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What I Had for Dinner Tonight My new venture, a group blog, journaling what people cook/eat for dinner each night. Take a look, register, post, comment and enjoy! Permalink
My Reading List Bookmark this link or add the RSS feed to follow what I am reading online. Permalink
Meeting Berke Breathed Back in the papers again... Berke Breathed was in town promoting his new book, Mars Needs Moms. The best part of meeting him was finding out he and Douglas Adams were good friends when they lived in Santa Barbara at the same time. Permalink
I loathe my Comcast Motorola HD DVR box The NY Times let me bitch about my horrendous cable box to a national audience. The output is great, but the UI and software aren't. And, as much as I want Tivo, adding another layer of software is not going to improve the box. (I changed the link to a no-reg IHT page) Permalink
Banksy Wins Banksy's work of caught lovers, on the side of a Bristol, UK clinic, will be allowed to stay up, but "is not a green light for more graffiti in the city." Permalink
DJ Danger Mouse The man behind last year's "Grey Album" and this year's Gnarls Barkley. Permalink
HP 01 The very first calculator watch. It had some neat tricks up its sleeve, too! Permalink
What is more important? Birds and beauty? Or cheap, sustainable energy? A proposed windfarm between the Cape and the Islands makes for some difficult decisions. Permalink
10000th Shoplifter I'm thinking she would have preferred jail. Links to embedded YouTube video. Permalink
Do You Own Your Image? David Byrne ruminates on ownership of artistic works derived from images shot in public. Permalink
Bio-Ooze What every child will want to have shot on them by other children, at least, according to Hasbro. Permalink
Get a Mac The next phase of the "Switch" campaign, with each platform anthropomorphized. Permalink
Why? vs. NO! "Why" opens dialogues. "No" ends them. Permalink
Truthiness in Action Stephen Colbert rips W a new one, while standing eight feet away. Permalink
Site Design: Pretty vs Ugly? Design is not just decoration, beauty has nothing to do with usability, and neither are the only reasons that a site may be successful. Permalink
I invented the Apple Logo ... and got nothing for it. Rob Janoff, I feel your pain. Permalink
Born From Jets A fascinating idea to reuse the bodies of discarded passenger planes to make a public library building.  Permalink
Design Trends 2006 Brown is the new black, color is ok, illustration is back, and industrial never went away. Ultra-minimalism is so over, tho. Permalink
Too Gay for Figureskating That's unpossible! No, apparently it isn't... Johnny Weir, three-time men's national champion, is nowhere to be seen on the official site. Permalink
Why Designers Charge I can hear a bunch of you right now. "$10k per page!!! Are you crazy? I can buy a copy of Photoshop and a copy of Dreamweaver and have one of my IT people do the site! My daughter has her own web site! It's only a damn web site!!!" Permalink
Grab for Retro Glory When the newest VW Golf is finally released in North America, it will be called the Rabbit, again.  Permalink
Harry Taylor is Cool "I feel like despite your rhetoric, that compassion and common sense have been left far behind during your administration. And I would hope from time to time that you have the humility and grace to be ashamed of yourself." Yet W doesn't. Permalink
Phone Boo.. Oops! More great work from one of my favorite current artists, Banksy Permalink
The Good, Bad and Ugly 30 years of Apple products and history. Happy Birthday Apple! Permalink
Quote of the Day "Creativity is not in the newest gadget or technology available, but instead within the ability to focus." Permalink
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts The groundbreaking 1981 album has been remixed and remastered and extended by Eno and Byrne. Yay! Permalink
Chef Quits South Park Apparently Isaac Hayes is a nutjob Scientologist, and the Tom Cruise episode was too much for him Permalink
Buy a Shredder, NOW In which an intrepid citizen gets a credit card from a torn up application with forged information. Permalink
Unpimp Mein Auto Yeah, I know I don't drive a VW anymore, but since these ads were created by the agency VW stole away from MINI, is it any wonder that I am in the cross-hairs of this campaign? Permalink
Getting a Point Across Very nice ad for a self defense school in Berlin. Take a tooth and call us! Permalink
Web 2.0 Logo Typography In the effort to create something "NEW!!!!!", it seems that the same solutions are being used and re-used. Permalink
Presbyterians Do the Right Thing In their eyes, the Rev. Jane Spahr "was acting within her right of conscience in performing marriage ceremonies for same-sex couples." Permalink
Spec is a 4-letter word "Next time you need your car fixed, I encourage you to visit your mechanic and explain that if you like what he does, you'll think about paying him something for his efforts." Permalink
More Python! Six new specials on PBS, with new footage and old favorites: one for and directed by each Python, except Chapman's, which they'll do together.  Permalink
Eddie the Eagle An interview with the most inspiring Olympic athlete of my lifetime. Permalink
An Olympian to Respect Johnny Weir may just be my favorite Olympian of 2006. Hurray for being honest, and being himself. I'll be rooting for him, Bjork swan costume and all. Permalink
Best Dick Joke Yet Today's Metro section of the WashPo is peppered with buckshot. Permalink
Frequently! Willie Nelson is one of the greats... but then again, so is Dolly. Permalink
Cheney's Got a Gun Embarrassing American citizens since 2001! Permalink
Doonesbury Apologizes to Bush 1 "...What we overlooked at the time were his fine qualities, which we now see he had in abundance." Permalink
We're Number 2! Only LA has worse traffic than the Bay Area. I love my new 5 foot commute. Permalink
Mavericks 2006 Photos from the annual superbowl of surfing. Stunning! Permalink
Christine Troy, Immigration Counsel Gillico's first site, for San Francisco and the Bay Area's best immigration counsel, and my good friend, Christine Troy Permalink
Balls that Clank "Not a significant bullet"? AND he rescued Joaquin Phoenix from a car wreck a couple days ago, too. I ♥ Werner! Shatner may have competition. Permalink
Brokeback to the Future Another quality production from Emerson College students. Permalink
Telegrams. Stop. Western Union gets out of the commercial messaging service. What hath God wrought, indeed. Permalink
MINI Ad Agency Boot Camp Landing the MINI USA account took a lot more than just submitting pretty boards. Permalink
Your Host, Stewie Griffin Stewie's getting his own talk show too. Now we have the trifecta, if only they would run it back to back with John Waters' and Buddy Cole's new shows. Permalink
Graph Paper and grids too, all dowloadable and printable PDFs. Permalink
Portfolios What does yours look like? What do you look for in others'? Speak Up invites some comments. Permalink