Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Man, the new espn.com redesign stresses me out. Everywhere on the page I move my mouse it seems like I’m triggering a giant flyout menu of some kind. I feel like I’m mousing through a minefield. Also a lot of it feels like it was lifted straight from the Yahoo visual style guide. Compare ESPN’s NBA page and Yahoo’s NBA page. Remove the logos, and they could almost be the same site. Although judged against ESPN’s normally horrible visual design work, that’s probably a good thing.
Man, the new espn.com redesign stresses me out. Everywhere on the page I move my mouse it seems like I’m triggering a giant flyout menu of some kind. I feel like I’m mousing through a minefield. Also a lot of it feels like it was lifted straight from the Yahoo visual style guide. Compare ESPN’s NBA page and Yahoo’s NBA page. Remove the logos, and they could almost be the same site. Although judged against ESPN’s normally horrible visual design work, that’s probably a good thing.
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Twice today I had to explain my music habits to someone, and twice I made John Cusack in High Fidelity look normal in comparison.
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Israeli / Palestinian Coffin Counter Each coffin represents a person killed in the Israeli / Palestinian conflict right now. Before you click the link, take a guess at how many Palestinian deaths are represented on the page. Then double it. Maybe double it again. Then click through to the page and be shocked at how low you still are. It’s particularly sad that Israel is doing this right now at least partly because they know they can still get away with it during these last days of the Bush Administration. Maybe Bush is pinning his hopes of a legacy to being the President that ushers in Armageddon.

Israeli / Palestinian Coffin Counter

Each coffin represents a person killed in the Israeli / Palestinian conflict right now. Before you click the link, take a guess at how many Palestinian deaths are represented on the page. Then double it. Maybe double it again. Then click through to the page and be shocked at how low you still are. It’s particularly sad that Israel is doing this right now at least partly because they know they can still get away with it during these last days of the Bush Administration. Maybe Bush is pinning his hopes of a legacy to being the President that ushers in Armageddon.

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Video from M. Ward’s new album that is coming out next month. I am extremely sad that this hasn’t leaked yet, becuase I want to listen to it RIGHT NOW. I have no tolerance for release dates.
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In related news, I should be getting my new Macbook Pro at work delivered this week, and you have no idea how excited I am to stop playing The Layer Countdown Game. What’s The Layer Countdown Game? On my current Mac, whenever I toggle a layer in Photoshop on or off I start counting in my head how many seconds it takes for the display to change. My personal best is 21 seconds, but I was sort of cheating by having a Word document open at the same time. The average is about 4 seconds.
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is riding on the most disfunctional train ever.
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Serial Killers! on vi.sualize.us
Serial Killers! on vi.sualize.us
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Monday, January 5, 2009
These photos from the abandoned soundstage of The Wire make it really hard for me to resist the temptation to let the show completely take over my life for the next few weeks while I rewatch every episode.
These photos from the abandoned soundstage of The Wire make it really hard for me to resist the temptation to let the show completely take over my life for the next few weeks while I rewatch every episode.
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Sunday, January 4, 2009
Maybe the best thing to happen to me in 2008 (musically, at least) was my rekindled Bruce Springsteen obsession. An interview of Springsteen by Nick Hornby had me looking all over the internet tonight for a 1978 bootleg version of “Prove it all Night” Hornby mentioned. While I couldn’t for sure find the exact recording he was talking about, I found a bunch of amazing videos from that tour including this one from Phoenix. It’s pretty killer, although I can’t imagine how demoralizing it would be to play the triangle during that guitar solo at the beginning.
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Saturday, January 3, 2009
In a move that baffles even myself, I just finished watching season 1 of The Mary Tyler Moore Show on hulu
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Friday, January 2, 2009
should have thought twice before wolfing down tacos at a seedy taqueria in San Louis Obispo.
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Navigational Aptitude Test: You are driving north from San Diego to San Francisco. For about 4 hours the Pacific Ocean has been on your left, and mountains to your right. You stop for gas, and when you leave the ocean is now on your right, with mountains on the left. How long does it take you to figure out you are headed the wrong direction? Keep in mind that you have a GPS unit directly in front of you telling you that you are now going south. You notice immediately (or weren’t dumb enough to make the wrong turn to begin with) Somewhere between immediately and 5 miles 5 miles More than 5 miles So uh, yeah. I went 5 miles in the wrong direction when it could not have been any more clear which way I should have been going. But I figure that over the course of a trip if I’m only headed in the wrong direction 0.6% of the time, that’s pretty good (for me).

Navigational Aptitude Test: You are driving north from San Diego to San Francisco. For about 4 hours the Pacific Ocean has been on your left, and mountains to your right. You stop for gas, and when you leave the ocean is now on your right, with mountains on the left. How long does it take you to figure out you are headed the wrong direction? Keep in mind that you have a GPS unit directly in front of you telling you that you are now going south.

  1. You notice immediately (or weren’t dumb enough to make the wrong turn to begin with)
  2. Somewhere between immediately and 5 miles
  3. 5 miles
  4. More than 5 miles

So uh, yeah. I went 5 miles in the wrong direction when it could not have been any more clear which way I should have been going. But I figure that over the course of a trip if I’m only headed in the wrong direction 0.6% of the time, that’s pretty good (for me).

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I am cautiously optimistic about achieving my 2009 goals: Play more video games, listen to more music, buy more shoes.
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Lazily making my way up a foggy Pacific Coast Highway back to SF. I was really lucky to have so much time with my awesome family.
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Thursday, January 1, 2009
I only got my dad to agree to let us tape him rapping in Rockband 2 if I swore I wouldn’t put it on the internet, and that I’d only show it to my sister who wasn’t there to see the magic in person. So if you aren’t my sister, please don’t watch this.
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