Archive: April 2008

• Urban farming / My robot bees are pregnant in food, urban · Apr 26, 19:01

  [Danger: I could only get the video to play in IE. Not sure if it's my particular array of Firefox add-ons that are blocking its mojo, or what.]
  So every few weeks I sift through the mostly asinine archives of SFist, and today, against all odds, I found something interesting: A llittle blurb about urban beekeeping [...]

• Archaeology of UX Weeks past in flickr, ixd, the ancient past, travel · Apr 24, 21:11

  It’s kinda strange (and thrilling) to browse through the many alleyways and avenues of Flickr and suddenly unearth a photo of … yourself. Just now I came across this picture of myself and a shadowy figure, who I suspect is UX it-guy Jan Chipchase taken last summer during UX Week. My hazy recollection: We met [...]

• Idols / Khoi Vinh of NYT.com in ideas, ixd, web · Apr 23, 15:55

  I’ve followed Khoi Vinh’s excellent blog, Subtraction, for a long time. A couple of years ago, he became the Design Director of the New York Times website, and in the meantime the site has really changed, for the better, mostly, I’d say. This week he’s doing a Q&A about his work, the NYT, design, and [...]

• Books / Pelican covers in inside art, lit, visual, web · Apr 16, 02:03

  things magazine has amassed an incredible index of Pelican book covers from the 1930s through the 80s. The one above is from 1968. Check it.

• UX / Cellphones & world poverty in ixd, mobile, urban · Apr 15, 01:30

  Jan Chipchase seems to be the “it” guy1 of user experience these days. He lives in Tokyo, works at Nokia, and plays this kind of swashbuckling, Indiana-Jones-ish role in researching mobile technologies in developing cultures. He keeps an intriguing blog called Future Perfect, where he documents UX-related nuggets from the shantytowns of Lagos, the markets [...]

• March Madness / Zapruder analysis of Mario’s shot in basketball, kansas basketball · Apr 13, 01:48

  A couple of days ago, I was watching Mario’s three-pointer for like the 150th time, and I decided to do it JFK/Zapruder style. Click. Sherron blows by Derrick Rose. Click. Click. Click. Sherron begins to fall. Click. The ball emerges in Mario’s hands, he takes a big jump-step toward the top of the key, jumps, [...]

• I live inside your television in food, reviews, san francisco · Apr 11, 21:18

  You may recognize me from somewhere, somewhere like YOUR TIVO.

  Pretty much the only thing the director told me: “Don’t look at the camera.” Dang.
  More on my explosion onto the local public television restaurant-reviewing stage sometime soon; until then you can check out my episode of the Check Please Bay Area here.

• There’s gotta be a burrito place somewhere near here. in food, san francisco · Apr 11, 15:56

  Via Burritophile, an awesome resource for all things burrito.

• Kansas basketball / A dadgum classic in basketball, kansas basketball · Apr 8, 21:32

  Surreal. That’s the word that keeps coming to mind. Kansas trailed by nine points with two minutes left, and yet somehow managed to win. Chalmers’s shot. Collins’s steal. Roy Williams — “Benedict Williams” to many Jayhawk fans — wearing a Jayhawk sticker. Is it possible that all of that *really* happened?
  Watch the last few [...]

• March Madness / Final Four shit in basketball, kansas basketball · Apr 2, 02:06

  If words are windows to the soul, this blog has become a massive vista onto my sports obsessions and, specifically, Kansas basketball. Soon enough it’ll all be over, the fever dream will end, the sun will rise, and I’ll be back to the old stuff. Until then, I want to post one more thing, to [...]