Don’t Mess with Nexus

Wed 12 Feb 200312:49 PM

Some of the brightest animation today is being done out of the Nexus offices in London. Most recently and prominently, they were responsible for the titles for Steven Spielberg’s unexpectedly likable feature film “Catch Me If You Can.” Their Flash 6-based Web site is also a thing of beauty.

Absolutely Konfabulous

Tue 11 Feb 200302:17 PM

Konfabulator is a great example of why it’s worth owning a Macintosh. This Swiss army knife-style software is a JavaScript runtime engine that allows for quick, easy development of beautiful ‘widgets,’ which can do everything from display the time or weather, to rotate your iPhoto pictures, to allow remote control of your iTunes library. The software takes advantage of Mac OS X’s powerful rendering engine to gorgeous effect — the widgets are edgeless and shadowed and often transparent.

All the Work That Went into ’Works

Tue 11 Feb 200311:41 AM

This history of ClarisWorks is an engaging foray into the pre-dotcom era, when a software startup might have begun with the development team moving in together to save on rent. Bob Hearn, one of the program’s two original authors, recounts the ups and downs of trying to kick Microsoft’s pants, and working with the legendarily and myopically purist Claris Corporation with sober, touching hindsight.

Dry Laughter

Tue 11 Feb 200312:55 AM

The silver lining in the impending Gulf War sequel is its tremendous satiric potential. This send-up of the Star Wars Episode II poster is completely on the mark and hilarious. At idelworm.com, you can play the Gulf War as a Flash game, loaded with some pretty cute illustrations. And then there’s this grim visual one-liner for all the Tolkien fans in the house.

Back to It

Thu 6 Feb 200310:59 PM

Okay, four freaking months later, I’ve decided I have to get back to blogging. Too much time has passed and there’s just been too much minutiae and trivia and inconsequentially esoteric tidbits that I’ve missed out on recording in my private little corner of the Web. This site is a mess though, and I need to sort out lots of design issues, but the posts are going to resume all the same.

Waterworld

Thu 26 Dec 200201:39 PM

A vision of apocalyptic New York, Costner-style, and a discussion.

Seen Anything Good Lately

Fri 13 Dec 200207:21 PM

December seems to have forty percent fewer livable, workable hours than any other month. Now that Christmas is gone and my dog’s obedience training is coming along nicely, I’m hoping to do a few things: get back to the blog regularly and catch up on all the movies I haven’t had time to go see lately:

Going to Disneyland

Mon 9 Dec 200211:51 PM

Business 2.0 looks inside Electronic Arts, publisher of the much-hyped Sims Online. They have aims to become the next Disney, as if that’s a good thing.

Meanwhile

Mon 9 Dec 200201:51 PM

More extracurricular goodies from my Behavior partner, Chris Fahey: a Whitney Artport gate page called “Concentric Empathy,” and a ‘system’ entry to Doublecell.org. Meanwhile, I’ve been trying to teach this guy to sit and heel.

Top Dog

Tue 3 Dec 200212:09 AM

Getting a new dog turns your world upside down, as I’m learning right now. Yesterday, as an early birthday present, my girlfriend adopted this adorable mutt for me — I named him Mister President. I’m still getting my head around this whole pet parenting thing.

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Don’t Mess with Nexus

Absolutely Konfabulous

All the Work That Went into ’Works

Dry Laughter

Back to It

Waterworld

Seen Anything Good Lately

Going to Disneyland

Meanwhile

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