Archive for August 2006

Love and Penguins

In Life, Love, Stories on 25 August 2006 with Comments Off

There’s an old story. I don’t know if it’s true, but it goes like this. Penguins mate for life. And there’s a moment when some boy penguin is looking over that infinite expanse of black and white when one female penguin stands out. And he stands out to her. And then, well, that’s it. Of [...]

Booma

In Life on 22 August 2006 with Comments Off

When I was 16, I became a vegetarian. Years later, I spent the summer in Alaska. When my friends and I went fishing, I decided that if I could catch one, I’d totally eat it. So that’s what I did. I figured, once you take a fish’s life with your own two hands, you’re allowed [...]

Hey San Franciscans: Come Get Intimate

In Event, Fun, Love, Powazek, San Francisco on 15 August 2006 with Comments Off

My fellow San Franciscans, got plans Friday night? If not, come watch me get intimate with Heather Gold!
Inspired by Shabbat Salons, comedian Heather Gold brings the talk show format into the 21st century. Her live talk show mixes thinkers, entertainers, doers and the audience with humor, curiosity and yes, a little soul.
This Friday’s show [...]

New Photo Book: Apple Sweat

In Books, For Sale, Fray, Life, Photography, Travel on 8 August 2006 with Comments Off

What do you do when your trip to New York City just happens to coincide with the biggest heat wave since 1936? Make some photos, of course!
I took my favorite Lomo shots and put them together in a book I’m calling Apple Sweat: The 2006 Heat Wave from NYC Streets. Take a look!

In ALA: Where am I?

In Design, Elsewhere, Writing on 8 August 2006 with Comments Off

Whoops, I did it again. I let a long-simmering annoyance with some quirk of current web design spill over into a rant that the kind folks at awesome web design rag A List Apart, enablers that they are, were kind enough to publish. Some will call it obvious, but if it was so obvious, it [...]

10 Insights on Blogs from PEW

In Blogging, Internet, Weblogs on 1 August 2006 with Comments Off

Notable insights from the PEW Internet study on blogging:
1. “The most popular topic among bloggers is their life and experiences.”
I knew this and you knew this, but it’s nice to see the numbers back it up. What do bloggers write about? Life, baby. Same as it ever was for anyone with a pen and a [...]