Hidden Elements in Logos

Uni Watch is a blog all about sports uniforms, and often has some interesting articles. (It’s where I learned about baseball’s “futuristic” uniforms…glad I missed those games.) Anyway, there’s a pretty good one about hidden elements in sports logos (inspired by a discussion of the FedEx logo’s negative space arrow). In it they mention the …

Meat Helmets?

“In the spring we’d make meat helmets.” — Dr. Evil

The Return of Sinko

I decided to start doing Sinko again: a weekly podcast that’s basically a 5-song “mix tape” based on a theme or artist. Check it out if you’re interested, and you can subscribe here.

Stuff

Paul Graham has a good article about owning too much stuff. It’s good for me to read something like this every so often to inspire me to clean out a lot of things I really don’t need.

Polite Grouch

While talking about Sesame Street… Amelia: Why does Oscar always tell people “Get lost”?Me: Because he’s a grouch.Amelia: Well, he should say “Get lost, please.”

Wacky Photos

While digging around old files for this site, I came across two somewhat creepy photos of me. First is one I created years ago for reasons that escape me now, and it sorta looks like Jeremy: The second was a creation that Jeff did, combining me and Jakob Nielsen: (If you know me and know …

Vacation Photos

Not to bore anybody with all 80+ photos from our vacation in the Bahamas (out of the 240+ I actually took), I put a few select shots on Flickr.

Back from Vacation

Dear Atlantis in Nassau: thanks for the great vacation! Dear US Airways: thanks for undoing all our relaxing on our flight home. Now go find our luggage… Update: Hey, thanks for finding our luggage so quickly.

Full Wire Video Now Online

I finally got around to putting my last riding video on YouTube. “Wire: 1989-1995” is a best-of compilation of the four videos I made during those years. Until now it’s only been available on VHS, so rather than make a DVD version that nobody wants to buy I’ll just put it online for free. If …