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Archive for August, 2007

links for 2007-08-10

iTunes - “Hot Like your Mom” on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Ha ha ha ha!
(tags: humor apple itunes)

My iTunes Widgets
Very nice blog/social network/etc. widget to highlight your activities in iTunes (if you grant access). Apple usually isn’t the first to the party (or the 23rd), but they an entrance when they do decide to show.
(tags: itunes [...]


Loving and Hating Twitter

I’m becoming more of a fan of Twitter as more of my offline friends join up. (You may recall my discussion about this in my post, “Twitter suddenly becomes relevant“)
I find myself both loving Twitter for its updatey brevity and hating it for it’s annoyingness. (Yes, it’s a word) I thought I’d share some [...]


links for 2007-08-09

Minesweeper The Movie
I love when people put live action to silly PC things. Too funny.
(tags: humor movies)


Newest Episode: Common Craft Show

My buddy Lee from the Common Craft Show has released another great PaperWorks style video. This time he outlines the concept of Social Bookmarking. And if you haven’t yet seen them, be sure to check out his other amazing efforts:

Social Networking in Plain English
Wikis in Plain English
RSS in Plain English

Even if you know wahat [...]


Interview with Teresa

Teresa, a big part of the brains behind the Blog Business Summit events and blog did a quick impromptu interview with me over IM today. Check out the full interview or read most of it below.
More on this later, but I’ll be speaking at the BBS in September in Chicago. If you’re going to be [...]


links for 2007-08-08

Kiss&Bajs Shop - Sverige
The strangest link anyone’s sent me in a while: “Pee&Poo address the taboo-surrounded subject of bodily functions in an amusing, yet aesthetic manner. As it turned out, Pee&Poo can also be used in parenting contexts such as traditional potty training. “
(tags: humor)

Larry Young Drives the “The Black Diamond”
While Hollywood recycles everything [...]


Slideshows are fun

I keep meaning to try out the embedded Flickr slideshow functionality from flickrslidr… here’s my first go!

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.


My inflated sense of self-worth

Yes, that’s right. It was my first Threadless purchase that pushed their financials over the top and allowed the Threadless team to open up their first retail location. I rule.
So either I have an inflated sense of self-worth (certainly not out of the question), or I just tend to believe that the Threadless crew is [...]


links for 2007-08-07

MOO | Stickers - Print stickers using your images
The fine folks at Moo.com launch StickerBooks. Way cool, even if pricey.
(tags: flickr photography)


“Mad Men” on AMC

There’s a new series on the AMC network (an AMC original) called “Mad Men“.
From AMC and the Emmy® Award-winning executive producer and writer of “The Sopranos” Matthew Weiner, comes MAD MEN, a provocative new primetime drama about how to sell the truth. Set in 1960 New York, the daring new series is about the lives [...]