What the JFM datacenter would probably be like, if we had one.

A koi pond in your pocket!

“Functionality, utility — whatever you want to call it — brings a different level of engagement from consumers. … Marketers can build websites that do cool, useful stuff.” (Or, even better, drop us an email.)

I’m not getting a MacBook Air, but if I were, I’d obviously have to get this for it.

One more reason to move to Paris.

David Van Tieghem plays New York (I mean he actually plays New York).

Go Tartans! Now let’s see them do this during a Pittsburgh winter.

Bad apostrophe’s and more! (Warning: may cause high blood pressure.)

Found Type Friday.

“We originally called the game ‘Photoshop Tennis’ but these days there are a ton more tools that can be used…”

Huge good news for .NET developers who don’t work for Microsoft.

Good thing we never got around to having our MacBook Pros laser-engraved.

One of my odder leisure activities is reading old issues of Popular Mechanics, Mechanix [sic] Illustrated, and Popular Science, specifically from the 1950s and 1960s. This was the post-war period when “modern technology” as we know it was being invented, and I often find interesting parallels with today’s world. Of course, the technologies themselves changed [...]

An exhaustive history of Toronto’s typographically-disastrous transit system.

Stop wasting all those human OCR cycles!

Zonbu is trying the network computer idea again — and it looks a lot more workable in 2007 than it did in 1996!

“Let’s not mince words, here: text input was better on a Newton.”

As people keep reminding me, I worked on Apple’s last wildly-hyped handheld communication device. It’s easy to draw parallels between the Newton MessagePad and the iPhone. You’ve got the great industrial design, powerful and innovative hardware and software, and “change the world” attitude. You’ve also got out-of-control expectation-building, a new input method the CEO says [...]

If you write code for a living, this site will become your best friend.

Cool conceptual photos.

“The perfect vehicle for your daily jaunts out on Tatooine” (or Black Rock City, I suppose)

I guess Helvetica is a celebrity now?

“The average Googler Haircutter has over 45 RSS feeds in their Google Reader.”

The output device we’ve all been waiting for.

Beautiful examples of modern Iranian typography — I just wish I could read them as well as look at them.

Sorry for my lack of blog visibility. I’ve been writing code rather than English lately — we get paid more when I do that.
I wanted to mention another simple pleasure of JFM: the food.
My previous 19 years of employment were for big companies (Apple and Microsoft) with thousands of employees on a many-acre [...]

“…it all begins to make sense now like a LOST season’s finale episode.”

E. O. Wilson said tonight that TED is boggling his mind. You can imagine how the rest of us feel. But before I collapse into bed I wanted to mention that four times today (I think) people have looked at our badges and asked if we run the Pike Place Fish Market. You know, where [...]

This week Hillel and I are at the TED conference in Monterey, California. Unfortunately I’m not a good enough writer to convey what TED is in the amount of time I have to write this (if ever). They have done their own introduction that may help. Chris Anderson’s description, “the prerelease version of heaven”, is [...]

“Do what you love, what you can’t not do, and the money will follow.”