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14 November 2008

Here's something I didn't plan on finding today: a senior adult church hip-hop choir called Funky Fresh Seniors. They don't seem too engaged at the beginning with Eminem's lyrical work, but they definitely warm up nicely to Nelly at the end.

  • 0:20 - "Loose Yourself", Eminem.
  • 1:15 - "Ridin' Dirty", Chamillionaire.
  • 1:45 - "Hey Ya", Outkast.
  • 3:10 - "Don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me", Pussycat Dolls.
  • 3:40 - "Can't Touch This", MC Hammer.
  • 4:05 - "It's getting hot in here", Nelly.

Bonus: they're available for weddings, private parties, and bar mitzvahs! I only have one question: what church approves of their elders singing "It's getting hot in here, let's take off all our robes"? This is highly disturbing on multiple levels.

12 November 2008

My favorite photo of the day: Eddie Murphy's giant head, traveling down the interstate.

7 November 2008

Interesting article from Edward Champion on Michael Hyatt's recent Book Review Blogger Program, which gives people free books from Thomas Nelson Publishing in exchange for writing a 200+ word review: There's no such thing as a free book. Champion argues that the program is inherently flawed:

While Hyatt's marketing strategy appears to have yielded results, there remains the more troubling question of what this means for the blogosphere. Will Thomas Nelson stop sending books to those who write negative reviews? Will the publisher demand 400-word reviews a few months from now? Will other publishers begin setting more extraordinary terms for hotter titles? And, most importantly, will the blogosphere ever understand that surrendering to marketing forces simply isn't a substitute for journalistic integrity?

Personally, I'm confused about why this is a big deal. Hyatt doesn't require that reviews are positive. Instead, he says that reviews can be "positive, negative, or somewhere in between." Don't journalists get free books all the time for writing reviews? Why is this any different?

30 October 2008

This weekend, we had a great trip to Chicago for a baby shower with Mandy's family and friends. I'm still working through the pictures we took, but here's a nice one of Wendy and Shelly:

Wendy and Shelly

20 October 2008

In response to my friend Jenny, here are 6 "random things" about me. To give it a twist, I'll choose one from each year in grade school:

  • 1st grade. I learned what it felt like to covet as I desperately desired my friend's remote-controlled A-Team van.
  • 2nd grade. While trying to beat a girl to the water fountain, I chipped my front tooth on a set of concrete stairs. I got it fixed 20 years later.
  • 3rd grade. I got my tongue stuck to a frosty pole at the top of a slide. My taste buds were subsequently ripped off as the person behind me impatiently forced me down the slide.
  • 4th grade. I stole a spot on the swing set from a friend. Her punishment for me: severe whiplash and 6-weeks in a neck brace.
  • 5th grade. I was transferred to advanced English. After failing to wrap my mind around the definition of a paragraph, I was transferred back the following day.
  • 6th grade. I stopped wetting the bed.
9 October 2008

Another gem from McSweeney's: In the Likely Event of My Posthumous Fame

My birth, death, and high-school graduation should be celebrated with a feast, a day of mourning, and a Sadie Hawkins dance, respectively.

At the Sadie Hawkins dance, the women ought to feel a subtle, needling pressure to pick older brothers. Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are" should be played at least twice. All kisses will be French.

1 October 2008

I just read a portion of When You Are Engulfed In Flames by David Sedaris 1 on the bus. I came across this section, and couldn't help but smile.

I was at my desk one afternoon, writing a letter, when I heard a faint buzzing sound, like a tiny car switching into a higher gear. Curious, I went to the window, and there, in a web, I saw what looked like an angry raisin. It was a trapped fly, and as I bent forward to get a closer look, a spider rushed forth and carried it screaming to a little woven encampment situated between the wall and the window casing. It was like watching someone you hate getting mugged: three seconds of hard-core violence, and when it was over you just wanted it to happen again.

26 September 2008

The last days of David Foster Wallace.

When David was 5, his mother recalls, he decided that he had two careers to look forward to. He would be a professional football player, for one. In the off-season, while the other players were recuperating or doing whatever it is that pro football players do when they're not running or passing or slamming their bodies into each other, he would be a neurosurgeon. His mother has no idea how, at 5, her son might have heard about neurosurgeons or what they were or did, but he had. The first day of his medical career, he promised his mom, he would take out all of her frayed nerves and fix them. "Somehow he knew about neurosurgeons," she says, "and he knew that my nerves needed fixing."

By the way, McSweeney's is collecting memories and tributes from readers and friends. I'm still in disbelief.

24 September 2008

In light of the fact that it's National Punctuation Day, please join with me in fighting the nefarious overuse of exclamation marks. (From the archives.) Bang!

21 September 2008

Piece 24/24 in an illustrated series of mustachioed monsters.

Mitch

20 September 2008

Piece 23/24 in an illustrated series of mustachioed monsters.

Buttercup

19 September 2008

New Texting Acronyms for the Elderly:

  • BIMD: Back in my day
  • ROFLACGU: Rolling on the floor laughing and can't get up
  • ML2N?: Matlock tonight?
19 September 2008

Piece 22/24 in an illustrated series of mustachioed monsters.

Mert

18 September 2008

Piece 21/24 in an illustrated series of mustachioed monsters.

Sam

17 September 2008

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. An essay about tennis, tornadoes, and a coming of age, by David Foster Wallace. (Via Heavy.)

17 September 2008

Piece 20/24 in an illustrated series of mustachioed monsters.

Michael

16 September 2008
16 September 2008

Piece 19/24 in an illustrated series of mustachioed monsters.

Pete

15 September 2008
An introduction to the broad and diverse world of brand name pencils produced in the US and abroad. BNP has been featured in Coudal's Museum of Online Museums (MoOM). I love the Lovely 447's from Empire Pencil Co.
15 September 2008

Piece 18/24 in an illustrated series of mustachioed monsters.

Johnny

14 September 2008
David Airey's roundup of typography-based Flickr groups. Besides some of the obvious gold-mines here (Found Type, Urban Typography, Arabic Typography, Japanese Typography, Typography of the 50's), there are others that are downright humorous (Bad Type, Typography Abuse, Crimes Against Typography). At what point do we pass a bill and start prosecuting?
14 September 2008

Piece 17/24 in an illustrated series of mustachioed monsters.

Henry

13 September 2008
13 September 2008
The Seattle Post Intelligencer is reporting that Amazon is buying Shelfari.  I've tried using some of the popular social book sharing sites (LibraryThing, Shelfari, Good Reads), but can't get past their hokey designs (i.e. Shelfari's wood-grain bookshelves). Also, there doesn't seem to be a clear winner yet between the three. I'm still holding out.
13 September 2008

Piece 16/24 in an illustrated series of mustachioed monsters.

Robin

12 September 2008

One of the better subtitles I've come across recently:

I am not a nerd. I am a Level 9 Warlord.

12 September 2008

Love this image of getting down and dirty for a good shot: Rainy Shoot.

12 September 2008

Piece 15/24 in an illustrated series of mustachioed monsters.

Steve

11 September 2008

Who knew what musical treasures would be our reward when we agreed to a new roof and siding? Unfortunately, I had to experience this one second-hand. Mandy has more: My heart will go on.

11 September 2008

Another fine piece of journalism from The Onion: I Was Under The Impression That Everyone Loved My Headlocks.

My entire life, I've always loved some good old-fashioned horseplay, and I assumed everyone else felt the same. So you can imagine my surprise when, out of nowhere, right in the middle of my youngest son's baptism, my wife asks me to please stop putting everybody in headlocks because, as she claims, "No one enjoys it and no one ever did."
11 September 2008

Piece 14/24 in an illustrated series of mustachioed monsters.

Harry

10 September 2008

Radiohead gave permission to NPR to record their live show at the Santa Barbara Bowl on August 28th, 2008. NPR now has it available for download through their All Songs Considered podcast.

10 September 2008

Umbrella Today? A service where you can sign up to receive a daily text message telling you just one thing: do you need an umbrella today or not?

It's like totally the simplest weather report ever, Julie.

In case you need a refresher, you might also brush up your Umbrella Etiquette.

10 September 2008

Piece 13/24 in an illustrated series of mustachioed monsters.

Jake

9 September 2008

Piece 12/24 in an illustrated series of mustachioed monsters.

Hopper

8 September 2008

Todd Holmberg, a college friend of mine, is doing stand-up comedy and pottery in the Twin Cities. (With audio and video samples! For instance, Re-Possessed.)

8 September 2008

Piece 11/24 in an illustrated series of mustachioed monsters.

Dino

7 September 2008

Piece 10/24 in an illustrated series of mustachioed monsters.

Alf

6 September 2008

Piece 9/24 in an illustrated series of mustachioed monsters.

Rudy

5 September 2008

Dennis Benson, Piano Service, Web Design, and Photography Services. Dad just finished a fancy new website design. Nice!

5 September 2008

Piece 8/24 in an illustrated series of mustachioed monsters.

Carlos

4 September 2008

Piece 7/24 in an illustrated series of mustachioed monsters.

Stanley & Norm

3 September 2008

Due to popular request (read: Chloe), I'm enabling comments for recent entries.

3 September 2008

Footnotes, Endnotes, and Parentheticals That Cost Me Marks on My Thesis:

  • 3 Who, although a gifted academic, is still a douche.
  • 8 Right? No, he did. I think. No, I'm pretty sure he did.
  • 10 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre

(Via Kottke.)

3 September 2008

Piece 6/24 in an illustrated series of mustachioed monsters.

Tom

2 September 2008

My friend Dan just shared with me a stupendous and inspirational resource: Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century. From the introduction:

Dear Gentle Reader,
Many of the following pages have graphic and clear images of the masculine mustache in all its forms, both sublime and grotesque. My intent is not to shock or titillate, but merely to inform on the subject. The Nineteenth Century gave us many things, but above all it was a hotbed of facial hair experimentation and this is but a poor sampling of those many lost forms.

I can assure you that the Monsters with Mustaches series will derive significant guidance from these classic styles.

2 September 2008

Piece 5/24 in an illustrated series of mustachioed monsters.

Heavy

30 August 2008

Piece 4/24 in an illustrated series of mustachioed monsters.

Terry

29 August 2008

Piece 3/24 in an illustrated series of mustachioed monsters.

Travis

29 August 2008

Piece 2/24 in an illustrated series of mustachioed monsters.

Carl

29 August 2008

Piece 1/24 in an illustrated series of mustachioed monsters.

Drago

28 August 2008

Brand Name Pencils -- an introduction to the broad and diverse world of pencils produced in the US and abroad. BNP has been featured in Coudal's Museum of Online Museums (MoOM). I love the Lovely 447's from Empire Pencil Co. What a gold mine.

25 August 2008

The US Open starts today at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, NY. All eyes are on Rafa.

22 August 2008

Design Observer on the dry wit and extensive use of double entendre in the port-a-potty branding biz. Examples: Drop Zone, LepreCAN, Loader-Up, Royal Throne, Tee Pee, Oui Oui Enterprises, Doodie Calls, and Yesterday's Meals-on-Wheels.

19 August 2008

Sydney, on her tie-dye blanket, waiting to be chauffeured to the park.

Tie-Dye Sydney

8 August 2008

The Guardian is reporting that a gloomy autumn is on the way for French writing.

Avid readers across France are gearing up for "la rentrée littéraire", the deluge of new novels that hits the country every August in anticipation of France's autumn swarm of literary prizes. But this year's rentrée strikes a sombre tone, and brings a halt to a seemingly unstoppable trend with a marked fall in the number of this year's new titles.

Here are a few examples of what's to come (from the article):

  • Régis Jauffret's recounting of a suicide in Lacrimosa.
  • Valentine Goby's novel about abortion Qui touche a mon corps je le tue (Touch Me and I'll Kill You).
  • Emmanuelle Pagano's Les mains gamines (Innocent Hands) tackles the story of girl abused by her classmates.
  • Mathieu Riboulet's L'amant des morts (Lover of the Dead) confronts the Aids epidemic of the 1990s with the story of a man who sleeps with his own father.
  • Tristan Garcia's La meilleure part des hommes (The best of man), a novel which the author describes as a "faithful record" of the "betrayals of human existence, a portrait of the worst of mankind and - in negative - the best".

I understand that good novels are not necessarily happy -- in fact, I'd prefer otherwise -- but I have to admit these don't seem like ones you'd want to read when you're alone on your Birthday.

"These books are fairly dark, very depressing - a bit like France," said Vincy Thomas of Livres Hebdo. "There is a 'grande malaise', a sort of depression, in France at the moment. This is not a joyful country; when you think of France, you don't think of a party country. The social reality in France is a real concern about the future and this is reflected in the books." Aurélie Delfly, of one of France's largest publishers Gallimard, agreed. "We aren't very happy in France, and that is being felt in the subjects of the literature produced."

7 August 2008
4 August 2008
29 July 2008

Logic is having a 6-story egg drop contest next month. Last night, I spent some time scheming about a potential design. I don't know if it's possible for me to not win. Bwa ha ha haaa.

Hair-Brained Egg-Drop Scheme

11 July 2008

Make - Volume 11 describes how to unpimp a Bianchi Milano and turn it into something that looks like a piece of crap, to deter thievery.

3 July 2008
25 June 2008

The Minneathlon is this Friday. Our team profile (Lefty and Skinny) was recently posted, and there seems to be some decent banter in the trash-talk section. Also, since the race coordinators are running the prize give-away like a horse-race, they're posting revised odds as people make their bets.

13 June 2008

Minneathlon v2.0: Brains vs. Brawn. This is Logic's version of the Amazing Race in and around downtown Minneapolis, to be held on June 27th, 2008. This year, Jason and I were granted entry as team Lefty & Skinny. More updates to come.

29 May 2008

Welcome to Haley Jo, born on Tues, May 27, 2008, 6lb 10oz and 20".

Haley Jo

Haley Jo

Haley Jo

What a cutie. Congratulations Brian and Jill!

28 May 2008

Jon Henley on the fate of the semicolon. The debate on the value of the semicolon goes on. Some authors love it, some hate it. Why is this discussion so divisive? The semicolon is just a misunderstood grammatical outsider with a split personality -- sometimes a comma and sometimes a period -- that wants to be left alone.

Here are some quotes from the article. First, Guillemette Faure:

It's true that computer programmers use an awful lot of them, mainly as separators. And that's surely the last step on the line before it's reduced to a mere email emoticon.

Obviously Mr. Faure has not heard of ML. Next, George Bernard Shaw to TE Lawrence, on the Seven Pillars of Wisdom:

You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.

Err, childish? Next, Kurt Vonnegut:

If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites, standing for absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.

Yikes! I haven't finished thinking about that one. Finally, George Orwell:

I had decided about this time that the semicolon is an unnecessary stop and that I would write my next book without one.

Hm, hard to argue with G.O. on style.

27 May 2008

A Cooks.com user-submitted recipe for Wiener Water Soup. (Via Serious Eats, Kottke.)

Wiener Water Soup

1 pkg. wieners
3 c. water

Combine wieners and water in a two quart saucepan. Bring to a boil until wieners are cooked. Throw the wieners in the garbage. Serve soup. Serves 3.

20 May 2008
19 May 2008

Saw Prince Caspian last night with Mandy and was pleasantly surprised by the closing song, sung by Regina Spektor, called The Call. The style differs markedly from the full majestic orchestral phrases that were common throughout most of the movie, but the lyrics and the modern folk melody seemed to correspond well with the closing geo-time-travel from Narnia to England.

9 May 2008

Digable Planets - Rebirth Of Slick. I still love these guys (Butterfly, Doodlebug, Ladybug Mecca, Silkworm).

We be to rap what key be to lock.

3 May 2008

I was going through some old jayber.org designs of mine, came across a few that caught my eye, and realized that they all have a common theme in that they are: (1) urban, and (2) green. Here are some samples:

Jayber.org Design Concept (2006)

Jayber.org Design Concept (2006)

25 April 2008
22 April 2008

Pimped-out van on Flickr. Dang, wouldn't want to take that thing off road. Nice wings though! By the way, is that a chihuahua in the front window? This definitely one-ups the Popemobile. (Via Matt H.)

16 April 2008

'skine.art. is a site dedicated to Moleskine lovers and their art.

[...] we encourage anyone and everyone to [...] submit their artwork. There is no "good" or "bad" art, just Art.

There's some good stuff on there. Like this. (Via Dan O.)

16 April 2008

A Peek Inside the Popemobile - Newsweek

The popemobile isn't its official name, because it doesn't have one. In fact, Pope John Paul II pleaded with journalists to stop using the term in 2002 because he thought it sounded "undignified." So it's not surprising that a Vatican spokesman couldn't say whether popemobile (small p) describes every car in the pontiff's fleet or whether only the car in use by the pope is the Popemobile with a big p [...]

I just like the name Popemobile for some reason. I can't get it out of my head. I just keep saying it silently. Popemobile, Popemobile, Popemobile.

15 April 2008

My professor continues to keep the compiler-theory zingers coming. Today, he rattled off another set that had me laughing quietly.

Fortran is structurally deficient. It's really a shame that people use it.

Zing!

Algol is the father of all sensible languages we have today. And then, there's C...

Bwa!

3 April 2008

Hong Kong Handshake. White & Gold foil stamping on White Shiro 80, 1400gsm.

31 March 2008
25 March 2008

I remember driving by this sign every day for a few years on the corner of North Penn and West Broadway in North Minneapolis: Love Thy Bro (cf. Mark 12:28-31).

24 March 2008
21 March 2008

Martial Arts Knockout. Nice tornado.

5 March 2008
4 March 2008

I've been listening to Bon Iver (pronounced: bohn eevair; French for "good winter" and spelled wrong on purpose) recently (thanks EA). This album is deeply contemplative, which I deeply appreciate. Justin Vernon:

It wasn't planned. The goal was to hibernate.

28 February 2008

Nearly without fail, each time my compiler theory class meets, our professor comes up with some linguistic boner that a language (not based on Lambda Calculus) commits that further validates the righteousness of ML. Here's the compiler-theory insult of the day.

The only time I could conceive of this type of approach for resolving shift-reduce conflicts is in C++, which I would consider more of an ad-hoc language--not a real language.

Zing!

25 February 2008

I've waffled for a few days on whether to post this or not, but the font that Obama's campaign uses for their "Change We Can Believe In" marketing material, uses Gotham, which was originally designed for GQ by Hoefler & Frere-Jones, inspired by a sign for the NY Port Authority.

H&FJ say of Gotham's original aesthetic intent:

GQ had a dual agenda of wanting something that would look very fresh, yet very established, to have a credible voice to it. It also needed to look very masculine and 'of-the-moment.'

Seems to go well with Obama's message. Perhaps we should add Typography to the list of our country's important political issues.

22 February 2008

lowercase L.

[A website dedicated to] hand-written signs with letters in all-caps, except for the letter L.

Find out more about what the L this is all about. (Via DF.)

22 February 2008

From Ironic Sans, a new typography term: Keming. Bwa!

19 February 2008

Awry. Great photo and orientation of a catawampus shed by Charlie Clark.

18 February 2008

Nick Fraser on the American novelist, Richard Yates, quoting a character from Nick Hornby's A Long Way Down, on the topic of Revolutionary Road:

I wouldn't recommend finishing it on Christmas Day, in a cold-water bedsit, [...] It probably didn't help my general sense of well-being, if you know what I mean, because the ending is a real downer.

Ellen Barkin, producer of an upcoming film based on Easter Parade:

Brits immediately get Yates - maybe because they have never bought into anything as dumb as the American dream. There's no "glad morning" in his books.
18 February 2008
16 February 2008

I just added Jayber Mobile, formatted for cell phones. So far, I've only viewed it on a forgiving Moto Q9c, running at 320x240.

11 February 2008

Herbie Hancock's River: The Joni Letters, just won album of the year. Still, one of my favorite albums of all time is H.H.'s tribute to Gershwin.

11 February 2008

The National MS Society is having a series of 150-mile bike rides this summer to raise money for Multiple Sclerosis research and treatment. One of the races goes from Duluth to Blaine. Mandy and I are thinking of riding, so if anyone else wants to join in, let us know.

10 February 2008

Tinley Park cheerleaders are state champs.

While it's only two-and-a half minutes, their exerting all their total energy while yelling as loud as they can and have to look happy about it at the same time.

Andrew H.S. is Mandy's Alma Mater.

8 February 2008

Super Bowl Ads. A roundup.

23 January 2008

Great news from East London:

As of today, you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on Last.fm.

Also, independent artists can upload their own music and, depending on a song's popularity, share in the profits.

22 January 2008

MC Hammer's social networking side project, Dance Jam, will be debuted later this month. From a Washington Post interview on the topic:

At the right time, I will introduce several styles of the Hammer Dance -- including tips on executing some of the classic moves [...]

Hammer Time!

21 January 2008
18 January 2008

Using passive amplification alone, designer Tristan Zimmermann came up with the Phonofone II, which transforms a personal music player into a sort of mini victrola.

From Science & Sons:

[...] Without the use of external power or batteries, the Phonofone [...] exploits the virtues of horn acoustics to boost the audio output of standard earphones to up to 55 decibels* (or roughly the maximum volume of laptop speakers)

This would fit nicely on top of my full-size victrola at home. (Via Veer.)

18 January 2008

John Maeda gave a talk at the TED conference this last year entitled "Simplicity Patterns". In the talk, he argues that we, as humans, want to reduce complexity in areas that we deem mundane, but desire complexity in areas that excite us. Also, check out his related book: The Laws of Simplicity, available for free from the MIT Media Lab. (via Jim Hoar.)

18 January 2008

Hello readers of Jayber Residuals. The residual links have now been combined with the main blog, which means that there is now only one RSS feed for Jayber. The main feed (http://jayber.org/index.xml) contains both regular posts, as well as residual links. The old feed (http://jayber.org/residuals/index.xml) has been... terminated.

18 January 2008

Bobby Fischer dies in Iceland.

Bobby Fischer, America's first and only world chess champion, who beat the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky in a blaze of Cold War publicity in Reykjavik in 1972, has died in Iceland at the age of 64.

18 January 2008

ESV Bible Online: Chronological Reading Guide. Daily readings are structured in the order they occurred chronologically. For example, the book of Job is integrated with Genesis because Job lived before Abraham. (More on the ESV and its philosophy of word-for-word translation.)

17 January 2008

Thanks to EA, Jayber is being hosted on a new server, and I'm exploiting the opportunity to realign the design. Things are a bit broken at the moment, but if you have any input, let me know.

6 January 2008

Good People by David Foster Wallace.

6 January 2008
6 January 2008

13 Photographs That Changed the World. Good collection and descriptions.

4 January 2008
4 January 2008

Hingis given two-year ban for failed dope test. Now, her November retirement announcement is making more sense.

2 January 2008

Health Efects of Clutter.

Too often [hoarders] approach clutter and disorganization as a space problem that can be solved by acquiring bins and organizers.

31 December 2007

Frost Bot. A co-worker brought this dandy to our holiday potluck.

27 December 2007
13 December 2007
12 December 2007
4 December 2007
University of Minnesota: Dissertation Calculator.
27 November 2007

Hugs and Leashes; a dog-loving website by a friend of mine: Ryan Van Slooten.

4 September 2007

OttoBib. Useful for finding BibTex refs.

23 August 2007

Video from my Dad's recent trip to Drabiv, Ukraine. Fast forward to 1:31 to see him doing the Hawaiian War Chant in a hula skirt and coconut bra.

6 August 2007

LinuxBootArgs for uboot. Why oh why didn't I know this before?

5 August 2007

Bike Messenger Race. Check out the sweet move at 4:10.

20 July 2007

Fixed Gear Bike Gallery. I hope to pimp my Peugeot in like fashion.

19 July 2007
15 July 2007

Breakdancing Street Fighter Baby Kick. Gee, I hope that kid is alright.

7 July 2007
6 July 2007
3 July 2007

Creature Comforts. The first scene of the first episode had me hooked.

18 May 2007

Armstrong Food Fight. A friend's brother was an "instrumental" organizer.

8 May 2007
7 May 2007
18 April 2007

Georgina Bush. A fine portrait indeed.

17 April 2007
17 April 2007
12 April 2007

Protect the Boys at all costs.

12 April 2007

Recoupin'. One out of one Dr. T's recommended. Absoludicrous.

11 April 2007
9 April 2007

Restroom Renascence. A poem in iambic tetrameter about boundaries, freedom, and porcelain.

9 April 2007
5 April 2007

3041. Destruction and sadness.

4 April 2007
3 April 2007
2 April 2007

Ira Glass (of This American Life) on storytelling: 1, 2, 3, and 4. (Via EA.)

23 March 2007
22 March 2007
14 March 2007
9 March 2007

Asian Landscape from my good friend Paul Olson.

9 March 2007

PlotKit. Javascript chart plotting.

9 March 2007
8 March 2007
6 March 2007
5 March 2007

Whatever you do, don't click on this. You'll never be the same again.

5 March 2007

Tony Danz[ig]. I can't stop laughing.

5 March 2007

TextPad 5.0 released. (Via Hilden.)

5 March 2007

Incomprehensible Intersections. See if you can figure out how to make a left off Rosanov Street in Moscow. (Via J.B.C.)

3 March 2007

Design update: I increased the width to take advantage of 1024x768 resolutions.

28 February 2007

Sir Ken Robinson. On creating an education system that values creativity as much as literacy.

19 February 2007

Beatboxing Flute Player: Inspector Gadget Remix. This is totally def.

14 February 2007

A Guide to Writing Well. Joshua Sowin works for Desiring God.

10 February 2007

Purple and Brown Bubble Gum, Growl, Balloon, and Sneeze. (Via Josh L..)

7 February 2007
6 February 2007
6 February 2007

Finetune - music recommendation.

6 February 2007

Mog: Save the world from bad music.

5 February 2007
5 February 2007

Rodney White Art. Acrylic on wood.

5 February 2007

12 Stone Art. Online art gallery specializing in museum-quality fine art prints of Christian artwork.

5 February 2007

Superbowl Commercials. (The Fedex Moon Office had me cracking up.)

5 February 2007
4 February 2007
1 February 2007

The Knack. "Utter social ineptitude."

31 January 2007
31 January 2007

Digital Bibliography and Library Project. For Computer Science Journals and Proceedings. This is incredibly useful. XML available for download.

31 January 2007
30 January 2007
30 January 2007
30 January 2007

Modern Concurrency Abstractions for C#. Touches on the reasons for adding concurrency abstractions as language extensions as opposed to libraries--the point of .

30 January 2007

Strange Faces and Noises I Can Make. Third in a series. See also one and two. Disturbing.

29 January 2007

Cheerleader and Marching Band Bloopers. Dad sent this to me and it had me cracking up. The last scene is worth it.

25 January 2007
25 January 2007

100 Best Fonts. The top 5 are Helvetica, Garamond, Frutiger, Bodoni, and Futura.

23 January 2007

Paper Prototyping. Along the same lines as the Hipster PDA and the DIY Planner.

23 January 2007

The Purloined Sirloin. Why Americans love to shoplift meat.

22 January 2007

Multithreading invites string of nasty bugs. Precisely why I'm studying this for my Master's thesis. (Via John Collins.)

22 January 2007
22 January 2007

Over the weekend, Erik Freed made some French Flambe' for us with vanilla ice cream, mangos, grain alchohol, and a touch of pyrotechnics. (Video on YouTube.)

21 January 2007

Chicago Uncommon. Urban photography by Dawn Mikulich.

21 January 2007
20 January 2007