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The Pirates Who Print Shoes 25 Jan 2012 | 04:05 am
Care to download and print your next pair of shoes? Without even paying for them? The Pirate Bay invite you to share their vision: a world in which footwear is stolen and printable. They’ve announced...
Inkling from Wacom 30 Aug 2011 | 09:51 pm
Wacom just announced Inkling, a ‘digital sketch pen’ that lets illustrators and avid doodlers sketch on paper, record each stroke, and import the finished drawing as layered raster or vector artwork t...
Save the Web with Readability 1 Feb 2011 | 11:38 pm
Readability’s new service is a great way to support your favourite websites while making web pages easier to read. It looks awesome. The basic service Readability lets you visit any web page and vie...
Derren Brown The Artist 30 Jan 2011 | 06:33 am
Many know Derren Brown as a thought-fiddler and thaumaturge, but few seem to know that he paints. His portraits have a twisted charm that mirror his whimsical stage and TV shows, and are a lot of fun ...
The Ears Have It 26 Jan 2011 | 02:41 am
You can tell a lot about a person from their ears. If the eyes are windows to the soul, the ears are periscopes to the stomach. The rule is even stronger with dogs. When the golden labrador pictured ...
Doing it for a living 19 Jan 2011 | 04:55 am
Imagine a web publishing platform that costs $10 per month. $5 of that $10 goes to the platform company for the boring stuff. The other $5 gets split evenly between the writers, photographers, video...
Everything you need to know about email 14 Jan 2011 | 06:47 am
Reading about email kind of sucks. Here, then, is enough advice for a lifetime, distilled into the only three things you need to know about email: Email is not work. There is no right way, only your...
The Spiffing Blog 11 Jan 2011 | 12:34 pm
I’ve just launched my second tumblr blog: The Spiffing Blog brings quips, tips, and interesting bits on iOS development, musings on the Mac, and other miscellany. Do grab the RSS feed and/or follow me...
What Browsing the Web Feels Like 17 Dec 2010 | 03:42 am
A blind man turns to his friend. ‘You know, I’ve always wondered. As a sighted person, what does browsing the Web feel like?’ ‘That’s a tough one,’ says his friend. He shrugs. ‘It doesn’t really feel...
Best Web Books of 2010 11 Dec 2010 | 05:31 am
The post I’ve written over at Goburo titled, “Top Web Books of 2010” is proving pretty popular among web folks. This year has seen oodles of great web, graphic design, and iOS books. It’s been expens...
