http://contactsheet.org/ graphic design, urbanism, film, media, arts en-us ss@contactsheet.org 2013-03-21T05:02:59-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://contactsheet.org/articles/2013/03/21/there_used_to_be_a_blog_here.html 449@http://contactsheet.org/ 2013-03-21T05:02:59-08:00 http://contactsheet.org/articles/2008/09/08/android_and_chrome.html As someone who follows browser development pretty closely, a friend sent along this perfect summation of Google's open source strategy a la Andriod and Chrome by Dan Lyons (formerly known as Fake Steve Jobs): [Android is] the desktop Linux... 438@http://contactsheet.org/ Software 2008-09-08T17:06:35-08:00 http://contactsheet.org/articles/2008/06/09/dollar.html A friend of my wife is visiting us from Lisbon. Because of the really, ahem, skewed exchange rate between the dollar and euro (or between the dollar and every other currency), our friend has been tagged by her other friends... 437@http://contactsheet.org/ Real Life 2008-06-09T11:16:21-08:00 http://contactsheet.org/articles/2008/06/04/sophia.html We've been busy the last seven weeks, so I forgot to tell you.... 436@http://contactsheet.org/ Real Life 2008-06-04T11:10:49-08:00 http://contactsheet.org/articles/2008/04/03/the_american_paradox.html Q: The nutrition community is fascinated by the French paradox — the fact that the French eat seemingly fattening food but don’t get fat. In your book you describe an American paradox. What is it? A: Americans are a... 433@http://contactsheet.org/ 2008-04-03T12:06:08-08:00 http://contactsheet.org/articles/2008/02/28/the_design_of_obamas_campaign.html Graphic designer Michael Bieruit was recently interviewed by Newsweek about the achievements of Obama's design: He's the first candidate, actually, who's had a coherent, top-to-bottom, 360-degree system at work. Whereas, I think it's more more common for politicians to have... 431@http://contactsheet.org/ Graphic Design 2008-02-28T18:32:23-08:00 http://contactsheet.org/articles/2007/12/17/diy_internet_radio_recording.html I listen to NPR off-and-on throughout the day. But I rarely listen to live radio -- it almost entirely comes from podcasts that I download with iTunes. I want to listen to what I want, when I want, and be... 430@http://contactsheet.org/ Apple 2007-12-17T17:15:52-08:00 http://contactsheet.org/articles/2007/12/13/no_leopard_for_me.html I was planning on upgrading my Macbook to Leopard in the next month or two with the assumption that all of my essential applications would run fine. I mean, with the Universal PR that Apple has put out over the... 429@http://contactsheet.org/ Apple 2007-12-13T12:51:54-08:00 http://contactsheet.org/articles/2007/11/08/the_only_article_you_need_to_read_about_the_writers_strike.html ...is that by the Fake Steve Jobs. It's either sad or funny, I can't decide. The overpaid spoiled morons who write all the shit that gets blasted out onto the TV networks want even more money for their piles of... 428@http://contactsheet.org/ Apple 2007-11-08T17:23:23-08:00 http://contactsheet.org/articles/2007/11/01/fullpage_screenshots.html A side project I've been working on the last couple of weeks is finally finished: superscreenshot.com. As the name implies, the site will produce a screenshot of any URL you send it -- a full-page screenshot -- not just... 427@http://contactsheet.org/ The Web 2007-11-01T12:04:11-08:00