The other day Steph was going to head down to The Bell Museum of Natural History, and we had this brief conversation.
Steph: “Tomorrow I’m going to be at The Bell Museum in the afternoon.”
Josh: “Did you say The Dell Museum?”
Steph: “No, The Bell Museum of Natural History.”
Josh: “Oh! I thought you said The Dell Museum of [...]
Lately I’ve been entranced by Leopard’s built-in “Mosaic” screensaver. In case you’ve never seen it, I figured I should share it. (And in 490 x 306 glory, no less. Wow!) And if no one cares, at least we’ve got it archived here as an example of a screensaver that was cool back in 2008.
What screensaver do [...]
I would be more than happy to discuss the issues within this post at any length with you over email, but I have preemptively closed the public comments on this entry because I know how volatile the subject is. There is perhaps no more painful wound felt by so many on both sides in all of [...]
I already wrote about the War of the Worlds 2.0 plan made by Kris Kowal (with some minor help from me) and encouraged you all to try it out. I was really happy to see that some of you did! Hundreds of people participated (including @biz, one of the co-founders of Twitter, who participated with one tweet). Most [...]
I’m not a very political person. I lean Republican, but not always very strongly. I tend to be apolitical. If you’ve been reading this blog or known me for very long, you’ll know that’s true. I mention these things to back up the fact that I’ve never been too bothered by anything Obama has said in [...]
Kris Kowal; friend, former Apple coworker, and JavaScript god; has taken the ideas in my previous Twitter Fiction entry and the (much-earlier) work of Ars Technica’s Ryan Paul and he has written up a plan. You must read this plan.
It sounds to me like Halloween on Twitter is going to be a blast this year! [...]
There have already been several different attempts to bring fiction writing to Twitter. A couple come to mind:
140novel: An attempt by Leo Laporte and the hosts of the Buzz Out Loud podcast to collaboratively write a work of fiction 140 characters at a time, apparently without knowing where the story was going beforehand. Obviously it [...]