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formandcode :

p. Chandler and Casey are happy to announce a book launch party for Form Code in Design, Art, and Architecture at Telic Arts Exchange in Los Angeles on Saturday, 4 September from 5 – 7pm. Please join us. We’ll have a toast at 6:30 to thank the many book contributors who’ll be there. Champagne and snacks will be served and we’ll have copies of the book on hand. Directions to Telic (951 Chung King Road Los Angeles, CA 90012) are available on their website .

comingandcrying :

p. Your copy of Coming&Crying will be hardcover, 168 pages, containing 24 stories by 24 people, sent directly from a box in Melissa’s apartment and carried in a series of bins by Meaghan and Melissa to the general post office in Manhattan, where a woman named Estelle Lee will release it — that’s the word — to you. It will come in a white envelope.

Went to M-J Wednesday night, because I saw on Meghano’s Tumblr (never met her, but I met Melissa a couple times and she’s super nice0 that they had copies. I searched all over the store and couldn’t find any. Then I saw a cute girl holding a copy. “Excuse me,” I said. “Where did you find that?”

“It was right there, but I think this is the last one.”

“Oh, so sad.”

So that’s good! Sold out at M-J! And so I just ordered online.

CONGRATS!

For the last three nights (or four, I guess, counting today), I have basically forgone my social life, gone straight home after work, and just kept emailing and doing things. It’s been kind of awesome – and my inbox has been under 30 emails for four days straight, which is pretty great. I’ve been finishing up at about 3AM every night.

But it means I’ve literally done nothing but work while I awake – and 90% of that has been email. It’s ridiculous. 

And a vacation? Forget it. if you don’t check at least once a day you are SCREWED when you get back to work. Every ounce of therapeutic benefits will be gone within seconds of checking your email monday morning. No choice but to hit it a little bit each day.

My partner, Keith, is on a two week vacation right now and seems pretty removed from email. I do not envy him. I also don’t expect to really be able actually talk to him for like 3 days after he returns. 

We still encourage and allow this at work, but, man, I dont’ envy the off-the-grid vacationers. 

Wow. I have a 1TB library and this is what you come up with as my recommendations. Probably best to just kill those recommendations dead. 

Netflix is rolling over in its… oh wait. 

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tallwhitney :

p. soupsoup :

p. Direct download links.

Mac OS X / Windows 64 bit / Windows 32 bit

Here goes…

My 21 GB library on my MacBook took 20 minutes to update. 

My 1.2 TB library on my 12 Core Mac Pro took 20 seconds to update. 

Woah.

They view their sites as mere brand extensions and fail to treat them as stand-alone media properties.

They don’t understand usability and make their sites pretty but impossible to navigate, and then naively think they’ll educate their users to find their content.

They don’t understand Web metabolism and produce content that’s stale.

They think Web content is inherently inferior when it’s merely different, and create inferior Web products as a result then wonder why they’re not succeeding.

They fail to monetize their products properly, then underpay talent and wonder why they can’t recruit good writers.

I did a Qwith the Knoxville News on web media, etc.

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bq. p. “It probably would’ve been easier just to build a new stage, but because of all the old artists who walked on the old stage we wanted to keep that,’’ says Dunne of names like the Police, U2, the Pixies, and other bands who trod the Paradise boards.

Wow. I am humbled to have danced on this stage (thanks Barbarian Group! – Christmas Party 2010 perhaps???). 

I’m really looking forward to seeing the changes. I hated those awkward boxes and the hallway and the giant pole but I mostly hated that lingering smell of vomit that would come and go just often enough that you kept re-smelling it. 

I played on this stage once during my Rock career (thanks to Aaron Perrino, now a Barbarian, who let a band I was in, The Texas Governor , open for his band, The Sheila Divine ), and gave 3 speeches on that stage. I miss it. Get to go there soon to see The Vaselines! Yay!

bisceglie :

p. benjaminpalmer :

p. FORM CODE is the totally fucking awesome new book by @barbariangroup CTO Chandler McWilliams, its basically the new encyclopedia of code-based visual design

today :

p. rickwebb :

p. samantham :

p. I bet that wedding dress shopping with Rick Webb would be awesome. You could probably market that as a service, Rick.

Haha. Let’s see if I like it once. And if that works, I’ll quit my day job for a life of champagne, too-flimsy couches and the only the most emotional dressing room experiences. 

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I kinda want to pitch this as a regular addition to the TODAY wedding series  (if “Say Yes to the Dress” doesn’t grab Webb first). We need more dudes crying in dressing rooms.

My reality show calling!

Just finishing up the first month of my friend Buster’s new website Health Month. It was a good time. Challenging but helpful, and I am definitely healthier for it. 

He’s gearing up for the month two beta. If you want in, let me know I have some sponsorship tokens. 

This is a great article about managing office politics. (via Fred Wilson)

P071410PS-0349 (by The White House )

p(formspringmeAnswer). That is a great question. I have been listening to my iPhone iPod in alphabetical order by song for about 2 weeks, starting with “Nothing Compares 2 U” two weekends ago. I’m up to “P.” So the last song I listened to was “Plans” by Dinosaur Jr, and right before that were “Plainsong” by the Cure and “Plain Gold Ring (Live)” by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

Ask me anything

p. drew :

p. Here is a link to the leading causes of death in America.

This marketing stunt is just that…a stunt.  And not a “cause campaign”.

Let me know when you really give a crap, MTV and FourSquare…and we can teach people how to make a real difference.  For others, and for themselves.

Maybe Gowalla or Facebook would like to make a real difference? Gimme a buzz folks.

Oh and MTV? Want to squash STD’s? Try cancelling Jersey Shore.

Foursquare is turning into a bad media joke.

I shouldn’t wade into this, but… is the argument here that there are bigger problems? Because that’s always sort of true, isn’t it? It’s almost paralyzing, actually, thinking that no matter what you’re doing, there is a bigger problem out there? I actually don’t have a hard and fast belief on this – it’s something I wrestle with all the time: is it enough to help int he ways you can, or is it required that we all give everything only to the most important causes? People getting tested for STDs seems like a worthy idea. Is it world changing? The most important thing? No, of course not, but… that doesn’t make it bad. And of course commerce, capitalism, taint, I get all that. But… man. I dunno. There are actually sorta scary and depressing ramifications for charitable giving in America if people start boycotting companies who do sorta lame cause campaigns. 

And, of course, I could be accused of saying just the opposite recently on another topic. Maybe I just like to be nice too much. 

(n.b. obvious conflicts of interest btwn me and 4sq apply)

through fields in fog (by cole rise )

p. jeremyk :

p. Scary. (via nymag )

Wow. Jerks.

Okay, I know I’m risking getting jumped on for being a capitalist again – and just to clear the air I did a quick calculation of our AP to freelancers and it’s about half of this with the majority being under 30 days past due. But the thing is, this is not entirely fair in my business. I mean I guess with journalists it’s different – I don’t claim to know the day to day finances of running a pub. But with agencies it’s either 1) pay before your clients pay you or 2) get screwed together. 

The economic recession has brought MASSIVE changes to how agencies are paid – most clients have completely, unilaterally re-written the payment terms on jobs – most terms were doubled. A responsible agency has little choice but to commensurately adjust their payment terms. We did so incrementally, doing our best to honor previous commitments even when our clients changed theirs. We did not always succeed. 

What’s crazy to me is how many people just blithely sign their freelancer estimates that say 30 day terms, and then, later, tell that same freelancer “oh you get paid when we get paid.” Okay. That’s not a bad system, but MAYBE YOU SHOULD HAVE TOLD THE FREELANCER THAT TO BEGIN WITH.