Archive for July, 2006
filtr - flickr + cameraphones = beauty
July 31st, 2006 dailies
If you take lots of cameraphone pictures and post to flickr a lot and know lots about shell scripting (ahem) you might enjoy setting up filtr, which makes your phone pics look very nice. Check out these examples. Cool!
(via Waxy)
my pimped ride
July 30th, 2006 cata-wha?
Wheee!
Here is a snap of my new bike. Well, it’s actually a fairly old bike - an early 80’s Faggin road bike. I was attracted to its retro qualities, and have been wanting a bike project for sometime now. So, I had it shipped out from Lincoln and was planning to use it as a fixer-upper project so that I could learn more about bikes. I quickly realized that ir would probably take 2 years for me to get the time and energy to fix it up myself, so I dropped it off at American Cyclery, where they told me, unless it had major sentimental value, the best approach would be to make it into a single-speed/fixed conersion.
I have been riding it as a single speed for two weeks, and it’s been a blast. I may flip the wheel and try it fixe-style sometime, but for now, this is doing the trick.
Upside-Down-Ternet
July 28th, 2006 dailies
Upside-Down-Ternet - pretty fun trick to play on those damn thieves stealing your wireless. Also, pretty damn nerdy.
(Via populicio.us - my fave source for links…..)
Welcome To HotWired! (11 years on the web??)
July 27th, 2006 cata-wha?
HotWired! Demo - 1995 - (via Waxy (via gyford))
Allow me to get a bit nostalgic for a moment…..
The web. I remember sitting in a back room at Acton watching the Web evolve. Watching it invent itself. Working… Learning…
Syd gave me my first job on the web. Before that, I was working at a coffee/bagel shop. But then, there I was, hacking on a copy of BBEdit 3 (?), learning basic shell unix commands from pohl, doing server-side animated GIFs with perl, working on the early OmahaSteaks site and piggybacking web hosting for my record label (see an 11 year old announcement for the site here - fun!), and, of course, reading suck.
In one capacity or another, I’ve been behind the screen ever since, and in the last year, 11 years of web working have culminated in the biggest changes and biggest opportunities I’ve experienced.
Almost a year ago, my wife and I uprooted from our home, family and friends, in Lincoln, Nebraska, so that I could take a job to work for CNET News.com, which recently developed into a position as Product Manager. I consider myself to be extremely lucky to have the opportunity to be a part of a high profile project with incredibly talented team of designers, engineers, producers, writers and editors, working on RSS, podcasts, blogs, design and usability… you name it.
It’s a challenge, and I am thrilled.
I still see potential and possibilities on the web - and I am even more inspired now than I was when HotWired was dishing up the harshest neon color palates imagineable.
Good things… great things to come.
I don’t write much about personal issues on this blog, and I write about work related things even less. Maybe that will change - maybe not. But, taking time to look back is important. See where you have been. Imagine the possibilities of where you can go….
Then, go there!
sorry pitchfork…
July 27th, 2006 cata-wha?
The Pipettes really don’t cut it. I much rather prefer thee headcoatees who have much more soul.
Zill Beaudoin!
July 27th, 2006 cata-wha?
Zill Beaudoin, via pete d’s awesome skateboarding flickr set. Now… where are the pics of Morty?
Nebraska Sandhills may be in peril
July 22nd, 2006 cata-wha?
Nebraska Sandhills may be in peril — NOT MY SANDHILLS!!!! The Sandhills are beautiful, really. Its clear to anyone who visits them that they were once Sahara-like desert, and should be no suprise that they will return that way sometime.
soocatwoman
July 19th, 2006 cata-wha?
Never knew she went by the name catwoman, but this icon of 76 era UK punk rock got a myspace account.
MONDO DADDYKIN!!
July 4th, 2006 cata-wha?
MONDO DADDYKIN!! - a great site chock full of the weird records you would see at thrift stores.
Independence Day, 2006
July 4th, 2006 cata-wha?
Wow. I have to urge everyone to check out this Frontline program, The dark side. Billed as the story of Vice President Cheney’s unprecedented power as VP, and his push to expand presidential powers, it ended up being one of the best overviews of the complete failure of various government agencies in the lead-up to the Iraq war.
And while the program outlines Cheney’s cold bureaucratic maneuvering very well, the player who comes off looking the worst in the story is former CIA director George Tenet, who seems to have sold out his country for a seat at the table of the administration.
Amazing.
And while you won’t read many political posts on this website (because others cover the subject better than I could), I couldn’t help but think that history will not be kind when the fuller story is told.
And on this Independence Day, read this one from the SF Chronicle:
Patriots, awaken: “The men who signed the Declaration of Independence were not doing so to commission an annual party. They were making a covenant with history that requires day-to-day vigilance to defend the liberties it asserted. Honor them by speaking out.”
