October 2007
90 posts
Oct 31st
Oct 31st
guru: Bye-bye NYC, I’m off to JFK—see you again soon I’m sure! I’ll be in France for a few days for my sister’s wedding, then London for ~2 weeks.
Oct 30th
Oct 30th
guru: Mmm, dang good spicy dosa from Thiru in Washington Sq.
Oct 29th
guru: Whoah, Easyjet have carbon offsetting. £1.12 for my flight back from France. Seems too cheap and easy to assuage my reluctance to fly.
Oct 29th
Pink - Stupid Girls
From Pod: Jacob’s favourite videos Added By: Jacob J Tags: music, satire, society
Oct 28th
Le Grand Content
A Film by Clemens Kogler together with Karo Szmit. Voice by Andre Tschinder. Le Grand Content examines the omnipresent Powerpoint-culture in search for its philosophical potential. From Pod: Jacob’s favourite videos Added By: Jacob J Tags: humour, society, philosophy
Oct 28th
what is typography?
From Pod: Jacob’s favourite videos Added By: Jacob J Tags: animation, design, typography
Oct 28th
“A littering of browned and brittle leaves huddle together on the sides of the...”
– SRO News | Updates: Stranded in Paris: Thoughts from Abroad
Oct 28th
guru: You can’t know every network action constantly (exception: stalkers). Tumblr as a lifestream is dubious. Lifestreams need to be glanceable.
Oct 27th
Oct 27th
Little Booger
From Pod: Jacob’s favourite videos Added By: Jacob J Tags: illustration, cartoon, animation
Oct 27th
Oct 27th
guru: I did battle with Manhattan rain, puddles, and a (short) queue into the RDF Cube, and am now upgrading to Leopard. Agh, another upgrade.
Oct 26th
guru: [due to technology] “underclass” humans [will evolve] into dim-witted, ugly, squat goblin-like creatures. http://tinyurl.com/ybvr3n
Oct 26th
guru: Wow, some folks clearly liked to use Webshots as more than just a photo-sharing site. http://blog.webshots.com/?p=756
Oct 26th
Oct 25th
guru: Just taking a quick break from code, and fiddling with some old t-shirt ideas. http://zazzle.com/verseguru*/
Oct 25th
guru: The updated http://wallpaper.com device uses a pointer, but the angle of the arrow is off, jiggling the brain, and aliasing badly on screen.
Oct 25th
guru: Just stepped over a homeless guy sleeping on a steam vent in the sidewalk. Probably better than freezing to death.
Oct 25th
guru: Soggy leaves, everywhere! Blustery Manhattan is cool. I’ll be sad not to experience it with snow.
Oct 25th
guru: Brrr, I could hardly get the word Latte out; I’m now striding into drizzly Manhattan shot in hand. It’s nice, drizle too.
Oct 25th
Katja Gruijters Fooddesign →
“Katja Gruijters is a designer. Food and drink are Katja‘s ‘material’: fascinating and an endless source of inspiration. Because eating habits, culinary preferences and lifestyles are constantly changing.”
Oct 25th
Miro - Co-Branded Players →
“Miro co-branded players are the single best way for organizations to give their users a high definition desktop video experience. Miro co-branded players enable organizations to maintain their brand on the desktop, […] push content directly to users.”
Oct 25th
Unicycling on the Streets of Manhattan
From Pod: Jacob’s favourite videos Added By: Jacob J Tags: nyc, cycling
Oct 25th
How To Survive a Zombie Attack, In Plain English
From Pod: Jacob’s favourite videos Added By: Jacob J Tags: survival, humour
Oct 24th
Oct 24th
guru: Is Brooklyn/Williamsburg “Silicon Ghetto”, to Manhattan’s “Silicon Alley”, to California’s “Silicon Valley”?!
Oct 24th
guru: Ah, my mistake; I’m not eating carob-coated almonds, but carob-dusted chocolate-coated almonds.
Oct 24th
guru: And so begins : the confusion. Where the eff did my dock go?
Oct 24th
“This gentlemen is looking for some aspirin.”
– SimpleBits ~ U-489
Oct 24th
guru: I’m trying again to have my dock on the right. (Adium bubbles and album artwork are left.) The extra vertical space *is* very nice.
Oct 24th
Papabubble - Caramels Artesans →
Oh God! The Cute Sugeryness!
Oct 24th
Consumed "The Fountain (Widescreen Edition)"
The Fountain (Widescreen Edition) by Darren Aronofsky WORTH IT! Tagged: beautiful, death, delusion, love, religion, sad
Oct 23rd
garlic aficionado Tote Bag →
Oct 23rd
guru: OMG. http://www.cafepress.com/goodnourish.147154777
Oct 23rd
Light Painting on Video, in Paris
From Pod: Jacob’s favourite videos Added By: Jacob J Tags: streetart, art, paris
Oct 23rd
A beautiful revolution →
Oct 23rd
Big Green Truck Pizza →
A travelling pizzeria built on an antique truck.
Oct 23rd
Steve Wozniak, kitten-saver
People with 250 cats? Puts the little collection I had to shame. From Pod: Jacob’s favourite videos Added By: Jacob J Tags: altruism, society
Oct 23rd
Yoism →
“An Open Source Religion, teaches us to take the perceptions and reactions of others as indications of our progress (or lack thereof) toward a goal of creating the clearest possible expression of the Truth, as revealed by Reality.” Offputting design.
Oct 23rd
guru: MySpace has been lying! “Tom” is not actually 32, he’s at least five years older! Oh gosh, how can anyone keep him as a friend now?!
Oct 23rd
guru: According to http://wakoopa.com (potentially somewhat inaccurate) ~20% of my computer time is spent on email and IM.
Oct 22nd
GroundReport →
“‘big little media’: a destination that aggregates local, community news from around the world. Instead of blogging in obscurity, GroundReporters benefit from the collective traffic and influence of the community.”
Oct 22nd
Oct 22nd
The Family - Custom Wallpaper by Lisa Bengtsson →
“A collage of black & white “frames” that are precisely placed and add an unexpected visual experience to any room.”
Oct 22nd
guru: It should be illegal to sell leopard print clothing of any description to men or women over 40.
Oct 22nd
guru: Ah, Delhi, yesterday: The deputy mayor died attempting to fight off a rampaging horde of (sacred) wild monkeys…
Oct 22nd
guru: [http://PictureSync.net/] Just put up an update with improved Aperture support (same as with Expression Media), plus some fixes.
Oct 21st