Graeter’s Ice Cream Delivery
Graeter’s is one of my all time favorite Ohio treats and now it can be delivered to our front door in Brooklyn! I definitely recommend trying out the mint chocolate chip.
(tags: IceCream graeters)

Knowing the Day in a Stylish Way
Need a calendar for 2008? Check out some of these designer calendars highlighted by [...]

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hope you a miracle shining 2008 !

Elmo and I got a new Kitten

How Much Damage Can One Small Cat Do?

Carrick-a-Rede Bridge at Ballintoy


Narnia

Oxford Island

Derry

Ballintoy

Ballintoy

Dunluce Castle

Dunluce Castle

Giant’s Causeway

Giant’s Causeway

Guinness Time

The Bloody Hand of Ulster

Newgrange

The man-made ditch around Navan Fort

The mound at Navan fort. Cindy and I found offerings in a hole at the top of the hill.

The Paris skyline from Centre Pompidou. Note the lack of skyscrapers

The Roman Forum

Paris

Urbino, City of Stone

Venezia

Monte Petrone, Cagli

Torrione, Cagli

Xmas Brunch at the Yacht Club

we sent out this card and some people asked if i was holding a snake. uh, i wouldn’t hold a snake let alone put it near my face. so, no. it’s not a snake.

been working on an architecture design project in beijing. Gutted this apartment, moved walls and put in a whole new stairwell. we’re about halfway through.

and this was christmas eve dinner:

a massive feast with good friends. what better

Friday night Manlio was in NYC so we grabbed some dinner with him before heading into town. In the cab ride, he mentioned a bar that Dennis had recommend. This bar, he said, had a mechanical bull. That was all he needed to say before Alex and I were requesting the location and directing the [...]

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I found the bestest hat evar! But I did not buy.
at Scandanavian Grace

Alive in Baghdad is a video blog describing Iraqi everyday life from a local perspective. Brian Conley,a journalist and film director, is its creator. It is a great example for new methods to support citizen journalism around the world.
Brian is an American who trained a small group of Iraqi journalists who prepare the articles for [...]

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St. Charles street car - Welcome back!!!, originally uploaded by pecanjackson.

He directedthat?
List of directors who each have a movie that might surprise you. (via Daring Fireball)
(tags: movies lists)

Seth Godin, Marketing Action Figure
Grab yourself a Seth Godin action figure.

TV’s funniest lines of 2007
Some great ones in here. (Thanks, Jon!)
(tags: tv list)

Rumored features in next iPhone firmware release
Google maps using pseudo-GPS and customizable home screen are the [...]

In what has become a great little tradition, Karen and I had my mother over for dinner this Christmas Eve. We made a roasted chicken, green beans sauteed with mushrooms and crushed almonds and I took a crack at making potatoes-au-gratin - a childhood favorite of mine that my mother used to make.

After dinner, Karen [...]

I love projects like this - very simple and profound. Japanese art director Jun Tsuzuki has been having people around the world take photos at precisely the same instant.
Read more about it over at Cool Hunting.

NYC tweetup, tomorrow (sun) 1PM at apple, 17 waverly place at the Bom Bar at Apple. Couches, East Asian snacks, and bevvies.
Here’s the map.
Near the Astor Place, Waverly, and West 4th Metro stops.
Spread the word!
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Thanks to Thomas from Overkill for always keeping me up to date on what’s popping in Berlin. It’s been a busy holiday season for the crew at Overkill and they are stocking everything from the Bobbito Nike Air Force 1s to the Adidas Micropacer to the JB Classics “Leary Collection”. Peep the eye [...]

The 50 most loathsome people in America…
…clocking in at number 9, TIME’s 2006 Person of the Year… You. And clocking in at #1, the commander guy, Mr. Bush.
(tags: news list)

Snorting a Brain Chemical Could Replace Sleep
A scientist at UCLA discovered that a lack of a hormone called Orexin A causes narcolepsy so he tried putting [...]

Here’s a good way to get rich and famous playing the instrument of your dreams! Free air guitars!
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Mollie a dog that I got from a shelter five years ago. Two years ago Mom adopted her when I came NYC for graduate school. When I got Mollie she was already estimated to be 7 years old. While I was at home she began having trouble with her back. A trip to the vet [...]

Andy Carvin and Steve Inskeep featured an audio clip of me talking about my New Years Eve plans on Morning Edition this morning. The larger story was about the explosion of blogging from mobile devices. They talked about Twitter, Utterz, and the Susan Reynolds phenomenon
Check out the NPR story here.

Arin Crumley from 4EyedMonsters sat down and had a video chat with Chris and Dorian from Misnomer about our proposal on IdeaBlob.

If you haven’t already, vote for this idea on IdeaBlob. If you have voted, Thank you! Your votes and support are fantastic and inspiring. Take a moment to:
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Evolution reaches its natural conclusion.
This week: what if?
The longest comic yet on TRACED has fully evolved. I am working on another story and will have it up soon. I’ll keep you posted on the progress so check back or subscribe to the TRACED feeds for automatic updates.

Ever been looking out the window of a plane and wondered what the heck you were looking at? well, this book solves that problem. They point out all the major aerial landmarks on the most-traveled US air routes.It comes with a CD so you don’t have to lu…

Tengu is a super-cute device that responds to sound. His mouth will move in response to all sounds in the room. There are also several different versions of his face, which can be changed by blowing on a microphone located on the bottom of Tengu.Powere…

Radiohead on Current TV
Catch Radiohead perform In Rainbows live on Current TV and online at current.com at midnight on New Year’s Eve.
(tags: video)

10 Signs of Intelligent Life at YouTube (Smart Video Collections)
When you inevitably start to feel that YouTube is all skateboarding bulldogs and blended iPhones, check out this link.
(tags: video youtube)

Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs [...]

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In all my years growing up on the NC coast have seen many things. Natural and man-made. On the one clear day left in December, Mom and I went down to Kitty Hawk to see the ocean. It was the perfect day to be on the coast.
The fishermen were out and up and down the [...]

 
It is a good day when you have 104 Elvis cards to play double sol.

Last summer when in Frankfurt I visited the Museum für Kommunikation. I had written a reminder to myself very recently that I should write about my experience of visiting and was reminded again today when I read about the optical telegraph, or Semaphore, communication networks. I was familiar with semaphore, as shown in the boy [...]

IPHONE KICKSTARTS US MOBILE SPLURGE | Part 2 of a Bloomberg series looking at the emerging smartphone market in the US. “It took a computer maker and a pager company to convince Americans a mobile phone is worth paying for, and now shoppers are splurg…

I’m sitting here in New York with a computer in my lap and with CNN on the television. The news of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto broke about an hour ago and I got it within moments on the…

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nothing to say. i will do as is said on the card from now on.

I think he’s summed it up really nicely with this tweet. The networks that ultimately see success are those that can provide value to empower the community towards new social interactions and new types of information rather than just amplifying everyone’s individual voice.
The reason social networks don’t deliver on their basic promise is that no [...]

If you received a Christmas card from Daphyn and me, chances are you didn’t get “it”. My own mother didn’t realize I drew it, my best friend scolded me for highbrowing him, and only three people recognized the loose reference to Rodin’s masterpiece. Next year I’ll just have to try harder…

Pleo, the Robotic Baby Dinosaur
The world of personal robotics keeps on evolving. I really like the expressions they pull off with this one.
(tags: gear wishlist robot toys pleo)

Google lays an egg when it comes to social (again)
Scoble weighs in on how Google can fix the mess they made with awkwardly shoehorning in social features into [...]

End of year get-together. It was nice to see everyone. Alas, being the cook, I was cooped up in the kitchen for way too much of it. Next year, I’m ordering out!

P.S. Managed to do all the dishes within 24 hours of the event. Yes, I know, a miracle.

For the past year, I have been working as a New Media Producer for Misnomer. Recently, we entered a contest on Ideablob, which awards good & popular ideas with $10k. There are numerous ways that the arts can use the web to create new modes of support for artists, while also creating more engaging ways [...]