Bill Gates and the Greatest Tech Hack Ever: “Imagine if someone had defined an explicit goal of a ‘cure AIDS tax’ for corporations, and then tried to get that enacted. The fact that, effectively, this has happened is remarkable.”

Creatures spotted in the Catskills: 1 porcupine, 2 raccoons, 6 frogs and an equal number of fireflies and wild kids on bikes.

last week I received my muxtape-to-tape from russelldavies. I still haven’t listened to the tape (I cheated and listened to crusty.muxtape.com
Many thanks to Russell for this little gem of internet physicality.

You can’t call Verizon wired phone repair to tell them your phone is broken unless you’re calling from a Verizon number. My AT&T cell and Skype Out both tell me the number on the Verizon repair site, (area code) 890-6611 does not exist.
I noticed this way back last year when I had a phone issue, [...]

I love getting people on the Par-tay who know more than I do. This week I have two guests with rock solid expertise in something that we can all use help with: selling effectively. And we all need to learn to do that, whether we are selling our ideas or our products. Jeremy Epstein is [...]

sad but true. É de Abril, mas essas coisas precisam de um certo delay.Um belo dia cresceu uma verruguinha na base do pau, exatamente onde a camisinha termina de desdobrar. Nem todo mundo sabe onde é isso. Fui no Dr Oskar e ele disse que tinha que que…

Behold the Pixelmusic 3000, the music visualizer on a microcontroller. The PM3K was created as a project and article for Make Magazine. This means the schematic, parts list, code and a photo/text walkthrough explaining the build are printed for anybody to make or modify as s/he wishes. The PM3K is intended both as an ode [...]

Daphyn had been bugging me for awhile to get a new digital camera for her (since I loathe playing photographer at family events) and I kept pushing back because Canon strayed away from pocket cameras with manual settings. When her birthday came around earlier this month I almost bought her a Panasonic Lumix–but discovered the [...]

Daphyn had been bugging me for awhile to get a new digital camera for her (since I loathe playing photographer at family events) and I kept pushing back because Canon strayed away from pocket cameras with manual settings. When her birthday came around earlier this month I almost bought her a Panasonic Lumix–but discovered the [...]

I’ve always been a big fan of starting with paper.

Although it’s hard to tell what the content is, it gives you a good sense of timing of a user interacting with a site. Amit Pitaru demonstrated and assigned paper prototyping when we had to design clocks for people with low-vision or blindness. This was mine my design.

This site shows sketches of very popular sites like Twitter.

I’ve always been a big fan of starting with paper.

Although it’s hard to tell what the content is, it gives you a good sense of timing of a user interacting with a site. Amit Pitaru demonstrated and assigned paper prototyping when we had to design clocks for people with low-vision or blindness. This was mine my design.

This site shows sketches of very popular sites like Twitter.

I’ve always been a big fan of starting with paper.

Although it’s hard to tell what the content is, it gives you a good sense of timing of a user interacting with a site. Amit Pitaru demonstrated and assigned paper prototyping when we had to design clocks for people with low-vision or blindness. This was mine my design.

This site shows sketches of very popular sites like Twitter.

Although high school is all about being self centered, looking back on it, I realize I was surrounded by some pretty awesome people. I’m still in touch with a few of them, but since I moved far, far, from home when I got that piece of parchment, I lost touch with most. There are some [...]

hate waking up to find my flight is delayed, but they ask me to be at airport anyway. they want 3 hours of my day. Thanks, Continental. #
@jenmyronuk @missrogue thanks so much for the 80’s music wake up. #
waiting out some of my flight delay at CitizenM. it is going to be a very long [...]

We got a great crowd of around 20 people for our Drupal ‘Birds of a Feather’. The above is a shot of everybody in the BIGWIG Bloggers’ room — just before we got kicked out by some group from YALSA (bums, we’ll get even)!

(We then proceeded to the next available empty room and had our get-together there.)

First up on the agenda was setting up the Drupal IG, making sure we have enough signatures and asking for volunteers to serve as Chair and Co-Chair. For the first year, Leo Klein (i.e. me) graciously volunteered to serve as chair and Ian Chen as co-chair.

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Developed by Sense Networks, Citysense is an innovative mobile application for local nightlife discovery and social navigation, answering the question, “Where is everybody?” Citysense shows the overall activity level of the city, top activity hotspots, and places with unexpectedly high activity, all in real-time. Then it links to Yelp and Google to show what [...]

Dopplr’s profiles based on animal speeds is another great example of playful design.

Friday Fun: Yahoo Mail Offers Random Subject Lines in a ClickGreat example of playful design.

Nike+ gym equipment coming July — iPhone integration imminent? - EngadgetI'm still on the fence as to whether or not I'd use Nike+ on my iPhone. I wonder if [...]

I just received this as a gift, and am planning to buy more. Aside from designing chairs, one of my favorite designs is an animation titled The Power of Tens.

Love these:

I just received this as a gift, and am planning to buy more. Aside from designing chairs, one of my favorite designs is an animation titled The Power of Tens.

Love these:

I was so happy when I heard that Christina Arnold won a 300K Cooke Scholarship to pursue a masters degree in public administration and a law degree. Christina founded and runs the Prevent Human Trafficking Institute, an organization that works to “Tackle the root causes of human trafficking through direct support and technical assistance.”
Here is [...]

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After almost 4 hours of dealing with Continental yesterday, and a flight delay of 3 hours today I’ll be leaving to go to the airport (across the street) shortly for a few hours of passport control hospitality and 8 hours in a seat. I’m just looking forward to seeing the wife and [...]

canceled flight in Amsterdam. anyone want to meet up tonight for a casual dinner? D me, or text me . stuck in airport for 2 hrs more… #
@bomega wow that’s terrible! hope all are ok! #
back at CitizenM - thanks to those guys for getting us back in for another comfortable night! #

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These folks do good work and don’t want to invade your privacy, unlike the Federal Government. Please consider making a contribution to hopeline.com.

While flying to San Francisco on Virgin America (my new favorite airline, btw) I stopped to watch this show on Current.TV about Brooklyn graffiti artists in New Orleans called Your Neighbor’s Steps:
A New Orleans art collective works to establish installations in areas hardest hit by Katrina, attracting people to see the art and thus see [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: ““Your Neighbor’s Steps””, url: “http://www.teamkanestreet.com/blog/2008/06/28/your-neighbors-steps-2/” });

Top 10 TED Talks - Boing BoingA great "starter kit" for anyone trying to get into what TED is all about.
Curbed: High Line New Renderings Reveal: Phase OneNice renderings of what the much ballyhooed public park will eventually look like. Exciting!
Top Ten long shot goalsSome really impressive soccer goals here. Check them out.
Doodle forerunners for [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Team Kane Street links for June 24th through June 28th”, url: “http://www.teamkanestreet.com/blog/2008/06/28/team-kane-street-links-for-june-24th-through-june-28th/” });

The 10 Commandments of Web DesignAs bestowed on us by a smattering of internet luminaries. Good list, btw.

Interview: The cellphone anthropologist Jan Chipchase - New ScientistGreat interview with mobile uber-anthropologist at Nokia, Jan Chipchase.

A List Apart: Articles: Sketching in Code: the Magic of PrototypingInteresting article on the shortcomings of wireframes and the benefits of prototypes.

Google’s [...]

The popular tourist shirts say “I AM Sterdam” in all the shops. Well, I AM in AMsterdam for another day, thanks to a cancelled Continental flight. Continental actually sent a check-in notice, but when I tried to do so at the hotel computer, it said “gate only.” Not cancelled, Gate Only. Get to the gate, [...]

Not the best quality shot but hopefully it conveys what a great time I had at the LITA Happy Hour on Friday, June 27. I got most of the signatures for the Drupal IG plus met a bunch of great people.

thanks again @bomega and @tessas for hosting at home w/ @kresss @bsobel226 @nextweb @theineke and more for *great* food and fun last night #
@howardgr is over capacity . Insert icon of whale here. #

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Here’s the great part about being self-employed: you can slack off whenever you want and make up for it later. Today around lunch time, Mark came up with an idea of going to catch WALL-E before the school kids get out and crowd the theatre. I was a little hesitant at first, [...]