Maybe the title is hyperbolic. I love Chrome OS. I am thrilled that there is a team out there making opinionated choices about a computer user interface that isn't just a slavish copy of Mac or Windows. I've been using little workhorse Chromebooks like the one I'm using to type this post for more than ten years and I will continue to use them until Google puts Chrome OS in the…

I've been doing freelance design, taking photos, making art, building websites, and doing all kinds of stuff for more than twenty years. I've always thought I'd like to start a business for this stuff, but just never got up the courage to actually do it. That changed tonight. I'm now the proud owner, er, Manager of an Alabama Limited Liability Company called Planet Glue LLC, and I have some big ideas--some old, and some new--for the company.

I was just trying to read some "science news" (actually an article about anomalous lights appearing on a game camera in Chile), and instead I was served 6 ads at once. Glory Be. You know? I should look on the bright side. It's good to be informed now about Indiana University on both sides of my 32" monitor (some good information to have here in Alabama), State Farm, AT&T, the Citi Double Cash Card, and T-Mobile.

I pay $20 a month for the “privilege” of editing PDFs. I understand there are other solutions that allow me to do this for free or at a fraction of the cost. I’ve tried many of these over the years and found that Adobe’s solution works best for me as a production tool. Having reached that conclusion, I don’t mind paying for it.

TRIRIGA/MREF GIS Queries Must Include GIS Latitude and Longitude. This is a quick note in case anyone is struggling with the same problem I encountered caused today. Here’s the scenario. You’ve got a GIS portal section in TRIRIGA/MREF. You’ve created the GIS Map record that powers the section. You’ve set up the extent, configured your basemap(s), connected to one or more data sources for layers.

lol I know chatbots aim to please, but this was not on my AI bingo card. Read the rest here. How many of these emergent problems will have to be solved before the product is secure? And even if we could think of everything, how many entirely new problems are these tools creating which will, in turn, also have to be solved?

Watching people ask ChatGPT questions about technical matters for which I am a sort of expert and then presenting the hallucinations back to me as facts in real-time is a lot of fun. Does this happen to you? I lifted the quote below from this bruising and well-deserved critique of GPT-5. The author of that post takes it from the original tweet…

This is part of a series of posts exploring video games as spaces players inhabit. If you’re wondering what this is all about, I tried to explain myself here. Here are some travel notes from a brief stay in Thunderhead. People disappear; their commodities remain. 2. There is no stone here. All, save one brick building, is temporary.

Facebook has been a bad product since the introduction of the News Feed, but the switching costs have always been high and it was optimized by some of the best engineers our universities could produce for stickiness. The dual onslaught of Groups, which incentivize low effort/high engagement content, and AI junk, which sometimes checks both of those boxes just right, makes it an even worse product.

It's a zine about lots of stuff, including: art, architecture, poetry, photography, the South, Tallahassee, ghosts, and nature. I made it. I hope others will help me make the next one. QDF-Issue1Download

Computerized Capitalist Aesthetics, Optimism, Sex, and Anxiety in the November 1988 issue of PC Magazine. Giddy-up.

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Earlier this year I stopped by the SCAMS studio in Tallahassee to lay down a bass line on my friend Gamble Cosmos' new track, "Helene Serene." It's a great song, and I had a blast throwing down the bottom end. Later, I was thrilled when Gamble asked me to contribute even more to the project by creating original cover art for the track's release on Bandcamp as a "double A-side 7-inch" with another Gamble Cosmos single, "Kew Gardens Contigo." We talked about some of his inspirations--hurricanes, '90s shoegaze records, old 45s--and went over some of his other artwork for consistency's sake, and then I was off to the drawing board. I'm mostly satisfied with the results. Here's the record.

On General Pershing Streetthe crows eat Lo Meinfrom styrofoam cartonswhile down at the museumof the Second World Warthe Ardennes Offensiveplays on a digital loop. The projectors over theredecode streams of numbers,signifying sufferingin the dark forest room wherethe sound of Howitzers explodingamong the artificial treestends to bore the children…

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This saved my home movies from the trash.