Archive for September, 2007

My Star Wars Collection

Josh Budich created little pixel illustrations of his enormously huge Star Wars action figure collection. Jaw hits floor (via).

Webstock 2008

“5 full-on days. 9 hands-on workshops.
19 kick-ass speakers. 24 must-see presentations.
Truckloads of design, development, user experience, web standards, content, community, innovation & inspiration.” It’d be an understatement to say I’m excited to visit (and present in) New Zealand next year. See you there?

Wire & Twine

“We are a group of designers, coders, screenprinters, photographers, artists, moms, dads, and down-to-earth people — and we like to make things.” Including cool tees.

The Talk Show

A must-listen podcast with your hosts, Mr. John Gruber and Mr. Dan Benjamin. Now sporting a new design by Airbag Industries.

Markup & Style Reminder

Just a quick reminder of next week’s meet-up of the Markup & Style Society. Ethan and I have occasionally put together these informal gatherings in Boston for the past few years. They’re always a good time, and we’re always amazed by the turnouts.
So join us next Wednesday the 26th at Boston Beer Works on Canal. The format of these meetings is pretty simple: we meet and enjoy beverages for a few hours. That’s it. Perhaps we need a secret handshake or other ceremonial traditions. Those will evolve in time. We do have plans to expand this a bit in the future, and would love any ideas on a venue around town to hold a more structured meeting.
Lastly, there are a few more pinſ available if you don’t have one yet. Hope to see you fellow New Englanders there.

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Note to self: quit Parallels next time you want to watch and/or encode a DVD in OS X. Otherwise, the newly-inserted DVD is unrecognized by either OS, and the eject button is useless. You’re stuck. Once Parallels is shut down, the DVD shows up on the Desktop as usual. Yay.

HandBrake

An open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. HandBrake painlessly turns a DVD into files suitable for Apple TV, iPhone and video iPod (as well as other tasks).

:-) turns 25 tomorrow

I’d be more interested in when the beer c(~) emoticon was invented, and by whom.

Maniacal Rage TV

Impressively done, and very funny pilot episode.

Photoshop for iPhone!

I wonder if double-clicking the headphone mic can be mapped to a keyboard shortcut (thanks Hivelogic).

The Rissington Podcast

A new podcast from officemates Jon Hicks and John Oxton.

Cottyn

A new t-shirt shop from the fine foks of Virb Inc. Great name.

Lake Michigan

Cannot wait for the new Rogue Wave album due out next week.

Bloxorz

Ridiculously addictive game.

Dockables

Add clickable OS X system events to the dock. (via)

The Deck

Authentic Jobs