Category: ramblings

Those of you who know me, know that I don’t follow sports. I’m interested, in at least a theoretical way, with playing sports, but not really with sitting down and watching them. Somehow, I find it hard to feel the empathy and irrational sense of empowerment that comes with a very special brand of obsessive-compulsive…

For folks who have the good fortune of being able to go to the Oreilly’s Mac OS X Conference, but haven’t signed up yet, I have a 30% off discount code for you, courtesy of the Inside Mac Radio show. First you have to be an Apple employee, or an Apple Developer connection member (if…

Hurricane iVan: Welcome to yet another hurricane, 145+ winds. Can ruin Mac, PC and iPod. The new Hurricane iVan. [via engadget]

Bombay Sapphire is apparently the gin for graphic designers. I wonder which brand is the absinthe for graphic designers?

How to build your Glow Discharge Plasma Panel: Every home needs one of these sweet babies.

The Diamond Invention: How diamonds went from common rocks to a multi-billion dollar business controlled by the De Beers cartel. Oh… and diamonds aren’t forever.

Special thanks to the waitress at the Austin Grill last night who left me her pen to sign the check with— I think I’ve got a new favourite pen.