Real good software for real cheap!

panic_saleI shoulda posted this the moment i found it…  Great deals on some great soft­ware.  Trans­mit is the ulti­mate FTP client and one of my fave mac apps (although, truth be told, Expandrive does a lot of what i used to do in Trans­mit, but right […]

Don’t panic: It’s towel day!

towelday_42Towel Day is an annual cel­e­bra­tion on the 25th of May, as a trib­ute to the late author Dou­glas Adams (1952–2001). On that day, fans around the uni­verse proudly carry a towel in his honour.

So grab a towel today because, accord­ing to Mr. Adams, there is […]

In defense of distraction: the yang to your type-A yin

attentionThe irony of a 7-page arti­cle on our col­lec­tive attention-span going down the tubes with our meds and arti­fi­cial sweet­en­ers is not lost on me.  Nev­er­the­less.  I hon­estly and truly read this whole arti­cle, straight through, with­out ever check­ing twit­ter, FB, email, or ran­domly glanc­ing at […]

People that make me jealous: A2/SW/HK

a2_sw_hkI super-enjoyed perus­ing the online port­fo­lio of A2/SW/HK just now!  Despite their name being a bit hard to say/type, their work is phe­nom­e­nal.  Their treat­ment of type is very much in the style of the best Swiss poster design­ers of the 1960’s.  Both engi­neered and effusive.

It’s […]

Hi: A REAL human interface

Who didn’t / doesn’t still think that machines work because of the tiny gnomes inside them?

I love the cre­ativ­ity and paper­craft involved here.

http://www.vimeo.com/4697849

[via Aza Raskin]

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Mac users take note: Disable Java in your browsers

A friendly pub­lic ser­vice announce­ment to the droves of Mac-toting neti­zens out there who browse the webs with an inflated sense of secu­rity:  Your sys­tem is weak.  Whether or not you decided to ignore the warn­ing signs and upgrade to the lat­est OS X 10.5.7 recently, you are all equally sus­cep­ti­ble to an exploit that […]

Temporarily “pause” all Firefox processes

ff-stopIf you browse the web like i browse the web then that means you prob­a­bly have at least a dozen tabs open at any given time, and twice as many add-ons.  Now i <3 the Fire­fox web browser.  Hard!  But my main com­plaint about it is […]

This just keeps getting better: Danger Mouse to release blank CD

dark night of the soulI can’t help but remain opti­mistic and joy­ful when i read sto­ries like this one.  Already released in it’s entirety online (NPR)—boast­ing such col­lab­o­ra­tors as Sparkle­horse, Iggy Pop, mem­bers of The Pix­ies and The Stroke, with appro­pri­ately spooky […]

DIY licensing is the future?

Cory Doc­torow has a thought-provoking piece out there about intel­lec­tual prop­erty rights and the clusterf*ck that is dig­i­tal licensing today.

If you’re run­ning an enlight­ened com­pany, you might have a Cre­ative Com­mons license hang­ing out there for non-commercial, “fannish” uses.…

But some­where between Cre­ative Com­mons and full-blown, lawyerly license nego­ti­a­tion is a rich, untapped source of income for creative […]

A thing i like

iamakey_angleHere is a thing that i like.  It’s a USB drive not much big­ger than a key.  It holds 8GBs!

Why i like this thing:  well, it holds 8GBs!  And it’s not much big­ger than a key.  Also it’s metal enclo­sure is durable and the ter­mi­nals, while exposed […]