Flickr has a lot of sunset photographs. Too many, some would say.
To build this graph I collected just a few of them, by searching for photos that have been tagged “Sunset”.
I collected only 100 photos from the hundreds posted each day of the preceding 365 days, so that the photos are evenly distributed [...]

APEX Electronics is a technology junksurplus yard, just a few minutes from my home in lovely Sun Valley. This past weekend, the southern california chapter of Dorkbot made a field trip up there.
I always miss the Dorkbot events, because they happen on Saturday afternoons, when I’m teaching high school kids at Art Center. [...]

I put up a new Whitney Music Box variation for the holiday.
Happy Halloween!

I had a fantabulous Friday up at Yahoo! doing the jbum dog & pony show for one of their regular developer talks. I showed a bunch of fun little projects from the past two years including various Flickr Hacks and the crowd favorite, the Whitney Music Box - always nice to see the “most [...]

If you‘ve been looking for a tutorial on how to make these kinds of annoying color effects in javascript, you’ve come to the right place, as I’ve written one.
And here it is.

Beck’s The Information is the first CD in a long while that I’ve purchased. Because of all the extras, I consider the 10 bucks I spent on the actual CD well worth it, for a change.
1) The album is excellent, and covers a wide range of styles. The sound engineering, as always, is [...]

I came home tonight to find my Whitney Music Box software toy got mentioned on digg, which increased my website traffic by a factor of 100.
Way cool! Thankfully, my hosting provider (dreamhost) has been handling the increased load like a champ. No problems so far!
Hey! If you’re one of those who have [...]

If you’ve been here before, you may have noticed some changes in the look of the site.
For Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I’ve turned my site pink.
As you travel around the tubes of the interwebs, you will notice many other sites have as well. This is not only a good way [...]

I don’t read a whole lot of fantasy literature, and in particular, I don’t have much use for warmed over Tolkien, such as the works of Terry Brooks. Having said that, I am currently getting a kick out of reading the Temeraire series, by Naomi Novik.
The books, which reimagine the Napoleonic wars with an [...]