Scott's Posts
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
If I am sitting in a chair in Portland, Oregon, traveling at zero MPH for 8 hours a day, five days a week, how long will it take me to get to South by Southwest Interactive in Austin? Yes, you guessed it, I’m not going—maybe I’ll get there next year. One small consolation
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
A friend recently showed me a local site called “Urban Edibles” that bills itself as “a community database of wild food sources in Portland, OR.” It’s a fantastic combination of ideology and technical functionality where you can easily find free fruit, vegetables, herbs, berries and so on. The site is equally geared towards
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
A friend of mine gave me a small package wrapped in newspaper the other day, my Christmas present about a month late. I didn’t care because I wasn’t expecting anything, and was super-excited to unwrap two 16-oz. cans of Brawndo, “The Thirst Mutilator.”
If you know anything about Mike Judge’s film “Idiocracy” you can appreciate
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
The past couple of years have seen boundless development in the world of user interactivity. The Nintendo Wii and Apple’s iPhone are two wonderful examples of user interfaces that, while not unprecedented, surprised a lot of people with their elegance and near-perfect execution. With an increasing faith in the fact that such magical
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008
In the spirit of open source technology, Jona Bechtolt, aka YACHT, an electronic musician here in Portland has decided to give away instrumental versions of his music for free. This is his explanation:
“I download music. I download a lot of music. I don’t purchase music often, so I completely and totally understand when kids
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
I ride the bus to work every day. It’s a good way to interact with the city and experience the advertising flora near the office. Admittedly that is not why I ride the bus (cheapskate) but overall the whole experience pays off. I was amused to notice last week that the Adult Swim
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
It wasn’t too long ago that I was completely disheartened by programming with Javascript. My comfort level was limited basically to opening windows, creating rollovers and slideshows and other common tasks. But as any respectable web developer these days will tell you, a solid handle on manipulating Javascript is key to creating visual
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
On a Portland-y note for today’s entry, I present you with a video of “Evil Bee,” a song by the local group Menomena.
The video has been online for a couple of months now, exclusively on the PF Flyers website. As of today, October 31, the exclusive hosting privilege appears to be up, at
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
With everyone and their little sister using popular web services like Twitter, Flickr and the countless blog options available it’s easy to become overloaded with RSS feeds. While there are a number of free applications and web services for aggregating the feeds you follow, most of the time you are limited to a rigid
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
We build a lot of blogs around here at Respond2, most of which run on the fantastic and free Wordpress Content Management System. As a result of building a few Wordpress themes—and viewing even more—I’d say I’m pretty familiar with the visual style that is typical of most themes, and the structure of the information
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