Monthly Archives: February 2006
30 Boxes + AcidSearch = awesome
Social calendar web app 30 Boxes launched yesterday and has been getting quite a bit of attention. The clean interface, tagging features, and sharing interface make it a joy to use but I have to say that its 'killer feature' is definately the ability to add events using a natural language interface ('fly to philly [...]
The only kind of Super Bowl post you’ll see me make
Continuing with the critique of television advertising, I just finished watching the playlist of super bowl advertising on Google Video. Overall, I think that I've been more impressed in years past, but there were definately a few high points. Some things that I noticed:
Jerome Bettis for asthma control test
(okay, admittedly, this is nit-picky and nerdy, [...]
Bad Nestle!
Sometimes I see an advertising campaign that just bugs me. I just watched a television ad from Nestle for their pre-made packaged cookie products. It showed a mother and her children baking cookies together with a voice over beginning "childhood quickly flies away like cookies on a plate". While the sentiment they're trying to convey [...]
Pondering Redesign
While I had a vague idea of features that I'd wanted to include when working on my current site design, I hadn't thoguht them through enough when I started. As it happened, the design evolved out of some things that I discovered while implementing a different design in css and just stuck. In this process, [...]
Night Lost to Plato
After sitting in the Old Pharmacy Cafe for far too long this morning (a result of accidentally falling asleep at about nine), I think I've finally gotten at least a semblance of a handle on the project of mapping platonic dialogue Euthydemus. I keep thinking that I should be doing something more complex and elegant, [...]