All Blog Posts (Page 31)

Jan 07, 2009
Photography

Seattle in Miniature

These awesome tilt-shifted photos of Seattle—shot by Erynn Rose—make me feel like I stumbled into the neighborhood of Make-Believe. You can buy the book on Blurb, or see more of Erynn’s photos on Flickr.

Jan 07, 2009
Microsoft

Relevancy

Oh yeah, I forgot that Ballmer was giving the keynote at CES tonight. It’s funny how much can change in just a year after leaving the ‘Soft.

Jan 07, 2009
Zoon Politikon

National Portrait Gallery Gets Obama Poster

Shepard Fairey’s ubiquitous illustration of President-elect Barack Obama, seen in rallies, parties, shop windows and construction sites throughout the 2008 election season, has found a permanent home. The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D...

Jan 07, 2009
Photography

My Umbrella

Day 7 of 365, and featured on Seattlest.

Jan 06, 2009
Zoon Politikon

Latest on the Coleman Debacle

From the Associated Press (via MPR): The lawsuit alleges that the Canvassing Board made mistakes when determining voter intent on challenged ballots, that ineligible voters cast ballots and that some absentee ballots were erroneously opened early...

Jan 06, 2009
Photography

Helen

Day 5 of my 365 Project

Jan 06, 2009
Photography

Fear of Failure and Portrait Lighting for Beginners

If you’ve ever taken a gander through my collection of photos on Flickr, you’ve probably noticed that I don’t shoot many people, and when I do, it’s normally candid photo work. There’s a really simple reason for this: I don’t find portrait work to...

Jan 06, 2009
Zoon Politikon

Breaking: Norm Coleman to challenge election results

Just heard on Minnesota Public Radio that Coleman is going to challenge the election results that determined Al Franken to be the winner of the very close Minnesota Senatorial race for Paul Wellstone’s old seat. I’m disappointed but not surprised.

Jan 05, 2009
Startups

Skytap named one of Network World's '10 Startups to Watch in 09'

An appropriate Skytap package might cost considerably more than EC2, Bass says, but could eliminate a company's need to buy a bunch of servers for testing a large-scale application deployment. Nice plug! via 10 start-ups to watch in ‘09 - Netwo...