[2006/03/30]

→ The latest Dan McCarthy print looks fine. And gives me some pleasant Wax Trax shivers.

[2006/03/28]

→ Dear Ev: not to nitpick, but the reference for a meter is a distance a wavelength of light travels in a sert period of time, not a chunk of platinum in a vault in Paris. That's the reference for one kilogram. And isn't the point of the "reference object" calibratation and exactitude, not approximation? | comment 2 | trackback 0

[2006/03/25]

→ A good reminder of why lighting matters, in photography but in life too. Which kitchen would you rather cook in? The one with bad light or the one with good light? | comment 1

→ Yet another community site I rarely log into that now offers a personalized URL: LinkedIn.

[2006/03/22]

→ I have been thinking about getting a new mobile phone for a while (Years; I carry version of the Sony Ericcson T610) and I spent some time last week looking at a new one: the Nokia 6030. Now this is a really low-end phones by today's standards. Essentially the same spec as my old phone (Though without Bluetooth, erg.) but with Nokia reception and UI. I really loathe the Sony Ericsson interface; though not as much as I hate Motorola's. Now interestingly, Noah happens to have a post on simplifying in general and going back to a simple mobile phone in particular and, while he refers to the new PEBL not this phone, the logic is the same. In essence, I find myself slowed down by PDAs/smart phones, not enabled by them. That's why I stopped carrying a Palm. That's why I shy away from the Treo or a Crackberry. Hm.

[2006/03/21]

→ Amusing article on goths and what happens when the grow up. Apparently they become dentists.

[2006/03/20]

→ Now that is thae hardest hardcore tat I've seen. Dang.

→ Bruce Sterling writes like some kind of script kiddie in this post about Adaptive Path/Design/language. Though I really decided to link to it because I was amused that the three firms he uses to define the "design business:" MetaDesign (a formerly employer of mine), Method (Former roommate, client, friend), and Pentagram (E, no real connection; except Juliette tried to get me to go get a job there the first three years I lived in NYC. And I walk by their building on route to a client every week). Curious trio to choose.

[2006/03/14]

→ A nice little post from Kottke called Really listening hightlights one of my cardinal rules of helping clients. You have to start by listening carefully to what the client says they want but then you need to make your own, independant assessment of what they actually, really need. Those two are often very different but you must start by listening to what they say; then you need to know not to stop there but keep thinking.

[2006/03/09]

→ My old friend Jessica makes these amazingly clever inhole cameras. I think The Laundromat, splayed out into a oggly-eyed cross, is one of my favorites.

→ The description of Intel and Microsoft's not-yet-shipping Origami read suncannily like Nokia's already-shipping Linux-based (but underwhelming; we have one) 770 Internet Tablet. The Nokia is really slow. Too slow. And the email client is so bad as to be nearly useless.

→ Picked up lunch from one of those Hallal chicken or lamb over rice street vendors today and, while eating, concluded that those meals offer one of the highest good flavor per dollar deals. Roast pork over rice sometimes comes close, but the low quality (to Western tastes; read as gnarly bits) of the meat undermines that option. Mickey D's, as depressing as this is to say, probably fares pretty well on this front; perhaps that explains a key part of the appeal? Some slices of pizza do pretty well too.