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I've been working with Martin on a new version of [Leapfrog][], the neighborhood reader we've been building in various forms for a while. I haven't really put down any thoughts about this iteration, though, so here perhaps are some. @markpasc is there a blog post or something describing what leapf... | Continue »

from my brilliant quora question. Thank you, Ben Mills, for this thought-out response on Quora. | Continue »

So by now you've heard that Vivienne Marie Boelter was born on Monday, November 22, but you may not have heard the crazy story of how! Monday morning Amy was three days overdue, but there was really no change in... | Continue »

You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi! Stranger: hey You: Hi! Stranger: asl You: 39 m what's "L?" Stranger: petafile freak get a life You: Wait, are you mad at me? You: What's "petafile?" Stranger: your so dam... | Continue »

Today was Six Apart's last day. It became Say Media this afternoon. And end of an amazing company, and a start of a new one. A colleague said Six Apart was sort of like college. We all worked and played together, and over the years, we started bumping into alum around the city working at new ventures. We are still a group, and are having a big alum gathering later in January to all come together. Current Six Aparters will be with Say Media, but many of those I have worked with, especially from the very early years, have already... | Continue »

As the era of Six Apart comes to a close, and I look back on my almost five years here, there is a group that I feel deserves just as much recognition as the rest of us... plus some treats and belly rubs. I'm talking, of course, about the Six Apart Dogs. Dogs have been a huge part of the culture around here for as long as I've been on board. Like them or not, they've always been present. Most were well-behaved, but some would get their wild on from time to time, and that was ok. Sometimes we'd encourage... | Continue »

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"Are you supposed to be a lizard?" "Ehhh?" "Are you a possum?" "Ehhh..." "Are you a lizard and a possum?" "Ehh." "Are you a muppet?" One thing led to another and soon Steve was performing a charade of David Bowie's stunt arm in Labyrinth, in character as one of the gremlin things from the same film. It's a bit convoluted, I know, so here's a cheat sheet. We had: You see. Remarkably, this was not the most complicated example in the (long, illustrious) history of our quasi-charades. I once portrayed an elephant that had become terrified of catching Ebola after... | Continue »

Did Sleigh Bells steal M.I.A.'s ginger boy? Looks like it, but this time instead of getting shot upside the head, the lil' dude is kicking butt in a villanesque chess match, soundtracked by the Brooklyn duo's fight-inducing tune, Riot Rhythm, which comes from their debut album, Treats. It's kind of a Napoleon Dynamite meets Kill Bill sort of clip sequence, with a bit of Bobby Fischer thrown in for good measure. Riotous indeed! mp3: Nas x Sleigh Bells - Lifes A Riot (Son Of Sam Mix) | Continue »

I hate when the baseball season is over. As a player it is bittersweet. The season ends, you say goodbye to friends, the town, playing every day and a routine that takes weeks to transition away from. As a fan,... | Continue »

I haven't gotten any Modcult Rejects lately, so I'm just going to go the other way and suggest new content for them. | Continue »

I wasn't quite kicked out of Qwest field. Almost. Apparently I was "over intoxicated." Sorry Dad, hope you'll still invite me next year. | Continue »

So we had a number of options. She could take my name. Not down with that. Fair enough. I could take her name. No, thank you. Also fair. We could give the kid one name or the other. The odd... | Continue »

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Something interesting happened on TV recently and NOBODY NOTICED except Kevin. | Continue »

I have a superpower. It is not as impressive or useful a superpower as I might have hoped. I'm afraid that it is not even as impressive as the modest superpowers I dreamed up for myself in later years. (There were two. One was the ability to pickle things with a glance, handy for times when one has a cucumber but pines for a kosher dill. Steve recently pointed out that this one would in fact also be a formidable combat ability. Being pickled would hurt, possibly fatally, and even being figuratively pickled all in a single blow would probably... | Continue »

I've been holding open some recent pizza links from Serious Eats because I think they are quite exciting, but I haven't figured out how to work them into an exciting blog post yet. So I offer you a boring blog... | Continue »

Karisoft's recently released game Game Dev Story for the iPhone OS and PC is kind of ruining my whole life plans right now. Though I've released more than 31 games over the course of the last two days with my production company Chow Chow Chow, this productivity exists entirely from... | Continue »

At the very last minute (like literally as my husband was walking out of the house and off to work), I suggested that we try to check out the victory parade for World Series Champion San Francisco Giants. The standard orange blouse I wear to all Giants games had been worn over the weekend and I had absolutely nothing to wear. Last week I bought some the most perfect fabric for a Giants dress for about $.50. I never got to making a dress in time for the series and since I hadn't planned on going to the parade, it... | Continue »