Jeffrey McManus » Things What Look Good http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com The New Thing Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:24:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Boston Globe’s “Big Picture” Wins Punch Awardhttp://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/1276/boston-globes-big-picture-wins-punch-award/ http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/1276/boston-globes-big-picture-wins-punch-award/#comments Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:23:36 +0000 admin http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/?p=1276 Boston Globe’s “Big Picture” Wins Punch Award is a post by Jeffrey McManus of Platform Associates. Follow Jeffrey on Twitter.

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]]> The Punch award is an internal New York Times award for journalism. This is the first (but, I’m sure, not the last) time the journalism award has been won by a software developer (Alan Taylor). This sounds like a tipping point to me, or at the very least a data point that points to a tipping point. If that makes sense.

Anyway, importantly, as this piece in The Awl points out, The Big Picture was not developed by some corporate brain trust. It was done by Alan in his off hours, on his own initiative.

If you haven’t seen The Big Picture, it’s the shiz. It’s often ripped-off verbatim by other online publications (I’m talking to you, British tabs). But it’s an original. And it’s terrific. Well deserved.

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]]> This the original Shatner-free pilot for Star Trek. Most Trek aficionados know this in its hacked-up two-parter form as “The Menagerie.” Here’s the trailer:

Looking forward to seeing this as a warm-up to the new Star Trek movie coming out next month (we’ve already purchased our tickets for the first showing).

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]]> http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/1266/star-trek-remastered-the-cage-premieres-in-may/feed/ 0 Industrial Magnetic Letters are Cool.http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/533/industrial-magnetic-letters-are-cool/ http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/533/industrial-magnetic-letters-are-cool/#comments Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:04:55 +0000 jeffrey http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/?p=533 Industrial Magnetic Letters are Cool. is a post by Jeffrey McManus of Platform Associates. Follow Jeffrey on Twitter.

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]]> I will not say which web search led me to this industrial signage site which sells magnetic letters in bulk, but suffice it to say that they are super cool and I am starting to think of interesting ways to commit terrifying yet probably harmless art projects with them.

You can buy any letter or number you want in any quantity, they come in several colors and you can get them from 1 to 8 inches high.

If only they weren’t so expensive. Hmmm.

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]]> I’m assuming that this shirt is going to be a good choice for a toddler who lives in Manhattan. Toddlers are all about blimps and giant gorillas that attack buildings.

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]]> http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/514/doing-some-xmas-shopping/feed/ 0 Lifehacker book now available for preorderhttp://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/493/lifehacker-book-now-available-for-preorder/ http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/493/lifehacker-book-now-available-for-preorder/#comments Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:21:52 +0000 jeffrey http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/?p=493 Lifehacker book now available for preorder is a post by Jeffrey McManus of Platform Associates. Follow Jeffrey on Twitter.

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]]> Hooray! The Lifehacker book is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com!

Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day

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]]> From the wicked genius minds of my pals Rob and Chuck comes Radario, a product popularity mashup site that pulls in data from lots of different product review sites to create top 10 lists of products. Today they’re doing digital cameras, music players, songs, and movies, so if you’re in the market for any of this stuff you can check out what other people are looking at or clicking on across the Web.

This is my favorite kind of mashup, the kind of site that looks great, pulls in data from several sources, speaks to peoples’ passions yet has a clear business model without making users feel like they’re being smashed over the head with it.

Congratulations on launching this guys!

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  Joey & Mattie by Jacob Davies.

Our pals are returning from Burning Man with their photos. Those trousers are otherworldly, Joey.

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  kong by jeffreymcmanus.

This plaque is mounted on the 86th floor observation deck of the Empire State Building. Admire its ultimate and absolute coolitude.

Update: I enjoyed this so much I made a line tracing of it and turned the tracing into a T-shirt.

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]]> http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/446/empire-state-building-kong-blimp-rain-falling-up/feed/ 1 “All We Want To Do Is Eat Your Brains”http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/425/all-we-want-to-do-is-eat-your-brains/ http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/425/all-we-want-to-do-is-eat-your-brains/#comments Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:53:30 +0000 jeffrey http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/?p=425 “All We Want To Do Is Eat Your Brains” is a post by Jeffrey McManus of Platform Associates. Follow Jeffrey on Twitter.

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]]> This is so awesome, a Tetris game using dynamic HTML that runs in the browser.

He used the Yahoo! User Interface Library in this as well.

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