July 2005
Digg Design
Over the past couple of months, I've been working with Kevin Rose on his enormously successful new venture Digg.com — a news aggregation website with a twist. Digg is sort of social bookmarking mixed with peer reviewing, so someone submits a link to a technology story they thought was cool and, if …
GNU's Really Not Unix
Congrats to silverorange alumnus and all-round talented designer Geoff Gibson for winning the latest snowboard design contest put on by GNU snowboards. The horror-themed contest had some great entries, so Geoff's design was in good company. I think he wins a new snowboard that he can strap to his …
Writing the Tour
At the moment, I don't have a television so I've been following the Tour de France entirely online. Surprisingly, the experience of reading about bike racing is almost as good as watching the highlights on television. • Pre-race, the T-Mobile team site had a great little series of diary entries …
Tokkii Tees
Everyone's favorite dog, Tokkii, is now selling fantastic t-shirts for the ladies. Well, Tokkii's friend and provider of food and shelter, the lovely and talented Iva Olah, has started a small business making custom shirts. • Iva's making all of the shirts herself starting with American Apparel …
Hot Hot Heat
The title for this post has nothing to do with the band and everything to do with the heat. The only thing lamer than a weblog post explaining why one hasn't been posting on one's weblog is when the key excuse for such tardiness is the blinding heat. It's been over thirty degrees centrigrade now …