Is Mars Blackmon making a comeback?

March 5, 2010
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I just saw this today, and I’m not sure how long it’s been around, but it looks like Nike has brought back Spike Lee’s Mars Blackmon character.
A little history: Mars was a character in Spike’s first movie, She’s Gotta Have It as a potential suitor of the main character, Nola Darling. She’s Gotta Have it is [...]

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Wordpress post revisions are your friend.

March 4, 2010

Wordpress has this nifty feature where it keep copies off all the revisions to your posts. It’s handy becuase if you update an post, or have more than one person working on a post, you can go back to a previously saved version.
Sounds awesome.
So, after a little mishap this morning, I went looking for an [...]

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An Open Letter to Steve Jobs Concerning the HTC Lawsuits

March 3, 2010

I always thought of you as a guy who’d say, “Well, copy me if you can, because you’re copying what I did years ago, and what I’m working on now is EVEN cooler!” I like it when competitors copy me because it means they aren’t about to leapfrog me: they’ll always be playing catch-up.
Some great [...]

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Flickr restores historical referrer data and adds it to the flickr API

March 3, 2010

Introducing the Stats API
The bigger news is that we’ve integrated Stats nubby bits into the Flickr API. Please check out Paul’s post on code.flickr for more information. So, now’s the time for all you groovy developers to code something wonderful.
via Historical referrer data — you has it! « Flickr Blog.

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Washington Monument

March 3, 2010
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The Ten Billionth Tweet is coming soon

March 1, 2010

According to the GigaTweet tracker that @Nathan Reed runs, the 10,000,000,000th tweet is about three days away. Apple just crossed their 10 billionth music download last week and they rewarded the winner with a $10,000 iTunes store credit. Maybe twitter should come up with something similar.
GigaTweet – Counting the number of twitter messages.

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