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Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Daily Archive

My blog is not a billboard that you must see while driving down a highway, or a building that is erected in the middle of a city, or even a chip planted in your head providing thoughts you might otherwise not have. It is a location on the internet that you are welcome to visit […]

bijan: Freddie Mercury (via I.i.N.) I was listening to some old rock songs today by Bad Company, the doors and then “fat bottomed girls” by queen came on. I was going to post the song but decided a photo of freddie was so much better.

Long content

marco: There has been some [post removed after publishing] heated debate recently on whether long posts “belong” on Tumblr. As usual, I have an opinion. (It’s the internet. What did you expect?) My authority comes not from my job, but as a long-time Tumblr user. Yes. Long content belongs on Tumblr. So does short content. […]

The Tetons: Grand Teton National Park, September 2003

Rachelle Takes in the View: Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Unit, September 2003

Looking Down the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone: Yellowstone National Park, September 2003

Saul Bass and Star Wars

Via kottke.org

Twitter Usage

This just about sums up how I feel about Twitter:

“There’s a funny paradox that runs across my mind every time I send a message to Twitter. You see, I do it as a personal benefit to myself. Like keeping a little journal of snippets of what I’m doing as I live. I figure that one day it will actually be interesting to go back and read. On the other hand, I keep my Twitters public and I have ‘friends’ on Twitter. With that in mind I always think to myself ‘people are going to read this, so I should be clever.’ Often times, that keeps me from twittering anything at all. Every twitter I make, I think it’s going to be the last; until I send another.”

—Dustin Diaz

» WP Contact Manager | The Design Canopy

» WP Contact Manager | The Design Canopy Interesting way to use WP as a contacts manager

On Tumblelogs

mills: nostrich: AATW recently wrote a long post on his tumblelog, denouncing the virtues of long posts on tumblelogs. Skipping past the obvious irony and focussing on the point: he used me as an example of what-not-to-do (or what he’d rather you didn’t do), so I suppose I should write an equally lengthy response… …This […]

When you’re young, you look at television and think, ‘There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down.’ But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can […]

The internet lets me buy just what I need when I remember I need it and get on with my life. Dawn. And that’s the retailers’ worst nightmare: not that internet shopping will undercut their prices, but that it will reduce unnecessary impulse buys. (via marco)