Labels: family, thanksgiving

(Akita On Rails) * 2.0 / Chatting with Blaine Cook (Twitter): "He and Noah Glass (the founder of Odeo) created a small sub-company within Odeo to work on it, in spring 2006. Initially, I hated the idea, mostly because it was intended to be SMS-only. It’s hard to say looking back, but at the time I’d say Twitter was a long shot"

3 Things:

1. Thanks to Blaine for mentioning me regarding my roll in starting Twitter.
2. There were a lot of reasons why he didn't like Twitter when we were starting it. It would have to be said that it was created in a less-than-ideal environment.
3. Blaine is an extremely talented developer...wise beyond his years. I'll never forget that first skype call when I hired him as a contractor, on Rabble's suggestion, many moons ago.

Wind Powered Vehicle, Ventomobile, Ready To Race In The Netherlands

--This looks like fun

The Rise and Fall of Twitter: "At the risk of offending some of you, I am posting this parody video created by Crunchgear’s Nicholas Deleon and his brother Gabriel. Just remember, it’s not about Hitler. It’s about Twitter."

---Very funny! Interestingly, John Biggs makes it a point to say, "It's about Twitter", but as I watched it (while laughing) I wondered if it was more of a commentary on the Twitter user, or more accurately, the heavily addicted Twitter user.

BTW: The origionl title of this parody is "Twitter is down again, Mein Führer"

pursed lips
Originally uploaded by xstala.

Not only is this one of the coolest head adornments I've seen in a long time...It might just be one of the cleverest as well. That is, if it is, as I suspect, a reference to the verbose, yet compelling film starring Tom Hanks and "wilson": Castaway.
And if it isn't...a fine piece of work nonetheless.

irregular flow from 4khz.

My buddy Tim Roberts just launched his new Car art/decal site. It looks great! Their main product focuses on bigger art for cars, but I'm sure that his decals would look great on bikes and other forms of transportation as well. The about section is very cool.

Infectious Car Art | About: "It all began with a gorgeous ass...

It was a warm Spring 2000 and I was sharing an apartment in San Francisco's Mission District with Mike, my old college buddy. Mike owned a beat-up old white Honda Civic Hatchback that looked just like the million other boring ass white hatchbacks out there. One day he decided that he wanted to have a donkey painted on it."

Here is and example if the kind of stuff you can get from his site:

view from the dentist chair
Originally uploaded by noahglass.