Station in the Metro

  • Writers’ Strike – Best Thing Ever?

    From the Make Blog:

    Hear, hear. Even though I actually work in television, we dropped our cable TV subscription mid-last year. I weighed the possibility for a while— sure I got some inspiration for other work I saw on the tube, and I got to see the shows I had worked on finally be […]

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  • apple-touch-icon

    This website, like all of my sites now, has an Webclip Bookmark Icon. That means that if you use the webclip feature of an iPhone or an iPod Touch to “Add to Home Screen”, you get a nice little icon in your home screen instead of just a miniature screenshot of the site itself.

    How […]

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  • Inaugural Dorkbot DC + Make:DC Workshop

    I went downtown tonight for the first joint Dorkbot DC meeting, and the first ever MAKE:DC meeting. It was held at the Koshland Science Museum, which I’d never been to before, but it was pretty easy to find — just around the block from the Gallery Place Metro stop. We were going to make a […]

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  • Macworld Keynote 2008

    Four big announcements:

    – **1. [Time Capsule](http://www.apple.com/timecapsule/)**
    – 500 GB or 1 TB models
    – Essentially an AirPort Extreme with a hard drive inside
    – **2. iPhone & iPod Touch**
    – SDK will still be released in February
    – [1.1.3 today](http://www.apple.com/iphone/gettingstarted/guidedtourupdate2/large.html):
    – Maps with location, using Google’s Celltower system + Skyhooks wifi system
    – Webclips […]

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  • Markdown on Tumblr

    Not sure when they added it (seems like just today), but [Tumblr](http://www.tumblr.com/) has just added Markdown support for posts. Huzzah! My [Rathole](http://rathole.tumblr.com/) tumblog is hosted by Tumbler, and this is just one more reason to love ’em.

    What’s a “tumblog,” you say? Check out the grandaddy of them all, [project.ioni.st](http://project.ioni.st).

  • Not quite as extreme as I’d hoped.

    This morning, my [AirPort Extreme Base Station with Gigabit Ethernet (802.11n)][apbs] started crapping out on me. At first, I thought it was just a one-time glitch, and I cycled the power. Within a few minutes, however, it was frozen again.

    [apbs]: http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore?productLearnMore=MB053LL/A

    I reset it, and this time I notice it goes through its paces, […]

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  • PixFix: How Bob Staake Creates His Art

    [PixFix: How Bob Staake Creates His Art](http://www.bobstaake.com/pixfix/index2.shtml)
    > In 1995, Bob Staake started creating his illustrations digitally using Adobe Photoshop 3.0.

    > In 2008, he still exclusively uses the program — with the help of a mouse, a 17″ monitor, and a standard keyboard.

    That’s right— not CS3, but *3.0*. Nice work.

    There are four time-lapse videos on his site, but here’s one to whet your appetite:

    (Via [Macenstein](http://macenstein.com/default/archives/1013).)