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Monthly Archives: July 2009

why I only do hourly

hee hee zed shaw

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=706377 Announcing: The Zed Shaw Celebutante License 95 points by grandalf 6 hours ago | 33 comments Preamble: The Zed Shaw Celebutante License (ZSCL) is designed to meet the objective of some open source contributors, which is to gain fame and notoriety in the open source community as a result of widespread adoption of open [...]

Hellmann’s – It’s Time for Real from CRUSH on Vimeo.

creationism for smarty pants who like scientific explanations

oh no…it was the internet that gave us this mess (?)

Huh? I’m not so sure about this one. Sure capital flows in idiotic ways. Go look at Vegas or Macau. To see the internet bubble as a cause for this or as anything more meaningful than yet another occasion on which the injection of tremendous amounts of wealth into the hands of entrepreneurial hucksters is [...]

because i’m occassionally in inclement situations of various sorts

I want one of these: http://conversations.nokia.com/2009/07/07/nokia-rugged-phone-versus-swimming-pool-pint-of-beer-and-ladder/

design and art

Here’s an interesting question: on what is art supposed to be commenting and critiquing? Is design better positioned to comment and critique the role of commerce, objects, manufacturing, consumption, capitalism, and advertising in our lives than art? Is programming and interaction design better positioned to critique and comment on the role of software, automation, and [...]