Archive for April, 2009

Siberian Wooden Houses

This goes out to all the photographers in my family, the Siberian Wooden Houses project.
Irkutsk, Siberia is a city next to the deepest lake in the world, and it is home to some amazing (I assume) hand-made wooden houses. Vlad, of Vladstudio.com fame, drove around the city documenting the houses as they are falling into [...]

A Music Post

A few rablming thoughts, prepared hastily:
I really love music. There’s something about the tone and emotion of a song that can really affect your reality. Music, to me, is more than just what you hear; you have to agree with what the artist is doing in order to enjoy it.
Put another way, when I’m in [...]

Twitter Hash Tags

Twitter is mainstream now, which is awesome. As more people use it, more ideas of how to use it float around. One idea that has come to prominence is tagging all your tweets by using a specific character for future reference. Just like you might tag a photo “Hawaii” or “Flower” or “Uncle T,” the [...]

Professor Brothers at SXSW

Just ran across the transcript of John Gruber and Merlin Mann’s talk at the SXSW conference. After reading it for just a few minutes I couldn’t help but hear the voices of the Professor Brothers’s Steve and Frank in my head. I’ll let you figure out for youself which is which by reading.
 
John is Steve [...]

More Conflickr Casualties

This time is the coder’s favorite TheDailyWTF. It seems that Conflickr has infected the minds of those running it, and they’ve turned the entire site into a Twitter stream. Now THAT’S the new Web 3.0, baby.
Also, I have to say to the guys running TheDailyWTF congrats on the funding. I’ve always thought of milking the [...]

April Fool’s Day

Gizmodo is infected with the Conflickr worm, which has led to hilarious results.