Category Archives: Entertainment

A Year of Music, Visualized

I recently used LastGraph to visually graph my music listening habits over the last year. The result is a visually stunning display that is fun to comb over and try to interpret. Click the image to see the full-size version. I’m still trying to figure out what the pinch point between my love affair with [...]

The Genius of Pogo – New Creations from Old Creations

I recently stumbled upon an amazing new artist called Pogo, and I want to share a couple samples of his work with you. His mood and insight take my breath away. Pogo makes music by reusing pre-existing material. He samples and loops and clips and layers. Sometimes he adds his own drums or an original [...]

Soundboard For Everybody!

I just had a really odd idea for a fun social web application, and in classic form, I’m just going to hand it out rather than make it myself. Call me lazy. No, go ahead. Call me lazy. I’ll wait. OK, my idea: you may have seen things called “soundboards” before. Arnold Schwarzenegger has quite [...]

War of the Worlds 2.0 on Halloween – A Retrospective

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 [...]

War of the Worlds 2.0

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 [...]

Twitter Fiction

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 [...]

PC & Mac Web Commercial: Op-ed

I saw this clever web ad today on Engadget and I had to capture it (using ScreenFlow) and show it to you. Watch the PC & Mac Web Commercial – “Op-ed” (3.8 MB)