Archives for October, 2008

Wealth Groupies

Like "Joe the Plumber" -- who is not a licensed plumber, whose first name isn't Joe, whose boss's business makes $100K, not $250K and isn't ...


"I'm also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say. And it is permitted to be said such things ...


Pop Art Redesign

The redesign of the Pop Art site is live! I'm really proud of the work I did on this, and I'll write a longer post ...


All This Stuff has a Price Tag

"In truth, however, I know there are lots of Americans who, whatever their income, believe that the government should get its grubby hands off their ...


How is the Chicken Cooked?

To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, ...


A Few Things About Zoe

I just realized I haven't been posting about Zoe much lately. I'll try to make up for that with a few photo posts, but let ...


Fallout 3 First Impressions

I've only played for a few hours, and I've only made it a few hundred feet outside the Vault so far, but what I've seen, ...


Shatner upset Takei didn't invite him to wedding First he says J.J. Abrams didn't ask him to be in Star Trek, and ...


Reason I Love Portland #375

This was the image used on the cover of the most recent issue of the Willamette Week. The original image was done by Barry Stock, ...


A couple weeks ago, Andy Samberg did a parody of Mark Wahlberg in a throwaway sketch called "Mark Wahlberg Talks to Animals." It was basically ...


Video: Fix It! SNL with some advice on how to fix the economy: "Take it one step at a time. Identify the ...


How About We Pay You?

"We have a saying at Blizzard when something looks like too much work. How about we pay you? You can work on it, and every ...


Video: The Dr Horrible Follow-Up You Never Expected Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen, co-writers of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, sing song about ...


LP Usual Defects

About six month ago, we launched the first version of Stop the Usual Defects, a microsite for LP to promote the launch of their new ...


Quick-Peel An Egg This looks like a magic trick, but it totally works. Tags: hardboiled, eggs, peeling, video, howto, tricks, timesavers ...


Be Careful with Stress Balls

What you can't see is that the liquid inside the stress ball was full of glitter -- which is ALL over Chris, his desk, his ...