Category Archives: Blog

Google Fonts vs. FontSquirrel

I use Font Squirrel for this site. Their selection is incredible (and I don’t like anyone hosting my font files but myself). Though you’ve got to admit one thing: if google is in it, then they’re in it to win it. So their service will only get better over time. And this means the good…

Sol y Olas

My cousin in Raxó, Spain (Galicia) runs a hut on Sinas beach. In Spain these huts are called Chiringuitos and they sell water, beer and snacks. Every week during the summer he does a churrasco which draws a decent crowd. This year, in an attempt to bring a little brand-recognition to his venture, he asked…

More TV News Should Be Like This

If you’re not watching Fareed Zakaria’s program on CNN (or on Podcast :), you’re missing out on what we all lament news programs should be like when we watch The Daily Show rip apart the bobble-heads and noise-chambers of Fox and MSNBC.

Great Read

Fantastic essay by Steven Johnson on the value of keeping text/information linkable:
Ecologists talk about the “productivity” of an ecosystem, which is a measure of how effectively the ecosystem converts the energy and nutrients coming into the system into biological growth. A productive ecosystem, like a rainforest, sustains more life per unit of energy than an…

More Screens, More Fun (Part Deux)

This one Combustion will love:
The first phone-to-pad arcade game is here! If you own both an iPad and an iPhone, get Pad Racer now.
With Pad Racer, your iPhone becomes a game controller. The iPad lays flat on your kitchen table. Overhead racing

The Machines Just Took Over

Great Update from Robert Reich:
Regardless of why it happened, it’s further evidence that the nation’s and the world’s capital markets have become a vast out-of-control casino in which fortunes can be made or lost in an instant — which would be fine except for the fact that most of us have put our life savings…

Can’t Hardly Wait

eBoy FixPix [iPhone] – Preview from CreativeApplications.Net on Vimeo.

More Experiments With My Drawing Tool

I spent some time last night tweaking my drawing toy. I still need to work on adding a script to isolate areas of the composition to add definition to. So that I can get areas with more abstract lines and areas with more detail. But in general I’m happy with where it’s going.
The original:

Antique Futurevisions

Saw this on Engadget and had to post… If your robotic supercop needs to load a “config.sys” file of any kind, run for the hills!
I love seeing old computer interfaces-of-the-future. In fact, Brandon and I had this idea somewhere between Colorado and St. Louis back in 2004: a compendium of past futuristic computer interfaces with…

Digging in the Crates

This has gotten a lot of attention lately, but I think it’s worth a re-post. So sexy.

Digging in the Crates from WE AIN’T PLASTIC on Vimeo.