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Garfield the cat doesn’t actually speak, so what would Garfield the comic look like if he just wasn’t there? Apparently it would look like Jon is a mental patient.
The ROFLCon preliminary guest list is up. They’re trying to get every famous internet meme or celebrity to go to Harvard in April for a conference. Must attend!
Wednesday Aug 15 2007 - 12:19am
Virgin America Is GreatI’m up in San Francisco this week interviewing at a few companies. I flew up here on the new Virgin America, and it was awesome. Seriously the best airline experience I’ve had in a long time. I took a bunch of pictures to document the experience, so here they are.
The gate […]
Wednesday Nov 8 2006 - 7:17am
Thinkature: Collaborative Online Thinking
by Sean
under design, javascript, usability, web
with 7 comments
Have you ever tried to brainstorm, plan, or otherwise think online with other people? It can be tough. You could use instant messaging, but what if you want to do something visual? What if you want to share an image? You could send a link or transmit the file. What if you wanted to […]
Wednesday Sep 27 2006 - 4:26pm
When Options Attack!
by Brian
under design, software, usability
with 3 comments
I love being able to customize things. It’s why I like Firefox, Winamp, and Emacs. So when I got mildly annoyed with the huge space that GAIM was wasting in my buddy list I thought I’d search for another AIM client that was more customizable. Boy was I in for a treat. Enter Miranda.
If […]
Monday Jul 31 2006 - 11:19am
Spam That’s Hard to Swallow
by Grant
under art, culture, design, flash, games
with 0 comments
Romanian visual artist Alex Dragulescu wants you to have your spam and live in it too. His new work Spam Architecture investigates the question of how V14GR@ and 0XyC0nt1n can help inspire flowing curves and gentle slopes. Apparently the answer is “not very well”.
The visualization alorithm uses real 100% unsolicited emails as its input. […]
Tuesday Jul 25 2006 - 10:32pm
Random Crap On My Screen
by Brian
under design, graphics, photography
with 2 comments
Yep. Sitting and waiting for our production server to greedily suck down a bunch of secret-tech XML at 3Mb/s. So there’s nothing to do but wait. And of course that means sharing with you the random assortment of tabs I have open. Because that’s what alwaysBETA is about - random, sometimes interesting, sometimes technical, […]
