Fortune has a good article about the Apple Stores: Apple: America’s best retailer Some interesting bits: Saks…generates sales of $362 per square foot a year. Best Buy stores turn $930 – tops for electronics retailers – while Tiffany & Co. takes in $2,666… But at $4,032, Apple is eating everyone’s lunch. It shouldn’t surprise me …
A new site I built is now live: Hollister Thomas Photography. The original designer sort of disappeared so I took his initial rough design, finished the details, and built the site. It was a lot of fun to do, especially adding the Lightbox 2.0 slideshow and the page load/fade-in code (which I needed to do …
Dubya the Menace is a randomized Dennis The Menace comic with real quotes, straight from George W. Bush’s mouth.
I don’t really ride any more but I can still appreciate it. This video of Scotty Cranmer takes skatepark riding into videogame territory…
“Gentlemen…behold! I have shut down a major American city!” What drives me nuts about this whole thing — besides the fact that these have been posted around the city for at least 2 weeks before this whole thing (figuratively) blew up — is that TV and newspaper reports keep referring to these small light-up billboards …
Someone in Japan took part of a video I made (“Losers of the Year”), edited out all non-flatland stuff, dubbed some rap over it, and uploaded it to YouTube. While I’m not exactly thrilled that somebody used my video without permission and added their own music to it, what the heck…the video is over 10 …
Well, unless you’re reading this in an RSS reader it’s pretty obvious that I launched this site’s new design. Nothing earth-shattering, just a (slight) improvement over the last minimalist/unfinished black & white version. There might be some weirdness while I work out the kinks, but hopefully it’s nothing too major.
I added a new photo slideshow thing on the Photos page using JonDesign’s Smooth Gallery, combining it with the SimplePie RSS reader to display my most recent Flickr photos. An entire new site design coming soon … just have to work through some wacky CSS things.
January 2007 is almost half over…time to post something! The Ideological Animal (Psychology Today) We think our political stance is the product of reason, but we’re easily manipulated and surprisingly malleable. Our essential political self is more a stew of childhood temperament, education, and fear of death. Call it the 9/11 effect… [A study] found …
Last year was the first year of my annual soundtrack project. Here’s this year’s CD (listen on Apple Music): Pixies: “Where Is My Mind?” People Under The Stairs: “The Dig” Gnarls Barkley: “Crazy” Devo: “Turn Around” They Might Be Giants: “I Should Be Allowed To Think” Belle & Sebastian: “White Collar Boy” The Dubliners: “Irish …