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Layer Tennis

In Design, Fun, Geek on 27 March 2009 with 1 comment

Today at noon I’m playing Layer Tennis with Jason Santa Maria with none other than Jim Coudal doing the play-by-play. This is like the principal of the school being your substitute teacher. Be there! And be sure to Twitter your comments.
UPDATE: That was fun! Thanks for attending the match, y’all.

Kvetch! Reborn with Twitter a Decade Later

In Fun, Geek, Internet on 19 November 2008 with 23 comments

You know all those things you wish you could post to Twitter but don’t want to say with your name on them? Those brilliant angry complaints that would feel so good to get off your chest? Now you can.
Kvetch is an anonymous oracle of complaint. Kvetches are displayed randomly and anonymously. There are no permalinks [...]

Hosted by Media Temple

In Geek, Internet on 17 November 2008 with 3 comments

Just a brief housekeeping note: This site is now hosted at Media Temple. They’ve been hosting Fray since last year, and the few times something’s gone wrong they’ve been completely on top of it. So I finally got all my sites moved over. If you need expert hosting for sites big or small, tell ’em [...]

Brad Sucks is Out of It (in a Good Way)

In Geek, Internet, Music on 8 September 2008 with 2 comments

Brad Sucks is the name of a one-man band by a guy named Brad. He makes great music, full of catchy electronic loops, acoustic guitars, and sardonic lyrics delivered with a slacker vibe. Imagine if Beck kept smoking pot instead of becoming a scientologist and you’re halfway there.
Brad’s also a geek success story, because he [...]

It’s 2008. I can’t believe we haven’t figured this out.

In Copyright, Geek, Internet on 13 June 2008 with Comments Off

If you read this site via RSS, you may notice that now you can only read the first couple lines instead of the whole post. That’s because apparently, amazingly, we still have not figured out how to use RSS and still abide by copyright law on the web. (You can read the rest of this post at powazek.com.)

An Update to a Savvy Approach to Copyright Messaging

In Copyright, Geek, Internet, Photography on 23 January 2008 with 13 comments

In my original post, I suggested adding a copyright message to a photo and use CSS to crop its view. This accomplishes the goal of adding robust copyright information without defacing your own work. I got a lot of responses to this idea, and wanted to update the post with a few responses to the [...]

Hey Apple, Don’t Make Me Think

In Apple, Design, Geek, Interface, iPhone on 23 January 2008 with 17 comments

As an official Apple Fanboy and Interface Geek, I have a complaint about the recent iteration of Apple’s iPhone software (1.1.3).
On the iPhone, the web browser is called Safari, just like on the Mac. This sameness is reinforced by the visual design of both applications. But in the new iPhone software, when they added a [...]

A Savvy Approach to Copyright Messaging

In Copyright, Geek, Internet, Photography on 12 January 2008 with 32 comments

I’m a photographer. I’m also a web geek. And those two sides of my brain sometimes fight with each other.
As a photographer, I’m outraged when people grab photos off the web and use them without consideration of copyright. I’ve been fighting this “It’s on the internet, so it must be free!” ignorance for more [...]

DePo Skinny Theme for WordPress

In Geek, Weblogs, WordPress on 6 January 2008 with 8 comments

The DePo Skinny theme for WordPress is a variation on my original DePo Clean theme, developed by myself and my lovely wife for her new site. We thought we’d make it available to you, too!
It’s a super-simple theme with only one 500-pixel-wide column. It accommodates categories and tags easily. Like DePo Clean, it has a [...]

If It Bleeds, It Leads

In Blogging, Geek, Journalism, Writing on 23 November 2007 with Comments Off

With my month-long experiment in daily posting a week away from its blissful conclusion, I thought I’d check to see what effect, if any, it was having on the site’s traffic. So I checked in with the handy WordPress traffic page. Here’s what I saw, with the addition of the most trafficked posts and the [...]