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Month: June 2005

  • Romance Novel Cover Art

    Spotted on PC Magazine’s Backspace page. Mark Longmire pokes fun at romance novel cover art. In other news, I took the trolley today to drop in on a talk given by John Battelle at a conference at the Fairmont Hotel up on top of Nob Hill. It’s about a 30 minute walk but I was…

  • Treasure Hunt #2

    If you’re going to be in San Francisco, look behind the “s” for 10% off your TypePad subscription. Hint: it’s near the merry-go-round. Be sure to leave a comment if you find it.

  • Word of the Weekend: “kerfuffle”

    Kerfuffle. It’s funny how some words bubble up from the collective subconscious and you hear and read the word more and more around you. Since Memorial Day it seems as if more of the world around me is Kerfuffled or being subject to Kerfuffling.

  • Birf-day Weekend

    Tyler called me on Saturday and told me to look in the drawer under my sock drawer where Izumi and the kids had stashed a birthday card for me before I left. He was so excited to tell me about the suprise and it was so sweet to have something from them to kick off…

  • Birthday

    Let’s tag this one as “Current Affairs” as my 39th birthday is something that only happens once, (today) and will no longer be relevant tomorrow. Thirty-nine seems such a ho-hum number, like watching the white number reel tick over on an odemeter before the next significant digit rolls in, a little excitement and anticipation because…

  • Scraphouse

    In the grand tradition of the DIY spirit and in celebration of World Environment Day, a group of designers, builders, and professional “obtainers” are building a house on the lawn in front of San Francisco city hall out of things they scrounged over the past six weeks. The house opened to the public today and…

  • Contagious Media Showdown

    There’s lots of slick sites here, all looking to catch that hook that will bring the fame and fortune (ok, well mostly fame). Maybe my standards are more base as the execution is totally crude (think of a circa-1988 Geocities website) but my personal favorite features a lanky masked man as an unlikely hero dancing…

  • Star Wars Easter Egg Hunt

    I haven’t had a chance to see the new Star Wars film yet but when I do, I’ll be on the lookout for these hidden gems.

  • Syndication Monkeys Gone Mad

    It was inevitable. Richard MacManus posts his thoughts on vendors that are taking the publish & subscribe model of RSS and turning it around to sell an automated way to republish RSS feeds and "create" content on their clients’ sites. They position RSS as a quick way to harness other people’s original work for easy…