What’s the origin of the phrase 420?
I never smoked pot until I was in my 40s, but I was aware of it all around me growing up in Southern California. “420” was a codeword, or a…
Matt Haughey
Motor Trend magazine is doing something interesting on the Internet
Taking a long look at Motor Trend On Demand
Going to prison with Defy Ventures
How a day changed the way I look at prisons
News that makes me ask myself if I’m in the band Sugar Ray and I just don’t know it yet
Seriously, am I that guy Mark from that band?
Issue 42: A Sven appears in Portland
It started with selfies on Instagram, Friday night. An old cross racing buddy was pictured standing next to Sven Nys in street clothes…
The one thing I know about DJ Spooky
IN FEBRUARY 2002, I joined Creative Commons, and helped launch their first website. We had a party for our public launch in December of…
The NYT buying Wirecutter and Sweethome is so much more amazing than you think
I was happy to read that the New York Times bought Brian Lam’s Wirecutter and Sweethome sites for $30 million today.
The origin story of raccoon
Yeah, it started with someone finding this funny image of a raccoon looking super helpful, and once shared in #random everyone talked about…
Donald Trump and the Central Park Five
Let’s not let this slip through the cracks
Part 3: Talkabot conference liveblog
Notes from the final day of conference talks
Part 2: Talkabot conference liveblog
Notes from the first day of conference talks
Part 1: Talkabot conference liveblog
Notes from the all-day tutorial session
Nike’s Biketown is the best bikeshare
Portland, Oregon recently (finally!) got a bikeshare system after about ten years of fits and starts and delays. The Nike Biketown system…
Starving artists
Memories of XOXO 2016
Apple Notes is the most innovative thing Apple did in the last two years
I love Apple Notes, and it’s now a central part of my life. And while I have sporadically kept a todo list in a text file on my desktop, it…
Build a Slow TV OSX screensaver in 2min
Download the screensaver zip file here on github.
Gerrymandering is a way bigger deal than you already thought
This is a quick one: subscribe to Hari Kondabolu and W. Kamu Bell’s new podcast Politically Reactive. They’re only a few episodes in, but…
The olympics without animated GIFs
The IOC’s war on animated GIFs means we all lose