This is a terrific essay. I’m constantly looking for results in the tools so it really hits home with me. Kottke was clearing out the year’s best links and that was one of them.
In my never-ending effort to get my money’s worth out of my Netflix account I watched ‘Three Days of the Condor’ after only havng the movie in my house for 2 weeks. I know I let down the Netflix people by not keeping the movie, unwatched, for my customary 3 months but I’m trying to [...]
Every year we, as a family, drive to visit my in-laws in Front Royal, Virginia. It’s up in the Blue Ridge Mountains and I think it’s a beautiful bit of country. There really isn’t a lot up there except trees and farms. I love it. I took a couple of photos that came out well [...]
What a great year for music. So many of my favorite bands put out new albums this year: Oasis, The White Stripes, MF Dooom, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, The Wedding Present, The Warlocks, Queens of the Stone Age, Nine Inch Nails, the New Pornographers, The Kingsbury Manx, Frank Black, Foo Fighters, Doves, The [...]
Check it out, sauerkraut! The kind folks over at the Whiskerino have cooked up this tasty bit of code so you will be able to see me in all of my bearded glory (on a very tiny scale) every time you swing by Safe As Milk. I’m going to add it to the right column [...]
I’m sure you’ve all seen the ‘Lazy Sunday’ video from SNL the other weekend. It’s still pretty funny after a couple dozen viewings. Now there is a host of icon-y goodness courtesy of Ian Meyer.
This is really an amazing little (custom-made) box of art. These are the prints. In person, the deep blacks and blues look so rich it’s hard to believe they’re computer generated. Those IO Labs folks have the process down.
Brad hipped me (and you other regular readers of his) to a 5-song ep that you can download for free over at throwingmusic.com. If you were a fan of Golden Ocean then you’ll like these new (and free!) songs. Be sure you tell your friends about them. More people should be listening to this band.
Airbag Industries is one of my daily stops. There’s usually some good design related news that I don”t see anywhere else and the guy’s sense of personal design is top-notch. He’s whipped up a new desktop wallpaper that is definitely worth checking out. And he’s got all of your monitor dimensions covered for you dual-monitor [...]
I’m not going to beat you guys over the head with the Whiskerino stuff every day (even though there is enough goodness there that I could) but I just had to share this sweet video Mackle put together and posted.