Archive for the ‘technology’ Category
J.Crew hired a sloppy web firm
I was shopping the J.Crew website today (don’t worry, sale department only) when I noticed something strange. A number of the product images had a ‘yawah.com’ watermark.
Screenshot from jcrew.com, Sept 22 2008
I thought this was a little strange, so I did some research. Yawah is a software company that does dynamic image resizing–great for customers like J.Crew.
Evidently, the web firm hired for jcrew.com got a little sloppy and either used an unlicensed copy or forgot to turn off the watermark feature. Either way, I’m giving them a big wag of the finger for releasing sloppy code into production.
Shame shame.
Filed under technology : Comments (0) : Sep 22nd, 2008
The new Chevy Volt - Bastard Child of a Twisted Mind?
It’s hard to believe that the Chevy Volt came from a company like GM which is led by the most unapologetic global climate change denier, Bob Lutz. Lutz appeared on The Colbert Report and not only trashed the idea of global climate change, but trashed his own product, the Volt.
ThinkProgress has a whole writeup on the odious Bob Lutz.
Filed under climate change, energy, environment, technology : Comments (0) : Sep 18th, 2008
Facebook ad of the day - BaconSalt
This demonstrates two things:
1) Facebook is able to target ads with a very fine grain
2) My demographic on Facebook has very strange food preferences. (BaconSalt? Seriously?)
Facebook ad of the day - BaconSalt
Filed under Milwaukee, culture, technology : Comments (0) : Sep 7th, 2008
Viral Marketing at its finest
This is really clever. Well done, EA Sports.
Anyone know which agency produced the ad?
Hat tip to Shane!
Filed under culture, technology : Comments (2) : Aug 22nd, 2008
Listening past the Snap, Crackle and Pop
Muttmutt writes :
Both Slashdot and Wired recently reported on a guy who’s been digitizing his collection of more than 6,500 78 RPM records. I decided to check it out for myself and discovered a lost world of wonderful music that hasn’t seen the light of day in decades.
Filed under culture, hack, sites i like, technology : Comments (2) : Aug 16th, 2008
Wordpress 2.6
I updated the wordpress install powering tadfad.com today. It was much overdue, as I was running a very old, insecure version. Now I’m up to date and back online.
Another nice feature is the new iPhone wordpress app. (Which I’m using to compose this post right now.) With this new setup, I no longer have an excuse for not writing on tadfad.
Hooray for wordpress and iPhone!
Filed under hack, technology : Comments (0) : Jul 26th, 2008
Twitter is down. again.
Twitter got you down? More excited about the twitter crash than the iPhone at WWDC? Here’s your shirt :
This is an experiment in demand-based sales. If (and only if) 100 people order the shirt, I will print it and ship it (for free!). If the market speaks and says “no thanks” then we all just walk away.
Benefit for you : at $15 shipped, this is a bargain
Benefit for me : no fear of sitting on a crate of unsold shirts
Benefit for us : we’re all promoters of the product. Use the widget below to order, then add it to your favorite social blog-o-webs to track progress and find more buyers. The quicker we hit 100, the quicker we all get shirts!
Filed under sites i like, technology : Comments (2) : Jun 9th, 2008
Why I Hate Windows
Today at work, I had a perfect example of why I loathe the Windows OS and wish that my employer would give us more OS choices :
There was once a debate about what was better: the Windows ecosystem where 10,000,000 developers wrote 100,000,000 software titles that would run on 100,000,000,000 different hardware configurations; or the Mac ecosystem where you have 1 source for hardware, 1 source for a rock solid OS, and only 1,000,000 software titles (that actually work, by the way).
I think I’m sold on my Mac.
(But Windows 7 is going to be great! And stable! And it will wash your dishes, walk your dog, and mow your lawn! Huzzah!)
Filed under technology, work : Comments (0) : Jun 4th, 2008
Bookmark this : mypunchbowl
Do you have friends?
Do you ever plan events with said friends?
If you answered “yes” to both, bookmark this right now : mypunchbowl.com
Many have come before it to make party invites easy and fun. These have all failed. Until now.
This site has the best user interface (web2.0, naturally), just enough customization, and it’s dead-simple to use (for both the inviter and the invitee). What’s more, it focuses on the full party life cycle : planning, preparation, and postmortem. Oh, and did I mention it’s free?
Bookmark this now, because in exactly 9 weeks you’ll have a party to plan and you’ll forget about this post by then. Embrace the web2.0 goodness.
Filed under culture, sites i like, technology : Comments (1) : Jun 4th, 2008
Mac del.icio.us app : delish
All you del.icio.us lovers out there (who use Macs) rejoice : there’s a new app on the scene that’s sure to please. Delish (currently in beta) renders a thumbnail of all the sites in your del.icio.us feed so you can visually scan for the good ones. Check it out!
Delish, a Del.icio.us Client for Mac OS X by Pine Point Software LLC via kwout
Filed under technology : Comments (2) : May 7th, 2008
