June 2010
13 posts
Goodbye Dreamhost →
As you may have noticed this website has been unavailable or erring for over 36 hours. This isn’t the first time that Dreamhost has had issues and it has effected my site. Over the years of my using…
Tiny Desk Concert with Weird Al →
An instant classic in NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series is with Weird Al Yankovic. He covers three songs. I recommend the entire series of Tiny Desk Concerts.
NPR music is pretty much…
365 photos by Marisa McClellan →
My friend Marisa McClellan is shooting a photo per-day and posting it to her blog (and Flickr account if you’d prefer). Most of her photos are fairly drool worthy but the above tips…
Photos of extremely small seeds →
Photos by Seed Morphologist Wolfgang Stuppy of seeds from angiosperms.*
/via NPR.
*Flash is required but the photos are still boner-worthy.
Three years with the first-generation iPhone →
In line for iPhones
Three years ago at the King of Prussia Mall in Pennsylvania Eliza and I were nearly at the front of what became a very, very long line at the Apple Retail Store…
Astronomy Photo of the Day →
I’ve been subscribed to NASA’s Astronomy Photo of the Day for years. I’ve linked to both terrestrial and extra-terrestrial shots that have been featured from this very blog many times though…
On the iPad →
After using the iPad exclusively for 10 days (that’s right, I haven’t used my Macbook Pro yet) I am getting a pretty good feel for the iPad. I figured I’d jot down some notes in no particular order.
Bees that make nests out of flower pedals →
From the “coolest thing you’ll see all day” department – these bees in Turkey make their nests out of carefully folded flower pedals.
Striking.
/via Jason Kottke. On NPR, of course.
From the iPad →
I’m typing this on my brand new iPad courtesy of my lovely wife Eliza. If this isn’t the future of computing, I don’t know what is.
When Steve Jobs said, at the D8 conference, that the next era of…
Steve Jobs at D8 →
The unread count in Google Reader went from a relatively low number to an incredibly high number yesterday evening because Steve Jobs got on stage at D8. You can either read the transcript or watch the videos
Cod fishing in Gloucester, Massachusetts →
Earlier this year my friends and I took a short trip to Gloucester, Massachusetts to do some cod fishing on the Atlantic. I took some random video clips during the trip and have finally stitched…
Top ten annoying things to say to a wildlife... →
Fun list. I love the “yeah, OK” tone of it.
Duck eggs and bacon breakfast sandwich →
This is a must link because there is cast iron, bacon, butter, duck eggs and cheese in this video. And, although I use chicken eggs, is pretty much exactly how I make my…
