In just over a month my least favorite time of year, the holiday shopping frenzy, will begin in earnest. On the 12th, Microsoft announced that “More than 250 hardware and software products from over 50 industry partners have received either the Ce...
I just found this blog entry from Rebellin Woman: Today marked the end of Day 3 where a hacker has had access to my personal Gmail account, and Google has done absolutely nothing to rectify the problem. What really urks me is that yesterday, I ...
Dave Vronay has a post up on shell revealed about features that didn’t quite make it into Windows Vista, like Mimesweeper, not-very-safe Delete and a TECO interpreter for the Start Menu: This was really a great feature, and it was nice to cater to...
Hi there - I am composing this on Thursday, October 12 around 11:30PM Pacific time, in Seattle. At the time this message is published, I will be touching down in Athens, Greece. It will about 9:50 AM in Athens, and I’ll probably be stumbling aroun...
One of my favorite Mac apps in the whole wide world is Pandora, a Google Images scraper. Version 2.0 of the app came out fairly recently, and includes a ton of new functionality, including support for finding files of any type and an open plugin a...
Aaron Koblin, who does…something or another with Design and Media Arts at UCLA, has published a series of movies and pictures that visualize the state of air traffic across the United States.
Andreas Mueller created a series of interactive vignettes entitled For All Seasons back in 2004. It’s quite difficult to explain, so I’ll leave it to him: [For All Seasons is a] piece about memories, seasons and using the elements of the textual r...
Emma Dobrescu, a multilingual Romanian web designer of some repute, expressed her hatred for Web 2.0 on her blog yesterday: I’ll tell you the truth, I’m not an AJAX hater, I don’t despise collaborative applications, I am all for the rich user expe...
I’m a bit perplexed as to what’s going on at Google right now. Less than two months ago, Marissa blogged about changes to the Google homepage, including the addition of Google Video to the main bar. The rumormill spun up to state very loudly that...
I just ran across a cool web application that generates a two color palettes (one “dull” and one “vibrant”) from any photo that you submit to it. Seems like it could be quite handy. (via etc.)