True Story: My Dad Once Cleared the Entire Etch-A-Sketch Screen For Me
From XKCD, the cool and occasionally poignant comics site.
March 04, 2009
February 19, 2009
My God, Checkers - You've Cut Me to the Core!
Frost/Nixon parody by the ASM Sock Tube Presents squad.
February 11, 2009
December 04, 2008
MegaWTF!
Weird display ad in SFO int'l terminal...
December 03, 2008
I love new music
Was working on the track lineup for this year's Christmas cocktail party, and it hit me that I've been away from music for a while. It's 1am right now and I could easily stay up until 5 discovering amazing new music.
Thanks to Gorilla Vs. Bear and Hype Machine for reminding me of that.
December 01, 2008
November 21, 2008
ASM's Dorm Life still holding down all-time #1 web series spot on Hulu
Amazingly, ASM's show Dorm Life is going into its fourth consecutive month as Hulu's all-time most popular web series. Staying power.
October 24, 2008
August 20, 2008
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The very image of a working vacation
Posted via Pixelpipe.
August 03, 2008
Why We Drive the Way We Do
My latest piece in Wired - a book review of Tom Vanderbilt's "Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us)." I love this topic - love it.
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July 11, 2008
Attention: Honey Bees on fire
What a difference being a featured video on YouTube's front page makes. From 500 views two days ago to 184k at last count. And, when you're checking every hour, those counts seem to happen once or twice a day. Agony. But what a ride.
May 18, 2008
Looking Forward to Surfwise
My pal Tommy Means produced Surfwise with Graydon Carter and Mark Cuban. The film got some love from the NYT and just looks like a blast.
May 16, 2008
Oscar Pistorius can run!
Link: The Times - Oscar Pistorius wins his appeal.
Now for the sweaty part - Oscar has to cut a second off his best time.
I think he can do it.
May 15, 2008
iPhone - I hardly knew ye
During a trip with my son to the allergist's today (he's fine - no allergies, just parents who need to slather him with yak butter and Crisco more often) my iPhone fell out of my pocket and under a chair in the waiting room. At the same time, Finn was initiating an investigation the stash of chemicals beneath the waiting-room fish tank. Figuring the iPhone was the less immediate poisoning risk at that moment, I lunged for him instead.
Not sure, in retrospect, that was a good call.
May 14, 2008
Wine for corn on the cob and hot dogs
A six-minute clip from the Conan O'Brien show featuring the excellent wine tutelage of Gary Vaynerchuk, beloved of the Web 2.0 3.0 set. I recently attended a wine tasting he hosted at Six Apart, which makes this here blogging system. He's like that in real life, too.
http://view.break.com/343258 - Watch more free videos
April 14, 2008
My Better Nature, by Peter Singer
Just came across an essay by the ethics powerhouse Peter Singer. To read his work is to sign up for some serious soul-searching. This gem packs in ethics, evolutionary psychology, determinism, gene-hacking and (thus) transhumanism.
Link: My Better Nature, by Peter Singer.
Marx once wrote: "The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is, to change it." He was not thinking of genetic change, but his comment will soon apply to that area, too. Within the present century, we are likely to learn how to change the genes of future generations to make human nature flow in the direction we want it to flow. That knowledge will bring an awesome responsibility, a responsibility that some think should never be exercised: the responsibility of deciding to improve human nature.
April 13, 2008
Strong Finish
This here is a shout out to my man Jeff Curran, which is not easy for me to do, seeing as he has spent the last 20 years breaking and spraining my bones and ankles with bizarre, unorthodox, aggressive moves on the lacrosse field and in the pub.
But Jeffy pulled off something sort of amazing on Sunday in his first Ironman triathlon. he finished the swim in 505th place, got on his bike and lost a little ground, starting the marathon in 515th place. Then this freak of nature proceeded to pass 307 other tough motherscratchers in the marathon, which he finished in 3:40.
Here's the breakdown : Arizona - IRONMAN.com.
