Glass half full

Everybody’s got an opinion.
We’ve hit bottom We haven’t hit bottom. The market’s optimistic. The bankers are panicking. Wall Street has to get bailed out. Main Street must be saved.
I find myself awash in a sea of pontificating experts and I’m totally convinced that nobody knows nothin’.
We are on a bucking horse and the people on [...]

Do you know about Earth Hour?

Saturday night, March 28, you can turn off your lights from 8:30 to 9:30 PM and join the thousands of cities, tens of thousands of businesses and millions of people in 84 countries who are “voting” to show their concern about climate change.
Earth Hour a simple but dramatic way in which you can participate. Help [...]

Skills Like This

There’s a great little independent comedy opening in April. The talented Gabriel Tigerman (Wendy’s son) is in it, but that’s just icing on the cake.
This is an original, wacky, funny film that’s been striving valiantly to get released since it was made, and it deserves to be seen.
One especially cool thing about Skills is its [...]

Two iPhone apps in a pissing contest

Talk about addressing a basic human need! Restroom finders Have2P and SitOrSquat are two relatively recent additions to the hundreds of thousands of apps on the iTunes App Store for iPhone. They both do the same thing (and there are others!), but each of these two has a very different attitude.
As a designer and as [...]

Live Concerts from NPR

Sometimes, you just gotta tell the world about something cool. Did you know you can download podcasts of live performances by people like Tom Waits, The Decemberists, Fleet Foxes, Neko Case, Doc Watson…the list is amazing. These are long (Waits’ goes on for over two hours) and free.
Here’s the iTunes link. Go get ‘em!