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Pictograms through the Ages
February 26, 2010 – 9:45 pm
A nice NY Times piece about Olympic pictograms
via Gruber
8-bit Dr. Horrible
February 24, 2010 – 11:18 am
I adore Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible Sing Along Blog.
I also adore 8-bit styled games and music. It must be the nostalgia of it.
So when Shaun Inman links to an 8-bit cover of Dr. Horrible songs, I just had to share.
The Lo-Fi Manifesto
February 24, 2010 – 10:21 am
A great read
Too many software programs create “roach motels” for content and information: the data checks in (via File > Import), but it never checks out.
This is inline with my recent thinking. Particularly after using the “at first glance, awesome, but after the demo expires, not so much” Personal Brain.
The Lo-Fi Manifesto.
Fantastic use of negative space
February 22, 2010 – 3:10 pm
Logo Faves | Logo Inspiration Gallery » Blog Archive » Spartan golf club.
LOST Posters « Mattson Creative
February 16, 2010 – 10:14 pm
LOST Posters « Mattson Creative. via Matt Haughey
Satan Responds to Pat Robertson.
January 16, 2010 – 7:07 pm
Dear Pat Robertson,
I know that you know that all press is good press, so I appreciate the shout-out. And you make God look like a big mean bully who kicks people when they are down, so Im all over that action. But when you say that Haiti has made a pact with me, it is [...]
Reading – Why we use cookbooks
January 13, 2010 – 6:45 am
For Esther:
The recipe is a blueprint but also a red herring, a way to do something and a false summing up of a living process that can be handed on only by experience, a knack posing as a knowledge. We say “What’s the recipe?” when we mean “How do you do it?” And though we [...]
Elmo Ricky Gervais Lullaby
January 12, 2010 – 9:38 pm
Elmo Ricky Gervais Lullaby.
Having an Elmo loving child at home, this was a fantastic way to end my day.
Don’t Be A Hero
January 12, 2010 – 9:08 pm
Heroes are damaging to a team because they become a crutch. As soon as you have someone who’s always willing to work at all hours, the motivation from the rest of the team to produce reliable, trouble-free software drops. The hero is a human patch. Sure, you might sit around talking about how reliability is [...]
Good bye Saxo Bank, Hello Sungard
January 12, 2010 – 8:55 pm
Yes, cycling sponsors change all of the time. In recent years, it feels like sponsors are changing very quickly. Blame it on the global economy, blame it on flighty sponsors, but it feels like most “first-name” 1 have been changing every year.
Team Saxo Bank is leaving pro cycling, handing over the reigns to Sungard.
Here is [...]
Best decade ever
January 1, 2010 – 9:54 pm
On the first day of 2010, I woke up thinking about how awesome the previous decade was. It is not often that we can reflect back on an entire decade, but 1999 to 2009 was a significant time for me.
I met my future wife, went to prom, travelled around Europe and Russia, finished high school, [...]
USAjobs.gov: good enough for government work
December 28, 2009 – 9:32 pm
As an employee in the Virginia state government system, my coworkers and I bandy about the phrase “Good enough for government work”, which is essentially a euphemism for how we do not want to work any harder on a project, or that perfection is eluding us. Remember that phrase: “Good enough for government work.”
Every 6 [...]
Mario music subculture
November 30, 2009 – 12:45 pm
After my last post, I was curious what other music has been made with Automatic Mario Lunar Magic or other 16-bit creations. Most of the modded levels are covers of Japanese Pop / Anime songs, but you can get the general gist of how the “song writing” works.
組曲『ニコニコ動画』 グランドフィナーレ 全自動マリオVer
涼宮マリオの激奏 ハレ晴レユカイ 7＋
全自動マリオ「GO MY WAY!! 」
These modded levels are [...]
Don’t Stop Me Now
November 30, 2009 – 10:02 am
Esther and I have a superstition joke that if I die before her and I come back as a ghost or otherworldly element, I would let her know I was around by influencing the music that was on around her.
Since Esther’s Dad passed away, we have experienced several oddly timed renditions of Somewhere Over The [...]
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November 25, 2009 – 10:47 pm
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