Will Work for Magic: Creativity and Play at SXSWMy latest scheme to improve productivity and creative flow: Screw around. Waste time. Make stuff. Banter. Play.
Messin’ with TexasIf you’ll be in Austin for the SXSW Interactive Festival over the next several days, be sure to say howdy.
"Chief Scientist" Business CardsThis week, I finally got around to printing a new set of business cards. Here’s what I came up with, along with some of the thoughts that informed the design.
Gotta Have a Helipad: Banality and Betrayal in DesignA neighborhood landmark gets a garish transformation, and thoughts wander to designer responsibility and online communities.
London CallingI'm crossing the channel for the Future of Web Apps conference, October 3 and 4.
Lightning! Blimps! Submarines! And, um, Machine Tags!Amid flying tomatoes, lightning strikes and Tardis sightings, much code was hacked at London Hack Day.
Big in TexasI'm Austin-bound in 2008, thanks to a surprise windfall: free registration at the SXSW conference.
Ghost in the Machine TagWith Hack Day fast approaching and my gadget-building reveries fading, I'm toying with the idea of making a web gizmo to generate machine tags.
Choppers, Mashups and GearsI got a bunch of ideas at Google Developer Day. And a toy helicopter.
Heck, Let's Hawk a Hack at Hack DayI'll be at Hack Day in London next month. Want to team up to build something outrageous?