January 2008 Archives
January 30, 2008
Up on the Wire?

(via mathowie)
Watch The Wire Season 5 on HBO.
shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
Speaking of awesome television. The New season of Lost begins this thursday Jan. 31st.
January 29, 2008
Bindle will Travel
...and he did. All the way over to Pixel Girl Presents.

We first caught wind of PGP when we were making old school pixel icons for the OS 9 operating system. Then the OS X operating system exploded all over the place, and where pixel graphics were once the standard, now full resolution scalable icons are the norm. Pixel Girl was on the ball and quickly became one of the best places to get OS X icons. (and still is) A set of our icons even got mentioned in a real life magazine thanks to her site.
Recently she was kind enough to include our latest iphone wallpaper in her desktop gallery. Thanks!
January 28, 2008
Design-Hazard
In 2001 New York Times Magazine ran a dissapointingly short but interesting article about the design and designer of the biohazard symbol.

Apparently it wasn't invented by a crappy heavy-metal band. It was designed by a man named Charles Baldwin with help from the Dow packaging-department. That's a weird collaboration.
''The color was blaze orange, one of the colors chosen in Arctic exploration as being the most visible under the most conditions. It was three-sided because if it were on a box containing biohazardous material and the box was moved around, transported, it might wind up in different positions. Another thing -- we needed something that was easily stenciled."
January 25, 2008
[illustration] These Worlds are Yours
We haven't had a ton of extra time these days. This weblog suffers.
In the interest of showing what we've been doing with a portion of our squandered free time, we present to you a new illustration we've been working on. It's current state remains: unfinished. But it's time to set it loose into the world.
The illustration can also be downloaded:
@ 1440 pixels wide
As we've said, it's unfinished. Also, despite being available in desktop format, the illustration doesn't really work all that well as a wallpaper or background. There's just too much going on to the right side, where your icons would sit. (on a mac, actually works quite well on a pc) But we need to take a step or two back and let this puppy breathe.
However, it does look pretty nice when printed out. Now, if you would just print out a million of these you could wallpaper your life.
Higher and/or different resolution versions available upon request.
January 24, 2008
iphone 1.1.3 firmware jailbroken
The Dev Team does it again.
I can finally upgrade and experience all those sweet new features. All 2 of them.
January 17, 2008
Cone it forward.
Our iphone is jailbroken. That means we have read/write access to the brains of the phone and can install crazy awesome programs onto it, and have a customized dock image.
It also means our phone is languishing away in the now outdated iphone 1.1.2 firmware. When legit users everywhere are enjoying the fresh new features. We could totally upgrade if we wanted and have a perfectly working 1.1.3 phone, but upgrading nullifies our jailbreak. We're waiting a few days before upgrading in case the tireless programmers at the iphone Dev Team crack the new firmware. It's difficult to be patient.
So we can't exploit the new webclip icon feature for the springboard. You can now create a webpage bookmark and the phone plops a cool icon right on your homepage. Apple has mobileSafari set up to look for a specific icon file when iphone users make a webclip of your website.
Our internet buddy, brody from the free cone blog, turned us onto this easy explanation of how to set one up. Since we don't have the new firmware we couldn't test our icon. The free conian was kind enough to show us how it looks.

Interestingly, brody is taking improv classes at the theatre I used to improvise at, Dad's Garage.
January 17, 2008
Apple is the jerk again.
Well the mystery is over.
Apple announced it's new notebook, the Macbook Air. It's being touted as the "world's thinnest notebook."

Instead of the usual Apple nerd fawning, this computer is actually getting slammed around the internet. And not for bad reasons, either. See, the Macbook Air is the thinnest and one of the lightest laptops out there. In order to get the computer so small, a lot of new hardware had to be produced. These new parts are expensive. Pricing a completely tricked-out Macbook Air with all the bells and whistles (solid state hard drive) bumps the cost well up over 3 grand. While still having a slower processor than the cheapest "original flavor" Macbook.
In addition, the computer has no optical drive. It cannot read CDs or DVDs. Again this was done to save space. This seems to be one of the biggest complaints I've seen. Even though Apple is offering an external CD/DVD drive, it costs extra.
Of course Apple's stock took a dive right after the Keynote. I guess you can't announce an iPhone every year right?
We think Apple was prepared for this backlash. We think Apple is playing the long game with this computer. Sure, it's super expensive right now. But that's just because all this hardware was just been invented. Give this laptop a year, maybe two. It'll only get smaller and only get cheaper.
Apple might have to spend some time licking their wounds. Especially after being the golden boy of 2007. We predict that this computer's popularity will increase. The same people that cried over loosing the 3.5 inch floppy drive will be touting Apple's courage to drop the optical drive when every body else does in two years.
January 14, 2008
Mystery! Intrigue!
Tomorrow Apple holds it's annual Macworld Conference in San Francisco. Steve Jobs will take the stage to present another of his legendary Keynote Presentations.

This time last year Apple announced the iPhone. At the time the release date was still a few months away, but finally we got to see what it looked like. After years fo rumors and fake mock-ups, the actual phone was better than all of them. It certainly blew us away, we fell in love with the phone the moment we saw it. Even after the $200 price drop, and having to embrace the slimey grossness of AT&T, we can say without a shadow of a doubt that the phone is totally worth it. I still consider it my new best friend.
But the best part about Macworld is the mystery.
Apple is notorious for keeping their new products and upgrades a complete secret before they are announced on stage. Who knows what mysteries lie in wait behind the back of that turtleneck-ed man. It's like second Christmas, except all the presents are unwrapped and sitting behind expensive unbreakable glass.
Every year in the few weeks and days before Macworld the Apple nerds (like me) all speculate on what new discoveries we'll encounter at Macworld. This year is no different.
Speaking of mysteries. We're such big fans of Lost that we automatically considered ourselves fans of the show's creator J.J. Abrams. In anticipation of his new moster movie project, Cloverfield, we planned on being excited. But then we thought about some of his past projects that we've actually not been that impressed with. Like Alias. Which really seems to be more of his baby that Lost is. We've only ever seen one episode of Alias all the way through, and maybe we're missing something, but we didn't go crazy for it. Essentially we talked ourselves out of being Abrams fans.
Then we saw J.J Abrams' presentation for TED...
Now we're huge fans again!
January 4, 2008
Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip vs. Boingboing.net
A little more information about these mysterious British fellows, straight from the soruce.
obviously... (via boingboing)
January 2, 2008
Uh oh.
We're not a political weblog. But we love science.
The top two Republican Candidates do not accept Evolution to be true.
It gets better. Every hippie's favorite Democratic (Republican?) Candidate has now revealed that he too, does not believe in Evolution. I'd like to call it: "The crumbling of Ron Paul." But we both know that rejecting science is actually a sound political strategy.
(via The Information Paradox)
It is important to note that Evolution is not a theory on the creation of the Universe, as Ron Paul states. It's not even a theory on how life began. Evolution attempts to explain how life has changed, or evolved, through history. To boil this question of Evolution, and it's factuality, down to an argument about Science vs. Religion betrays Ron Paul's politics at work. And it doesn't look very promising.
Good luck America.
January 30, 2008
Up on the Wire?

(via mathowie)
Watch The Wire Season 5 on HBO.
shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
Speaking of awesome television. The New season of Lost begins this thursday Jan. 31st.
January 29, 2008
Bindle will Travel
...and he did. All the way over to Pixel Girl Presents.

We first caught wind of PGP when we were making old school pixel icons for the OS 9 operating system. Then the OS X operating system exploded all over the place, and where pixel graphics were once the standard, now full resolution scalable icons are the norm. Pixel Girl was on the ball and quickly became one of the best places to get OS X icons. (and still is) A set of our icons even got mentioned in a real life magazine thanks to her site.
Recently she was kind enough to include our latest iphone wallpaper in her desktop gallery. Thanks!
January 28, 2008
Design-Hazard
In 2001 New York Times Magazine ran a dissapointingly short but interesting article about the design and designer of the biohazard symbol.

Apparently it wasn't invented by a crappy heavy-metal band. It was designed by a man named Charles Baldwin with help from the Dow packaging-department. That's a weird collaboration.
''The color was blaze orange, one of the colors chosen in Arctic exploration as being the most visible under the most conditions. It was three-sided because if it were on a box containing biohazardous material and the box was moved around, transported, it might wind up in different positions. Another thing -- we needed something that was easily stenciled."
January 25, 2008
[illustration] These Worlds are Yours
We haven't had a ton of extra time these days. This weblog suffers.
In the interest of showing what we've been doing with a portion of our squandered free time, we present to you a new illustration we've been working on. It's current state remains: unfinished. But it's time to set it loose into the world.
The illustration can also be downloaded:
@ 1440 pixels wide
As we've said, it's unfinished. Also, despite being available in desktop format, the illustration doesn't really work all that well as a wallpaper or background. There's just too much going on to the right side, where your icons would sit. (on a mac, actually works quite well on a pc) But we need to take a step or two back and let this puppy breathe.
However, it does look pretty nice when printed out. Now, if you would just print out a million of these you could wallpaper your life.
Higher and/or different resolution versions available upon request.
January 24, 2008
iphone 1.1.3 firmware jailbroken
The Dev Team does it again.
I can finally upgrade and experience all those sweet new features. All 2 of them.
January 17, 2008
Cone it forward.
Our iphone is jailbroken. That means we have read/write access to the brains of the phone and can install crazy awesome programs onto it, and have a customized dock image.
It also means our phone is languishing away in the now outdated iphone 1.1.2 firmware. When legit users everywhere are enjoying the fresh new features. We could totally upgrade if we wanted and have a perfectly working 1.1.3 phone, but upgrading nullifies our jailbreak. We're waiting a few days before upgrading in case the tireless programmers at the iphone Dev Team crack the new firmware. It's difficult to be patient.
So we can't exploit the new webclip icon feature for the springboard. You can now create a webpage bookmark and the phone plops a cool icon right on your homepage. Apple has mobileSafari set up to look for a specific icon file when iphone users make a webclip of your website.
Our internet buddy, brody from the free cone blog, turned us onto this easy explanation of how to set one up. Since we don't have the new firmware we couldn't test our icon. The free conian was kind enough to show us how it looks.

Interestingly, brody is taking improv classes at the theatre I used to improvise at, Dad's Garage.
January 17, 2008
Apple is the jerk again.
Well the mystery is over.
Apple announced it's new notebook, the Macbook Air. It's being touted as the "world's thinnest notebook."

Instead of the usual Apple nerd fawning, this computer is actually getting slammed around the internet. And not for bad reasons, either. See, the Macbook Air is the thinnest and one of the lightest laptops out there. In order to get the computer so small, a lot of new hardware had to be produced. These new parts are expensive. Pricing a completely tricked-out Macbook Air with all the bells and whistles (solid state hard drive) bumps the cost well up over 3 grand. While still having a slower processor than the cheapest "original flavor" Macbook.
In addition, the computer has no optical drive. It cannot read CDs or DVDs. Again this was done to save space. This seems to be one of the biggest complaints I've seen. Even though Apple is offering an external CD/DVD drive, it costs extra.
Of course Apple's stock took a dive right after the Keynote. I guess you can't announce an iPhone every year right?
We think Apple was prepared for this backlash. We think Apple is playing the long game with this computer. Sure, it's super expensive right now. But that's just because all this hardware was just been invented. Give this laptop a year, maybe two. It'll only get smaller and only get cheaper.
Apple might have to spend some time licking their wounds. Especially after being the golden boy of 2007. We predict that this computer's popularity will increase. The same people that cried over loosing the 3.5 inch floppy drive will be touting Apple's courage to drop the optical drive when every body else does in two years.
January 14, 2008
Mystery! Intrigue!
Tomorrow Apple holds it's annual Macworld Conference in San Francisco. Steve Jobs will take the stage to present another of his legendary Keynote Presentations.

This time last year Apple announced the iPhone. At the time the release date was still a few months away, but finally we got to see what it looked like. After years fo rumors and fake mock-ups, the actual phone was better than all of them. It certainly blew us away, we fell in love with the phone the moment we saw it. Even after the $200 price drop, and having to embrace the slimey grossness of AT&T, we can say without a shadow of a doubt that the phone is totally worth it. I still consider it my new best friend.
But the best part about Macworld is the mystery.
Apple is notorious for keeping their new products and upgrades a complete secret before they are announced on stage. Who knows what mysteries lie in wait behind the back of that turtleneck-ed man. It's like second Christmas, except all the presents are unwrapped and sitting behind expensive unbreakable glass.
Every year in the few weeks and days before Macworld the Apple nerds (like me) all speculate on what new discoveries we'll encounter at Macworld. This year is no different.
Speaking of mysteries. We're such big fans of Lost that we automatically considered ourselves fans of the show's creator J.J. Abrams. In anticipation of his new moster movie project, Cloverfield, we planned on being excited. But then we thought about some of his past projects that we've actually not been that impressed with. Like Alias. Which really seems to be more of his baby that Lost is. We've only ever seen one episode of Alias all the way through, and maybe we're missing something, but we didn't go crazy for it. Essentially we talked ourselves out of being Abrams fans.
Then we saw J.J Abrams' presentation for TED...
Now we're huge fans again!
January 4, 2008
Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip vs. Boingboing.net
A little more information about these mysterious British fellows, straight from the soruce.
obviously... (via boingboing)
January 2, 2008
Uh oh.
We're not a political weblog. But we love science.
The top two Republican Candidates do not accept Evolution to be true.
It gets better. Every hippie's favorite Democratic (Republican?) Candidate has now revealed that he too, does not believe in Evolution. I'd like to call it: "The crumbling of Ron Paul." But we both know that rejecting science is actually a sound political strategy.
(via The Information Paradox)
It is important to note that Evolution is not a theory on the creation of the Universe, as Ron Paul states. It's not even a theory on how life began. Evolution attempts to explain how life has changed, or evolved, through history. To boil this question of Evolution, and it's factuality, down to an argument about Science vs. Religion betrays Ron Paul's politics at work. And it doesn't look very promising.
Good luck America.
January 30, 2008
Up on the Wire?

(via mathowie)
Watch The Wire Season 5 on HBO.
shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
Speaking of awesome television. The New season of Lost begins this thursday Jan. 31st.
January 29, 2008
Bindle will Travel
...and he did. All the way over to Pixel Girl Presents.

We first caught wind of PGP when we were making old school pixel icons for the OS 9 operating system. Then the OS X operating system exploded all over the place, and where pixel graphics were once the standard, now full resolution scalable icons are the norm. Pixel Girl was on the ball and quickly became one of the best places to get OS X icons. (and still is) A set of our icons even got mentioned in a real life magazine thanks to her site.
Recently she was kind enough to include our latest iphone wallpaper in her desktop gallery. Thanks!
January 28, 2008
Design-Hazard
In 2001 New York Times Magazine ran a dissapointingly short but interesting article about the design and designer of the biohazard symbol.

Apparently it wasn't invented by a crappy heavy-metal band. It was designed by a man named Charles Baldwin with help from the Dow packaging-department. That's a weird collaboration.
''The color was blaze orange, one of the colors chosen in Arctic exploration as being the most visible under the most conditions. It was three-sided because if it were on a box containing biohazardous material and the box was moved around, transported, it might wind up in different positions. Another thing -- we needed something that was easily stenciled."
January 25, 2008
[illustration] These Worlds are Yours
We haven't had a ton of extra time these days. This weblog suffers.
In the interest of showing what we've been doing with a portion of our squandered free time, we present to you a new illustration we've been working on. It's current state remains: unfinished. But it's time to set it loose into the world.
The illustration can also be downloaded:
@ 1440 pixels wide
As we've said, it's unfinished. Also, despite being available in desktop format, the illustration doesn't really work all that well as a wallpaper or background. There's just too much going on to the right side, where your icons would sit. (on a mac, actually works quite well on a pc) But we need to take a step or two back and let this puppy breathe.
However, it does look pretty nice when printed out. Now, if you would just print out a million of these you could wallpaper your life.
Higher and/or different resolution versions available upon request.
January 24, 2008
iphone 1.1.3 firmware jailbroken
The Dev Team does it again.
I can finally upgrade and experience all those sweet new features. All 2 of them.
January 17, 2008
Cone it forward.
Our iphone is jailbroken. That means we have read/write access to the brains of the phone and can install crazy awesome programs onto it, and have a customized dock image.
It also means our phone is languishing away in the now outdated iphone 1.1.2 firmware. When legit users everywhere are enjoying the fresh new features. We could totally upgrade if we wanted and have a perfectly working 1.1.3 phone, but upgrading nullifies our jailbreak. We're waiting a few days before upgrading in case the tireless programmers at the iphone Dev Team crack the new firmware. It's difficult to be patient.
So we can't exploit the new webclip icon feature for the springboard. You can now create a webpage bookmark and the phone plops a cool icon right on your homepage. Apple has mobileSafari set up to look for a specific icon file when iphone users make a webclip of your website.
Our internet buddy, brody from the free cone blog, turned us onto this easy explanation of how to set one up. Since we don't have the new firmware we couldn't test our icon. The free conian was kind enough to show us how it looks.

Interestingly, brody is taking improv classes at the theatre I used to improvise at, Dad's Garage.
January 17, 2008
Apple is the jerk again.
Well the mystery is over.
Apple announced it's new notebook, the Macbook Air. It's being touted as the "world's thinnest notebook."

Instead of the usual Apple nerd fawning, this computer is actually getting slammed around the internet. And not for bad reasons, either. See, the Macbook Air is the thinnest and one of the lightest laptops out there. In order to get the computer so small, a lot of new hardware had to be produced. These new parts are expensive. Pricing a completely tricked-out Macbook Air with all the bells and whistles (solid state hard drive) bumps the cost well up over 3 grand. While still having a slower processor than the cheapest "original flavor" Macbook.
In addition, the computer has no optical drive. It cannot read CDs or DVDs. Again this was done to save space. This seems to be one of the biggest complaints I've seen. Even though Apple is offering an external CD/DVD drive, it costs extra.
Of course Apple's stock took a dive right after the Keynote. I guess you can't announce an iPhone every year right?
We think Apple was prepared for this backlash. We think Apple is playing the long game with this computer. Sure, it's super expensive right now. But that's just because all this hardware was just been invented. Give this laptop a year, maybe two. It'll only get smaller and only get cheaper.
Apple might have to spend some time licking their wounds. Especially after being the golden boy of 2007. We predict that this computer's popularity will increase. The same people that cried over loosing the 3.5 inch floppy drive will be touting Apple's courage to drop the optical drive when every body else does in two years.
January 14, 2008
Mystery! Intrigue!
Tomorrow Apple holds it's annual Macworld Conference in San Francisco. Steve Jobs will take the stage to present another of his legendary Keynote Presentations.

This time last year Apple announced the iPhone. At the time the release date was still a few months away, but finally we got to see what it looked like. After years fo rumors and fake mock-ups, the actual phone was better than all of them. It certainly blew us away, we fell in love with the phone the moment we saw it. Even after the $200 price drop, and having to embrace the slimey grossness of AT&T, we can say without a shadow of a doubt that the phone is totally worth it. I still consider it my new best friend.
But the best part about Macworld is the mystery.
Apple is notorious for keeping their new products and upgrades a complete secret before they are announced on stage. Who knows what mysteries lie in wait behind the back of that turtleneck-ed man. It's like second Christmas, except all the presents are unwrapped and sitting behind expensive unbreakable glass.
Every year in the few weeks and days before Macworld the Apple nerds (like me) all speculate on what new discoveries we'll encounter at Macworld. This year is no different.
Speaking of mysteries. We're such big fans of Lost that we automatically considered ourselves fans of the show's creator J.J. Abrams. In anticipation of his new moster movie project, Cloverfield, we planned on being excited. But then we thought about some of his past projects that we've actually not been that impressed with. Like Alias. Which really seems to be more of his baby that Lost is. We've only ever seen one episode of Alias all the way through, and maybe we're missing something, but we didn't go crazy for it. Essentially we talked ourselves out of being Abrams fans.
Then we saw J.J Abrams' presentation for TED...
Now we're huge fans again!
January 4, 2008
Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip vs. Boingboing.net
A little more information about these mysterious British fellows, straight from the soruce.
obviously... (via boingboing)
January 2, 2008
Uh oh.
We're not a political weblog. But we love science.
The top two Republican Candidates do not accept Evolution to be true.
It gets better. Every hippie's favorite Democratic (Republican?) Candidate has now revealed that he too, does not believe in Evolution. I'd like to call it: "The crumbling of Ron Paul." But we both know that rejecting science is actually a sound political strategy.
(via The Information Paradox)
It is important to note that Evolution is not a theory on the creation of the Universe, as Ron Paul states. It's not even a theory on how life began. Evolution attempts to explain how life has changed, or evolved, through history. To boil this question of Evolution, and it's factuality, down to an argument about Science vs. Religion betrays Ron Paul's politics at work. And it doesn't look very promising.
Good luck America.
January 30, 2008
Up on the Wire?

(via mathowie)
Watch The Wire Season 5 on HBO.
shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
Speaking of awesome television. The New season of Lost begins this thursday Jan. 31st.
January 29, 2008
Bindle will Travel
...and he did. All the way over to Pixel Girl Presents.

We first caught wind of PGP when we were making old school pixel icons for the OS 9 operating system. Then the OS X operating system exploded all over the place, and where pixel graphics were once the standard, now full resolution scalable icons are the norm. Pixel Girl was on the ball and quickly became one of the best places to get OS X icons. (and still is) A set of our icons even got mentioned in a real life magazine thanks to her site.
Recently she was kind enough to include our latest iphone wallpaper in her desktop gallery. Thanks!
January 28, 2008
Design-Hazard
In 2001 New York Times Magazine ran a dissapointingly short but interesting article about the design and designer of the biohazard symbol.

Apparently it wasn't invented by a crappy heavy-metal band. It was designed by a man named Charles Baldwin with help from the Dow packaging-department. That's a weird collaboration.
''The color was blaze orange, one of the colors chosen in Arctic exploration as being the most visible under the most conditions. It was three-sided because if it were on a box containing biohazardous material and the box was moved around, transported, it might wind up in different positions. Another thing -- we needed something that was easily stenciled."
January 25, 2008
[illustration] These Worlds are Yours
We haven't had a ton of extra time these days. This weblog suffers.
In the interest of showing what we've been doing with a portion of our squandered free time, we present to you a new illustration we've been working on. It's current state remains: unfinished. But it's time to set it loose into the world.
The illustration can also be downloaded:
@ 1440 pixels wide
As we've said, it's unfinished. Also, despite being available in desktop format, the illustration doesn't really work all that well as a wallpaper or background. There's just too much going on to the right side, where your icons would sit. (on a mac, actually works quite well on a pc) But we need to take a step or two back and let this puppy breathe.
However, it does look pretty nice when printed out. Now, if you would just print out a million of these you could wallpaper your life.
Higher and/or different resolution versions available upon request.
January 24, 2008
iphone 1.1.3 firmware jailbroken
The Dev Team does it again.
I can finally upgrade and experience all those sweet new features. All 2 of them.
January 17, 2008
Cone it forward.
Our iphone is jailbroken. That means we have read/write access to the brains of the phone and can install crazy awesome programs onto it, and have a customized dock image.
It also means our phone is languishing away in the now outdated iphone 1.1.2 firmware. When legit users everywhere are enjoying the fresh new features. We could totally upgrade if we wanted and have a perfectly working 1.1.3 phone, but upgrading nullifies our jailbreak. We're waiting a few days before upgrading in case the tireless programmers at the iphone Dev Team crack the new firmware. It's difficult to be patient.
So we can't exploit the new webclip icon feature for the springboard. You can now create a webpage bookmark and the phone plops a cool icon right on your homepage. Apple has mobileSafari set up to look for a specific icon file when iphone users make a webclip of your website.
Our internet buddy, brody from the free cone blog, turned us onto this easy explanation of how to set one up. Since we don't have the new firmware we couldn't test our icon. The free conian was kind enough to show us how it looks.

Interestingly, brody is taking improv classes at the theatre I used to improvise at, Dad's Garage.
January 17, 2008
Apple is the jerk again.
Well the mystery is over.
Apple announced it's new notebook, the Macbook Air. It's being touted as the "world's thinnest notebook."

Instead of the usual Apple nerd fawning, this computer is actually getting slammed around the internet. And not for bad reasons, either. See, the Macbook Air is the thinnest and one of the lightest laptops out there. In order to get the computer so small, a lot of new hardware had to be produced. These new parts are expensive. Pricing a completely tricked-out Macbook Air with all the bells and whistles (solid state hard drive) bumps the cost well up over 3 grand. While still having a slower processor than the cheapest "original flavor" Macbook.
In addition, the computer has no optical drive. It cannot read CDs or DVDs. Again this was done to save space. This seems to be one of the biggest complaints I've seen. Even though Apple is offering an external CD/DVD drive, it costs extra.
Of course Apple's stock took a dive right after the Keynote. I guess you can't announce an iPhone every year right?
We think Apple was prepared for this backlash. We think Apple is playing the long game with this computer. Sure, it's super expensive right now. But that's just because all this hardware was just been invented. Give this laptop a year, maybe two. It'll only get smaller and only get cheaper.
Apple might have to spend some time licking their wounds. Especially after being the golden boy of 2007. We predict that this computer's popularity will increase. The same people that cried over loosing the 3.5 inch floppy drive will be touting Apple's courage to drop the optical drive when every body else does in two years.
January 14, 2008
Mystery! Intrigue!
Tomorrow Apple holds it's annual Macworld Conference in San Francisco. Steve Jobs will take the stage to present another of his legendary Keynote Presentations.

This time last year Apple announced the iPhone. At the time the release date was still a few months away, but finally we got to see what it looked like. After years fo rumors and fake mock-ups, the actual phone was better than all of them. It certainly blew us away, we fell in love with the phone the moment we saw it. Even after the $200 price drop, and having to embrace the slimey grossness of AT&T, we can say without a shadow of a doubt that the phone is totally worth it. I still consider it my new best friend.
But the best part about Macworld is the mystery.
Apple is notorious for keeping their new products and upgrades a complete secret before they are announced on stage. Who knows what mysteries lie in wait behind the back of that turtleneck-ed man. It's like second Christmas, except all the presents are unwrapped and sitting behind expensive unbreakable glass.
Every year in the few weeks and days before Macworld the Apple nerds (like me) all speculate on what new discoveries we'll encounter at Macworld. This year is no different.
Speaking of mysteries. We're such big fans of Lost that we automatically considered ourselves fans of the show's creator J.J. Abrams. In anticipation of his new moster movie project, Cloverfield, we planned on being excited. But then we thought about some of his past projects that we've actually not been that impressed with. Like Alias. Which really seems to be more of his baby that Lost is. We've only ever seen one episode of Alias all the way through, and maybe we're missing something, but we didn't go crazy for it. Essentially we talked ourselves out of being Abrams fans.
Then we saw J.J Abrams' presentation for TED...
Now we're huge fans again!
January 4, 2008
Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip vs. Boingboing.net
A little more information about these mysterious British fellows, straight from the soruce.
obviously... (via boingboing)
January 2, 2008
Uh oh.
We're not a political weblog. But we love science.
The top two Republican Candidates do not accept Evolution to be true.
It gets better. Every hippie's favorite Democratic (Republican?) Candidate has now revealed that he too, does not believe in Evolution. I'd like to call it: "The crumbling of Ron Paul." But we both know that rejecting science is actually a sound political strategy.
(via The Information Paradox)
It is important to note that Evolution is not a theory on the creation of the Universe, as Ron Paul states. It's not even a theory on how life began. Evolution attempts to explain how life has changed, or evolved, through history. To boil this question of Evolution, and it's factuality, down to an argument about Science vs. Religion betrays Ron Paul's politics at work. And it doesn't look very promising.
Good luck America.
January 30, 2008
Up on the Wire?

(via mathowie)
Watch The Wire Season 5 on HBO.
shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
Speaking of awesome television. The New season of Lost begins this thursday Jan. 31st.
January 29, 2008
Bindle will Travel
...and he did. All the way over to Pixel Girl Presents.

We first caught wind of PGP when we were making old school pixel icons for the OS 9 operating system. Then the OS X operating system exploded all over the place, and where pixel graphics were once the standard, now full resolution scalable icons are the norm. Pixel Girl was on the ball and quickly became one of the best places to get OS X icons. (and still is) A set of our icons even got mentioned in a real life magazine thanks to her site.
Recently she was kind enough to include our latest iphone wallpaper in her desktop gallery. Thanks!
January 28, 2008
Design-Hazard
In 2001 New York Times Magazine ran a dissapointingly short but interesting article about the design and designer of the biohazard symbol.

Apparently it wasn't invented by a crappy heavy-metal band. It was designed by a man named Charles Baldwin with help from the Dow packaging-department. That's a weird collaboration.
''The color was blaze orange, one of the colors chosen in Arctic exploration as being the most visible under the most conditions. It was three-sided because if it were on a box containing biohazardous material and the box was moved around, transported, it might wind up in different positions. Another thing -- we needed something that was easily stenciled."
January 25, 2008
[illustration] These Worlds are Yours
We haven't had a ton of extra time these days. This weblog suffers.
In the interest of showing what we've been doing with a portion of our squandered free time, we present to you a new illustration we've been working on. It's current state remains: unfinished. But it's time to set it loose into the world.
The illustration can also be downloaded:
@ 1440 pixels wide
As we've said, it's unfinished. Also, despite being available in desktop format, the illustration doesn't really work all that well as a wallpaper or background. There's just too much going on to the right side, where your icons would sit. (on a mac, actually works quite well on a pc) But we need to take a step or two back and let this puppy breathe.
However, it does look pretty nice when printed out. Now, if you would just print out a million of these you could wallpaper your life.
Higher and/or different resolution versions available upon request.
January 24, 2008
iphone 1.1.3 firmware jailbroken
The Dev Team does it again.
I can finally upgrade and experience all those sweet new features. All 2 of them.
January 17, 2008
Cone it forward.
Our iphone is jailbroken. That means we have read/write access to the brains of the phone and can install crazy awesome programs onto it, and have a customized dock image.
It also means our phone is languishing away in the now outdated iphone 1.1.2 firmware. When legit users everywhere are enjoying the fresh new features. We could totally upgrade if we wanted and have a perfectly working 1.1.3 phone, but upgrading nullifies our jailbreak. We're waiting a few days before upgrading in case the tireless programmers at the iphone Dev Team crack the new firmware. It's difficult to be patient.
So we can't exploit the new webclip icon feature for the springboard. You can now create a webpage bookmark and the phone plops a cool icon right on your homepage. Apple has mobileSafari set up to look for a specific icon file when iphone users make a webclip of your website.
Our internet buddy, brody from the free cone blog, turned us onto this easy explanation of how to set one up. Since we don't have the new firmware we couldn't test our icon. The free conian was kind enough to show us how it looks.

Interestingly, brody is taking improv classes at the theatre I used to improvise at, Dad's Garage.
January 17, 2008
Apple is the jerk again.
Well the mystery is over.
Apple announced it's new notebook, the Macbook Air. It's being touted as the "world's thinnest notebook."

Instead of the usual Apple nerd fawning, this computer is actually getting slammed around the internet. And not for bad reasons, either. See, the Macbook Air is the thinnest and one of the lightest laptops out there. In order to get the computer so small, a lot of new hardware had to be produced. These new parts are expensive. Pricing a completely tricked-out Macbook Air with all the bells and whistles (solid state hard drive) bumps the cost well up over 3 grand. While still having a slower processor than the cheapest "original flavor" Macbook.
In addition, the computer has no optical drive. It cannot read CDs or DVDs. Again this was done to save space. This seems to be one of the biggest complaints I've seen. Even though Apple is offering an external CD/DVD drive, it costs extra.
Of course Apple's stock took a dive right after the Keynote. I guess you can't announce an iPhone every year right?
We think Apple was prepared for this backlash. We think Apple is playing the long game with this computer. Sure, it's super expensive right now. But that's just because all this hardware was just been invented. Give this laptop a year, maybe two. It'll only get smaller and only get cheaper.
Apple might have to spend some time licking their wounds. Especially after being the golden boy of 2007. We predict that this computer's popularity will increase. The same people that cried over loosing the 3.5 inch floppy drive will be touting Apple's courage to drop the optical drive when every body else does in two years.
January 14, 2008
Mystery! Intrigue!
Tomorrow Apple holds it's annual Macworld Conference in San Francisco. Steve Jobs will take the stage to present another of his legendary Keynote Presentations.

This time last year Apple announced the iPhone. At the time the release date was still a few months away, but finally we got to see what it looked like. After years fo rumors and fake mock-ups, the actual phone was better than all of them. It certainly blew us away, we fell in love with the phone the moment we saw it. Even after the $200 price drop, and having to embrace the slimey grossness of AT&T, we can say without a shadow of a doubt that the phone is totally worth it. I still consider it my new best friend.
But the best part about Macworld is the mystery.
Apple is notorious for keeping their new products and upgrades a complete secret before they are announced on stage. Who knows what mysteries lie in wait behind the back of that turtleneck-ed man. It's like second Christmas, except all the presents are unwrapped and sitting behind expensive unbreakable glass.
Every year in the few weeks and days before Macworld the Apple nerds (like me) all speculate on what new discoveries we'll encounter at Macworld. This year is no different.
Speaking of mysteries. We're such big fans of Lost that we automatically considered ourselves fans of the show's creator J.J. Abrams. In anticipation of his new moster movie project, Cloverfield, we planned on being excited. But then we thought about some of his past projects that we've actually not been that impressed with. Like Alias. Which really seems to be more of his baby that Lost is. We've only ever seen one episode of Alias all the way through, and maybe we're missing something, but we didn't go crazy for it. Essentially we talked ourselves out of being Abrams fans.
Then we saw J.J Abrams' presentation for TED...
Now we're huge fans again!
January 4, 2008
Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip vs. Boingboing.net
A little more information about these mysterious British fellows, straight from the soruce.
obviously... (via boingboing)
January 2, 2008
Uh oh.
We're not a political weblog. But we love science.
The top two Republican Candidates do not accept Evolution to be true.
It gets better. Every hippie's favorite Democratic (Republican?) Candidate has now revealed that he too, does not believe in Evolution. I'd like to call it: "The crumbling of Ron Paul." But we both know that rejecting science is actually a sound political strategy.
(via The Information Paradox)
It is important to note that Evolution is not a theory on the creation of the Universe, as Ron Paul states. It's not even a theory on how life began. Evolution attempts to explain how life has changed, or evolved, through history. To boil this question of Evolution, and it's factuality, down to an argument about Science vs. Religion betrays Ron Paul's politics at work. And it doesn't look very promising.
Good luck America.
January 30, 2008
Up on the Wire?

(via mathowie)
Watch The Wire Season 5 on HBO.
shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
Speaking of awesome television. The New season of Lost begins this thursday Jan. 31st.
January 29, 2008
Bindle will Travel
...and he did. All the way over to Pixel Girl Presents.

We first caught wind of PGP when we were making old school pixel icons for the OS 9 operating system. Then the OS X operating system exploded all over the place, and where pixel graphics were once the standard, now full resolution scalable icons are the norm. Pixel Girl was on the ball and quickly became one of the best places to get OS X icons. (and still is) A set of our icons even got mentioned in a real life magazine thanks to her site.
Recently she was kind enough to include our latest iphone wallpaper in her desktop gallery. Thanks!
January 28, 2008
Design-Hazard
In 2001 New York Times Magazine ran a dissapointingly short but interesting article about the design and designer of the biohazard symbol.

Apparently it wasn't invented by a crappy heavy-metal band. It was designed by a man named Charles Baldwin with help from the Dow packaging-department. That's a weird collaboration.
''The color was blaze orange, one of the colors chosen in Arctic exploration as being the most visible under the most conditions. It was three-sided because if it were on a box containing biohazardous material and the box was moved around, transported, it might wind up in different positions. Another thing -- we needed something that was easily stenciled."
January 25, 2008
[illustration] These Worlds are Yours
We haven't had a ton of extra time these days. This weblog suffers.
In the interest of showing what we've been doing with a portion of our squandered free time, we present to you a new illustration we've been working on. It's current state remains: unfinished. But it's time to set it loose into the world.
The illustration can also be downloaded:
@ 1440 pixels wide
As we've said, it's unfinished. Also, despite being available in desktop format, the illustration doesn't really work all that well as a wallpaper or background. There's just too much going on to the right side, where your icons would sit. (on a mac, actually works quite well on a pc) But we need to take a step or two back and let this puppy breathe.
However, it does look pretty nice when printed out. Now, if you would just print out a million of these you could wallpaper your life.
Higher and/or different resolution versions available upon request.
January 24, 2008
iphone 1.1.3 firmware jailbroken
The Dev Team does it again.
I can finally upgrade and experience all those sweet new features. All 2 of them.
January 17, 2008
Cone it forward.
Our iphone is jailbroken. That means we have read/write access to the brains of the phone and can install crazy awesome programs onto it, and have a customized dock image.
It also means our phone is languishing away in the now outdated iphone 1.1.2 firmware. When legit users everywhere are enjoying the fresh new features. We could totally upgrade if we wanted and have a perfectly working 1.1.3 phone, but upgrading nullifies our jailbreak. We're waiting a few days before upgrading in case the tireless programmers at the iphone Dev Team crack the new firmware. It's difficult to be patient.
So we can't exploit the new webclip icon feature for the springboard. You can now create a webpage bookmark and the phone plops a cool icon right on your homepage. Apple has mobileSafari set up to look for a specific icon file when iphone users make a webclip of your website.
Our internet buddy, brody from the free cone blog, turned us onto this easy explanation of how to set one up. Since we don't have the new firmware we couldn't test our icon. The free conian was kind enough to show us how it looks.

Interestingly, brody is taking improv classes at the theatre I used to improvise at, Dad's Garage.
January 17, 2008
Apple is the jerk again.
Well the mystery is over.
Apple announced it's new notebook, the Macbook Air. It's being touted as the "world's thinnest notebook."

Instead of the usual Apple nerd fawning, this computer is actually getting slammed around the internet. And not for bad reasons, either. See, the Macbook Air is the thinnest and one of the lightest laptops out there. In order to get the computer so small, a lot of new hardware had to be produced. These new parts are expensive. Pricing a completely tricked-out Macbook Air with all the bells and whistles (solid state hard drive) bumps the cost well up over 3 grand. While still having a slower processor than the cheapest "original flavor" Macbook.
In addition, the computer has no optical drive. It cannot read CDs or DVDs. Again this was done to save space. This seems to be one of the biggest complaints I've seen. Even though Apple is offering an external CD/DVD drive, it costs extra.
Of course Apple's stock took a dive right after the Keynote. I guess you can't announce an iPhone every year right?
We think Apple was prepared for this backlash. We think Apple is playing the long game with this computer. Sure, it's super expensive right now. But that's just because all this hardware was just been invented. Give this laptop a year, maybe two. It'll only get smaller and only get cheaper.
Apple might have to spend some time licking their wounds. Especially after being the golden boy of 2007. We predict that this computer's popularity will increase. The same people that cried over loosing the 3.5 inch floppy drive will be touting Apple's courage to drop the optical drive when every body else does in two years.
January 14, 2008
Mystery! Intrigue!
Tomorrow Apple holds it's annual Macworld Conference in San Francisco. Steve Jobs will take the stage to present another of his legendary Keynote Presentations.

This time last year Apple announced the iPhone. At the time the release date was still a few months away, but finally we got to see what it looked like. After years fo rumors and fake mock-ups, the actual phone was better than all of them. It certainly blew us away, we fell in love with the phone the moment we saw it. Even after the $200 price drop, and having to embrace the slimey grossness of AT&T, we can say without a shadow of a doubt that the phone is totally worth it. I still consider it my new best friend.
But the best part about Macworld is the mystery.
Apple is notorious for keeping their new products and upgrades a complete secret before they are announced on stage. Who knows what mysteries lie in wait behind the back of that turtleneck-ed man. It's like second Christmas, except all the presents are unwrapped and sitting behind expensive unbreakable glass.
Every year in the few weeks and days before Macworld the Apple nerds (like me) all speculate on what new discoveries we'll encounter at Macworld. This year is no different.
Speaking of mysteries. We're such big fans of Lost that we automatically considered ourselves fans of the show's creator J.J. Abrams. In anticipation of his new moster movie project, Cloverfield, we planned on being excited. But then we thought about some of his past projects that we've actually not been that impressed with. Like Alias. Which really seems to be more of his baby that Lost is. We've only ever seen one episode of Alias all the way through, and maybe we're missing something, but we didn't go crazy for it. Essentially we talked ourselves out of being Abrams fans.
Then we saw J.J Abrams' presentation for TED...
Now we're huge fans again!
January 4, 2008
Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip vs. Boingboing.net
A little more information about these mysterious British fellows, straight from the soruce.
obviously... (via boingboing)
January 2, 2008
Uh oh.
We're not a political weblog. But we love science.
The top two Republican Candidates do not accept Evolution to be true.
It gets better. Every hippie's favorite Democratic (Republican?) Candidate has now revealed that he too, does not believe in Evolution. I'd like to call it: "The crumbling of Ron Paul." But we both know that rejecting science is actually a sound political strategy.
(via The Information Paradox)
It is important to note that Evolution is not a theory on the creation of the Universe, as Ron Paul states. It's not even a theory on how life began. Evolution attempts to explain how life has changed, or evolved, through history. To boil this question of Evolution, and it's factuality, down to an argument about Science vs. Religion betrays Ron Paul's politics at work. And it doesn't look very promising.
Good luck America.
Up on the Wire?

(via mathowie)
Watch The Wire Season 5 on HBO.
shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
Speaking of awesome television. The New season of Lost begins this thursday Jan. 31st.
Bindle will Travel
...and he did. All the way over to Pixel Girl Presents.

We first caught wind of PGP when we were making old school pixel icons for the OS 9 operating system. Then the OS X operating system exploded all over the place, and where pixel graphics were once the standard, now full resolution scalable icons are the norm. Pixel Girl was on the ball and quickly became one of the best places to get OS X icons. (and still is) A set of our icons even got mentioned in a real life magazine thanks to her site.
Recently she was kind enough to include our latest iphone wallpaper in her desktop gallery. Thanks!
Design-Hazard
In 2001 New York Times Magazine ran a dissapointingly short but interesting article about the design and designer of the biohazard symbol.

Apparently it wasn't invented by a crappy heavy-metal band. It was designed by a man named Charles Baldwin with help from the Dow packaging-department. That's a weird collaboration.
''The color was blaze orange, one of the colors chosen in Arctic exploration as being the most visible under the most conditions. It was three-sided because if it were on a box containing biohazardous material and the box was moved around, transported, it might wind up in different positions. Another thing -- we needed something that was easily stenciled."
[illustration] These Worlds are Yours
We haven't had a ton of extra time these days. This weblog suffers.
In the interest of showing what we've been doing with a portion of our squandered free time, we present to you a new illustration we've been working on. It's current state remains: unfinished. But it's time to set it loose into the world.
The illustration can also be downloaded:
@ 1440 pixels wide
As we've said, it's unfinished. Also, despite being available in desktop format, the illustration doesn't really work all that well as a wallpaper or background. There's just too much going on to the right side, where your icons would sit. (on a mac, actually works quite well on a pc) But we need to take a step or two back and let this puppy breathe.
However, it does look pretty nice when printed out. Now, if you would just print out a million of these you could wallpaper your life.
Higher and/or different resolution versions available upon request.
iphone 1.1.3 firmware jailbroken
The Dev Team does it again.
I can finally upgrade and experience all those sweet new features. All 2 of them.
Cone it forward.
Our iphone is jailbroken. That means we have read/write access to the brains of the phone and can install crazy awesome programs onto it, and have a customized dock image.
It also means our phone is languishing away in the now outdated iphone 1.1.2 firmware. When legit users everywhere are enjoying the fresh new features. We could totally upgrade if we wanted and have a perfectly working 1.1.3 phone, but upgrading nullifies our jailbreak. We're waiting a few days before upgrading in case the tireless programmers at the iphone Dev Team crack the new firmware. It's difficult to be patient.
So we can't exploit the new webclip icon feature for the springboard. You can now create a webpage bookmark and the phone plops a cool icon right on your homepage. Apple has mobileSafari set up to look for a specific icon file when iphone users make a webclip of your website.
Our internet buddy, brody from the free cone blog, turned us onto this easy explanation of how to set one up. Since we don't have the new firmware we couldn't test our icon. The free conian was kind enough to show us how it looks.

Interestingly, brody is taking improv classes at the theatre I used to improvise at, Dad's Garage.
Apple is the jerk again.
Well the mystery is over.
Apple announced it's new notebook, the Macbook Air. It's being touted as the "world's thinnest notebook."

Instead of the usual Apple nerd fawning, this computer is actually getting slammed around the internet. And not for bad reasons, either. See, the Macbook Air is the thinnest and one of the lightest laptops out there. In order to get the computer so small, a lot of new hardware had to be produced. These new parts are expensive. Pricing a completely tricked-out Macbook Air with all the bells and whistles (solid state hard drive) bumps the cost well up over 3 grand. While still having a slower processor than the cheapest "original flavor" Macbook.
In addition, the computer has no optical drive. It cannot read CDs or DVDs. Again this was done to save space. This seems to be one of the biggest complaints I've seen. Even though Apple is offering an external CD/DVD drive, it costs extra.
Of course Apple's stock took a dive right after the Keynote. I guess you can't announce an iPhone every year right?
We think Apple was prepared for this backlash. We think Apple is playing the long game with this computer. Sure, it's super expensive right now. But that's just because all this hardware was just been invented. Give this laptop a year, maybe two. It'll only get smaller and only get cheaper.
Apple might have to spend some time licking their wounds. Especially after being the golden boy of 2007. We predict that this computer's popularity will increase. The same people that cried over loosing the 3.5 inch floppy drive will be touting Apple's courage to drop the optical drive when every body else does in two years.
Mystery! Intrigue!
Tomorrow Apple holds it's annual Macworld Conference in San Francisco. Steve Jobs will take the stage to present another of his legendary Keynote Presentations.

This time last year Apple announced the iPhone. At the time the release date was still a few months away, but finally we got to see what it looked like. After years fo rumors and fake mock-ups, the actual phone was better than all of them. It certainly blew us away, we fell in love with the phone the moment we saw it. Even after the $200 price drop, and having to embrace the slimey grossness of AT&T, we can say without a shadow of a doubt that the phone is totally worth it. I still consider it my new best friend.
But the best part about Macworld is the mystery.
Apple is notorious for keeping their new products and upgrades a complete secret before they are announced on stage. Who knows what mysteries lie in wait behind the back of that turtleneck-ed man. It's like second Christmas, except all the presents are unwrapped and sitting behind expensive unbreakable glass.
Every year in the few weeks and days before Macworld the Apple nerds (like me) all speculate on what new discoveries we'll encounter at Macworld. This year is no different.
Speaking of mysteries. We're such big fans of Lost that we automatically considered ourselves fans of the show's creator J.J. Abrams. In anticipation of his new moster movie project, Cloverfield, we planned on being excited. But then we thought about some of his past projects that we've actually not been that impressed with. Like Alias. Which really seems to be more of his baby that Lost is. We've only ever seen one episode of Alias all the way through, and maybe we're missing something, but we didn't go crazy for it. Essentially we talked ourselves out of being Abrams fans.
Then we saw J.J Abrams' presentation for TED...
Now we're huge fans again!
Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip vs. Boingboing.net
A little more information about these mysterious British fellows, straight from the soruce.
obviously... (via boingboing)
Uh oh.
We're not a political weblog. But we love science.
The top two Republican Candidates do not accept Evolution to be true.
It gets better. Every hippie's favorite Democratic (Republican?) Candidate has now revealed that he too, does not believe in Evolution. I'd like to call it: "The crumbling of Ron Paul." But we both know that rejecting science is actually a sound political strategy.
(via The Information Paradox)
It is important to note that Evolution is not a theory on the creation of the Universe, as Ron Paul states. It's not even a theory on how life began. Evolution attempts to explain how life has changed, or evolved, through history. To boil this question of Evolution, and it's factuality, down to an argument about Science vs. Religion betrays Ron Paul's politics at work. And it doesn't look very promising.
Good luck America.
January 30, 2008
Up on the Wire?

(via mathowie)
Watch The Wire Season 5 on HBO.
shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
Speaking of awesome television. The New season of Lost begins this thursday Jan. 31st.
January 29, 2008
Bindle will Travel
...and he did. All the way over to Pixel Girl Presents.

We first caught wind of PGP when we were making old school pixel icons for the OS 9 operating system. Then the OS X operating system exploded all over the place, and where pixel graphics were once the standard, now full resolution scalable icons are the norm. Pixel Girl was on the ball and quickly became one of the best places to get OS X icons. (and still is) A set of our icons even got mentioned in a real life magazine thanks to her site.
Recently she was kind enough to include our latest iphone wallpaper in her desktop gallery. Thanks!
January 28, 2008
Design-Hazard
In 2001 New York Times Magazine ran a dissapointingly short but interesting article about the design and designer of the biohazard symbol.

Apparently it wasn't invented by a crappy heavy-metal band. It was designed by a man named Charles Baldwin with help from the Dow packaging-department. That's a weird collaboration.
''The color was blaze orange, one of the colors chosen in Arctic exploration as being the most visible under the most conditions. It was three-sided because if it were on a box containing biohazardous material and the box was moved around, transported, it might wind up in different positions. Another thing -- we needed something that was easily stenciled."
January 25, 2008
[illustration] These Worlds are Yours
We haven't had a ton of extra time these days. This weblog suffers.
In the interest of showing what we've been doing with a portion of our squandered free time, we present to you a new illustration we've been working on. It's current state remains: unfinished. But it's time to set it loose into the world.
The illustration can also be downloaded:
@ 1440 pixels wide
As we've said, it's unfinished. Also, despite being available in desktop format, the illustration doesn't really work all that well as a wallpaper or background. There's just too much going on to the right side, where your icons would sit. (on a mac, actually works quite well on a pc) But we need to take a step or two back and let this puppy breathe.
However, it does look pretty nice when printed out. Now, if you would just print out a million of these you could wallpaper your life.
Higher and/or different resolution versions available upon request.

