Turning to more cycling-focused things for Fall.
Feb 29 2008
Possibly my favourite two photos from this past SF Trip, for very different reasons. On the left, Adam Alpern Kogswell and on the right, Catano’s roommate has a media room that has a horror corner.
More photos from San Francisco on Flickr. Day Two (start here) and move right.
Feb 27 2008
When Yahoo! Pipes launched in early 2007, I didn’t quite understand what it was right off the bat. A bit more investigation and seeing examples helped me with that but I didn’t think about building anything until late last year. I had come across something (I forget what) and someone had mentioned that they wished they had a feed for some of my combined output.
I went back to Pipes and played around with it some. It’s remarkably simple to use especially if you’re a visual person. It takes XML/RSS feeds and puts them together or creates mash-ups of data, which is actually a lot of fun. I don’t see it being used as often enough perhaps but now that I’ve played with it, I wish it were.
Feb 25 2008
Judah holds court, undoubtedly telling tales of NAHBS the weekend before. More from SF: Day One.
The Girl and I took a break from the classic winter we’ve been having in Chicago by deciding to hop on a flight to San Francisco from Feb. 14th- 18th for some friend-visiting, bike-riding and general-relaxin’.
SF is like a second home to us. We have as many friends there as we do here and it’s a nice feeling to have. It also makes for a pretty hectic time of trying to see as many people as possible yet at the same time, having time for ourselves. We quickly learned that we needed to step back and slow down the last two days we were there and we did. Photos tell a better tale so I’ll leave it at that. More to come.
Feb 25 2008
When Andrew heard and subsequently saw me working on this site, he asked “Why?” A good question indeed. Why another site when I have a few as it is? I tend to shuffle things around to some degree. Part of it is pure fancy and desire and another part of it has to be a search for some kind of balance. Also, holding onto domains, blurs the line between what I do with them and what I want to do with them.
Feb 24 2008
There’s a growing feeling that I’ve had and shared with my peers in numerous conversations lately. It’s a desire to see another dot-com bust of sorts. A mini-bust if you will. I don’t mean this with any menace — rather, a desire to see the fat get trimmed, the cruft erased and for there to be more of a lean and mean Internet.
The fact is, my friends, there’s gluttony going around.
It’s funny how this in-depth interview is very much in line with how I’ve transitioned from riding track bikes to racing and riding other kinds of bikes.
Ty Lettau is photodocumenting Pantone™ colour chips to objects, surfaces, whatever.
America is f@#ked. Brethren Aaron James Draplin in his own words. Amen, brutha.
From our good friends at the Busy Beaver Button Co.
Restrained in a good way. No gaudy CRIBS type excess, unless you consider his high taste and mix of pop and couture excess.
1, 2, 3, 4.
Lovely work, in black and white and grey.
The redesign of Mozilla Labs that I did recently is now up and running.
Andrew and I were interviewed for an article about Twitter recently. It’s now live on the Chicago Tribune website. I sound like a buzzkill at the end. In a good way, to me, anyway.
“Talking about sports using war analogies – athletes are not ‘warriors’ and the court is not a ‘battle zone.’ and “Drinking light beer. There is nothing good about light beer, especially when it’s called ‘lite.’ Our taste buds are one thing – why do you have to assault the English language as well?”