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note to michael budman’s stylist

I just saw your work in the new indigo community ad, and two things occurred to me almost immediately: 1) oh yeah he’s the roots guy; and b) wow if you wear too much roots stuff all at once you risk looking like a real knob. By comparison, Dan Aykroyd comes across as avuncular as [...]

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Posted on 8th November 2007Comments Off
iVejustabouthadenough

Default screen saver: RSS Visualizer. And do I care what is feeding it? Not really. It’s a screen saver. It runs when I’m not around. So I leave it on the default, which is Apple Hot News. And once in a while, out of the corner of my eye, I see something interesting, and then [...]

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Posted on 18th July 2007Comments Off
We promise not to be evil.
But we can’t speak for our lawyers.

Google’s oft-quoted credo “don’t be evil” started looking rather quaint last week with the appearance of a gentle suggestion on the Google blog that we try to refrain from using “Google” as a verb, particularly to signify an action taken on a competitor’s search engine. Apparently it makes the trademark lawyers uncomfortable. And you can [...]

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Posted on 29th October 2006Comments Off