04.07.10
“Have you ever had that fantasy of taking everything out of your house and just starting over? Get a moving truck and guys to take out everything except your coffee pot and your bed and just say, ‘Okay, as I need this over the next five days, bring it in. If I don’t need it after five days, take it to Goodwill.’ That’s kind of how I felt about the design.”

Merlin Mann on web design (via marco)

I want to do that really bad!
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04.07.10
“A hundred years from now, will the iPad be known only as the second most revolutionary invention to make its debut during the first week of April 2010? We’d like to think so, but then again, we’re still kind of drunk.” The Recipe 2 oz Bulleit bourbon 1 oz Berentzen Apfelkorn 1/8 oz Laphroaig 10-year scotch 2 dashes Angostura bitters Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass filled with ice. Stir vigorously for 20-30 seconds. Strain into ice-filled rocks glass. (via the magnificent bastard cocktail)

“A hundred years from now, will the iPad be known only as the second most revolutionary invention to make its debut during the first week of April 2010? We’d like to think so, but then again, we’re still kind of drunk.”

The Recipe

  • 2 oz Bulleit bourbon
  • 1 oz Berentzen Apfelkorn
  • 1/8 oz Laphroaig 10-year scotch
  • 2 dashes Angostura bitters

Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass filled with ice. Stir vigorously for 20-30 seconds. Strain into ice-filled rocks glass.

(via the magnificent bastard cocktail)

04.07.10
Oh Shit. The Big Picture - Boston.com

Oh Shit. The Big Picture - Boston.com

04.07.10
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-4-4)
  1. Built to Spill (23)
  2. John Mayer Trio (19)
  3. Cat Power (17)
  4. Modest Mouse (13)
  5. Dinosaur Jr. (12)

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

04.06.10
Time to Rattle Over Rough Roads - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com

Tour of Battenkill gets a small write up on NYTimes.com

04.04.10
Way too hot out, for him. Probably needs a trim

Way too hot out, for him. Probably needs a trim

04.04.10
Just had a quick thought on what would could make gmail better. I’m trying to send an email out in which I need to attach a file that someone has already sent me. This happens I’ll get an email from our designers which I can’t just forward along to our clients. Currently I need to find the original attachment, download it, and reattach it. Seems cumbersome when google already has it on their serves/my inbox. What if gmail had a files section (or it connected with docs) and you could attach or search for a doc you had already uploaded.  That would save me so much time and probably a considerable amount of inbox space. 

Just had a quick thought on what would could make gmail better. I’m trying to send an email out in which I need to attach a file that someone has already sent me. This happens I’ll get an email from our designers which I can’t just forward along to our clients. Currently I need to find the original attachment, download it, and reattach it. Seems cumbersome when google already has it on their serves/my inbox. What if gmail had a files section (or it connected with docs) and you could attach or search for a doc you had already uploaded. 

That would save me so much time and probably a considerable amount of inbox space. 

04.03.10
2010 Svelte Cycles Cycling Kit: Really excited to get the new kit.
2010 Svelte Cycles Cycling Kit:

Really excited to get the new kit.

04.02.10
At this point, a mobile experience shouldn’t be an afterthought

bijan:

It wasn’t long ago that mobile phones had weak browsers and 3g was a network that the carriers built but without the “killer app”.

Smartphones with amazing browsers changed all of that. The web is the killer app. The browser on iPhone and Android are incredible and only getting better.

So if you are building a consumer web service these days, I highly encourage you to think of the mobile experience right away. Don’t think of mobile as something you’ll get around to doing one day. It has to be a high priority.

That doesn’t mean you have to build a native Android or iPhone app. It really depends on the service. I can’t imagine an app like Bump working without a native app while Techmeme mobile web site is amazing. It often comes down to whether your app requires access to local iphone resources (camera, address book, etc) or not.

At the very least your application/service should be optimized for mobile browsing experience and has an open API.

That’s the minimum these days.

Spot on. Is your site mobile ready? 

via bijan
04.02.10
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Built to Spill - Keep It Like A Secret - Temporarily Blind

04.01.10

fuckyeahjohnmayer:

“You be you: John Mayer.”

(via kali-leighh)

via fuckyeahjohnmayer
04.01.10
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are” Kurt Cobain (seen in Gmail). 
04.01.10
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Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse - Unmade Bed

03.30.10
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John Mayer - John Mayer Trio - Another Kind of Green

Pretty sure I’ve posted this before. Whatever it’s good. 

03.30.10
“Most schools and colleges spend too much time preparing students for careers and not enough preparing them to make social decisions. Most governments release a ton of data on economic trends but not enough on trust and other social conditions. In short, modern societies have developed vast institutions oriented around the things that are easy to count, not around the things that matter most. They have an affinity for material concerns and a primordial fear of moral and social ones.” Op-Ed Columnist - The Sandra Bullock Trade - NYTimes.com