clock — watching time, the only true currency

It’s 8:35pm PT as I start this post, where I will chronicle the process of buying a new digital camera via CNET.com. That’s not an uncommon task on the Internet, nor an uncommon starting location. Still, I’m going to willfully avoid other options as long as possible and see if I can come away with [...]

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Many thanks to Phil, Mark, and the team at Creative Good for an outstanding weekend in San Diego. Great mix of people, mostly new to me, and the Team Wahine surfing clinic was a great way to start a very hot Sunday.

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Although our red envelopes do tend to gather a bit of dust, we watched The Royal Tenenbaums on Friday. Ummm… funny and strange. Lots of talent, in a skewed comedy. But easier to watch than Mystic River, which is “dusty” right now — doesn’t look like an “escape” movie, so it waits.

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I left CNET Networks on May 10th, about nine weeks ago. I’ve hinted at my departure a few times here, but I haven’t said much. When I noted the launch of OpenDNS, it reminded me of my silence on the topic of CNET.
I am proud of my five and a half years at CNET. I [...]

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State of Fear, Michael Crichton’s latest, wraps a thriller around two related themes: global warming and the use of fear to maintain power.
Crichton paints global warming as a bogeyman, throwing statistics, charts and citations in the midst of his storytelling as if he were Al Gore’s evil twin. Crichton’s most compelling point about global warming [...]

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Travelling cross-country and back without children for a three-day weekend gave me more than a chance to catch up on my reading. I also brought along my current Netflix choice, Ghost in the Shell , or, in the original Japanese, “Kôkaku kidôtai.” This anime version (apparently there is a live-action one) was entirely dubbed in [...]

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Andy Kessler has a blog, fortunately. I haven’t read it before, but I’ll take a peek now, after reading Wall Street Meat: My Narrow Escape from the Stock Market Grinder, courtesy of David.
As promised, the paperback was a gulp on the airplane this weekend. Juicy, breezy, broken up even across a two-page spread into digestible [...]

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Oscar Lewis’s popular history of the Comstock Lode foursome, Silver Kings: The Lives and Times of Mackay, Fair, Flood and O’Brien, Lords of the Nevada Comstock Lode was published in 1947, and then republished in 1986 by the University of Nevada Press. All of which is to say… I couldn’t find a great place to [...]

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(I’m making the connection in the headline, even if no one else would.)
The blog measurement service Measure Map craaawwwwllllssss. I know… I’ve been using it for months, even before Google acquired the project from Adaptive Path.
Today, I read that FeedBurner bought BlogBeat, expressly to beef up their analytics. And I say to myself… Measure Map [...]

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Saw this last week, but still worth sharing, especially since the Wall Street Journal print edition even felt it amusing to tell its audience about the plethora of Zidane animations. Here’s Anil Dash’s Zidane World Cup Headbutt Animation Festival, a best (?) of compilation. Never let it be said that editors are dead.

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