Java Royale
If James Bond ever decided to fend off evil as a web developer instead of as a world-class spy, he’d probably forego the conventional wisdom of the W3C and start cooking up some slick, sexy, and stylish gadget-like interfaces in Flash. Hey, 007 may be superficial, but he knows what looks good—even outside of a [...]
September When It Comes
I have to admit that I wasn’t even thinking about making a post about the passing of Johnny Cash today until I heard this song on WXPN. A duet of father and daughter, written by Rosanne Cash, it’s quite a moving—if not prophetic—tribute of music and words. There’s a cross above the baby’s bed A [...]
Live, Bare Naked Protesters!
For some reason this story from CNN, who’s usually quite reserved, ran a picture of the naked protesters currently making a scene at the beaches at Cancun, Mexico, where talks of like, globalization and, like… world stuff is going on. I can only imagine the kind of traffic this single entry will bring to my [...]
His Name is Linux
This clever television commercial from IBM is the first I’ve ever seen about the Linux Operating System. It catches a nerve not because Big Blue is sponsoring it, or Penny Marshall makes a cameo (oh, please, no), but because it tries to make palpable a foreign concept to most people working outside of today’s nitty-gritty [...]
Punk’d
Despite the anarchistic gesture of a post-Viscious Sex Pistols getting spit off stage and Iggy Pop single-handedly defying both age and reason performing in the raw with the Stooges, the so-called “reunion” of these and other rock legends doesn’t escape the scrutiny of spacerocker Julian Cope. Here’s a few re-union rules I’ve drawn up and [...]
