Just As I Thought
Fun Stuff

Portrait of the Artist

Ah, that day when my friends Sara and Lance and I went to the Hirshhorn gallery to see the Laurie Anderson exhibit, and turned around to discover that we were being followed by… Laurie Anderson.

April 24, 2023
The War with the Customer

How not to design for mobile

I already complained to the SF Chronicle about the mobile version of their website, SF Gate. That was because the content on the mobile site doesn’t replicate the content on the regular site — it’s  [more...]

September 28, 2008

On the Board

The War with the Customer

Things that make you go ew

Dear Target: I know this “Christmas Creep” phenomenon has been going on for many years now, but I am getting worried. We live in an era where jokes are increasingly becoming real, satire about the Bush  [more...]

September 28, 2008
Right = Wrong

Our Buddhist Wheel of Politics

Here’s how I think it will work out: 1) The Republicans, since the 1990s, have worked steadily to remove regulations and allow banks and lending companies to rape and pillage — simple usury. Republicans have  [more...]

September 28, 2008
Right = Wrong

Don’t be evil

Google has much to answer for over the last few years, including their policy of cooperating with Chinese totalitarianism; still, this statement from Sergey Brin is a step in the right direction. Well done. Our position  [more...]

September 27, 2008
Right = Wrong

Palin’s Experience in Just 12 Minutes

From Lawrence Lessig: “In response to Palin’s suggesting that he experience was somehow normal, an exhaustive comparison (and exhausting, to me and to you!) of Governor Palin’s experience as compared  [more...]

September 24, 2008
Right = Wrong

We could have had it all

This graphic from the New York Times (January 2007) on costs of the Iraq war versus costs of other national priorities has even more relevance today in light of the proposed $700,000,000,000 bailout of greedy bankers  [more...]

September 24, 2008