All Blog Posts (Page 33)

Jan 02, 2009
Photography

JPG Magazine Says Goodbye

We've spent the last few months trying to make the business behind JPG sustain itself, and we've reached the end of the line. We all deeply believe in everything JPG represents, but just weren't able to raise the money needed to keep JPG alive in ...

Jan 02, 2009
Zoon Politikon

Five People Who Are Also Dickheads

[Mark Halperin's] insufferably decrepit posts include the daily "Five Important People Who Aren't Obama" lists which appear to be five totally random names blurted out in numerical order without any explanation or insight -- ostensibly proving tha...

Jan 02, 2009
Zoon Politikon

A Party of Whiners

Will the Republicans eventually stage a comeback? Yes, of course. But barring some huge missteps by Mr. Obama, that will not happen until they stop whining and look at what really went wrong. And when they do, they will discover that they need to ...

Jan 02, 2009
Photography

365

Ever heard of a 365 project? It’s where you shoot and post one photo every day for an entire year. It sounds straightforward, but it actually represents a huge time commitment. I’ve been thinking about doing one for a while, and finally worked up ...

Dec 31, 2008
Microsoft

The Day the Microsoft Zunes Stood Still

One user wrote: “From what I can tell it looks like every Zune 30 on the planet has suddenly crashed. Is this a virus? A glitch? A time bomb? A disgruntled Microsoft employee? Planned obsolescence to make us buy a new one? Or just a terrorist plot...

Dec 30, 2008
Developer Tools Mac OS X

Textmate competition == fail

I use TextMate for just about everything: Skytap Virtual Lab, processing random text files, storing notes and thoughts…you name it. I just heard about the new “TextMate killer” for the Mac from the creators of CSSEdit and gave it a try. The app, E...

Dec 30, 2008

playing with themes

Every year around this time, I start thinking that I need to do some cleanup on my personal website. It kinda-sorta happens eventually, but it seems to trickle in over the course of December, January, February and March, culminating in April when ...

Dec 30, 2008
Zoon Politikon

Paul Jenkins: The GOP's White Supremacy

Like a restricted country club that would rather die than change, the Republican Party is marginalizing itself for the sake of the white men who run it. "Barack The Magic Negro" and Palm Beach aryanists are just the more bizarre manifestations of ...

Dec 30, 2008
Apple

25 Years of Mac: From Boxy Beige to Silver Sleek

"When I got back here in 1997, I was looking for more room, and I found an archive of old Macs and other stuff. I said, 'Get it away!' and I shipped all that shit off to Stanford. If you look backward in this business, you'll be crushed. You have ...