Archive for January, 2005

Great photo album from Don Magic Juan’s birthday soiree. Photos by Will Okun. (via Frank151)

Gas-Guzzling SUVs with “Keep Tahoe Blue” Bumper Stickers

My commute takes my up and down Highway 101 between Silicon Valley and San Francisco. If you share that commute, I’m sure you’ve seen that which Jeremy vents about.

While I might grudgingly grant that some use their SUVs legitimately (but unnecessarily), that doesn’t excuse them when they’re on 101 North.

If you read the comments over on his post, it sounds like the bad gas mileage of the worst offenders (Hummers) make the slightly-less-bad gas mileage of non-Hummer SUVs seem reasonable, or even responsible to owners.

Others being worse doesn’t make you good.

One of my cousins just forwarded me this video of kayaking up close with nature (2000kb, mpeg). It’s pretty wild - I won’t be showing this to Aimee or she won’t go kayaking with me anymore.

Here’s a screenshot - click to see the video:

This page is beautiful: http://www.flickr.com/services/api/. Every service-based web site should have a page like this.

This is a great way to understand and communicate your functionality. If you can’t describe your site in these terms, well, start trying because you should be able to. (You don’t have to make it public.)

I’m not here to talk about the benefits of web services and open APIs — but at least internally, if you can think about your offerings in these clean and explicit terms you’ll be much more successful.

We’ve moved beyond the “If you build it, they will come” days. We’re now in the “If you offer it, they will build it” days. This cool map-based Flickr interface was built because the API existed.

Best Icon?

This humorous site hosts a competition between Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and the Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox browser. All the important details are considered, including Best Mascot.

Matt Haughey writes: “Jumping on the delicious and flickr bandwagon, I’ve added tags to MetaFilter“