I went to see some F1 Powerboat racing this afternoon at the Dubai Marina, just south of where the Palm Jumeirah is being built. We sat in stands along the shore, and massively powerful powerboats raced around something called “Logo Island,” reaching speeds in excess of 150MHP. It was impressively fast and impressively noisy, despite […]

Nas recently made the switch from Sony to Def Jam, and just dropped the video for the title track, “Hip Hop is Dead” on us. This is probably the rap single of the year. Fantastic stuff. The album hits store on December 19th and I can’t wait.
This video, from YouTube is edited for naughty words, […]

I recently purchased a brand-spanking-new Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro. This is my third Apple laptop in about 6 years. My last Aluminum Powerbook G4 was a workhorse, but my patience wore out after the Airport card went and Apple people told me the logic board needed to be replaced to get wireless working again. […]

Ben Folds, at some MySpace(?) concert live in Nashville, covered Dr. Dre’s “Bitches Aint Shit.” If you are regular reader, you will know that I LOVE slow covers of rap tracks. I seriously love them. This is one of the best. It is so wrong, it is beautiful. I am looking for an MP3, so […]

This weekend, despite unusual rain storms all weekend, the “X-Games Dubai” took place in Dubai Creek Park. I went on the last day and tolerated a crowd of 20,000 15 year olds in order to take photos of proper western sport. Most of the east doesn’t know how popular extreme sports are in the west. […]

I am becoming a huge Apple Aperture advocate (alliteration). So much so, that I am thinking about buying a copy just because I think the deserve the money. I hated previous versions because of the giant database file it produced with all the photos packed inside. I hate iPhoto because of how it organizes photos […]

So, for the first time in my life I am going under the knife. That\’s right, sleepy time surgery. A Hernia surgery to be exact. If anyone can provide me with some personal experiences with this type of surgery, I would greatly aprreciate it.
And on a side note, in the past two weeks I\’ve had […]

MORTIFIED is a collection of really, really embarrassing photos, writings, diaries, and stories that people submit and vote on. They have events and liver performances, and as of a few weeks ago, a book. It is one of the most genius and hilarious things ever.

Will Nolan read an excerpt from his diary that he wrote […]

I find the arrow links in the iTunes library excruciatingly useless when they link to the iTunes Store. They SHOULD link to your internal library instead. (Hint: Holding OPTION while clicking the link DOES take you to your internal library)

I have used a number of different downloaded scripts to change this default behavior in the […]

I am sure I posted this years ago, but I can’t seem to find the entry. I recently re-found the original website after talking about it with a friend. This is one of the coolest things I have ever seen.

Daniel Rozin’s mechanical “mirror” is made up of 830 small tiles of wood, each on its […]

This video of an in-game demo of the upcoming XBox 360 and PS3 game, Assassin’s Creed, looks like the best game ever made. Seriously.
Realistic stealth, individually reactive NPCs and crowds, fully interactive environments (and I mean FULLY), outstanding physics, immersive, full-roaming environments, fantastic action, what appears to be a brilliant combat system, and absolutely stunning […]

JibJab hits another animation out of the park with their 2006 Year-in-Review video, “Nuckin’ Futs.”

Nuckin’ Futs - The JibJab Year in Review | Send To Friends | Funny Animations at JibJab
JibJab are the guys who got famous off the sensational “This Land” animation during the 2004 election.
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Let me see if I can translate via blog how much pain I was in after my hernia surgery…
OW! OW! OW! FUCKING OW! There, I think that sums it up. Let’s not forget about the swelling in my “area.” Yeah, so much fun! I could barely move the after the surgery, but boy, let […]

Unfortunately I do not own a copy of Photoshop CS2, only CS, and unfortunately, the CS3 Beta requires a CS2 Serial Number. Lucky for us all, some nerds cracked the Intel Mac version in about a day after its release. I found the instructions on demonoid.com, but they were a little confusing, so the following […]

I thought I would balance my karma by promoting a great deal on some independent developer shareware since my last post was essentially about how to steal photoshop.
For the last month or so, Phil Ryu’s MacHeist has been selling a deeply discounted bundle of really great shareware apps for $49. It’s a limited-time offer that […]

The following thread of emails is currently being sent around to all my Dubai agency friends. It’s an exchange between a job applicant and the potential employer (who happens to be my friend.) I have reformatted it and removed some names and email addresses. I ordered it chronologically because reading threads from the bottom up […]

Artist/Photographer Michael Hughes has created a brilliant series of photos on Flickr that he has created during the course of his travels. He holds up souvenir models and postcards exactly over the real-life scene and photographs it with the right perspective. They are really clever, which means that I wish I thought of it.

This really […]

Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake kicked it up a notch on last week’s Saturday Night Live, creating the second best SNL musical act in its history. Of course, Samberg and Parnel’s Lazy Sunday will never be topped, but this latest bit is fucking hilarious. I can’t even name the song for risk of ruining the […]

For those of you who don’t know, I’ll be on a 777-300ER (?), with flatbed seats, in a few hours and on my way home for a nice extended break in NY with my friends and family. This is only my third trip home in 9 months, but my previous visits have been a week […]

This video on metafilter shows users of IE and Firefox how to drastically speed up their browser if they are using a broadband connection. It looks like the default settings are optimized for dial-up and don’t take advantage of some of the capabilities of cable-modem or DSL. I followed the steps and instantly saw a […]

I finally got around to set up my own photo blog. Visit newyorkpanorama.com and see the city in a different way.