May 2011
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April 2011
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Apr 29th
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Apr 29th
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“Steven E. Young, Chairman of the Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation’s...”
– The Petersen Museum in Los Angeles is the most significant automotive museum in the United States, perhaps even the world. What an amazing gift. This story sounds more like one of those questions a 12-year-old me would make up to ask my friends: “If you had $100 million to spend on cars, what...
Apr 27th
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Apr 24th
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“Cranking” is the best thing you are going to read... →
Merlin Mann did some real writing yesterday. It’s the kind of thing you start, then stop after a sentence or two, realizing this one’s not going to be like the rest. You shift in your seat, start…
Apr 24th
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Apr 23rd
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Two Degrees of John Gruber →
“Dude! There is a piece on DF that references your Unicorn stuff!!!” The SMS from my friend buzzed my iPhone at 12:18 this afternoon. “DF” is Daring Fireball, the website of John Gruber and…
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Apr 12th
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“I Was Gandhi’s Boyfriend” →
So I ask him if he’s come out to his parents, and he says, “Oh, no, they’re all old-school Hindu and they wouldn’t understand.” So I say, “But wouldn’t it be cool if you could do a campaign with a poster of your parents hugging you, and the poster could say, ‘Staying in the Closet Is a Hin-Don’t’?” Hilarious piece in today’s New Yorker.
Apr 11th
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Apr 10th
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“At least 99 percent of running is just showing up, getting out there and putting...”
– John Hanc, The Essential Runner
Apr 9th
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Apr 8th
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Scott Simpson, dead at 38 →
I’d met Scott twice, both times at the cramped-but-charming Lunchbox Laboratory location in Ballard. For whatever reason, I usually found myself at his restaurant at odd hours, eating “lunch” at 3pm after a meeting downtown, or some such thing. The “Lab” would be quiet at those times and it was easy to strike up a conversation with Scott or his girlfriend, Allegra. Lunchbox Laboratory is home to...
Apr 7th
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Apr 6th
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“Writing is chasing a question—an inquiry of the mind. Forward is better than...”
– Frank Chimero eloquently captures one of the reasons I started punchingIN: not just because I have something to say, but because sometimes I wonder if I do. punchingIN is a place for me to think. Publishing simply sets the bar for that thinking uncompromisingly high.
Apr 5th
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Ten excellent iOS tips & tricks →
Great list from the folks at tap tap tap. Almost every single one of these was new to me, and I consider myself a pretty informed iOS geek. My favorite is #4. There’s an extra volume control…
Apr 3rd
Iconfactory’s Take Five →
Last fall, I posted the following tweet: Obviously, the folks from IconFactory have been stalking me for months, because they’ve come up with a perfect solution to my problem. Today, a…
Apr 2nd
Another reason to dump GoDaddy →
GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons was already someone I wanted nothing to do with. Now this. The offensive, misogynistic “GoDaddy Girls” advertising he’s been foisting on us for the past 10 years was…
Apr 1st