Archive for January 2008

New in The Magazineer

In Magazineer, Magazines on 13 January 2008 with 1 comment

New in The Magazineer: Southwest’s Eclectic Spirit
(And, yes, the guy sitting next to me on the plane thought I was nuts.)

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 […]

links for 2008-01-11

In Links on 11 January 2008 with 1 comment

3by9: I Know What Is King
Relationships are king. (Cool discussion.)
(tags: content relationships personality)

links for 2008-01-10

In Links on 10 January 2008 with Comments Off

Media Molecule - LittleBigPlanet
Okay, now I want a Playstation 3. (Watch the video.)
(tags: games playstation wow)

sippey.typepad.com: after new hampshire
What he (and Dowd) said.
(tags: politics)

Brother GT-541 Digital Garment Printer
Want.
(tags: t-shirts printers printondemand)

What Do Real Thugs Think of The Wire?
If The Bunk is dirty, I’ll eat my hat.
(tags: thewire tv thuglife)

links for 2008-01-09

In Links on 9 January 2008 with 3 comments

YouTube - Jim Gaffigan
Three and a half minutes of bacon jokes.
(tags: video bacon)

YouTube - Evil Bee Menomena
It’s been a long time since I’ve been this moved by a music video. Oh, to be a machine.
(tags: video Menomena)

New in Fray: Busted in Jena

In Fray, Magazines, News, Politics, Stories on 7 January 2008 with Comments Off

When a group of black students in Jena, Louisiana, defied tradition and sat under a “whites only” tree, no one could have predicted that it would become a national story, that Reverend Al Sharpton would lead a march through town, or that Michael David Murphy would quit his job and travel to Jena to meet, […]

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 […]

links for 2008-01-06

In Links on 6 January 2008 with Comments Off

The Magazineer - How to Read Wired Revisited
Man, has it really been 12 years?
(tags: suck wired magazines)

Chelsea Peretti on Super Deluxe
I think I dated her in college.
(tags: video

Happiness Math: Yesands vs Nobuts

In Communication, Emotions, Life on 6 January 2008 with 10 comments

It took me 34 years to learn it, but I’ve finally figured out a basic mathematical principle that predicts my happiness in life. Here it is:
Take the number of times you hear “yes, and” in a day. Then take the number of times you hear “no, but” in the day. Now subtract the nobuts from […]

Breeder

In Photos on 5 January 2008 with 1 comment

Lower Haight, San Francisco. Lomo LC-A.