Welcome to March

An extensive March Madness post and the official Steam Communications Facebook bracket are only a few short days away, but I couldn’t wait to welcome you to the most exciting month in American sports.

It’s absolutely impossible to describe a modern day, David-vs.-Goliath basketball tournament, but Gus Johnson does his best after Isaiah Thomas ruins 12 dreams in an instant…

 

“…cooooold-blooded.”

Welcome to March.

Morning Glory: HTTPS Everywhere, Minimalist Web Design, and My College Basketball Addiction

Disclosure: There are five must-read items for today, but I’m not-so-secretly hoping that you click on the last one first.
  • Lifehacker features HTTPS Everywhere; a fantastic tool for keeping your personal data safe across 1400 websites.  While this makes my job much more difficult, my support for consumer privacy and disclosure has never been stronger.
  • Six Revisions advocates for simple, clean web design.  My head is now vibrating from all the nodding up and down I just did.  
  • Fast Company gets a laugh out of ten ovation-worthy Amazon reviews.
  • Mashable

Watch: Game of Thrones Season 2 Trailer

 

A month and a day from today! Conleth Hill (as Varys / “The Spider”) is criminally underrated.

By |February 29th, 2012|The Instant Vid|0 Comments

Morning Glory: Samsung Galaxy S3 Leaks

Welcome to the first ‘Morning Glory’ edition on MD4.0. (Putting on to do-list: Find a better blog nickname.)  You can still find the older ones at the Instant Win.  Let’s get started.

  • TechCrunch has a leaked photo of the Samsung Galaxy S III.  Best comment: “4.8″ screen? I’m going to hang that in the bathroom in front of my toilet.”  No kidding…that screen is huuuge.
  • Pajiba needs a costume change after seeing the official trailer for the second season of Game of Thrones.*
  • The Razzies are out.  After ten more minutes of consideration than […]
By |February 28th, 2012|Uncategorized|0 Comments

The Tree of Hearts – [Wallpaper]

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To celebrate the launch of MD.com, I’ve uploaded all of the wallpapers (warning: some are high-res) I’ve collected over the past few years.

Anyone that successfully guesses my favorite one in the comments section (on the first try) wins a signed copy of “The Rise of the Creative Class” by Richard Florida!

 

By |February 28th, 2012|Wallpaper|0 Comments

The 50 Best Things I Found on the Internet in 2011

In no particular order, here’s a compilation of the web’s greatest pieces of content from the last twelve months.

50. Elfster – Better management for secret santas.  Though everyone will still buy each other iTunes gift cards…

49. The Huffington Post’s thorough article on the rise of Ron Paul.  My favorite part: He wants to lower the presidential salary to $39,000 to match the median income of the American worker.

48. Pajiba’s passionate thoughts on why we need Community.

47. Redditors raise $31k in a matter of hours for a toddler needing a bone marrow […]

By |February 21st, 2012|Uncategorized|1 Comment