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November 26th, 2009

Done w/ Peru. Off to Galapagos. Any recommendations of stuff to do after touring islands (in Galapagos or Ecuador), please shoot my way!

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November 18th, 2009

Thanks everyone! @mhaubs and @dougdavis, your recs sound the most appealing so far.

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What’s the last great fiction book you’ve read? I need some vacation reading material, and being a non-reader, I can’t think of shit.

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November 15th, 2009

Ugh, it’s only Nov 15 and it’s already starting. An xmas-theme in a commercial. Thanks Best Buy.

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@thursdayknight Red Zone Channel baby… I “get” to watch Raiders/Chiefs without even trying.

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@thursdayknight Oh man, and DHB drops another, causing an INT, and losing the game! What a great draft pick…

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@thursdayknight Did you see the Darrius Heyward Bey drop though? Priceless.

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The Red Zone Channel seems a little slow on the trigger today.

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November 14th, 2009

I never get sick of watching “The Play”, but it’s mainly for the trombone smackdown at the end.

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November 13th, 2009

U-Dub basketball shorts this year are longer than my pants.

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Solitude and Leadership:

Multitasking, in short, is not only not thinking, it impairs your ability to think.Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it. Not learning other people’s ideas, or memorizing a body of information…

Takes a little while to get going, but overall a great article about the virtues of seeking solitude from distractions in order to develop your own original thoughts.

“I think you’ve got a pretty good imagination, despicability-wise!”

“Look Around You - Computer Games”

Can’t believe I hadn’t heard of this BBC series before. Brilliant. Make sure to watch them all. (via daringfireball)

10 New Year’s resolutions for designers:

Do you think Chelsea Clinton asks herself if her mom would understand something complex? No. Because her mom is a badass.

How Doctors Die:

If there is a state of the art of end-of-life care, it is this: death with dignity.

This is the most concise, easily understood article on the perils of end-of-like care in the United States I’ve ever read. It is a must-read, and frankly, a must-heed, in my opinion. (via kottke)

Lost Type Co-op | Browse Fonts:

A nice collection of pay-what-you-will typefaces from Tyler Galpin and Riley Cran.

How to interview a designer with the perfect design exercise:

These sorts of tests are common for engineering hires, but it’s nice to see an example of a good design-oriented one.

Jessica Hische's Lovely Blog:

Embarrassed I had never seen this until today. Lovely work all around. (via drawar)

This recently unearthed video of Steve Jobs at work during the early days of NeXT is a remarkable look inside how he ran meetings, how he created culture at his startups, and how others — like Joanna Hoffman around the 11 minute mark — called B.S. on his reality distortion field. It’s also remarkable in that it reveals Jobs to be a man who picks carrots in pressed work shirts.

Paper Birds by Diana Beltran Herrera

View.js — A simple, lightweight, jQuery photo viewer for the web

The Republican Clown College by WMxdesign. These are so great. Make sure to check out the whole set.

BuiltWith: Web Technology Usage Statistics:

Sometimes when you are deciding on technologies to use on a new site (e.g. jQuery vs. YUI or MS SQL vs. MySQL) it’s instructive to examine what everyone else is doing. BuiltWith has an incredible amount of trending data to help you out in that regard. Very, very cool.

A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design:

Lots of good thinking here. No solutions, but a nice reminder that two-dimensional touch interfaces are transitional, not permanent.