I’m probably more excited about this than I should be, but LucasArts is developing a Lego Indiana Jones video game as a follow-up to its wildly successful Lego Star Wars franchise. I’ve been a fan of the lego-themed Star Wars games for a few years (they follow the storyline of the Star Wars films, but […]

I don’t know if you heard, but Fantasy Football is a really big deal and not just to the sports geeks who play it. According to a CNN article from last summer, “there are currently between 15 million and 18 million fantasy sports players in the U.S,” most of whom play online. That’s big business […]

Sometimes I have to toss aside my own sense of design and order and allow a client to use what we’ve provided according to their own sense. This isn’t new, but what was new for me today was looking at the home page of one web site and realizing that I view it as […]

I managed to catch a glimpse of this great commercial for United Airlines between presses on my TiVo remote’s 30 second skip button.
This beautiful piece, titled “Dragon,” was made with stop motion using paper characters on miniature sets. The music is great, too. Watch the commercial first, then check out the making-of video.

I found this insert in a recent ESPN magazine:

At first this struck me as very, very odd, but the concept (if not the product) started to make sense when I read more about the science behind it (light filtering, color spectrum, all that). I’m mostly just surprised that they didn’t work out a way to […]

As a developer, I am bombarded with propaganda from the tech-religious war machines. Read any newsgroup or forum that relates to technology, even remotely, and within five posts the rhetoric turns caustic. Often unprompted, a Windows lover will disparage their Mac-loving brother. Or, the PHP zealot will lambaste his ASP.NET sister. […]

Over the weekend there was an update to Basecamp (the software we use to manage all of our projects) that included a feature we’ve been wanting for a long time: Reply to message via email.
In the past you had to log in to Basecamp in order to reply to a message. This caused problems for […]

Last week Apple unveiled the iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK). Over the weekend I finally had a chance to watch the video from the event on March 6. For you software-developer types, the video is worth watching. For the rest of you, here’s a summary…
iPhone will be to mobile devices as iPod is to MP3 […]

I found this OS X Widget called Sundial that allows you to post time entries to Basecamp (the project management system that we use at True). I installed it and was very disappointed when this very nice widget would fail to post my time. I imagine that something in OS X changed that […]

For the last year we’ve been doing work for our friends at Enoetic. I use friends not in the colloquial sense, but in the literal sense - we’ve worked with them for years as contractors and co-workers at various companies and have developed friendships along the way. They’re basically the smartest people we know and […]

We haven’t given our blog much attention for the last 6 months. Other than the occasional meaningful post from Daryl (or a random 1980s sci-fi movie review by me), we haven’t published a ton.
Why?
Beause we’ve been really busy doing work for clients, adjusting to newborns, replacing totaled vehicles with scooters, purchasing an office, moving into […]

Whatever your perspective on the modern Olympics (and your feelings about host China) it is hard to deny the brilliance of today’s opening ceremonies.
Director Zhang Yimou created a stunning visual experience on a massive scale, with incredible attention to detail, using the latest in audiovisual technology while depending on precise choreography by human performers (more […]

I couldn’t agree with this more: Fire the Workaholics. It reminds me of this post by Daryl: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit.

Last night I watched the technologically groundbreaking 80’s movie “The Last Starfighter.” I hadn’t seen the film in almost 20 years (it was released in 1984) but was surprised that I didn’t remember that most of the visual effects were done with computer graphics. As a kid I really didn’t make that connection. At the […]

I took this screenshot of the OSX Weather Widget at 8:45am Arizona time today.