Made Thing

I purchased this domain and launched the site at 9:30 this...

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:23:46 -0600

I purchased this domain and launched the site at 9:30 this morning. The only places I posted links were Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook. Six hours later, that brand new domain is #1 on Google for “Tweedact.” When did Google get so hella fast?

I remember when it took weeks to get something listed on Google, and then only after inbound links showed up on prominent sites.

I also remember walking barefoot to school in the snow with my pet Mastodon, but that’s neither here nor there.

Tweedact

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:07:53 -0600

Tweedact:

Announcing Tweedact, a bookmarklet for redacting topics from your Twitter feed. Launched fresh just this morning.

T H E N E W I N Q U I R Y

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:28:15 -0600

T H E N E W I N Q U I R Y:

Why shouldn’t it work for poetry?

There’s something to be said for the innovative model of publishing that Grant and O’Connell are using. They’re straddling the online and real-world arenas; the Internet is making possible a real, physical book. (Elliott, too, lives in both spheres; he tours tirelessly to sell hard copies of his books, but is also the founder of the online literary magazine The Rumpus.) A pledge of $15 or more guarantees the backer a hard copy, so essentially you’re buying the book in advance on the promise of certain content. Clearly this model won’t work for all books—poetry and certain types of experimental writing, for example—but it is perfectly suited to this book.

The 404 page at TeuxDeux is most definitely FTW.

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:30:07 -0600

The 404 page at TeuxDeux is most definitely FTW.

Everytime I see a missing pet sign I think of Stephen...

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:33:56 -0600

Everytime I see a missing pet sign I think of Stephen King’s Hearts in Atlantis. Have you seen Brautigan?

"The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and..."

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:35:31 -0600

“The mind that comes to rest is tended
In ways that it cannot intend:
Is borne, preserved, and comprehended
By what it cannot comprehend”

- Wendell Berry, The Sabbath Poems

And sunlight fills the room.

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:40:23 -0600

And sunlight fills the room.

Stumptown Printers: Music Samples

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:16:00 -0600

Stumptown Printers: Music Samples:

Pricelist for Stumptown Printers. For my broadside project.

"You don’t charge the search engines to send people to articles on your site, you pay them. If you..."

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:48:46 -0600

“

You don’t charge the search engines to send people to articles on your site, you pay them.

If you can’t make money from attention, you should do something else for a living. Charging money for attention gets you neither money nor attention.

”

- Seth Godin (via AZspot) (via marco)

"The baker in the medieval town square must holler “fresh rolls” if he hopes to feed the townfolk."

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:32:51 -0600

“The baker in the medieval town square must holler “fresh rolls” if he hopes to feed the townfolk.”

- On Self-Promotion – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report

Artist Jennifer Daniel has a neat portfolio site

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:24:43 -0600

Artist Jennifer Daniel has a neat portfolio site:

A lot of samples for one page, but a lot of wit, too.

Lost (via davidmontes)

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:59:15 -0600

Lost (via davidmontes)

My brother David and his lady friend Mary, on her birthday.

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:25:12 -0600

My brother David and his lady friend Mary, on her birthday.

"If it moves you to attentiveness, it is art. If it doesn’t, it’s something else"

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:28:02 -0600

“If it moves you to attentiveness, it is art. If it doesn’t, it’s something else”

- Milton Glasner

WriteRoom free for the next 6 days

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:08:00 -0600

WriteRoom free for the next 6 days:

WriteRoom, the best full-screen word processor for the Mac, is free for the next six days as part of the MacHeist nanoBundle. I draft everything in WriteRoom.

"The point is: it’s in me. I wasn’t sure that is was, and now I know—it is. And what, exactly, is..."

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:51:33 -0600

“The point is: it’s in me. I wasn’t sure that is was, and now I know—it is. And what, exactly, is “it”? It is the bug. It is the combination of native curiosity and stubbornness that made me play around with the code and take some wild guesses instead of running straight to Google (or choosing to stay within the bounds of the exercise). That might sound like a small thing, but I know it is not. I was determined to make the program do what I wanted it to do, I came up with a few guesses as to how to do that, and I kept trying different things until I succeeded (and then I felt thrilled).”

- Julie Learns Python

April and Brett, in workshop.

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:48:38 -0600

April and Brett, in workshop.

See? I'm not grumpy. I'm a careful thinker

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:15:00 -0600

See? I'm not grumpy. I'm a careful thinker:

The study also found that sad people were better at stating their case through written arguments, which Forgas said showed that a “mildly negative mood may actually promote a more concrete, accommodative and ultimately more successful communication style”.

Best Camera is now my favorite image editing app for the iPhone.

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:07:46 -0600

Best Camera is now my favorite image editing app for the iPhone.

Shot with my iPhone on my walk to work yesterday. I’m a...

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:55:31 -0500

Shot with my iPhone on my walk to work yesterday. I’m a little obsessed with Maple trees.