I Can’t Believe This Is Really Happening
In celebration of the collaboration between Volcom and Yo Gabba Gabba!, Biz Markie, Wayne Coyne, Jack Black, Mark Mothersbaugh and Jon Heder alongside the Yo Gabba Gabba! characters Muno, Foofa,...
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My former employers at Mansueto Ventures (publishers of Inc. and Fast Company—not a shoe company or VC firm, as others have suggested the name implies) have a pretty sweet office. It’s so nice, in...
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For The Record
John Roderick, David Bazan (aka Pedro the Lion), and El May joining Kathleen Edwards on For the Record. So good.
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Warwick Valley Feed and Grain
Really neat building that they’re in the process of tearing down.
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Spoiler: We All Wear Pants
The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work is a behind-the-scenes look at our company, Automattic, and its unique culture—it comes out today, and I really think you should read it....
View ArticleUsing Gravatar with Salesforce
This is pretty hacky, but with a bit of Javascript you can replace the default avatars for Contacts and Leads in your Salesforce account with Gravatars instead. Here’s the script, and you’ll need to...
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Geek Dad
You can have a lot of fun with a four year old, a hidden Bluetooth speaker, and some text-to-speech software. (Alternate title: It’s Been a Really Long Winter and I’m Running Out Of Ideas For What To...
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Cash and Anxiety on the Weird New Internet: What can Publishers Learn From This? A literal interpretation: SUBLIMATE YOUR IDENTITY ENTIRELY, EVERY MONTH, because nothing else works, and the next...
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AirSonos
I’ve really enjoyed my Sonos wireless speakers since getting a couple Play:1s earlier this year. They sound wonderful, and there’s just something really neat about walking around the house and having...
View ArticleBBEdit 11
BBEdit 11: Adam Engst has nice love-letter-as-product-review for BBEdit, my go-to text editor since I started using a Mac regularly in 2001, on the occasion of version 11’s release. I’ve tried...
View ArticleMatt Cutts on the scarcity of open source services
Matt Cutts on the scarcity of open source services: Open source is really good at creating products. Almost any commercial software package or product like Word, Excel, Windows, or Photoshop has a...
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Three Months
A few months ago I started running. I was a bit overweight and generally feeling sluggish and creaky after a summer/lifetime of being pretty sedentary. So I put on the sneakers I bought last time I...
View ArticleThe American Hippo Bill
The water hyacinth is a purple-flowered floating plant that’s native to the Amazon, and is popular, at least in the northern United States, with man-made pond owners—it’s pretty, provides oxygen and...
View ArticleIntroductions
In the course of business I make a lot of introductions, and in turn, I also get introduced to a lot of people. Often that’s nice: people need things that I have, and I like to share. Great synergy!...
View ArticleA Midwinter Playground in the Hudson Valley
A Midwinter Playground in the Hudson Valley: Nice article from the Times on my sleepy little town, out here in New York City’s hinterlands. Some solid recommendations in there, for anyone passing...
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