Street art I pass everyday on my walk to the metro home.

Got a Chumby for Xmas from my parents. Can’t access their wifi so I will play with it when I get home. Full review will soon follow.

I’m at a mall near York, PA, which has a gothic store featuring figurines of skulls, dragons, fairies, and wizards. Nothing worth buying but they are interesting to look at while your girlfriend is buying clothes.

U.S.News & World Report does an annual feature on 50 Ways To Improve Your Life. This year the multimedia team tackled a video project recruiting everyone in the office to say a few lines about each of the 50 resolutions. Here is the final product which shows many of the faces behind the weekly magazine. Watch out for me, I talk about reducing corn in your diet. Fun!

Font geeks really hate it when a particular typeface reaches the point of passé. Prime examples include Papyrus, Arial, Times New Roman, and the dreaded Comic Sans. Kirby Ferguson despises a font used in most of the big-time Hollywood movies, Trajan. Like Times New Roman is the default font for Microsoft Word, Trajan is the default font for movies. It never really hit me before until Kirby put a bunch of movie posters side-by-side where it became painfully obvious. Watch the video below for a better idea:

It’s bad enough that movie plot lines are lacking creativity and freshness, but does movie typography have to follow suit?

It’s like the 4th of July and Christmas at the same time. Only it’s cold out. And it’s almost Christmas. I need to wrap presents…

These Guess “Damita” boots look like ghetto space boots from the year 3019. Too fly for this solar system.

The default color picker in OS X offers a variety of ways for selecting a color. Sliders, color wheels, pallets, and even crayons are used for dialing the general hue you might have in mind. But what if you know exactly what color you want? And what if you like Hex format colors like #CCCCCC (Gray) or #FF0000 (Pure Red)? You might think Apple left you high and dry, and they totally did. But Waffle Software has you covered with their free Hex color picker plugin.

Installing it is a cinch. Just copy the component to the ‘colorPickers’ folder in your ‘Library’ folder. Now when you need a specific color just enter in the appropriate 6-digit value and you’re good to go. I’m glad to have stumbled on to this little gem.

Grocery shopping at Giant around midnight. I love when two completly different food items get mixed together.

I was browsing the computer book shelf at Borders when I saw this unfortunate book. Jeez, web 1.0 blogs are sooo lame.