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Motivation fleeting, time to go home

Whoa! Twitter made a tinyurl on the fly!

Awesome tinyurl.com

Back from lunch, enjoying an iced latte (which I hoped would be a regular latte this late in October)

JD

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Birthday flowers from Robbie

@misterkitsch Buy some, you're on vacation!

@misterkitsch Yeah, baseball sucks.

@Robozo Not after Colour and the Shape

Marry Song on the new Band of Horses is where it's at

@misterkitsch Must be nice, on a Monday

Back from shopping and an early dinner, about to go on a walk

Time for a shower and then some Metroid Prime 2

Finally ordered a Dell laptop, thus kicking off my transition to Mac

Eating breakfast, listening to The Fountain soundtrack, reading Pitchfork's guide to In Rainbows

@niceoutfit Not as nice as a Michelob

There are a lot of people in our office right now

Getting ready for the AIGA event at the office tonight

@jtyler Hmm... no ads in Safari either?

@jtyler No Ad Block, must be cranky ol' Mac Firefox

Pitchfork doesn't have any ads right now, it's nice

@jtyler My sentiments exactly

JD

Seadragon

I recenlty came across this TED talk with Blaise Aguera y Arcas. His Seadragon demo is amazing. The technology seems way more advanced in comparison to the videos on the Photosynth site last year.

Best Hoodie Ever

Seriously, someone needs to mass produce these hoodies and then drop the price $400. Bape is too expensive.

Fight Pacifism

FWIS has a great idea going with Fight Pacifism. The mark is nice. Then again, that type of design is right up my alley.

Transparency

Since when does transparency have a place in any good user interface? There are almost no instances when I'm working that I want to ability to see through active windows to my desktop.

Google Gears

Offline web applications. Watch out!

A Final Thought

Death to sites in pop-up windows!

The Windish Agency

Someoddpilot's redesign of The Windish Agency site is nicely done. I don't feel like all the pages carry the strength of the home page, but it's all well organized. The massive artist list navigation is very appropriate for a booking agent. Lots of great music represented there.

Thanks, Nigel

Nigel Godrich posted a reel on Dead Air Space assembled from the bits leftover after editing the new Radiohead material. Unfortunately, that Quicktime stream won't play all the way through for me. Good thing Golden Fiddle came through with a YouTube clip.

There Will Be Blood

The trailer for There Will Be Blood finally hit online, posted by PTA and his management. It gave me chills. I'll hope to see that again on apple.com soon. Coincidentally, the Coen's No Country For Old Men trailer is up now, too. Same chills, different trailer.

Fantastic Art In Fiction

The The Fantastic In Art & Fiction gallery by Cornell has some great illustration in it. Bookmarked for later inspiration.

Pmarca Productivity Guide

The web is riddled with lists for improving GTD and productivity, but "The Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity" had a few nice entries:

Work on whatever is most important or most interesting; Structured Procrastination; Do email exactly twice a day; Don't answer the phone; Hide in headphones; Only agree to new commitments when both your head and your heart say yes

Like most of these lists, the above ideas are fairly simple and obvious. However, as with most of said lists, they're just suggestions that you can adapt to your own life. These are just the ones that resonated strongest with me. The last one, especially, given the past week or so.