into being during her sabbatical. It is coming along nicely. It even offers video embedd...
Rushing to support Hillary
--Way back at the beginning of this primary season my mom kept telling me that the only reason Obama was able to raise money was that Republicans wer...
Cognitive surplus
--Mary just handed me Here Comes Everybody and I hope I get a chance to read it soon. Meanwhile, in this video Clay Shirky discusses where we all get...
FFR: To Do
--Remember the Milk looks like it keeps growing into a pretty reasonable to do list manager.
FFR: Time lapse Mac
--Try Gawker. And for the opposite, try FrameByFrame. Or for both, if you don’t mind paying: iStopMotion.
FFR: Free Faxing
--The drop.io service now offers free faxing. Could be useful.
Welcome Schnelly
--Nathaniel welcomed a new pet to the family today. Say hello to Schnelly the leopard gecko. He is pretty frisky for a seven month old!
Mr. Fish on Wright
--The things that make me laugh also make me realize I lie far outside the mainstream. Sigh.
See Ben Fry
--Ben helped create the Processing programming language. This nice talk at the See Conference is worth watching for the amazing work Ben does with da...
Anyone for Scrabble?
--Are you my friend? Confirm or ignore. Yes, Facebook can definitely feel this way:
FFR: Sketchnotes
--These sketchnotes by Mike Rohde are great. I was particularly impressed by Good Design Hurts from SXSW. Both the content (Gruber etco.) and the pre...
Evernote
--I’ve begun to play with Evernote, which is a scrapbook webapp that is currently making the rounds in private beta. I like the fact that it ha...
FFR: MHS doing good
--The IMLS project the MHS has undertaken with George Mason is bearing some very nice fruit: Omeka. I have yet to try the software, but I am encourag...
FFR: Youngnow
--This might be a fun project for a family reunion: recreate favorite childhood photos. Ask each person to bring a picture of themselves they love, t...
Ballooning impact
--Here is a clear visual about each of our impact on greenhouse gasses. Pretty effective, I think. (Tip o’hat to information aesthetics).
Ich liebe dich
--Twenty years ago today Mary and I shared our vows with a few hundred friends. This is how we shared those words in 1988. We cherish this opportunit...
Obama’s Appeal
--It is interesting to note that Obama seems to have improved in his appeal to older and white voters since the Ohio election. (All to be consumed wi...
A firm grip
--Ah, sometimes designers can overlook the most obvious things. The Register reports (hat tips to the Daily Dish and the Times) that the Office of Go...
FFR: Capturing web sites
--Every once in a while I want to capture a web site or a portion of one. Today Lifehacker presented a simple solution: wget from GNU. Read below the...
Call me crazy
--I have decided to give a bunch of personal and even some financial information away to internet startups. I know, could be a very bad move. But I l...
Coder in the house
--These tips for dating a coder may hit a little too close to home. Not that I’m a coder. Not really. No. Another post in a similar vein.
Fonts alive
--Wow, this world of Processing is hard to get out of my head. Take a look at these calligraphic experiments.
FFR: Bloxes
--This looks like it might be a cool step up from lego.
FFR: Processing
--Processing might be fun to play with some time. Maybe try this.
The art of document analysis
--Thanks to Peter for a pointer to the Neoformix site. It is full of wonderful experiments in illuminating data, especially written word, though info...
Brushing it off
--Mmmm. I must say, I did not watch the debate last night. I heard one question (lapel pins) and I tired immediately. The after-coverage has made me ...
FFR: Securing a Mac
--Even though this Ars article does not actually recommend the one practice I try to live by (use a non-admin account day-to-day), it looks like it w...
Courage to smile
--I think it sometimes takes courage to approach public policy with a bit of a smile. Will people get the joke or roast you for the offenses? Oregon ...
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