.: Above The Aether :.

Welcome to Cleveland. As the story goes, several years ago some folks were chatting about the high volume of small aircraft traffic that flew overhead each day to a nearby municipal airport. They decided to welcome the travelers with a sign painted on the roof of a large building. The punchline… This was in Milwaukee. [...]

(Web geekery ahead. You have been warned.) I’ve recently played around with Yahoo Pipes, a feed aggregation and manipulation service provided by Yahoo, (here’s a yahoo or wikipedia explanation of the service) to manipulate some of my iTunes feeds to more easily update my little green Shuffle. You see, I have a handful of feeds [...]

Alberto Gonzales, seen here just before he snuck out the back door of the White House to chug some PBRs at a local Hooters with Rove and Rumsfeld, stepped down from the office of Attorney General. Remember that bus I spoke about last week? Well, if you’ve still got some gas in it, I’d suggest [...]

Got this one a few days ago.  Gmail is getting so good at filtering my spam, I have to go looking for the Spam Poetry in my junk mail folder to post. A like fry resolution of thanks to the presidents sign of grubby the various sittings of the congress.  Looking back on that time, [...]

The fathers of Wintermute, Cookie Monster and Buffy the Vampire Slayer are interviewed at the Onion’s AV Club this month. Here are links to their specific interviews:  William Gibson, Frank Oz and Joss Whedon Good stuff.  Enjoy. -Dave

I’m headed to BarCamp Houston tomorrow.  I hope to hang with my fellow tech-heads and learn a thing or two. I’m mostly interested in the design & usability sessions, but I’m also interested in the sessions about presenting content and team building.  It’s been tough to recruit good web designers in this town, so maybe [...]

Happy Friday, Folks! -Dave

Is this not the greatest thing you’ve ever seen in your life? The bassist looks like he just got done killing someone and then rushed to this gig. Here’s the link to the movie just in case the player doesn’t work for you. From BoingBoing. -Dave

I’m back in Houston after a great time in Indianapolis.  I got to see some old friends (John, Greg, Scott) and take in all the crazy sites that make GenCon the premier nerd-fest that it is. Well, it’s time to pack away my chainmail bikini until next year.  Hope you all enjoyed the photos. -Dave