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I’ve been blessed my entire life. You can’t put words to my family’s kindness, generosity, and just damn amazing love.

I recently married the woman of my dreams (now, Stephanie Jackson – she took my last name, even though it’s totally not hip these days ;) ). I never imagined I’d get married… but this woman is out of sight.

After being married 10 months and being with her for 9 years now, I can say without a doubt that marriage was a *big* deal. It wasn’t just rings, or cake, or vows, it was a magically transformative part of my life. It’s been hard as hell. But wonderful as anything imaginable. It let me personally and publicly express my love for Steph.

So what the fuck California? Pardon my french (especially Mom, if you’re reading this.) But, holy jesus what were you thinking California (and all the other states that are stuck in the 50’s)?

My sister is gay, my brother is gay, people I work with are gay. And you know what, they aren’t any different. They aren’t some cyborg waiting to take over the world. They aren’t going to try and make all the heterosexuals in the world “switch.” They just want the same rights as every other heterosexual person.

I’m frustrated. Fucking hell I’m frustrated beyond belief. I sit and watch as people I love are oppressed because of who they love. Is that not the most inane thing? Is not all love allowed to be equal?

In 2009 I can buy a 1TB hard drive for $80, but my sister can’t legally marry her partner and get equal benefits. Um, wow.

So California, if you’re reading this. Please check yourself. You gave this world a chance for a breathe of reality, of sanity, or normalcy – at a time when we really really need it. As the Beatles said, “All you need is love.” So let us love. Let everyone love!

People are people. We should not determine their rights based upon what’s between their legs.

This is distressing in so many ways, George is amazing and this is mind boggling.

Sent a quick, unsatisfying goodbye to the team. I watched as my access to various parts of the guts of Flickr fell away. I noticed how naturally I searched for any and all bits I could think of, just in the hope that it still existed. But no. I was shut out entirely within about 14 hours of the phone call.

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Got on the flight to Hong Kong. Now on Hong Kong to Sydney, where I sit now, annoyed by everyone. Still shocked. So fucking brutal.

Not what I had in mind at all.

via kewlchops: Not quite what I had in mind. via Daring Fireball

• “How Star Wars Changed the World,” A map of Star Wars and its affects on the world.
• An amazing audio-article from the New Yorker on auto-tune.
• via BJ’s thoughts, it seems Record-Rama was purchased for $3,000,000 after all.
• McCain’s voicemail to Palin. (Don’t dress too sluty.)
  
• Not sure who this was from: The Enron Document Explorer.
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  I spent most of my time in Shiga prefecture when I stayed in Japan.via Coudal

• Paris Hilton Porn-rescramble:
  

via Ze Frank

And she couldn’t be more beautiful, smart, and loving…

Thank you all for your support and love. It’s going to be one wonderful day!

This also means I’ll probably be off the radar for quite a while. See you then…

Chlöe Sevigny, fashion icon (how do I become one of those again?), is in a newish UNI QLO campaign, that I just totally dig. It’s got a really fantastic satiric storyline going on. Deeply playful.

And, if you are into erotic art/artistic nudes, Inez & Vinoodh shot a really beautiful editorial of her a few years back (NSFW). I think she’s the perfect example of a “normal” girl being beautiful and soulful.

• What does your garbage can of failed motivations look like?
• I hope Ze Frank writes a book some day.
• John Dyer growing every type of beard.

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• Design Is In The Details

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  Advanced Beauty from mate on Vimeo.

  I found this somewhere and can not remember where. I’m sorry.

• Timoni is a super talented designer. Watch out.
• I can not wait till Spore comes out, until then, checkout the Creature Creator!
• The Ampersand Masters Thesis
• The live Firefox 3 download counter.

[via Snowball's blog]

Which eventually led to you coming up with a technique that’s pretty much paved the way for all the D.J.’s and turntablists to come. What did you feel like the first time you were able to make it work? 
When I first did it, I called up Disco B and EZ Mike, and I was like, “Listen, I got something, I got something.” And when they came down, they were like “What the fuck is this?” And I was like, “Watch what I’m doing, ya’ll, please watch what I’m doing.” But they just could not grasp it. I went on to doing it in different parks. I figured if I was playing the hardest, best part of these different genres of music I would have people on the ceiling, but people were just like “What the fuck are you doing?” I went home and I cried, cried, cried, cried. Nobody got it! I tried to go to different clubs, get on for five or ten minutes, and I heard excuses like “My boss will fire me, I hear you ruin records, I can’t let you touch my stuff.” It was just ridicule after ridicule after ridicule. I was a geek for a long time. [Laughs.]

[via TMN]

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?

I think I rock the morning look quite well?

And the nephew, he’s much bigger now. And, even cuter!

I’m getting married July 5^th (two months from today), To this beautiful woman (yes, that’s me on the right, her on the left, :P)

Our invitations are getting letter-pressed. I’m giddy.

My life is changing. I’m growing up, in a pretty accountable way. I’m getting married.

It’s amazing. I never knew I’d be this astonishingly happy to be “getting married.” I found someone, that is so indescribable, that it makes me forget what time of day it is when I think about them.

I’m so lucky.

But that’s not all. Lots of things in my life have changed. I went to school, aged 4 years, and started two companies (selling one of them off – that had attained Condé Nast contracts in under 6 months of business, and also, my latest venture, eight6).

So, since my personal life is changing, I think that my personal domain should to.

leavesrustle.com is now jcksn.com

Live redesign commences.

Wow.

This week in the magazine, Nick Paumgarten writes about the lives of elevators, and tells the story of Nicholas White, who was trapped in an elevator in New York City’s McGraw-Hill building for forty-one hours. Here is a condensed look at White’s ordeal, as captured by the building’s security cameras.

The way it’s presented leaves you feeling as though it was a case of accidental Art. Just wonderfully sad.

My company, eight6 is going to match up to $1000 worth of bets, to buy a ton of books for underprivileged kids.

I love good causes. And, this one is fun! Get on over to the Making Book page and place your bets. Skip the casino, and gamble to buy books for kids!

From coudal:

Each bet costs $10 and all the money bet will go to First Book, “a nonprofit organization with a single mission: to give children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new books.”

Pitchfork Interviews Daft Punk and it’s a rare and good one.