February 13th, 2009 by Daniel Hey sweet-cheeks,
I know we haven’t seen each other much lately. It’s just all this darn work. You know how Teodor has me working nights down at the coal plant. I can’t even describe to you all the nightmarish conditions, and you don’t want to hear. I’m sure you know, but we don’t even have second-lunch [...]
February 11th, 2009 by Daniel Panic is a Mac development company that produces some great work. If you’ve been designing with a Mac (or without a Mac, maybe) for any length of time you know of them.
This is their Founder’s Room. When I tell my wife that I want my next house to have a secret passageway to a hidden [...]
February 11th, 2009 by Daniel Great googly moogly, I get so fed up trying to find owner’s manuals when I really need them. I mean, honestly, if I kept the owner’s manual for every gadget I buy, I’d probably have to, like, file them away. It probably wouldn’t take too much space, thinking about it. Just a small filing cabnet [...]
February 11th, 2009 by Daniel Just started listening to a new band called God Is An Astronaut. For anyone waiting for a great band to go next to their Explosions In The Sky discography on the shelf, this is your band. You can listen to selected songs from a couple of their albums on their MySpace page, if you’re willing [...]
February 11th, 2009 by Daniel Stamp prices are expected to rise again on May 11. It’s been hard to keep up with the litany of stamp price increases lately, which is why the post office offers the Forever Stamps that will always cover the postage for first class letters. Forever Stamps cost the same as first class stamps online at $8.40 [...]
February 11th, 2009 by Daniel Being an astute reader, I’m sure you are wondering what exactly a 1967 Dodge Viper is. The Viper was not produced until the 1990’s, but a very clever designer named Rafael Reston has imagined what might have been. This is his vision of an alternate past:
I absolutely love this project from a design standpoint. He has [...]
February 10th, 2009 by Daniel Steve Martin has hosted SNL what, twenty times now or something. As they say, with experience comes comedy. Don’t question it.
SNL with Steve Martin via Hulu.com (again).
February 9th, 2009 by Daniel A while back I installed the “Ding!” application from Southwest Airlines. Today, I am uninstalling that application.
While the application does have some upsides, they are not the upsides you want. The app is unobtrusive. This is good for most applications from a simplicity standpoint, but it’s not great to have your users think “at least [...]
February 9th, 2009 by Daniel Chris Noessel has written an article entitled One Free Interaction which neatly chronicles a new pattern for designers. As users become bored, the mental noise in their head can sometimes translate into a interactive noise. As Chris describes it:
“One free interaction” is a prospective design pattern that gives software and hardware a more humane feel. [...]
February 9th, 2009 by Daniel Amazon has announced the successor to their eBook industry-starting Kindle, the aptly named Kindle 2. As far as crafting an update to a wildly popular product goes, Amazon has done very well here. They have kept the obvious successful features (wireless book downloads, slim form factor, decent screen), and added just a few new features [...]
February 9th, 2009 by Daniel Technology moves quick, and Apple is not one to let their customers hang on to old products for too long. There are far too many cool, shiny toys to buy, so letting you sit on old and boring, but functional, laptops would be negligent.
To that end Apple has announced that, along with a number of [...]
February 5th, 2009 by Daniel Cory Doctorow, who is currently not an evil villain, gave a speech a few years back at Microsoft about the effects of DRM (DRM being the technology that prevents you from copying things you own on your computer). His presentation is one side of the argument around copyright protection, given in a very well spoken, [...]
February 4th, 2009 by Daniel Stella is an absolutely out-there, gut bustingly funny show based on an established night club routine thought up by three guys. It is the height of random or abstract humor. Every critic I know of spoke very highly of this group of guys. They only made one season.
You can watch it on Hulu here. [...]
February 3rd, 2009 by Daniel Google Earth version 5.0 was released today for across all end-user operating systems. What is most striking to me is the fact that in just a few short years, this app has gone from being the most remarkable program running on my machine to an interesting note in the history of maps applications.
Today I [...]
