USS Akron, 1930 (by x-ray delta one)
Speaking of quitting…
I’m leaving Ancestry.com to join Yelp as a UI Product Manager. It’s going to be exciting to experience things like daily release cycles, an office dog and the color red.
USS Akron, 1930 (by x-ray delta one)
USS Macon, 1933 (by x-ray delta one)
Sexiest Air Presto ever, and almost every Air Presto is sexy.
Iron Maiden — Running Free
Value Propositions, an encyclopedia of paywalls & an exploration of value online.
Lots of very interesting ideas in this online demo of Alex Kauffman’s Master’s thesis for the NYU Interactive Telecommunications program. Make sure you go through them all (including calling the phone number to get past the GrayWall).
I’m leaving Ancestry.com to join Yelp as a UI Product Manager. It’s going to be exciting to experience things like daily release cycles, an office dog and the color red.
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Phosphorescent — Reasons To Quit
Last summer I nearly wore out this album before putting it back on the shelf for winter. This morning I gave it another listen and I swear it got more “empty house with a bottle of whiskey at 3am” sounding over the past couple of months. Which, given that it’s an album of Willie Nelson covers, is a good quality to have.
The wireframe stencils for Google Docs Morten Just made are interesting in that they turn Google Docs into a collaborative wireframing tool, but my favorite thing is the blue. I normally wireframe in grayscale, but somehow the blue just makes it that much clearer that you are working on a “blueprint”, not the final visual design. I want to go and make all of my OmniGraffle stencils blue now. (found via Josh)
“At the Cornerstone Christian rock festival, a fallen evangelical returns to sing about why he broke up with God.”
As a wavering Christian I always enjoyed Bazan’s work in Pedro The Lion. As a wavering agnostic I’m looking forward to his new album.
(via Instapaper)
I would watch all of these except for “Jack”
What will ABC do next with its most beloved and successful property? Here are some spinoff shows in the works for next year.
- That’s What She Sayid!
Broke and desperate in San Francisco, Sayid dons a burka to land the job of Bay Area’s most outrageous female sex columnist.- The Smoke Monster
The Smoke Monster opens a Santa Cruz headshop called The Smoke Monster. But watch out for his landlord, the uptight father figure Charles Widmore!
Raph Koster does a good job explaining some of the awesome and terrifying implications of last week’s Facebook announcements.