Chez Moncef

Fun with vinyl.

Tue, 15 May 2012 13:26:58 -0400

Fun with vinyl.

In remembrance of Adam Yauch, aka MCA, here is a video of me and...

Tue, 08 May 2012 10:22:03 -0400

In remembrance of Adam Yauch, aka MCA, here is a video of me and my brother lip-syncing to “Paul Revere” in 1987.

Also, check out my Fresh Tunes blog to listen to 4 songs sampled by Beastie Boys.

Feel Me is an interesting app developed by Marco Triverio.

Sun, 06 May 2012 12:32:46 -0400

Feel Me is an interesting app developed by Marco Triverio.

Joanna’s dutch blueberry pancake (Taken with instagram)

Sun, 06 May 2012 10:51:15 -0400

Joanna’s dutch blueberry pancake (Taken with instagram)

barackobama: Another reason to like Obamacare.

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:14:23 -0400

barackobama:

Another reason to like Obamacare.

Great short documentary on typography from PBS Arts. Follow...

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:54:49 -0400

Great short documentary on typography from PBS Arts.

Follow their companion blog on Tumblr.

Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:51:00 -0400

Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts:

Handy reference.

Marco Arment's Take on the Curator's Code

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:47:44 -0400

Marco Arment's Take on the Curator's Code

Matt Langer: Stop Calling it Curation

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:00:02 -0400

Matt Langer: Stop Calling it Curation:

Great original piece by Matt Langer.

langer:

Imagine, if you will, a world in which Richard Seaver or Robert Gottlieb had stomped their feet and huffed and puffed every time John Leonard forgot to give them their proper “↬”. Or rather, as I joked on Twitter over the weekend about the new “Curator’s Code,” if Goethe had lived long enough…

Shawn Feeney is becoming a true carving master! This is a...

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 22:40:00 -0500

Shawn Feeney is ~~becoming~~ a true carving master!

This is a lobster carved out of a watermelon, created for a time-lapse/stop-motion Save The Date video.

Everyone’s talking about the Dollar Shave Club, so I...

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:29:27 -0500

Everyone’s talking about the Dollar Shave Club, so I decided to pay their site a visit, even though I use an electric shaver.

Their site looks great, and the video is awesome, but for a company that does one thing, and one thing only, you would think they would know how to spell “cartridge”.

Instapaper Blog: New bookmarklet with multi-page article saving

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:57:05 -0500

Instapaper Blog: New bookmarklet with multi-page article saving:

I just saved this multi-page NYT article with my existing “Read Later” bookmarklet, and I was able to read the full article on the Instapaper site and in the Instapaper iPhone app.

Thanks, Marco!

instapaper:

The Instapaper “Read Later” bookmarklet is now redesigned as a faster, more compatible full-page overlay that’s easier to see.

The previous little “Saved!” frame had a great run, but its time has passed. Readers are now saving more pages than ever on tablets and phones, and the old bookmarklet…

I can’t wait to see “Jiro Dreams of Sushi”!

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:09:28 -0500

I can’t wait to see “Jiro Dreams of Sushi”!

Mail Pilot: Email Reimagined by Josh Milas & Alex Obenauer — Kickstarter

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:43:49 -0500

Mail Pilot: Email Reimagined by Josh Milas & Alex Obenauer — Kickstarter:

Josh and Alex aren’t the only ones trying to improve our email experience, but their solution is the only one that piqued my interest. I backed their project on Kickstarter and can’t wait to try it out!

For a different take on email (which only works with Gmail currently), check out Fluent, which is being developed by 3 Ex-Google Wave engineers.

Well done, Matthijs, well done. If you don’t get it,...

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:03:48 -0500

Well done, Matthijs, well done.

If you don’t get it, here’s the original tune.

Excellent explanation of SOPA and PIPA by Salman Khan (founder...

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:44:00 -0500

Excellent explanation of SOPA and PIPA by Salman Khan (founder of the Khan Academy).

To take action now, visit americancensorship.org and FightForTheFuture.org. These sites make it incredibly easy for you to email Congress. You can also just as easily send a fax through HelloFax.

Mogees - Gesture recognition with contact-microphones (by bruno...

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 21:48:53 -0500

Mogees - Gesture recognition with contact-microphones (by bruno zamborlin)

Read more about this awesome project on Bruno’s site.

Don't Be A Free User (Pinboard Blog)

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:18:57 -0500

Don't Be A Free User (Pinboard Blog):

minimalmac:

What if a little site you love doesn’t have a business model? Yell at the developers! Explain that you are tired of good projects folding and are willing to pay cash American dollar to prevent that from happening. It doesn’t take prohibitive per-user revenue to put a project in the black. It just requires a number greater than zero.

So, today I recorded a future episode of the podcast about this very theme (before I saw this post). I’m a happy paying user of Pinboard, one that even pays the extra money for the archiving feature. Not only do I believe this idea to be true but, as I announce in that upcoming show, I’m willing to put my money where my mouth is by sending, anonymously, cash to a service I use and love daily that has no outward discernible business model.

Here is my idea:

What if, 1% of the users of a particular free service of 36 million clients and growing, were to decide to drop $10.00 cash every month into an envelope and mail it to said service? What if that envelope had no return address? Perhaps there was an note inside that begged them to create a model to let us pay them to use the service. To make sure the service continued on once the bubble inevitably bursts and the VC’s take their payout and fly to the Grand Caymans.

My guess is that such a service would have to keep the money. Perhaps they would go through a couple of months of having their offices flooded with 300,000+ ten dollar bills. This might get to be a hassle so, perhaps, maybe, they finally get the hint and have a few million dollars of starting cash to launch a way for us to pay directly for this thing we use and love.

Crazy, right? Yep.

So, here is the address I’m sending my unmarked cash with the note in the envelope with no return address.

Tumblr, Inc., 35 East 21st Street, 9th Floor, New York, NY, 10010

I welcome those that care as much as I do to do the same.

Update: Forgot to mention, and I never ask this… Please reblog the shit out of this one.

soupsoup: applecocaine: Spanish artist Juan Francisco Casas...

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:30:26 -0500

soupsoup:

applecocaine:

Spanish artist Juan Francisco Casas uses a single biro pen to sketch these amazing pieces of art.

His website is here.

¡Increíble!

motherjones: Hey, look! Congressional staffers turn out to be...

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:02:36 -0500

motherjones:

Hey, look! Congressional staffers turn out to be really good at predicting the behavior of stocks that their bosses legislate. Outside Capitol Hill, we might call that “insider trading.” Except US insider trading laws don’t apply to Congress.

Angry yet?

Occupy Congress!