Jess Nevins’ annotations add so much to every book he does them for that I consider feel sorry for every book without any of his annotations available. I first came across his work with Neil Gaiman’s limited series 1602 and I’m glad I did.
If you haven’t bought any of the books yet, now is as good a time as any to buy them on Amazon
That’s a rallying cry I can echo without hesitation.
This is a really cool idea. Toronto is my favorite city, and it’s because of things like this.
Part 1 in a series, available for $2.99 on the Kindle.
Steven is the co-founder of Panic, the legendary Mac development house that brought you Transmit, Coda, and Unison. You need this book.
The newest in a series that goes back to the first Mac OS X public beta. Nobody does it better.
Serenity Caldwell for Macworld:
The cat’s out of the bag: During Apple’s third-quarter financial earnings call Tuesday, chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer announced that Lion would debut Wednesday on the Mac App Store. The OS update will cost $30.
Really looking forward to this. See what is coming on Apple’s Lion info page.
Hi. I’m Phil Nelson. I make websites from my orbital platform which is currently hovering above the city of San Francisco. I use Twitter a lot, and have a Facebook account, as well as being on LinkedIn and Foursquare. I sometimes post bits and pieces of my design work to Dribbble. I’ve also made some stuff:
PNGPress: an application for Mac OS X which makes PNG images smaller, which makes your web pages load faster. It costs 99 cents on the Mac App Store.
Liblr: A little word replacement toy for Twitter. It lets you replace any word or phrase in the pubic Twitter stream with any other word or phrase. The results can be quite amusing, and overall it is good silly fun. Personal favorite: Replace the word “mad” with the word “fat”
Kreskin: Kreskin takes the title of random Wikipedia page, the last three words from a random quote, and a random Flickr image to create the cover of an album by a fictional band.
Kove: Kove is collaboratively created/edited adventure book, similar to but legally distinct from the books published under the Choose Your Own Adventure umbrella. It is named after 1980s actor Martin Kove.
la petite url: la petite url is a WordPress plugin which provides a self-hosted, customizable, URL shortener, for use on Twitter and stuff. Having your own short URLs gives people important context as to where the links you’re posting lead to. John August uses it. How rad is that?
Tybor: A chatterbot you can have a conversation with.
T-Shirts & Stickers: I’ve also created a couple t-shirt and sticker designs which are for sale on RedBubble.com. They’re pretty great. You should buy some. Toys and oatmeal don’t buy themselves.
That’s about it for now. Let’s be friends all over everything everywhere. K? Good.
From the indispensable blog of Jess Nevins:
Still another Gopher of distinction was Happy Jack Mulraney, so called because he always appeared to be laughing. However, his smile was caused by a partial paralysis of the muscles of his face. In reality Happy Jack was a verjuiced person and very sensitive about his deformity; when his chieftains wished to enrage him against an enemy they told him that slighting remarks had been made about his permanent grin. Happy Jack was finally sent to prison for the murder of Paddy the Priest, who owned a saloon in Tenth avenue and was a staunch friend of Happy Jack’s until he asked the gangster why he did not laugh on the other side of his face. Happy Jack then shot him and for good measure robbed the till.
I made a new Extra Future logo t-shirt, which is available now for $25 of your earth dollars. Retweet, reblog, share, like, buy. I love you.
So imagine that your ideas weren’t improvable by others for twenty years, and also, that you couldn’t build on the ideas of others for the same period of twenty years.
Welcome to the patent system.
Pretty much, yeah. (via Jesper)
From Bruce Sterling’s blog. This list has been floating around for awhile but I enjoyed revisiting in. If you found one of my notebooks it reads pretty similarly, but with more random smatterings of dialogue in search of a conversation.
The app takes in ambient noise to identify your location. Lots of neat and or creepy implications.
A canvas-based HTML5 vector library. The examples are great.
Phil Nelson