I wish Boston was hosting a funeral today. Via ie6funeral.com

A "playful paint program" that you can play with, at http://positdesign.com/media/paintplay/

I'm there, too. It's what my whole master's degree and thesis project are about. Utterly LOVE this image. Steve exceeded all expectations. Love that, too. via Gizmodo

Actually, frat boys, morons, and people entirely lacking taste buds drink Natty Light. But thank you for so misjudging me, Facebook. Continue reading

Why is your iPhone app free? It shouldn't be. Continue reading

Why takes the science out of programming. He says: learning programming is about learning grammar. This is, very literally, language I understand. Continue reading

I've only had my iPhone—has it really been just?—two weeks, and I already can't fathom life before it. This device isn't a luxury item, but a basic necessity for me. Continue reading

And I do. Madly. Here's a new feature: "Basically, when you're annoyed enough to mark a message as spam but not enough to go and unsubscribe from the mailing list, Gmail now offers to do the more time-consuming part for you." lifehacker.com | gmail offers to automatically unsubscribe you from mailing lists

In the meantime, look at how pretty the case I got to protect my darling is: speck products | fitted case

A mid-year check-in on my "Things that need to go away in 2009" post, to see how much progress we've made as a culture. Continue reading

Because I'm making art and words and websites and plans.FYI… Continue reading

When I was in high school, the American Taliban took over my town's school board. One of their first moves was to create a policy banning the school from "encouraging, or supporting homosexuality as a positive lifestyle alternative." Continue reading

There are already well over ONE THOUSAND Ada Lovelace Day posts listed at http://ada.pint.org.uk/; I've been so moved by so many people's that I wanted to highlight a few that really touched me, whether they were well-written, moving, taught me something, or were just about really cool ladies. Continue reading

I explained two weeks ago that when I first learned about Ada Lovelace Day back in January, I was about halfway through drafting this post, my response to—and in some ways, retaliation against—the many "best"/"most influential" people in tech list links that were flooding emails, facebook pages, delicious networks, and print publications right around the turning of the new year. Continue reading

In ninth-grade science class, we watched a documentary about the discovery of the double helix, and it left me blazing indignant with anger. James Watson and Francis Crick, the two men who won the Nobel Prize for this discovery, had stolen essential research from the offices of an x-ray crystallographer named Rosalind Franklin, without which they never would have deduced the helical nature of DNA. Watching how she was treated… Continue reading

Completed my final animation project on Friday. You can see it right here; just make sure to have the volume turned up on your computer. The animation was done in Maya, which is the same software that Pixar uses! I mixed the audio in Audacity, and did all of the post-production work in FinalCut Pro. Continue reading

In the spirit of my recent "Things that I bought that I love" tribute post, and with a nod to Arianna Huffington's "Bye-Bye 2008: Things I Want to Forget," here's a list of things which all sane and rational humans should resolve to avoid in this young year. Some are altruistic, some are practical, some tongue-in-cheek. But I'm deadly serious about them all. Continue reading

I just discovered the greatest Gmail trick, and it makes me absurdly happy.Go to Settings in the upper-right of your screen. Select the far-right tab, Labs.Scroll down and enable "Google Calendar gadget." (I also added the Google Docs gadget and the Mark As Read Button.) Presto! You have your calendar floating in the left-hand nav of your Gmail! Since it's pretty much guaranteed

Some readers have no doubt noticed that the layout of this blog changed dramatically a few weeks ago, from the old pink-and-green. That's not the only change. My portfolio website, positdesign.com, is about 70% flipped to a beautiful brand-new template that I built for it. Continue reading