Creative Destruction

Sometimes you have to tear things down to make progress. That's the point I'm at with my poor, neglected weblog. As you can see (or can't see if you just read via RSS), I switched to a minimalist design here, and the backend is now some minimalist PHP. Some of this site's most popular features are gone including Google Smackdown, Amazon Feed Generator, SnapGallery, my past photo galleries, my quotations collection, and much, much more. And oh, the 404s you'll find!

Sorry about the inconvenience if you were a fan of any of these tools, but I need to reboot things around here for my own sanity. I hope you'll continue to stick around to see what develops. There will be new features, new photos, and in the words of John Lennon, it'll be...

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    The history of Sinterklaas, Santa Claus, Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, etc.
  • Earthrise
    This iconic, cliched, overused Apollo 8 picture of the Earth from the Moon is still incredible.
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    "My process of interviewing people is I do not interview people," said the cheerful Hustwit. "I'm trying to get them to forget that they're being interviewed." Also, signs of increased interactivity: "Are you a robot?" [via glass]
  • Foreign Policy: The 10 Worst Predictions for 2008
    In a perfect world their jobs would depend on their accuracy rather than their ability to produce entertaining content. [via long now]
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  • Movable Type: Motion
    "We looked at the most compelling social sites across the web, from Twitter to Tumblr, Pownce to FriendFeed, and more. And then we built an application around open standards to offer you the best features of each of these services, on your own site."
  • bombombombomwooooo
    self-explanatory, I believe.
Dec 17th, 2008, 10:30 pm

Cyclocross Sounds

I went to a cyclocross race for the first time in Portland this weekend to take some pictures. Unfortunately I left my camera batteries at home so I had to get by with my sound recorder and a little video camera I had with me. The main thing I wanted to capture was the sound of the race. The cyclists don't make much noise, but the crowd comes armed with cowbells or even pots and pans to rally the cyclists as they go past. The noise ebbed and flowed as the riders were on different parts of the course. Here's a sample:



The cowbells give the cheering a distinct sound. If you're curious about what it looked like, here are some of the video clips I shot:

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  • Google Code: AJAX Libraries API
    Google hosts several popular JavaScript libraries on their insane worldwide content distribution network. If you have faith in their uptime it could be a good way to speed up your site a bit.
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