from the NY Times:

And while Mrs. Clinton reminisced about her campaign and talked of a need to unite the party, she did not concede, and indeed did not acknowledge that her rival, Senator Barack Obama, had passed the threshold of delegates needed to secure the nomination.

She’s a resilient little bugger, ain’t she?
Like a cockroach you step on but won’t die.

Well, ShopComposition has decided to ditch their Flash interface (which was awesome) and use HTML with some extra JavaScript sauce.
I love Flash (and have a career because of it), but it’s great to see great alternatives.

*note – I tried it in Firefox (2.0.0.14) on the Mac, but it seems to work smoother in Safari (3.1.1).

Thanks Bryan

I just went live with product site for Sebrx. The site was done for my client, Revision Skincare.
A thanks goes out to Josh Jennings at AirLevel1 for the solid development support.

Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist, Dies at 82

Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else’s aesthetics. I think you’re born an artist or not. I couldn’t have learned it. And I hope I never do because knowing more only encourages your limitations.

– Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg. Bed. 1955. Combine painting: oil and pencil on pillow, quilt, and sheet on wood supports, 6′ 3 1/4″ x 31 1/2″ x 8″ (191.1 x 80 x 20.3 cm)

The iPhone is more of a competitor to the Blackberry than I had originally thought.
Seems RIM has started a Blackberry developer fund just like Apple & KPCB did on March 6, 2008. They’ve also put 50 million dollars more into the pot than KPCB’s 100 million dollar iFund.
It also seems RIM is launching a full touchscreen Blackberry phone, sans tactile keyboard.
…and it ALSO seems RIM is organizing the first ever Blackberry Developers Conference.
Let’s get something straight RIM – just because you throw money and conferences at a mobile platform, doesn’t mean it’s going to get better.
The same way watering a rock garden isn’t going to grow you any fresh fruits and vegetables
…or blackberries as the case may be.

I didn’t plan on trashing the new iTunes competitors when I woke up this morning, it just happened that way.
I stumbled upon this story about the new Zune Marketplace, naively thinking I might be able to test drive it on my Mac.
HAHAHA!!! Silly Mike. You pea brain.
I’ll just pre-emptively mark this one up as another loss for Microsoft. Along with PlayForSure and Urge. A ballsy move, I know.

Nokia, c’mon …I thought we were long past this shit?

BBC News: GTA game smashes UK sales records

The title sold a record 609,000 copies on its first day of release, generating an estimated £24.4m ($48.5m).
The previous record holder was GTA: San Andreas, which sold 501,000 copies in 24 hours in October 2004.

and:

The game currently has an average review score of 98.7%, according to Gamerankings.com, which amalgamates reviews from all publications.
UK-based games website Eurogamer called it “game of the year” and handed it a 10 out of 10 review score.

See kids? Fake crime does pay.

(Thanks Quigga.)

Just read a good post by Seth Godin about traffic hitting your website.

This is a truth of the Internet: When traffic comes to your site without focused intent, it bounces.
75% of all unfocused visitors leave within three seconds.
Any site, anywhere, anytime. 75% bounce rate within three seconds.

His point is that it’s not important how many hits your site gets but how engaged your readers are. I agree. Quality over quantity. Got it.
Unless you are Digg, where these one-hit-wonder links are at the core of it’s business strategy. They could also have deep and engaging links in there too, but it doesn’t really matter to Digg. Digg feeds on links, links of all kinds.
Digg takes these fleeting links to the extreme by providing data visualization tools in Digg Labs.
Digg makes the unfocused its focus.
Yin needs Yang.
You get the idea.