All week this week, we’ve had a ton of visitors in the office. With an upcoming meeting tomorrow, a ton of our clients were in town, and gathered for a post-work party in the office. Around 4:30PM or so, people started setting up tables, a DJ arrived, the caterers set up the bar area and…
It’s with great pleasure that I get to say that Justin is back with us at Emmis Interactive. His new role with the company will be on the planning side of things, and he comes on board as a Product Desginer. After heading off to India for many months, he’s now re-situated in Chicago and…
This had my nearly crying. Too good, and had to share. [via]
A while back I heard a pretty great This American Life episode, entitled The Giant Pool of Money. IF you, like me, don’t quite have a handle on just what’s up with the housing and subprime mortgage crisis… this episode was a great overview on just what led to the situation. Today, a newer podcast…
Quick sneak peek of a project I’ve got in the works. I made a lot of progress this weekend – just one more major bit of functionality to iron out, and then I think I’m pretty close to launching this guy. Maybe another week, fingers crossed.
Why… why did I never try this before now? [via]
So last night Justin was watching WTTW, just a few minutets prior to the VP debates. Apparently, Chicago Tonight was wrapping up when he saw this: I guess we were on screen for a split second, but Justin was able to rewind and snapped a photo with his camera. This is pretty crazy, as I…
By the same creator who created the fantastic Cursor*10 game, Yoshio Ishii recently released a third game in his Hoshi Saga series. In Hoshi Saga 3, as in all the other versions, the objective itself is deceptively simple: find the star. It’s not so much an overall game is it is a series of small…
Ok. I came across swoopo.com near the end of the work day, and nearly an hour later… my mind is still reeling from the underlying business model. I’m AWED. On the one hand, it’s an ingenious variation on the traditional online auction… and on the other hand, I feel like this has GOT to be…
I’ve mentioned Robert Sapolsky before, and just saw a post on BB about an upcoming documentary of his work/research. I was so wowed by the original lecture, and cannot, cannot, CANNOT recommend this enough. It’s fascinating, eye-opening stuff and I’m reminded again to review my own attitudes and reactions to stress. The stories he tells…