Happy Birthday, Steve! Here’s to 52 more.

If any of you choose to celebrate today, I’d like to suggest an appropriate way to celebrate: choose ten things you could do with your time and energy today, say “no” to nine of them, and then do the last one extremely well.

Lately I’ve been fascinated by Banksy, the pseudo-anonymous English graffiti artist who has become quite famous in the graffiti scene over the last few years. I’m no tagger, but I like his style and I like the fact that he tries to remain anonymous. He’s mostly succeeded in doing so, although there are theories…

Today I sat down at an old iMac that was tucked into the corner of the teacher’s lounge at Steph’s school because I wanted to find out what continent Turkey is technically on. (It turns out it’s Eurasian. The Sea of Marmara is generally used by geographers to divide Europe from Asia, and…

I could only come up with, “Good luck,” to which she responded, “I hope he doesn’t bite.” I guess that implies it’s Henson.

Penn Jillette (of Penn & Teller fame) was quoted as saying the following:

Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or…

Valve (makers of the famous Half-Life series of games) just released a bundle of five games that I find incredibly compelling. They’re calling the bundle The Orange Box. Three of them are brand new games, and they threw two previously-released games into the bundle just to make it super-compelling for…

I’ve long held the belief that John Gruber of DaringFireball.net is the C.S. Lewis of technology. His thought is so clear, well researched, and absolutely solidly correct that it is astounding. He’s changed my mind on various topics, and done so on more than one occasion. And he’s able to do it all…

I admit it, the ModBook is pretty sweet. It’s an after-market Mac made by Other World Computing and Axiotron. The basic idea is simple: they buy regular MacBooks from Apple, take them apart, upgrade and reconfigure certain pieces of hardware (including adding a stylus-sensitive LCD screen and an optional GPS…