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• little red riding hood

  The story animated and reimagined with infographics. It’s a design blog hit that I’m just getting around to posting.
  Slagsmålsklubben – Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo.

  21 Apr 2009 Nerdery & Sundry, Technology, design; 2 comments. permalink   

• mmm. . . irony

  Do you like irony? Think the AP are being douche-barrels deserving to fall into oblivion with the rest of the modern newspaper industry? Then you’ll love the Obama poster kerfuffle!

  The Associated Press are trying to sue LA artist Shepard Fairey for his use of an AP photo to create his vaguely cultish (and [...]

  17 Apr 2009 Politics, Technology; no comments. permalink   

• how merlin mann made me feel better about my cynicism

  I work very closely with social media in my job, but I might be one of the most cynical in my organization about its uses and merits. I’ve been working on being less of a jerk about the OMGWEB2.0WTFBBQ bandwagon, but Merlin Mann says it much better than I ever could in his excellent [...]

  30 Mar 2009 Nerdery & Sundry, Technology; no comments. permalink   

• tech stifling we can believe in

  I hate to say I told you so, techhie and dynamist Obamaniacs, but: I told you so.
  President Obama plans to appoint current Federal Trade Commission member Jon Leibowitz to lead the agency, which partially enforces antitrust laws and has taken a recent interest in online advertising.
  . . .
  “Industry needs to do a better job of [...]

  24 Feb 2009 Politics, Technology; no comments. permalink   

• viral marketing on the death star

  [via swissmiss]

  15 Jan 2009 Nerdery & Sundry, Technology; no comments. permalink   

• the power of noodles

  Teaching atomic properties and powers of two via pasta-making.

  Science is delicious! (via Kottke)

  07 Oct 2008 & Cetera, Technology; no comments. permalink   

• thread topic flowchart for september 2008

  In a nutshell, why I dislike this election cycle.
  (via Jeremy H)

  22 Sep 2008 Politics, Technology; no comments. permalink   

• on computer literacy and the presidency

  You may have heard about the latest “McCain’s so old…” joke: McCain’s so old, he doesn’t even know how to send email! Well, it turns out the Oval Office doesn’t even have a computer, for starters. As for the last two presidents to serve during the era of email, Washington Wire has a [...]

  16 Sep 2008 Politics, Technology; no comments. permalink   

• t. boone pickpocket

  Gee, why would an oilman like T. Boone Pickens, who owns one of the largest natural gas refueling networks in the country, be spending so much of his money to start a dialogue on renewable energy–particularly wind? Out of the goodness of his heart, right? Let’s ask an energy industry expert:
  Wind turbines generate [...]

  11 Sep 2008 Economics, Politics, Technology; 4 comments. permalink   

• how to report a bug

  Steven Frank has an excellent post on reporting software bugs in OSX applications. I’ll take this one step further: several of those steps are good advice when seeking support for any application. He addresses one of my pet peeves well into the post:
  Include the entire text of error messages

  Be sure to tell the [...]

  07 Sep 2008 Technology; no comments. permalink