2008

Going to Beijing for the Olympics? These are a must! Beijing...

Save the Press

“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a...”
— Thomas Jefferson

Siren Musical Festival 2008, Coney Island. (Illustration...

Henning Wagenbreth -The Berlin Posters

NYTimes.com is Hiring!

The New York Times is currently looking for the following talents to add to our growing roster: A...

“We are headed toward a singular destiny: one vast computer...”
— Kevin Kelly, Wired

Oh how I wish I stuck with those lessons that began when I...

“We are living through one of the most fundamental shifts in...”
— Willis Harman, Global Mind...

New York City at night (via -Marlith-)

“There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New...”
— E.B. White (via City Room)

I am completely fascinated by Milton Glaser after attending his presentation on art and design at...

My favorite color. (via sahara13)

“The power of population, is indefinitely greater than the...”
— Thomas Malthus, circa 18th...

First day out this year. The East River.

Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges.

Attending talk by Clay Shirky, author of ‘Here Comes Everybody’

“We look forward to the day when our factories have no...”
— Ray C. Anderson, Interface...

Looking forward to my trip to Melbourne, Australia in...

Melbourne, 110808 (via novakreo).

Proposed face-lift of a beloved neighborhood hangout of...

Share and Discover the Best of NYTimes.com

A new planet. (via Jason Tozer on Creative Review)

Setting Firefox 3.0 as my default browser. I went on a Safari, but now I’m back!

Car-free Manhattan Summer Streets Experiment

The Web Time Forgot

Remembering the days of an era when you had to rewind the VCR tapes before returning them to the...

Started reading The Time Traveler’s Wife and loving it so far…...

just finished reading Bananas!: How The United Fr…...

My Night at the 12th Annual Webby Awards...

2 Men Scale New York Times Building Hours Apart

“Life is short, the Art long, opportunity fleeting, judgment...”
— Hippocrates, 400 B.C.

Crowd gathers on 8th Avenue and 40th Street to watch man...

Yes, Another Man Is Climbing Times Building

(Spider) Man Scales Times Building and Is...

NYTimes.com Looking for Talented IA and...

I’m sure you’ve all heard the rumor that “print is dead.” I’m...

East Coast Lagoon Food Village, Singapore (via...

Avenue Q

As Oil Prices Soar, Restaurant Grease Thefts...

The Sun On Manhattan's Grid

Once a year, the Manhattan grid comes into astronomical alignment with the sun, and city dwellers...

Sunset over the Hudson

NYC is calling you back.

“The art of life lies in a constant readjustment of our...”
— Kakuzo Okakura

“SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your life in the coming weeks may...”
— My horoscope this week. That...

“I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I...”
— Cervantes, Don Quixote

Buddha Bar, New York City

I finally posted all 221 photos from my recent vacation in...

“The transfiguration of matter occurs through wonder.”
— James Hillman

“…To be with those I like is enough, To stop in company with...”
— Walt Whitman

Grand Central Terminal, New York

Paso Robles, midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco....

San Francisco, California Finally uploaded my photos from my...

A Mountain of Mobile Phone Waste

Worldwide sales of mobile phones are expected to exceed one billion by the year 2009. In 2006, 143...

Chinatown, San Francisco

One Nob Hill. San Francisco.

Chip Conley. MX2008 Day 2. San Francisco

“For me, it’s about making people happy and putting a...”
— Michael Recchiuti

Chocolate tasting. MX 2008, San Francisco

Chip Heath, author of Made To Stick. MX 2008, San...

The start of MX 2008, San Francisco.

I fell in love with the Sea Lions at Pier 39. San Francisco,...

Lake Tahoe?

Somewhere over Nevada. JFK to SFO.

Divided They Fall

“I visited a US Gov nuclear R&D laboratory. Mind you,...”
— Andy G.

Sake. Too much last night. (photo via obo-bobolina)

Fuel Choices, Food Crises and...

”..the rivets were the Achilles’ heel of the...

Sign your name… (photo via eclogita). El rio Ebro,...

“Expectations are built on concepts about what life should be...”

“Nominated in 16 categories, including best newspaper Web...”
— Bloomberg News

My best friend and his daughter. I love this photo almost...

Absolutely gorgeous in New York City today. And it just...

Night baseball game, Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York. 1955....

Growing Pains for a Deep-Sea Home Built of Subway Cars (via...

Living Without a T.V.

Even when I had a television set I rarely watched it, except for the occasional need for a mind...

“We are like people looking for something they have in their...”
— Plato

Word of the Day: Mojo

a magic power or magic spell a type of magic charm, often of red flannel cloth and tied with a...

Machu Picchu (via le petit lucien). On my list of places to...

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money...”
— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Tighten Your Belt, Strengthen Your Mind

My nephew went to see the Detroit Tigers opening day game. I...

“If I had the influence with the good fairy who is supposed...”
— Rachel Carson, The Sense of...

“Give me the power to create a fever, and I shall cure any...”
— Thales, pre-Socratic Greek...

The ultimate peep show. Happy Easter!

Earth Hour 2008

Missing the wide open countryside on this rainy Wednesday in...

Original art returns to Walt Disney. (photo via nytimes) I...

George Speaks, Badly

Black and white. TriBeCa, New York City.

MX San Francisco - Managing Experience...

Masts, South Street Seaport, New York City

“The criteria for success: you are free, you live in the...”
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

A Boy Named Sue, and a Theory of Names

“Calm in quietude is not real calm. When you can be calm in...”
— Huanchu Daoren

Last night I watched the movie, The Darjeeling Limited. I...

Kristi (my sister): Write a story about a trip you want to take.
Alex (my 6yr old nephew): I want to go to New York so I can see my ant.

“And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.”
— Homer

This is me, going down to the gym every morning at 7am. Some...

Who Are Jack and Jill?

We are all familiar with the popular nursery rhyme, Jack and Jill. And for those who are not, it...

Police officers, one of them in a hazardous-materials suit,...

The $2 Trillion Nightmare

Ecoterrorism Suspected in House Fires in...

I should be writing more and more often in my Moleskine....

Lower Manhattan (via penny postcards) My neighborhood. 

New York Stock Exchange (via penny postcards) I live just a...

Brooklyn Bridge and the South Street Seaport (via penny...

Abu Surouj, Sudan, after government forces and allied...

Day in Brooklyn.

Signage on a pub in Brooklyn

Feeling alone and empty this morning. (photo via m15hgan) 

New York, I love you but you’re bringing me down....

Soul infinity… (via Proverbs 31:10)

I finally watched the movie, Arctic Tale. I cried. Several...

Unconditional love. (via jason-nicholas)

Frida Kahlo at the Philadelphia Museum of Art -...

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent...”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thailand, Bangkok: City flower The Lotus flower has for...

Lifeline for Africa

Ground zero. Out of 1,232 photos that I have on flickr, this...

Hugging The King of The Jungle

Tibet. A place I would like to visit. (via Akcija / Katarina...

“I worry that enemies of Senator Obama will seize upon...”
— Nicholas Kristof, Obama’s...

Largest Recall of Ground Beef Is Ordered

Received in an email, from my sister yesterday, as a...

This video prompted the recall of 143 million pounds of...

“The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA....”
— Lewis Thomas, *Lives of a...

I love this bookcase! I would use it for both books and wine...

With the changing environment of the oceans, many scientists...

Freaky iPod Shuffle

I still have a 15GB third generation iPod that I use at work. This iPod currently holds 2400 songs...

New Theme Testing

I always wanted my very own brown and pink web site, so I’m taking the new Chocolate Con Leche...

“The best mind-altering drug is truth.”
— Lily Tomlin

Lilian and her proud father. What a beautiful photo.

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Meditation (via davidteter)

Freezing and snowing in NYC. Wishing I was here instead, on...

The Great Buddha (via magall)

“We are visitors on this planet. We are here for ninety, a...”
— The Dalai Lama Source:...

“If I had my life over again I should form the habit of...”
— Muriel Spark Source: Awakening...

Puppy toes. Maggie.