Author Archives: Clay Newton
Con Todo
I just found an old XML file I created back in 2003. I’m not sure what it means, but it makes me LOL. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <con_todo> <noun> <agua_fresca/> <you/> <harveys> <keitel/> <oswald/> </harveys> <sun/> <dog_poop/> <ozonator/> <gmc_pickups/> <stop_signs/> <police/> <silk/> <fur_ball/> </noun> <verb> <stab/> <exit/> <cross/> <excise/> <bang/> <stroke/> <chew/> <fold/> <foil/> <blend/> <crosshatch/> [...]
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A Trip Down Market Street, 1906
An amazing thing to watch.
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Launched the new dimlights.com
I am super excited about this: today we launched the new dimlights.com – The Cowboy Boot Webpage. I’ve been working with Jennifer June on this for a couple of months now, and I am really proud of what’s come out of it. In addition to making a new friend in Jennifer, who is probably the [...]
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Why I stopped using Typepad
Typepad has been good to me. Back in 2005, I used to argue with people that Typepad was the best way to go. I had an issue with people who were caught up in WordPress and some of the other platforms. What I saw, overwhelmingly often, was that people went down a rat-hole of theme [...]
Modern • Postmodern
My dear friend Debra Pughe passed this along to me. Modern The movements (of Modernism) are the products, at the first historical level, of changes in public media. These media…arose in the new metropolitan cities, the centers of the also new imperialism, which offered themselves as transnational capitals of an art without frontiers. Paris, Vienna, [...]
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Jason Fried: Why you can’t work at work
I really appreciate Jason Fried’s perspective on what’s wrong with the modern workplace.
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What Mac apps should I use?