Random Articles

• RE: Aquarium for your toilet  Finally, Fish-n-Flush is bringing the toilet aquarium to market! This proves: if an idea’s good enough, and you wait long enough, someone else will do it for you. The aquarium toilet is one of my longest held It’d-Be-Cool-If ideas. I still remember the moment 15yrs ago when the idea called me. Something about the fish bringing
• The 5 Needs of Internet Tools “So why did YouTube catch on? Simple — free storage.” - Dave Winer Exactly. In YouTube’s case, I’d also throw in format conversion. Converting video into a format that is small and viewable by anyone with a Flash player is a opaque and geeky process. The reason they clicked - they did the conversion and spit
• I’m Still In Here The office I’m spending the day in has motion detectors on the lights. I sat too perfectly still for too long and the room went black. Hey. I’m still in here.
• T-82 and Counting Back from a week’s vacation, tanned, rested, and ready. A lot has happened, and this morning I put a few more wheels in motion. Lots of smaller things that have been sitting on the To Do list for way too long. The road construction outside the home office is mostly over - enough so I’m
• Luckmaking in Place “Placemaking takes time and sometimes just plain dumb luck. No planner envisioned it all, first laying out the grid of streets and creating a zoning code for Dinkytown, then deciding precisely that an alley was to be converted to become the location of a breakfast counter and a legendary, delicious business.” - Sam Newberg A nice