Archive for August 2004

Confluence

In Politics on 31 August 2004 with Comments Off

Does anybody else think it’s strange that the Republican National Convention and the Burning Man Festival are happening at the same time? They even started on the same day.
You can almost feel the polarization - thousands on one side, making art, getting dirty, and burning a man in effigy for no good reason … [...]

Amen

In Politics on 30 August 2004 with Comments Off

Phoning It In

In Powazek on 25 August 2004 with Comments Off

I was on the radio today. The show was about My California and featured four authors from the book: author and Pulitzer Prize winner Patt Morrison, editor of 27 books and award-winning author Gerald Haslam, journalist and columnist Anh Do, and me, the writer of a story about buying drugs as a teenager.
I tried [...]

Elsewheres

In Fun on 25 August 2004 with Comments Off

» A Rational Response to Image Theft, a Photoblogs post by me about the Ephemera Image Widget.
» Now I know what to do if I ever see someone peddling W. in my ‘hood. I can only hope Dubya My Ass becomes a national trend.
» Congrats to Heather, who is celebrating her 10 year anniversary of [...]

Fray Swag Sale

In Fray on 24 August 2004 with Comments Off

Less than one week left to get Fray Lunchboxes and Messenger Bags at back-to-school prices! All proceeds go to support Fray Day 8.

Notes from a Weekend

In Life on 23 August 2004 with Comments Off

1. Happiness is a Gama-Go sample sale. I have never seen so many hip people buying even hipper clothes. For the next week, I shall only wear t-shirts with robots on them. You have been warned.
2. Cooking eggs for my wife on a Sunday morning makes me happy enough to hum. Actual humming!
3. Stats from [...]

The Real Heroes of the Web

In Geek, Google, Internet, Weblogs on 20 August 2004 with Comments Off

With all the hoopla in the news about the Google IPO, let’s take a moment to remember the real heroes: The people who put all that great stuff on the web in the first place.
I love Google, I really do. But I also enjoy a nicely toasted bagel. And when I’m spreading cream cheese on [...]

Things Mom Was Right About

In Life, Stories on 19 August 2004 with Comments Off

As Illustrated by Three Short Stories of Conversations with Professionals
Someone once told me that one of the signs of true intelligence is when you’re able to change your mind about things. To learn from experience and grow as a person. If that’s true, I think I’m becoming a fucking genius. It’s only taken me 31 [...]

The Original Dropped E

In Photos on 19 August 2004 with Comments Off

I knew there was a reason I liked the missing E in Flickr. Then, sitting on the throne in SFO the other day, I remembered.

Duh

In Geek, Internet, Writing on 18 August 2004 with Comments Off

Wired News: It’s Just the ‘internet’ Now
“Effective with this sentence, Wired News will no longer capitalize the ‘I’ in internet. At the same time, Web becomes web and Net becomes net.”
Say it with me now: Duh. When I was working at HotWired in 1997, and we published the Wired Style book, everyone who actually coded [...]