Focus + Context

Android for the people
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There’s nothing like the mall at Christmastime. Especially when that mall is on LONG ISLAND.
Saw this huuuuge advert hanging from the ceiling of Roosevelt Field shopping mall. There’s the little Android dude in the lower left hand banner of the banner. Is there a comparable iPhone app?
Interesting for a [...]

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This is a photo of my coffee cup from lunch today.  Why is this interesting, you ask?
It’s hard to see from my blurry cameraphone photo, but the text on the top says “Place Cup ↑ Seam Here.”
I checked underneath and there’s no special molding on the underside to combat seam-leakage.
While it’s not [...]

I’ve really enjoyed browsing through a bunch of old photos posted to Flickr by the New York Public Library (thanks to BoingBoing for posting).

This seems to be part of a recent trend. Not too long ago, The Library of Congress released a bunch of photos to Flickr, as have The Smithsonian Institute, and many other [...]

It’s completely unfair for me to say this. I’ve  never met the guy, but I get the sense that if I were to, he’d be an utter douchebag.
You can’t see the screen of his Palm Centro in this photo, but he’s simultaneoulsy juggling text conversations with two chicks he roofied in a bar last night [...]

I’m not sure how long it’s been around for, but I just came across an exciting new service called Twilio.
I think it’s easiest to think of it as glue between a voice call and a server-side application. So I call up an assigned, and my called is ‘handled’ by a script written in TwiML (Twilio’s [...]

Hexceptionally Delicious
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From Ralston, the makers of ‘Powdered Parallelograms’ and ‘Munch, Munch Moebius Strips’ comes a new product, ‘Crispy Hexagons.’
If my memory sewrves me correctly, aren’t Chex (of Chex Mix fame) hexagonally shaped as well? I’m sure the good folks over at Chex wanted to name their cereal ‘Crispy Hexagons,’ but [...]

Brrrrrrrrr.
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I awake with a tryptophan hangover, from a four-day long turkey-bender, shirt drenched in some ungodly combination of sweat and gravy, giblets stuck to the ceiling, to find that winter in chicago is finally upon us.
But there are so many more questions than answers. How long was i asleep for? Why am [...]

Test Post

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Using Flickr’s send-to-blog feature.
That’s my girlfriend’s cat, named Sasa. She features prominently into my photostream, as you can see.
Sasa is not an LOLcat. She’s very serious and hates cheezburgers.

 
I am almost through reading a book called “The Paradox of Choice,” written by a professor at Swarthmore College named Barry Schwartz. I first heard about the book by listened to a TED Talk in which the author top-lined the main ideas of his theories.
The premise of the book is very simple, and can be [...]

 
Even though it’s been out for more than a year now, I’ve resisted the urge to buy an iPhone (this hasn’t been easy), but I recently had the opportunity to borrow one from work for a couple of weeks to get a better, longitudinal feel for how it works as an everyday phone (as opposed [...]