In which Anil Dash reacts to a friend trying to throw a virtual snowball at him as part of a big AOL Instant Messenger game*. Around that same time, Ukazu.com opined – “I’ve been hit by two instant messenger snowballs and one instant messenger penis — people are obviously bored.” *Substitute Facebook for AIM, Anil’s… Continue reading Heh Flashback: AIM In 2002
Chatbubble Experiment: Sammy Stephens Explains It All
it’s just like it’s just like it’s just like a mini mall. [See this YouTube clip if this doesn’t ring a bell] The above is me testing out Rajbot’s Chatbubble tool, which endeavors to make it easier to display chat logs in HTML that look like iChat sessions. The tool consists of a CSS file,… Continue reading Chatbubble Experiment: Sammy Stephens Explains It All
As If You Needed A Reason To Visit New Orleans
Three excellent events that I don’t think I can make it to, so you should go and eat and drink and take pictures and then come back and tell me about them: BarCamp NOLA, February 16 and 17. The BarCamp format is now a pretty tried and true way to learn things, meet fellow doers,… Continue reading As If You Needed A Reason To Visit New Orleans
Heh List For Friday 2/8/2008
Apologies for having fallen behind in my heh chronicling. If you ever need a fix in between updates, you can always peek in on the things I’ve tagged heh on del.icio.us. But beware, there there be spoilers. CNN Physics Fail – The FAIL blog is the “Oh shit” T-shirt of our time. In the imaginary… Continue reading Heh List For Friday 2/8/2008
Sinclair Gas From Flickr To My Living Room
February is apparently “free neat stuff from nice people” month, between the Dulce De Leche concoction from Blake and this. Big thanks to Leah for sending me the Sinclair Gas patches depicted below. The design is really pleasing, so simple and beautiful. A little background on the patches, Sinclair, and how they made it to… Continue reading Sinclair Gas From Flickr To My Living Room
Unboxing Blakemakes Peanut Butter Dulce De Leche
I was one of the lucky few to receive a jar of BlakeMakes.com’s first batch of Peanut Butter Dulce De Leche. Blake is a friend I met a couple of years ago while visiting New Orleans for EarthLink/Earthling. He has recently started up a food blog and is now experimenting with producing food products under… Continue reading Unboxing Blakemakes Peanut Butter Dulce De Leche
The Decapitator Documents His Craft
You may remember The Decapitator from one of my heh lists — that’s the person who defaces advertisements in the UK to look like decapitations. After reading about him(or her, just him for convention) previously I added him as a contact on Flickr. Today he published a photo with a link under it, and that… Continue reading The Decapitator Documents His Craft
Social Media Round-Up
My Macbook Pro Now Kind Of A Big Deal In Savannah – BlogSavannah 08 got a nice write-up in the Savannah Morning News, including a big fancy photo of my laptop with my Product Blog slides loaded up on it. What Happens When You Publish A Blog Entry – Wired writer Frank Rose and Matthew… Continue reading Social Media Round-Up
Quick Stop At BlogSavannah
I’m headed to Savannah to participate in tomorrow’s BlogSavannah ’08. I’ll be co-leading a session along with Marjorie Young of Carriage Trade PR, and as with most unconference discussions the topic will depend to a large extent on where the interest in the room lies. I’ve been revisiting my presentation from BarCamp Atlanta on How… Continue reading Quick Stop At BlogSavannah
Friday Heh List
If next time we meet I inquire as to the whereabouts of your curly mustache, I’m simply suggesting that you are awfully Pringles. To wit: [not safe for work if your workplace frowns on a few f-bombs] (Update:)…and the rest of the weekly heh’s, this week delivered in the style of the Hammacher Schlemmer catalog:… Continue reading Friday Heh List