Author Archive
HTML5 for Web Designers (review)
Title: HTML5 for Web Designers Author: Jeremy Keith Paperback: 87 pages Publisher: A Book Apart (2010) Language: English ISBN-13: 978-0-9844425-0-8 This is a small book and it’s written in a very engaging and direct way. Here’s the table of contents: A Brief History of Markup (Read this chapter online!) The Design of HTML5 Rich Media […]
September 19th, 2010 by alephnaught
Necromance
Aviva and I decided yesterday to drive to West Hollywood and visit one of our favorite stores in LA, Necromance (we also stopped at the MOCA annex at the Pacific Design Center, the bookstore was removed to provide more space for a video exhibition, and had a really good snack at LaLa’s). There are two […]
September 12th, 2010 by alephnaught
Pictures (and a postcard) from Silver Lake and Los Feliz
Just two random photos and a very cool postcard:
September 12th, 2010 by alephnaught
Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps
Title: Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps Author: Josh Clark Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 1 edition (June 18, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 1449381650 ISBN-13: 978-1449381653 If you want to create dynamite iPhone apps, this is the book for you. It won’t teach you to program – there are books on using HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript or Objective-C […]
September 6th, 2010 by alephnaught
Iggy likes to eat while lying down (video)
I took this video last night with my Flip. Iggy likes to eat lying down, Greco-Roman style. It’s really funny – as you can see, he’ll move the food around with his snout so he can eat more. He ate most of his dinner this way last night. [youtube FGbkrJNECkY Iggy eats reclining]
September 5th, 2010 by alephnaught
Two graphic novels about the post-rapture world
When I read an article about two graphic novels tackling the question of what a post-rapture world would look like, I had to read them. The rapture is when Jesus / God raises the good souls to heaven, this from the Christian liturgy. Both graphic novels consider the time after the good are risen and […]
August 28th, 2010 by alephnaught
More pictures from Santa Monica
Aviva and I and Iggy went to Santa Monica – have you figured out yet that we both like to walk around Santa Monica? This time we did some shopping and then walked along the escarpment overlooking the beach – there is a park along the cliffs and its beautiful – we watched the sun […]
August 22nd, 2010 by alephnaught
Twitterature: The World’s Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less
Title: Twitterature: The World’s Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less Author: Alexander Aciman, Emmett Rensin Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics); 1 edition (December 29, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0143117327 ISBN-13: 978-0143117322 I saw this book while browsing at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadina and had to have it. It’s hilarious! For example, the last […]
August 22nd, 2010 by alephnaught
Heavy Metal in Baghdad: The Story of Acrassicauda
Title: Heavy Metal in Baghdad: The Story of Acrassicauda Author: Andy Capper, Vice Media, Gabi Sifre Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: MTV; Original edition (November 17, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 1416595406 ISBN-13: 978-1416595403 I heard about this book from the video of the same name – MTV sent a crew to Baghdad to record the heavy […]
August 16th, 2010 by alephnaught
My mom’s 85th birthday
Aviva and I boarded Iggy for his first extended overnight (we did a one night test run first) and flew to Columbus, Ohio on Southwest Airlines for my mom’s 85th birthday on August 15; I brought along my copy of Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations which I read […]
September 25th, 2010 by alephnaught