a ghost in the sun

"I just heard it from one of the men who worked for Erik, back in the hometown. I remarked to him..."

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:20:02 -0400

“I just heard it from one of the men who worked for Erik, back in the hometown. I remarked to him that storefronts on the streets looked a little bit better, more freshly painted. It was a shallow, small-talky observation.”

- Where Is Cuba Going? - NYTimes.com

"how do you escape from a convincing story? After enough repetitions, the facts come to serve the..."

Tue, 25 Dec 2012 10:26:56 -0500

““how do you escape from a convincing story? After enough repetitions, the facts come to serve the story and not the other way around.””

- Errol Morris, Wilderness of Error, p. 12-13

"The ability to make tools defines us less than the need to create belief systems that influence..."

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 10:51:52 -0500

“The ability to make tools defines us less than the need to create belief systems that influence nature.”

- Letter from Southern France: First Impressions : The New Yorker

Soon to be mine: Goodrich

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:33:41 -0500

Lots of beefy tubing. I’m excited to build this up for (hopefully) some end of the year rides.

theimpossiblecool: Springsteen.

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:16:35 -0500

theimpossiblecool:

Springsteen.

Incredibly Complex Flyout Menu

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:32:42 -0400

Flyout menu with an anchored close button at the top of the menu. As you scroll through the content in the modal, the close button disappears at the top of the screen.

"I never make technology-buying decisions based on future promises, rumors, or potential. I let other..."

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 13:10:57 -0400

“I never make technology-buying decisions based on future promises, rumors, or potential. I let other people be the bleeding-edge extremely early adopters, and I stick with what I know will work and stay out of my way. I don’t buy things that are “getting better”, because they usually don’t. Whatever caused them to be lacking in their current release will usually prevent them from being great in future releases.”

- Great since day one – Marco.org

"But confessional art (think Proust, or Woody Allen) often begs a question: What is the artist really..."

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:09:41 -0400

“But confessional art (think Proust, or Woody Allen) often begs a question: What is the artist really confessing, beneath or behind all of her (explicit) confessions? I’m not sure, after three episodes, what Dunham is really trying to confess, although I suspect it has something to do with a feeling of helplessness so paralyzing that “confession” itself becomes one’s primary response to life’s difficulties.”

- Points | The Point Magazine

Banger analysis from the nytimes

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 23:24:09 -0400

Banger analysis from the nytimes:

Ideas are notoriously fluid in the technology, of course — just ask the Winklevoss twins. Successful features will always migrate from one online service to another, a process so inevitable that some people in the industry say that ideas hardly matter, only execution does. In a phone interview Mr. Miller described himself as a neophyte who was still starstruck to find himself running with the big dogs.

gravel roads

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:11:37 -0400

gravel roads

Mobile test

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:40:08 -0400

New, more dynamic tumblin’

One of the more overwhelming calendars I’ve seen in...

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:35:43 -0400

One of the more overwhelming calendars I’ve seen in awhile. From the River to River site: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2012/06/the_well_is_ope.html

hong kong

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:20:23 -0400

hong kong

"The reaction to Facebook’s changes was such that when four N.Y.U. students announced plans in April..."

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:11:21 -0400

“The reaction to Facebook’s changes was such that when four N.Y.U. students announced plans in April to build a free social-networking site called Diaspora, which wouldn’t compel users to compromise their privacy, they raised more than $20,000 from more than 700 backers in a matter of weeks.”

- this sounds more like no one cared than anything The Web Means the End of Forgetting - NYTimes.com

Hipmunk gives you no options to try a different search, refresh...

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:21:37 -0400

Hipmunk gives you no options to try a different search, refresh your results or progress when the search times out or errors.

Incredible usability fail. Every time I try to close this modal,...

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 09:59:00 -0400

Incredible usability fail. Every time I try to close this modal, I click print instead. Hilarious.

"Promising to make you look wired and magically promote your content in social networks, the Like,..."

Wed, 30 May 2012 11:50:05 -0400

“Promising to make you look wired and magically promote your content in social networks, the Like, Retweet, and 1 buttons occupy a good spot on pretty much every page of the World Wide Web. Because of this, almost every major site and world brand is providing free advertising for Twitter and Facebook. But do these buttons work? It’s hard to say. What we know for sure is that these magic buttons promote their own brands — and that they tend to make you look a little desperate.”

- Sweep the Sleaze | Information Architects

"Maybe in twenty years we’ll think of Google primarily as a vision company—augmenting our vision,..."

Tue, 29 May 2012 15:00:25 -0400

“Maybe in twenty years we’ll think of Google primarily as a vision company—augmenting our vision, helping us share it—and, oh wow, did you realize they once, long ago, sold ads? Like Nokia’s first business selling rubber boots.”

- Pictures and vision

"In technical language, this field is the study of “rent seeking,” in which people or companies get..."

Sat, 26 May 2012 11:44:19 -0400

“In technical language, this field is the study of “rent seeking,” in which people or companies get rich because of their power, not because of their ideas.”

- Romney’s Former Bain Partner Makes a Case for Inequality - NYTimes.com

Micropolis: A Look at the Least Diverse Neighborhood in the City - WNYC

Wed, 16 May 2012 10:29:44 -0400

Micropolis: A Look at the Least Diverse Neighborhood in the City - WNYC:

Amazing to see how NYC both defies - and fits - some of my own preconceived notions of diversity. The map is the best part.