“Apple spends a fortune on advertising – you’d never know it.”
Paul Allen sues western civilization back to the stone age#
Via Engadget:
Allen is suing Apple, Google, AOL, Facebook, ebay, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo, and YouTube (which is a subsidiary of Google). The claims involve four separate patents, most of which cover integral parts of how the companies named do business. For example, one patent allows site suggestions for consumers based on things they’re currently viewing, while another allows related articles to be delivered while reading news.
Or, Allen needs money to make the Seahawks relevant.
Leaked IE9 screenshot shows a cleaner design#
To hell with the design, I want Internet Explorer 9 to render HTML and CSS like a modern browser.
That small, wrinkled-ass paper bag
My friend Bill Streeter experiments with Kinetic Typography. Here’s his take on the Paper Bag monologue from The Wire. (via Vimeo)
iPhone 4 Camera
I took a few pictures at the Missouri Botanical Garden yesterday with my iPhone 4. If you have any doubts that the iPhone 4 has the best optics of any cell phone camera currently on the market, I humbly submit exhibit A: the Rose Garden.
Impossible sun angle
You know what sucks? Driving to work every day from now until Daylight Savings Time ends on November 7, 2010 (at 2am, if you’re keeping score at home). This is the impossible sun angle that I fight every morning on my commute to work.
Cardinals organist Ernie Hays to retire at the end of the season#
Ernie Hays – quick with a really, really dirty joke and friend of my father – is retiring at the end of this season. Crushed by the news, do you think LaRussa and company will follow?
Bulger got an offer he couldn’t refuse?
Contrary to what the Baltimore Sun wants you to believe, Marc Bulger actually left St. Louis for the Ravens so he wouldn’t get blown up every season.
Sure, the winning helps, but so does keeping your brain in tact.
Hitting the reset button
I’ve ported over most of the relevant content from sbolen.me to the Gamma Ray Media blog – this site is in a state of flux until I can find enough time to reconfigure everything.
I’m working with a default WordPress install, with zero content (save the About Stephen page). It’s all fresh. All new.
Remember, though: you can still get all the professional business-y goodness over at the Gamma Ray Media blog.
Conan O’Brien Hearts Social Media#
My latest piece for Social Fresh.