Archive for February, 2006

Zeldman Does the Wrong Thing With IE7

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Zeldman, whom I very much admire for his book Designing With Web Standards, seems to have a left a very bad example for the rest of the web development community when it comes to Internet Explorer 7 beta.
What’s he doing exactly? He’s concerning himself with incompatibilities between his site and IE7 beta.
If you’re wondering [...]

Tempo Thermo Tag From Vessel

Friday, February 24th, 2006

The Vessel love continues. It seems they’ve made a slightly altered version of their Time Tag: The Tempo Thermo Tag that tells the temperature. Nice.

The Luau Portable Lamp from Vessel

Friday, February 24th, 2006

Vessel solidifies their spot near the top of my industrial design list with the newly unveiled Luau portable lamp.
Looking like a modern interpretation of the old oil-fueled lantern, it’s lit by LEDs that are dimmable and give 6-10 hours of light when not charging on it’s base. It is, quite simply, the candela’s older [...]

NPR Should Lead the Way
On Open Podcast Pricing

Monday, February 20th, 2006

NPR, a fantastic source of publicly funded content, is about to come to a critical juncture. As podcasts allow consumers to decide what they listen to and when they listen to it, NPR will have a difficult time injecting their five minute pleas for donations from the public.
The Solution? Choose Your Own Price
When [...]

The Most Delightfully Horrifying Photograph I’ve Ever Seen

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

This picture of my friend and 2045 compatriot Joe may be the most delightfully horrifying thing I have ever seen. If you were going to do a modern remake of H.R. Pufnstuf mashed up with Pee-wee’s Playhouse, this face would be both it’s basis and inspiration.
Please send all therapy bills directly to Joe.

Western Digital’s Transparent Hard Drive and the Preservation of Geek Folklore

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

Hard drive manufacturer Western Digital has created a hard drive with a transparent case so you can see the drive hard at work while it’s doing it’s job. It’s cool stuff and they brag like mad about it.

How We Did It
An engineering feat unrivaled in the annals of the hard drive industry. [...]

Finally, A Real WiFi Phone:
The Linksys WIP300

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

This is the year we’re finally going to get some wifi phones that don’t look like they were manufactured in 1989. (Seriously guys, what’s up with the monochrome screens?)
Linksys is going to be the first out of the gate with the WIP300 shipping this month. With support for SIPv2, 802.11b/g, POP3 email and [...]

Internet Explorer 7 is the Frankenbrowser

Monday, February 13th, 2006

Why Internet Explorer Sucks
Internet Explorer 6 sucks and there’s a clear reason why. They simply stopped working on it. After IE6 came out, Microsoft disbanded the product team. Let me repeat that. Having released Internet Explorer 6, they shut down the team and distributed it’s programmers to other parts of the [...]

My Superbowl Prediction

Sunday, February 5th, 2006

The Winner: Detroit by 43.9 Million

How to Destroy the Internet, Part 1:
Yahoo and AOL Want to Tax Email

Saturday, February 4th, 2006

The freedom and neutrality of the internet is much of what makes it so empowering to us, but numerous companies are trying to hijack the Internet as we know it. It’s time we start talking about it and fight them one issue at a time.
Part 1: AOL and Yahoo¡ Want To Tax Email
AOL and [...]