“Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.” -Jack Handey
03.24.09 | # | Start the conversation
Dan Bowling's Journal Entries
Bathtub IV Tilt Shift Video
I’ve always been a fan of these tilt shift videos. This one is no exception. The best part is the helicopter, IMHO.
Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.
03.21.09 | # | Start the conversation
Critical Album
After spotting this on Nick’s blog, I figured I’d give it a go (sans Gimp).
All the content above was randomly generated, according to this meme and slopped together using Photoshop. I can’t help but think that it really does look like it could be a real album.
To add my own twist, I decided to link to the first song I could find that was free… it ended up being pretty good too. Listen to it to complete the experience.
Working with such random content was sort of refreshing. It certainly let me spend some time focusing on getting the typography just the way I wanted it.
02.28.09 | # | 3 Comments
Jakob Nielsen, on the 25th anniversary of the Macintosh:
During its first decade, the Mac offered clearly superior usability compared to competing personal computer platforms (DOS, Windows, OS/2). Not until Windows 95 did the PC start to approximate Mac-level usability. Despite this Mac advantage, PCs have sold vastly better in every single year since 1984, and the Mac has yet to exceed a single-digit market share.
The Mac’s miserable marketplace performance seems to pose a strong argument against usability. Why bother, if it doesn’t sell? The counter-argument is that usability is the only reason Mac survived.
Yeah. I can dig that reasoning.
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02.16.09 | # | Start the conversation
It’s 2009. Where’s My Jet Pack?
All I can say is wow. This water-based jet pack is way better than a jet ski.
02.02.09 | # | Start the conversation
Stop Motion: Her Morning Elegance
Her Morning Elegance, a stop motion music video by Oren Lavie. Taken with 3225 still photos.
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History of the Internet
Wow. Interesting to know, if not a very broad look at it.
01.23.09 | # | Start the conversation
Meet the Home Team
There is a great photo special in the New York Times of Obama’s team. Interesting photographs—especially since I just finished watching The West Wing.
01.18.09 | # | Start the conversation
The Final Countdown
Just a reminder why next Tuesday is so important.
01.17.09 | # | Start the conversation
If you are bored, this might be worth your time.
PsychoTypograph from microbians on Vimeo.
01.14.09 | # | Start the conversation
Objectified Trailer
This looks like a movie that will change the way we see every day things. I can’t wait for it to come out… Objectified.
01.10.09 | # | Start the conversation
Missoula Crater on Mars
This afternoon I decided to hunt down any photography groups that met in Missoula. I was left aghast when my Google Groups search for “Missoula photo” lead to a very different kind of top result. I was pointed to a post on comp.robotics.misc about the Mars Rover. Nothing to do with my search really… I almost didn’t click it. Curiosity, of course, got the best to me and I found the reason that I was lead to that article.
“Spirit had a busy weekend, culminating with a 75-meter (246-feet) drive toward “Missoula Crater” on sol 103, which ended at 2:33 a.m. PST on April 18.”
Missoula Crater? What?!? Indeed. As in Missoula, Montana. A second quick Google later, and now I have the Astronomy Picture of the Day for May 4th, 2004 that features Missoula Crater.
For a better view, I suggest the true color image of the crater from Cornell (high res version.)
01.09.09 | # | Start the conversation
Traci pointed out a neat little comic to me today. Every woman should read it. ‘Tis hard to pee straight.
01.08.09 | # | Start the conversation
A friend just wrote a few words about how Facebook has utterly changed what war means to soldiers and citizens back home alike. Short and worth the read.
01.06.09 | # | Start the conversation
My Personal Browser War
I’ve been a proud Firefox user since, well, it wasn’t called Firefox. For a long time, it was the clear leader in the browser market. When version 2 was too outdated to use, and version 3 was buggier than ever, I switched to my OS’s native browser—Safari.
I’ve been pretty happy with Safari for a while. It is speedy, has a great UI, and just oozes excellent typography (something that I have not ignored.) Lately it’s been forgetting my saved passwords which has been frustrating to say the least. At work I use Chrome quite a bit, and I enjoy it. Chrome is (blazingly) fast at JavaScript heavy apps that I use all the time (like Gmail or Google Reader.) I’m also digging the single input search/address bar. But with both Safari and Chrome the lack of quality add-ons is killing me, and I start longing for my trusty Firefox again.
Does anyone have some advice for a user who’s lost his path in the second iteration of the browser wars? Should I forgive Firefox for it’s crashes of old? Is it time to try something else, like Camino or Opera?
01.04.09 | # | 2 Comments
I occasionally listen to the podcast for This American Life. It’s pretty good, and I recommend that you listen to the episode about a few people ruining it for the rest of us. What I especially liked was the single family that caused an outbreak of the Measles because they didn’t vaccinate their children. Some of these things are really about social responsibility.
01.02.09 | # | Start the conversation
Who do you think wins?
12.31.08 | # | Start the conversation