September 2008
14 posts
Security Patterns on Envelopes →
I’ve always taken mental note of the patterns in security envelopes, but someone has taken the time to catalog all the patterns they’ve seen. Awesome.
(via Cameron Moll)
Labels launch slotMusic format, miss point of... →
…the Big Four music labels […] announced an “innovative” physical format called slotMusic on Monday morning. slotMusic is actually a tiny, flash-based microSD card with a full album’s worth of MP3s slapped onto it, which will then be sold through a number of brick-and-mortar and online stores.
Their answer to declining CD sales is a new physical format?! Wow, I...
Food Network Star or Porn Star? →
If you like the Food Network as much as I do, you’ve probably noticed the faces some of the network’s stars make when describing their food.
Thankfully, someone put together a (hilarious but potentially NSFW: no nudity, but it’s pretty obvious what you’re looking at) slideshow of close-ups of chefs making their “yum face” and porn stars making their...
A Tumbleroll to Call Your Own
One of the features Bijan wanted during my redesign of his tumblelog was a “tumbleroll”. Since going live with the redesign, Bijan has been asked a few times how his Tumbleroll works, so I offered to write a quick tutorial. Creating your own Tumbleroll is pretty simple: it should only take about 5 minutes, and you’ll only need a little HTML/Tumblr code and CSS. Here’s how...
Dudeism - The Church of the Latter-Day Dude →
Finding its roots in one of my favorite movies of all time, The Big Lebowski, Dudeism is a “religion” everyone can get behind:
The idea is this: Life is short and complicated and nobody knows what to do about it. So don’t do anything about it. Just take it easy, man. Stop worrying so much whether you’ll make it into the finals. Kick back with some friends and some oat...
Podcaster Rejeceted Because It "duplicates iTunes... →
Bad press stemming from this unconscionable decision is flying fast and furious, with two of the best responses coming from the usual places…
John Gruber’s “The App Store’s Exclusionary Policies”:
If you only find out at the end of the development process that your app has been rejected — not for a technical problem that you can address but because Apple deems the...
How the Music Business Spent the Summer Killing... →
All in all, it’s been a depressing summer for the delusional record industry. We’re seeing a total disconnect between labels’ unrealistic, old-school revenue expectations and what the market can bear. On the streaming-music front in particular, the sad reality is that advertising revenue isn’t, and may never be, there to fully support the music industry’s...
Alex's Rules for Computing Happiness →
Covering software, hardware, and file formats, Alex Payne of Twitter lists his 25 rules for computing happiness. And with advice that starts with…
Use as little software as possible. Use software that does one thing well. Do not use software that does many things poorly.
…it’s difficult to disagree with the rest of it. (via rands)
Hurricanes, as seen from orbit →
Looking at hurricane pictures from orbit, it’s easy to forget exactly how destructive these things are. (via The Big Picture)
