Archives for 2007

16 Things You May Not Know About Seattle Until You Move Here Equally true for Portland: "Every day is casual Friday. People ...

"Today, it’s difficult to recall vividly that time when smoking was so prevalent in New York. Memories of that era are hazy and absurd compared ...

A coworker of mine recently sent me a link and said "Cool, I didn't know the Germans had a walking tank!" After a few seconds of ...

BioShock Propaganda Goes to the Grocery Store Best photoshop job I've seen in awhile, and I love the subject. Tags: bioshock, photoshop, grocery, ...

Understanding Food Labels You Might Encounter at Whole Foods. "Local: This is food grown by local farmers who dislike you because you're ...

I was going to write a review, but instead I'm going to quote from an email Miles sent me, because he puts it better than ...

In 1998, Jeffrey Zeldman co-founded the Web Standards Project to fight for better support of web standards from the browser manufacturers and web developers. It ...

Ronald D. Moore Ron Moore started a new personal blog to avoid any conflicts of interest by posting on scifi.com - So ...

What you're looking at here is one small slice of a waveform graph of my music listening habits over the last year, as recorded via ...

Pop Art, the interactive marketing agency where I work, is currently hiring for several positions, including an account director, a .NET web developer, and most ...

"You’ll sometimes hear people joke that good programmers are 'lazy', and what this means is simply that good programmers tend to see duplicated work as ...

"The experienced web designer, like the talented newspaper art director, accepts that many projects she works on will have headers and columns and footers. Her ...

Dear Zoe, Well, let's see. This month you had your first Thanksgiving dinner at Eric and Jill's. You caught a nasty cold and then gave it ...

Photo: the levitating psychic gals portion of the parade Great photo. Tags: photography, psychics, levitation, parades

Last week, Annie and I went to Seattle to see the special two-hour episode of Galactica, Razor. Microsoft was sponsoring a free screening in select ...

Video: 24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot "Since Fox will not be airing a new season of “24″ due to the writers’ strike, ...

"I’d rather answer a few dumb questions than put up with a few dumb assumptions." -- Aaron Cannon, in reply to a question about whether he ...

"Implication is more efficient than simulation." -- Don Hopkins, summarizing Will Wright, discussing why SimCity isn't as realistic as it appears. Update: Edited to properly attribute the ...

This magazine cover is a perfect example of why you should always have someone else review any art decisions you make. There are several things ...

Annie: "I just wanted to let you know that I was right, she was pooping." Scott: "This is the weirdest phone call I've ever received." -- Annie ...

"The Web has given angry and vitriolic people more of a voice in public discourse. People in the past who have been on the nutty ...

"I was a baker. You can’t just turn up the oven and expect to take the bread out sooner." -- Eric Danielson, NorthTemple.com QA lead, commenting ...

Jimmy Carter will kill your cat But don't worry, he'll get you a new one. Tags: jimmycarter, politics, bizarre, cats, president, letters, guns ...

For the Pop Art 10-year anniversary party, the creative team laid out a 20-foot-wide grid of three-inch squares on the wall of the conference room. ...

As far as he can tell, Dr. Robert Morgan (played by Vincent Price) is the only survivor of a plague that turns its victims into ...