Kickin’ It Mascot Style

Tue 25 Feb 200309:10 AM

The music video for “We Know Something…” from DJ Format is probably one of the most entertaining videos I’ve seen in a long time — it’s both a catchy tune and a visual hoot. Directed and produced by Ruben Fleisher, this furry romp through Los Angeles employs neither flashy camera tricks nor digital-age effects/editing, and yet it’s also remarkably fresh and fun enough to make me want to watch it twice.

Wounded Walking

Mon 24 Feb 200312:25 PM

While at the dog park this weekend, I took a bad spill on the unkind accumulation of ice and slush lingering from last week’s blizzard, and did something nasty to my ankle. Now, my walk has taken on a charming, hobbling quality and I can barely get from one end of the apartment to the other, much less across town to the office. Luckily the local kennel has a pick-up and drop off service, and Mister President goes wild for the place. In the meantime, I’ve spent most of the past two days re-watching DVDs (with a limp, I can’t even get to the video store to rent new flicks) ordering in food and browsing the Web.

Mixed Up

Sat 22 Feb 200308:32 PM

Aqua Finer

Fri 21 Feb 200306:42 PM

This definitely falls into the category of minutiae, but I was fascinated by this recent, very subtle refinement to Mac OS X’s Aqua interface. After upgrading the operating system on my PowerMac G4 to version 10.2.3, I noticed that the window controls — the close, minimize and zoom buttons in the upper-left hand corner — have recessed ever so slighly.

The DB’s

Thu 20 Feb 200312:00 PM

I’ve written about Francis Lam’s wonderful little world at db-db.com before, about how it’s an impressive feat of Flash engineering combined with some interesting ideas about online communities. Lam has just rolled out a beta release of db-db version 4, and with it he manages to outdo himself.

Ready, Set, Go

Wed 19 Feb 200305:17 PM

Congratulations to Tom Ridge, who now has two items on his list of ‘Things I’ve Done While Serving as Secretary of Homeland Security’: Along with ‘Create a mind-numbingly stupid color-coded warning system,’ he can now add, ‘Launch a Web site.’

Mush

Tue 18 Feb 200305:00 PM

Yesterday I meant to write a little something about the record-breaking snowstorm that dumped about two feet of powder on New York City. Before I did that though, I had to get that Google-Blogger merger blogged for the sake of timeliness, and after that the day ran away with me.

Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together

Mon 17 Feb 200301:32 PM

Everybody says it’s a marriage made in heaven: Google has bought Pyra. The Web’s favorite search engine, which by some accounts handles as much as 70% of all searches, will now own the pioneering and still-leading Blogger.com service, the single most visible enabler of blogs anywhere.

Anti-War Byrd

Sun 16 Feb 200304:29 PM

This past Wednesday on the Senate floor, Senator Robert Byrd — Democrat of West Virginia, reformed KKK member and self-styled ‘Dean of the Congress’ — made an impassioned, powerful speech against the impending war on Iraq and the generally disastrous policies of the Bush Administration. It’s the speech that I’ve been waiting to hear for months and months, and yet it’s also the speech Democrats have avoided with determined obstinance, like schoolkids afraid of getting ostracized by the cool crowd.