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I wrote this a month or so ago, and never published it.

We live in amazing times. Just amazing.

The internet has blessed us all with the power to communicate with each other. It took a while, but we finally realized that the internet doesn’t have to be all about cats and animated gifs. Even though, those are still two very popular topics.

Not just geeks are on the net anymore, either. I just learned, Kanye West has a blog… and it’s probably actually HIM blogging on it! Not to mention he has a Vimeo account (”suck on that Flickr,” says Vimeo founder j/k)! BTW, Kottke, who I rubbed the wrong way many years back, alerted me to all this, on his unimaginably popular blog.

After watching this video, how can you not love the internet?

We’ve finally learned that there is more to life than “me” and that the “we” is what makes the world go round.

The internet does have a heart. It enables us to do some really amazing things.

Recently, along with Coudal Partners, 37Signals, Metafilter, Happy Cog, Iconfactory, Core77, Daring Fireball, Emma, Business Brickyard, and skinnyCorp, I got to help kids benefit from your filthy gambling habit. My design studio eight6 donated $1000 to buy some books for kids, by matching your donations.

I’ve always been unnaturally excited to help others. Being able to do that through my work, is gratifying. eight6 is heavily focused on helping the world and it will always be a core part of who I am and what my company represents. It sounds “deep,” and kind of corny. But it’s pretty simple. We build and design things (usually websites), using design to clarify communication and in return, help make good things happen.

In the next few months I’m going to be launching a program to help loving geeks help the world become a better place, just by doing what they do. Sounds interesting? I think it is. It will be an experiment, but an interesting and, hopefully, a fruitful one.

Dean Allen, as he has always been, is my hero:

…and third, that by any means necessary, web-strategy, social-media, online-marketing webcocks – unaware as they are of how toxic their presence is in the arenas they cannot shut up about – must and shall be filtered out of view.

- Dean Allen

I almost fell off my chair, again, after reading that.

It holds, it embraces. It’s “deep.”

Stephen Henault is a cool dude and a great blogger that I randomly stumbled upon. Here’s what he recently wrote:

“The cup” is deep. Seriously. Could the argument not be made that “the cup” is the defining invention that has lead us to all the great stuff we have now?

It’s the concept of the cup I speak of. Put stuff inside - and save it for later - to be pulled out on demand. Sounds kind of like my iPhone, my Macbook, my DVR, Batteries, etc. etc.

I’m probably oversimplifying, but in drinking this cup of coffee I have a new found respect for the dude/or gal who came up with the concept of “the cup”.

Deep! Eh?

Everything is secondary to your health, is what my Dad tells me quite often. Isn’t it the truth though?

• Let me ramble, for the internet was made for this nonsense.
• Sorry for not writing as much as I did a long, long time ago… (reading my old weblog makes me laugh hysterically).
• I got a new apartment that has really tall ceilings and I’m almost positive my heating bill will be ridiculous and make me cry.
• In other news, PhotoStack will have video capabilities very soon. I can’t show it to you yet, but, it works pretty well right now if your server has ffmpeg installed.
• In some other really big news. Aw shoot, I can’t tell you. But Christmas time will be a great time for all and I promise to come bearing gifts of angle brackets and storage space.
• I’ve been trying to build a Garrard 401 turntable setup - slowly I’m gathering parts. I found the perfect tonearm, and when I sent it to get properly wired up, the post office just plain lost it. :(
• The new Holy Fuck album is good, so is the Daft Punk: Alive 2007 disk.
• A great art website I recently discovered is http://www.artbreak.com/ - some really amazing original art.
• I’m so excited for the new year - I’ve got some great things to share with you all.
• Money tip: He who reaches 1:1 first wins.
• My Dad is the best guy I know. Thanks for everything. Mom, you are the best woman I know - thanks for helping me move all that crap into my apartment this week. :)

Checkout this article on biodegradable plastic bags. Why don’t we have bio-degradable candybar wrappers (and more)?

David Armano on Saying More With Less

As if we all didn’t know it would come someday… Cingular is now, AT&T. Again.

It’s great. It’s easy. It’s fun. It’s, the best stuff in the world. And it’s addicting.

I just saw a commercial for Disney Mobile. It surprised me quite a bit actually. The features and ease of use that they alluded to seem quite compelling. If their coverage was any good, and I had a family, it might seem like something to look in to - maybe.

It’s really interesting that Disney is starting their own mobile service provider, especially after the huge failure that was/is ESPN Mobile. I’m sure they are leasing towers/network infrastructure just like Helio and amp’d mobile. Quite a few mobile service piggybackers are popping up these days.

Will the niche wireless provider be the future for voice and messaging? Will we be seeing a Apple Mobile in the near future?