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“Shape of Design” book is a big win on KickStarter

Sam Howat — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:18:41 +0000

A long time design 'thought leader' in my book, Frank Chimero recently posted a project to KickStarter to fund an idea he had for a book. His goal was for $27,000, and in a matter of 3 days, he's raised nearly $60,000 in total.

Video: Obama’s Arizona Shooting Memorial Speech

Sam Howat — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 02:57:54 +0000

Great speech by President Obama in the wake of the Arizona shootings. He spoke like a man with two daughters, and without trying to make it sound political.

@Rdio is Apple’s Ping done right

Sam Howat — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 23:42:43 +0000

Been playing around with Rdio for about a week now and am totally enjoying the service. Figured I'd write up a blog post with a few of my thoughts and ideas for the service.

5 Movies I Want to See This Summer

Sam Howat — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:33:09 +0000

2010 hasn't really been a good year for the movies. There have been a creative movies so far, like: She's Out of My League, Kick-Ass and Get Him to the Greek, however in general most have been a disapointment further demonstrating the lack of creativity in Hollywood. Despite this fact, I've chosen a few movies that I think will make the summer bearable.

Last Minutes with Oden

Sam Howat — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:50:47 +0000

Short piece about a man saying good-bye to the dog that helped him through some dark parts of his life. A really beautiful piece of film work that really helps capture the emotion of this experience.

Guitar Hero Hack Creates Life-Size Football Interface

Sam Howat — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:40:43 +0000

Ad Agency comes up with an impressive and chaotic hack of Guitar Hero including soccer players, a huge interface, and music from Kasbian’s new cd; watch the video.

More AT&T Tethering Fail

Sam Howat — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:38:19 +0000

AT&T continues to disapoint iPhone users by refusing to allow them to use tethering on their iPhones. Something that other carriers of the iPhone have been doing for months!

Modern Warfare 2 Infamy Trailer

Sam Howat — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:00:42 +0000

11/10/09 cannot come soon enough. I will probably be “sick” for a week! For the full HD trailer, click the page title above. If you play XBOX 360, you should comment below and add your XBOX live username. Mine is PTWN Panic. I plan to play the multiplayer portion of the game fairly extensively like [...]

Guide: Friday Office Riots

Sam Howat — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:28:11 +0000

Gizmodo offers a helpful guide to throwing a successful office riot. Helpful on those days where you just can’t take it anymore and you want to smash the printer.

Listening to: The Bird and the Bee

Sam Howat — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:00:16 +0000

The Bird and the Bee are an indie pop/electronica duo from Los Angeles, California consisting of Inara George (the Bird) on vocals and Greg Kurstin (the Bee) who does the majority of the producing, engineering and mixing as well as providing all instrumentation apart from Inara’s fuzz bass contributions. Last.fm Profile Page Buy Online! iTunes [...]

Flutter – The New Twitter

Sam Howat — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:00:40 +0000

It’s not exactly a new video, but it’s hilarious. As much as I’m in love with Twitter, it makes me wonder who will come out with the next micro-version of twitter! Will we soon all be speaking l337 5p34k soon?

Listening to: Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Sam Howat — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:00:08 +0000

Yeah Yeah Yeahs is a rock band formed in New York City in the late summer of 2000. The band consists of Karen Orzolek (vocals), Nick Zinner (guitar) and Brian Chase (drums). Their best known songs include “Maps”, “Date with the Night”, “Gold Lion” and “Zero”. Their music melds genres ranging from new wave to [...]

Facebook Evolution

Sam Howat — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:43:29 +0000

Since the launch of the new Facebook home page on the 11th, I’ve been reading and seeing a lot of strongly opinionated reviews of the changes and have quietly played around with the interface myself to get a feel for the change. Changes to the Home Page The biggest change to Facebook has been the [...]

What is Facebook?

Sam Howat — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:56:15 +0000

Obama’s State of The Nation Address

Sam Howat — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:49:45 +0000

In which I make a commentary on the video as it streams-live.