http://douglemoine.com Work, photos, journal, hyphy, minimalism, maximalism, modernism Mon, 12 May 2008 01:43:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Chicago. A man is about to get on a routine flight. Suddenly he pauses and decides to walk away. He doesn't know why. An hour later the plane goes down in flames. It's dismissed as chance ... Britain. A woman has an image of a black mountain that's moving, with ... http://douglemoine.com/2008/05/dismissed-as-chance/ Muxtape has blown up -- just a matter of time, I guess -- but I hope this doesn't mean that they'll add a bunch of "features" to it. It's basically two things -- the homepage where you pick a mix, and the player where you listen -- and it doesn't ... http://douglemoine.com/2008/05/muxtape-non-interface-interface-excellence/ I like to tell myself that I don't read stuff like this, but Esquire's got a pretty excellent list of "75 skills every man should master". 33. Hit a jump shot in pool. It's not something you use a lot, but when you hit a jump shot, it marks ... http://douglemoine.com/2008/05/essential-information-mixing-drinks-tying-knots-arguing/ Mark Cuban is not afraid to talk about the blockbuster trade that wasn't ... [Donnie Nelson, Avery Johnson and I] went back and forth about whether or not we should trade Devin [Harris]. We knew he was a good point guard, with the potential to be amazing. What we didn't ... http://douglemoine.com/2008/05/the-nba-where-accountability-happens/ See, I criticize Flickr, and then this thing comes along to demonstrate once and for all its inherent goodness. No Flickr stylez or post-processing necessary. Via Sorry I Missed Your Party and BuzzFeed. http://douglemoine.com/2008/05/flickr-okay-i-take-it-all-back/ It's hard to ignore the fact that Flickr promotes a distinct style of photography; I say "promotes" because Flickr's "Explore" tab displays photos that are deemed "interesting" by Flickr's "interestingness" algorithm, and the photos in this area are generally characterized by what many are now calling "Flickr style." This is ... http://douglemoine.com/2008/05/the-flickr-style-ugh/ Last week I picked up a book called http://douglemoine.com/2008/05/research-east-baltimore-police-narratives/ Back when the Berkeley Public Library was the hub of my social universe, I spent a lot of time in its video room -- in the mid-90's, it occupied a little corner of the basement -- working my way through its extensive collection of foreign VHS movies. I had plenty ... http://douglemoine.com/2008/05/andrei-tarkovskys-family-polaroids/ [Danger: I could only get the video to play in IE. Not sure if it's my particular array of Firefox add-ons that are blocking its mojo, or what.] So every few weeks I sift through the mostly asinine archives of SFist, and today, against all odds, I found something interesting: A ... http://douglemoine.com/2008/04/urban-farming-my-robot-bees-are-pregnant/ It's kinda strange (and thrilling) to browse through the many alleyways and avenues of Flickr and suddenly unearth a photo of ... yourself. Just now I came across this picture of myself and a shadowy figure, who I suspect is UX it-guy Jan Chipchase taken last summer during UX Week. ... http://douglemoine.com/2008/04/archaeology-of-ux-week/