Feb

28

Google traffic

February 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment | Email | Print
Filed under: Technology, Web, Travel, Communication

Google launched some new functionality today on their maps product. If you do a search in google maps and click on the “Traffic” button you will get some green, yellow, red and gray lines on the highways. The colors mean the following:
Green: more than 50 miles per hour
Yellow: 25 - 50 miles per […]

Feb

28

My business name

February 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment | Email | Print
Filed under: Web, Business

The good news: Bryan and I have a business name and a product name as well.
The bad news: I can’t tell you what they are yet.
As soon as we register both, I’ll spill the details in the blog.
-Dave
P.S. - I’m pretty excited about all this.

Feb

27

Dharma, it’s a floor wax and a dessert topping

February 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment | Email | Print
Filed under: Philosophy, Productivity, Communication

Here’s an interesting post from my pal Scott about his Buddhist leanings.
I wouldn’t consider myself a full-fledged Buddhist at this point, but I wouldn’t rule out the possibility that it could happen. My wife has said that’s fine with her as long as I don’t give up my job, sell our possessions, and start wearing […]

Feb

27

Amazing paper sculptures

February 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment | Email | Print
Filed under: Photography, Design

Jen Stark creates beautiful sculptures our of paper.
Check them out here.
As seen on Make Blog
-Dave

Feb

27

Printable cold sores

February 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment | Email | Print
Filed under: Humor, Weird, Media

Nowhere in advertising is the gap between natural beauty and manufactured perfection more apparent than on subway posters. As we wait for transportation, we are unwillingly assaulted by larger-than-life representations of supposedly beautiful salespeople. The large scale of these ads and their extremely close proximity to the viewer offer up more than perceived intimacy, however… […]

Feb

27

Falwell: Christians duped by global warming zealots

February 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment | Email | Print
Filed under: Outdoors, Philosophy, Political, Science

From Treehugger:
Jerry Falwell, God’s gift to swooning teenage girls everywhere, was actually quoted calling environmentally conscious Christians “niave.” Apparently there’s a liberal conspiracy involving this whole fake global warming thing…
The whole story can be read here.
(If you stare at my photoshop monstrosity above, eventually you will join Jerry in his crusade against all […]

Feb

26

New York ComicCon 2007 photos

February 26, 2007 | 2 Comments | Email | Print
Filed under: Books, Photography, Media

From Wired magazine
New York Comic Con attracted thousands of comic book fans last weekend, with many donning costumes ranging from simple Spider-Man T-shirts to an elaborate, $5,500 replica of Boba Fett’s Mandalorian armor.
See some great photos here.
-Dave

Feb

23

Ze Frank on fear

February 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment | Email | Print
Filed under: Film, Humor, Philosophy

This is pretty insightful (and funny). Watch the movie here.
-Dave

Feb

23

iConcertCal

February 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment | Email | Print
Filed under: Technology, Music

I just discovered a very cool plugin for iTunes called iConcertCal.   This gadget looks at your iTunes music library and then searches a database of concerts to see if any bands in your iTunes will be in town for a concert.
This is very useful if your favorite bands are still touring.
This is not so […]

Feb

20

East Jesus, Texas

February 20, 2007 | 1 Comment | Email | Print
Filed under: Justine

Hey y’all.
I’m here in East Jesus, TX working. The company I’m working for ran short-staffed, so here I is, ministering to the copious mental health needs of old peeps.
I’ve learned the following things over the last several months of working extensively with oldsters:
1. maintain good relationships w/other humans so you have […]

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