A painting of me
  • My relentless pursuit of the guy who robbed me. 

    See, aspiring thief, you just never know what you’re stepping into when you hit up a random car on a random street. However badass you think you may be, there is someone on the other side of the robbery. And in this particular case it was someone who escaped the Iranian Revolution as a child; who roamed the world alone for five years because her parents couldn’t get out; who watched from a dozen blocks away as the twin towers crumbled; who had just barely clawed her way out of that concentration camp known as late-stage cancer, if only because she was intent on raising her babies, come hell or high water. And all of this before she even turned 40. Can you see how that someone might be way more twisted than you?

    Don’t fuck with this lady.

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  • With a Little Help From His Friends. 

    A fascinating look at Sean Parker, who helped create Napster, Plaxo, and Facebook. He is played by Justin Timberlake in the film The Social Network: not bad.

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Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters—sometimes very hastily—but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.”

Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.”

That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.

—Maurice Sendak (via)

  • Best Dad Ever? 

    I don’t think i’ll ever get tired of seeing people launch balloons into space.

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  • Tuning Canabalt. 

    The developer of Canabalt describes how we went about creating the game — from a more look and feel perspective.

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  • Why Wesabe Lost to Mint. 

    An interesting look at the rise and fall of the personal finance web-app Wesabe, by one of it’s co-founders.

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  • MSK 

    Moleskine has created a bunch of templates you can print out and paste in to your Molesinke notebooks. The company is pretty savvy when it comes to understanding what people do with their products.

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  • 4ormat: Portfolio Website Management System. 

    Tyler and Lucas have redesigned their site. It is looking pretty awesome. (And I mean, it was already looking pretty awesome.) I think it’s by far the easiest way to set up a nice looking portfolio.

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  • Victims of economic restructuring are people too. 

    What’s clear to me from his post is that he doesn’t have much sympathy for the people whose jobs are being restructured out of existence. He displays a level of callousness that I find to be common among people who work in the technology industry, one often displayed by people who, as Ann Richards said of George Bush, Sr. were born on third base and think they hit a triple.

    Word. This thinking is also why Libertarians are usually dumb asses.

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  • Set yourself free. 

    “Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood explains why the band released their last album direct to their fans.”

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