LEGO Star Trek Into Darkness
A trailer for Star Trek Into Darkness … done entirely in LEGO.
What I’m Reading: A Memory of Light
A Memory of Light is the final book in Robert Jordan’s epic Wheel of Time series, a series so huge that Jordan died before he could finish it. Fortunately, he took voluminous notes and passed those on to his chosen successor, Brandon Sanderson. Sanderson’s done a fantastic job finishing up the series, and I’m looking forward to this … Read more
What I’m Reading: The Way of Kings
I’ve enjoyed Brandon Sanderson’s work completing Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series; he’s nailed the town and narrative stye of Jordan while simultaneously taming many of the author’s meandering story lines. I was eager to see how his own books read, and decided to pick up the The Way of Kings audiobook. It’s a big … Read more
mccall.com: Former IronPig Andy Tracy goes from player to manager
Andy Tracy was a staple of the early IronPigs seasons, playing 1st base until 2010. He became a free agent after that, having been released to make room for a player moving up from the Reading Phils. After a few more years spent playing minor league ball, the wear-and-tear of the game finally caught up … Read more
Example of Inline CSS in WordPress
Here’s an example of inline CSS in WordPress, using a <code style=”color: red;”>: print “Hello World!”
What I’m Reading Now: Reamde
Neal Stephenson is one of my favorite authors — Snow Crash is one of the best cyberpunk novels ever written (Stephenson was responsible for the concept of virtual avatars operating in digital environments), Diamond Age anticipates the coming age of nanotech and distributed manufacturing and Cryptonomicon was a very cool, very fun book about private currencies, cryptography … Read more
What I’m Reading: The Peace War
I was itching for some good science fiction, and decided to check out a few of the older novels by one of my favorite authors, Vernor Vinge. The Peace War takes place in a future in which Earth’s nation states and their associated military-industrial complexes have been smashed by an organization known as the Peace … Read more
Thoughts on Responsive Design
I added some thoughts on responsive design to the ITS Blog.
Google: PUMA Kicks Up Order Rate 7% with Insights from Google Analytics and Viget
Viget Labs, the firm that did Lafayette’s web redesign and our recent mobile project, is featured in an article by Google about how they improved PUMA’s web site using analytics.