Archive for the 'arts and letters' Category

LIFE on Google

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

I read a while ago that the LIFE photography archive was on Google, but I didn’t really think about it until I stumbled across it while checking out the new version of CoolIris, which I’ve mentioned before.
On a whim, I tried looking for the famous cover photo of the LIFE article on the Lindy Hop.

In [...]

Heavenly bound, earthly good

Monday, November 17th, 2008

Quote from the comments on an article on pro-Gay backlash on Proposition 8:
“Some people are so heavenly bound, they’re no earthly good.”
Quotes on Sanctimony.

Poladroid

Friday, November 14th, 2008

On Josh Spear’s suggestion, I decided to try out Poladroid. In a nutshell, it turns your digital images into crappy Polaroids.

A photo I took last night of Hubert of übergizmo and Brian of Gizmodo at the uber10 party

At first I thought, What’s the big deal? John already has a polaroid framer and the uber-insane Hockneyizer. [...]

Challenges and Choices (Making Frameworks Suck Less Part 2)

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

As promised, as the election is over, I will get back to blogging non-political things.
And hey, I haven’t posted a continuation of my web frameworks presentation yet!
Good thing too because, if you don’t know, I’m giving a talk on that tonight at CBS Interactive (CNET) in San Francisco. Come see it or watch online at [...]

Elane Photography

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

A friend of mine, a colleague and excellent photographer who happens to be a defense-of-marriage person posted a status update that erupted into a firestorm of comments on Facebook. His claim was that people like me are “intolerant” of his beliefs.
To those people, I might say disagreement is not intolerance. I’m not asking you to [...]

Voting in America

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

California is the swingiest of swing states. In recent memory, two Republican presidents were governors here. Now it is bluer than the balls of all those fratboys voting for Sarah Palin. Even though the Presidential election in this state is a foreground conclusion, you still get a lot of mail

Election mailers
North Beach, San Francisco, California
Nikon [...]

To that seven-year old Muslim-American kid

Monday, October 20th, 2008

I’m also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say. And it is permitted to be said such things as, “Well, you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim.” Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim, he’s a Christian. He’s always been a Christian. [...]

Revisiting Saddleback

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

I haven’t watched any the presidential debates because I sort of like my LCD television set and don’t want to damage it just yet by throwing things at it. Plus, other people do a more amusing analysis by counting tongue juts and generating word clouds.
This explains why I’m furiously googling what the hell a “Joe-the-Plumber” [...]

Presentation-Fu (Making Frameworks Suck Less Part 1)

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

People ask me all the time how I make such awesome conference talks, so I decided to give you the gory step-by-step. Along the way I’ll even include my top-sekret speaker notes which I never share! It’ll give you an idea of the intense mental preparation it takes to be a top conference speaker in [...]

I CAN HAS BOOKZ?

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

I got a mysterious package and opened it. No, it wasn’t a unabomb, but some megalulz instead:

I Can Haz Cheezburger?:A LOLcat Colleckshun will be released October 7, but I got a copy in the mail today.

The book is from lulzftw, and is a best-of collection of lolcats—slightly disappointed that there are no lolgeeks.
Mai [...]