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Should web designers know how to code?

I have asked and have been asked this question numerous times over my career. I have very good friends who disagree with me completely on my opinion, and I’m on the cusp of teaching a web design class to unsuspecting, pliable minds and I need to decide – soon – what exactly I’m going to [...]

What’s in a name?

Yeah, such a clever title for a post. I’ll just go ahead and quote myself here: “Sometimes I’m so fucking predictable I can’t stand it.” Which brings me rather nicely to the real point of this post, which is to expound on my thoughts of what it means to name something well. I’ve never been [...]

iPhone 4 Poll

The Infauxgraphic Epidemic

As has been pointed out frequently lately, there’s a strong groundswell of designers taking it upon themselves to create data visualizations that at first blush appear to be legitimate but upon further review simply reveal nothing more than the designer’s desire to impress you with their ability to create splashy graphics that include data in some [...]

iPad Poll

Socialism is Destroying America

By Jaxon Repp, reposted with permission: This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US Department of Energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility. After that, I turned on the TV to one [...]

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Merlin

I agree with every word of this, except my favorite song is from Seacaucus and is called “Pretty OK.” “Hopeless” is a really, really close second though.

merlin:

Exhausted:
“Because every win
on this record’s
hard-won.”

Being a love letter to The Wrens and their 2003 album, The Meadowlands. Composed of an improbable combination of gushing prose, digital audio recordings, live and promotional music videos, a handful of amusing quotations, an anecdote involving the rock band, “Creed,” one grudging acknowledgment of a web property that rhymes with, “witch dork,” plus a sampling of band photographs, curated from the modest portfolio of your author. Who is a fan.

Wrens songs featured in this post:

The Wrens - “This Boys is Exhausted” (Demo)

The Wrens - “This Boys is Exhausted” (Album Version)

The Wrens - “Hopeless”

The Wrens - “She Sends Kisses”

The Wrens - “Ex-Girl Collection”

The Wrens - “Everyone Choose Sides”

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A decade of blogging

On March 18, 2010, this blog will be 10 years old. I haven’t been the best blogger, and I haven’t written this site alone, but over the years, it’s always been a place I wouldn’t feel right about not having on the web. This graphic is a testament to all the work I’ve put in [...]

Automattical

My last post was pretty obtuse because I wasn’t yet ready to blog about blogging, but the reality is, I now work for Automattic, the makers of WordPress. The thing about blogging is that it really works best when you’ve got, you know, something to talk about. And blogging about how you have nothing to [...]

I like this for a lot of reasons. The question was “What…

I like this for a lot of reasons. The question was “What do you think the Tea Party Movement is about?”

Also, it’s a PollDaddy poll.

jimray:

Heh [via squashed]

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

lonelysandwich:

It’s always surprising, the volume of negativity. But if everyone got it, it wouldn’t be as fun for the rest of us. And I’m having fun. So keep being dumb, dummies. And we’ll keep having fun.

“You’re a dog!” “I’m a…

“You’re a dog!” “I’m a cop!”

mrgan:

I seriously love this. You can’t beat an outrageous-premise show (as long as it doesn’t actually do well and get popular or anything.)

So yeah.

I’ll be blogging here some more. Soon.

A (great, awesome) freelance client sent me a Mino Flip HD for…

A (great, awesome) freelance client sent me a Mino Flip HD for Christmas. Just trying it out at the Zoo Lights the other night.