Lullatone – Growing Up – a really sweet video
Lullatone – “Growing Up” from lullatone on Vimeo. This is such sweet music. Innocent and catchy. Clean…like it should be in an Apple commercial. Check out the entire Lullatone album
Susan Kare prints – original Mac icons
For those of you who are reading the Steve Jobs biography you might have gotten to the early Macintosh days and stories from Susan Kare, the original designer of the Mac icons and fonts. You can actually buy some of these icons in limited edition prints online. We already have the Moof hanging in the […]
New Bill Bryson book – Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society
I am a big fan of Bill Bryson books. He started out as mainly a travel writer, but in the past few books he has ventured more into topics that might be considered mundane like the history of objects in a house. I love his writing style. It is informative and playful. He does a […]
I’m not sure this will make me vote for Ed Lee
I’m not sure that this will make me vote for Ed Lee. But damn it, it is funny. Who knew that wil.i.am (however you punctuate that) lives in SF? I guess I missed that memo. And doesn’t Hammer famously hail from Fremont? I guess he stepped it up and into the city now that he […]
Close, but no dice, hipmunk…
I’m a little confused as to how this is supposed to be the least agonising trip that Hipmunk, the travel search engine, could offer me. Their interfaces are certainly cute, but I would prefer feedback that says – “Whoa, we could give you super expensive and super stupid options, but that isn’t what we are […]
He Likes Boys – Simone Battle
Ahhh, poor girl.
Big Bad Wolf video – by Duck Sauce
“Big Bad Wolf” “is pretty simple, and it can mean anything, really, so we wanted the video to have its own narrative,” says A-Trak, one-half of the dance duo Duck Sauce, along with DJ Armand Van Helden. “Remember when dance music videos used to actually be creative? Like when you think back to Aphex Twin, […]
Yoga and stretching are basically the same? Say it ain’t so.
A study believed to be the largest of its kind suggests that the physical aspects of yoga are effective at relieving low back pain, but it didn’t find any evidence that yoga provided broader mental benefits. But the current study found both yoga and stretching were equally as effective, suggesting the benefits of yoga are […]
Diversity in startups (or lack therefore of)
20 something tech boys (white / asian / indian) Ping pong table Apple laptops (apart from the net ops folks on unix) Females in Marketing / PR or Customer Service (sorry, ladies, but it is mostly true) Does this sound like your startup? If so, then you aren’t alone. This is the cookie cutter of […]
Miss Representation – must see movie?
The film explores how the media’s misrepresentation of women has led to the underrepresentation of women in positions of power and influence. In a society where media is the most persuasive force shaping cultural norms, the collective message that our young women and men overwhelmingly receive is that a woman’s value and power lie in […]