- Ochocinco kicks against the Pats…awesome! http://bit.ly/3zooN7 #
- If libraries can lend ebooks, why can't we? #
- Looking forward to the Tenth Inning on PBS next year: http://bit.ly/mV30W #
- Atul Gawande profiel in the Harvard magazine…holla! http://bit.ly/wdQa3 #
- Better yet, get the PDF version: http://bit.ly/3hTUMu #
8/28/2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-28
8/21/2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-21
- Just gave my board presentation using Air Mouse on iPhone as a PowerPoint remote. Wish it didn't drain my battery so fast! #
- Saw a whale on my way to the meeting yesterday. #
- Sandwich showdown: Mike & Patty's vs. Darwin's. #
- RT @norton_fiction: RT @elliottholt "Don't trust anyone who doesn't own books." #
- Was at Darwin's and sold a woman on "Camus, a Romance" from @groveatlantic after she asked what I was reading. Didn't even have the jacket. #
- Boo to @museumofscience for not admitting AAM members but stealing the AAM's code of ethics–this merits a letter. #
- Lots of drivers at the airport with signs that say "Connect." Wonder what that means. 😉 @joshto #
8/14/2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-14
- Multi-page online articles inflate pageview numbers at the expense of user experience. @NYTimes, etc., allow us to default to single-page! #
- "People who say that all this content wants to be free aren’t paying talented people to create it." http://bit.ly/2GAKdP #
- Are there any good tech blogs that aren't rabidly pro-technology, if that makes sense? #
- I don't have a problem with this: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/fashion/09blogfree.html #
- Obama's reading list: Joseph O'Neill, Dave Eggers and Jeff Sachs http://bit.ly/kui68 (via @melvillehouse) #
- Ginevra King's–the inspiration for Daisy–Chicago home was for sale. Who bought it? http://bit.ly/lTuMk #
- "…the loss of identification so profound as to be constitutive of one's self…." http://bit.ly/2wjiOi #
- Edmund Wilson responds to requests: http://www.henryfarrell.net/scialabba/wilson.jpg #
- ePub? Yuck! http://bit.ly/2Bj49U Can someone explain to me why we can't get books in PDF with embedded fonts? #
- Lots of new sections just appeared in my NYTimes iPhone app, including "Pro Basketball" and "Start-Ups." What is up with that? #
- The cover for Commencement looks so much like the one for Demonology. #
8/11/2009
8/10/2009
The price of a logo
I had a few logos made for projects over the past four years. Fortunately, I’ve been able to work with friends on many of them. However, I continue to encounter the misconceptions that logos should be cheap, say a couple hundred bucks, or involve a lot of constant feedback from the client to the designer on all possible designs. Here’s why neither is true.
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8/9/2009
Learning Adobe Illustrator
I like to learn how to use software by finding things online that I want to make and then figuring out how to make them. Currently I’m learning Adobe Illustrator with the help of Smashing’s 50 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Video Tutorials.
8/7/2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-07
- The book vs. the Kindle on video from my favorite SF bookstore: http://thegreenapplecore.blogspot.com #
- Which publishers sell ebooks in PDF? #
- Listening to the new Radiohead song: http://rickyopaterny.com/shorturl/rhns #
- What is up with @alleyinsider's endless hatchet jobs on newspapers? It's like an engineer mounting a campaign against ice cream. #
- Pixel is such an addictive Flash game: http://www.kongregate.com/games/agame/pixel #
- Listening to Vin Scully call the Dodgers game, about to go running. #
- How awesome is this pancake machine? http://www.chefstack.com #
8/5/2009
Listen to new Radiohead song, “Harry Patch (In Memory of)”
Radiohead has a new song, “Harry Patch (In Memory of),” which Thom Yorke wrote after seeing an interview with Patch, who was the longest living World War I veteran. You can buy the song or listen to the song on the BBC’s site here. (more…)
Artists’ Moleskines
Check out a bunch of artists’ Moleskine journals that are part of the Detour exhibits on this Flickr Photostream.