Get Out and Shoot!

I’m trying to get in gear to take more photos and get to the point where I feel like I’m actually a good photographer and not just a competent one. (Of course, that time will probably never come, so I should just try to get to the point where I can shoot photos that I’m …

Apple Stores

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 …

Dubya the Menace

Dubya the Menace is a randomized Dennis The Menace comic with real quotes, straight from George W. Bush’s mouth.

Advanced BMX

I don’t really ride any more but I can still appreciate it. This video of Scotty Cranmer takes skatepark riding into videogame territory…

Mooninites Invade Boston

“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 …

Stolen “Losers of the Year”

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 …

New Design

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.

New Photos Page

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.

Fear Makes People Conservatives

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 …