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NetNewsWire Icon

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

I'm a fan of the work Brad Ellis did on the NetNewsWire desktop icon, but I'm particularly in love with the NNW iPhone icon. Absolutely brilliant.

Posted in Design |

NetNewsWire

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Brent Simmons has emerged from his cave, unwashed and unshaven, to bestow upon the world a new version of NetNewsWire for the iPhone. This version comes at the introductory price of $1.99, and there's also an ad-supported variant. Both apps support Google Reader sync. Oh, and NetNewsWire 3.2 for the Mac ...

Posted in Software |

Roomba Art

Monday, September 21st, 2009

This might be enough for me to dust off my Roomba and find a tripod.

Posted in Photography, Technology |

Jedi in the Hood

Monday, September 21st, 2009

Daniel Jones, the founder of the Jedi religion (heavy sigh) is considering legal action after a grocery store wouldn't allow him to wear a hood while shopping. But the grocery empire struck back, claiming that the three best known Jedi Knights in the Star Wars movies – Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi and ...

Posted in Star Wars |

MiFi

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Alex King pointed me to Amazon, where the Novatel MiFi is on sale for $0.01 (with contract). Now the question: do I get the Sprint version or the Verizon version? Sadly, even Boy Genius wasn't much help in deciding.

Posted in Technology |

Fight Club Blu-ray on Sale

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Amazon has the Fight Club Blu-ray available for pre-order for a mere $18.99.

Posted in Movies |

Neil Patrick Harris

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

New York Magazine has an excellent piece on NPH's ever-rising star. Not long ago, I had written him off as a Doogie. Now I can't imagine How I Met Your Mother or Dr. Horrible without him.

Posted in Television |

Subpixel Font

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

This is incredible.

Posted in Design |

• Larry

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Larry was the black sheep of the family, which may be why I liked him so much. I called him the crazy uncle, and even now it doesn't feel like an insult to say it. Growing up, my extended family was always engaged in some kind of internal battle. Someone ...

Posted in Personal |

New Header Image

Friday, September 4th, 2009

I removed the half-pixel above and below the line. What, it wasn't driving you crazy?

Posted in Design |

People of Walmart

Friday, September 4th, 2009

This is my new favorite site.

Posted in Web |