Secret Weapon Labs

I remember this conference most especially for Steve Jobs line to the attending developers:
“It’s not dead for them [Mac users], but it is for you.”

I still don’t get podcasting… even the good ones. I find most radio broadcasters stale and unentertaining, and to think that there are more people (thousands, if not millions) that look to enter the fray just kinda boggles me. Podcasts aren’t visual mediums but purely aural ones that depend on not only what […]

While working on some more serious and less frivolous posts, I came across this post at The Unofficial Apple Weblog - the video is hysterical, but the veracity of the punchline is alarming. Hit play and see for yourself:

Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.
- Nora Ephron (in The Huffington Post)
I looked at that and just thought: Wow!
Would it be fair to answer the question: “Because I Can.”
I try not to take large political stabs at anyone really on this space of the web, there are more […]

Yeah, so I saw both those flicks and have opinions on both, which I’ll put up here soon enough. In the meantime, I’ve come across some sensational photography and couldn’t help but pass it along. This is certainly the best I’ve ever seen of Joaquin.

I imagine most of us could imagine most of these things, but I’ve never seen it articulated so well. See what I mean…

Advertising executive Charles Schine is just another Chicago commuter who regularly catches the 8:43 A.M. train to work. But the one day he misses his train and meets Lucinda Harris, his life is changed forever. Lucinda is charming, beautiful and seductive. Despite the fact that each are married with children, their attraction to one another […]

It’s incredibly easy to pass judgement Malcolm-Gladwell-style which I myself have done even initially passing Santana’s Supernatural album as “pretty good” rather than the multi-platinum life-changing epiphany that it truly was.
You have to give the production of this album some slack in certain respects, the songs seem to be orderered miserably and while Santana […]

… is a bit of a dramatic title, but it rings true nonetheless. It’s an honest revelation, a catharsis of sorts that I have never really revealed, until now, but it’s something I feel I should say.

Being a modest but always-thirsty-for-new-inspiration guitarist had me stumble 5 years ago on an article that was entitled […]