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Okay, you people. PEOPLE! I am overwhelmed. In one day (ONE DAY) you gave enough to cover Digit's vet bills already incurred and those that are planned for the near future. We don't have to put any of the bills...

HE LOOKS SO MUCH BETTER. Really, Lala told me that the reason she had yelled and called me in to the kitchen that night was that she didn't think that he would live until I got out of bed to...

Under, or over?.

By your kindnesses, by your responses, by one darling Paypal donor who shall remain anonymous, by the huge amount of love you've sent our way. I have a theory that Digit can only be helped and boosted by what you're...

DUDE. Know what I did on Saturday? I rode on a motorcycle. In Dykes on Bikes, in the Dyke March. I've been trying to hitch a ride for YEARS. It was seriously one of those dreams come true -- the...

Help your audience fall in love with you by moving beyond human-to-computer interfaces and embracing human-to-human design.

 

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Testability: friend or foe? Gian Sampson-Wild takes a close look at one of the features of the new Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

 

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First, find a flat stone.

WIZARD ROCK! Knitters converge! You already know you're getting the book on the day it's released, July 20th. Of course. But you know what's more fun than THAT? Can you IMAGINE? Seeing my sister's band, Deadpan Alley, play their Harry...

Do you have ANY IDEA how many times I have gargled with salt water in my whole life? Maybe one million times. Maybe three billion times. Give or take a few. Blech. Strep, three or four times a year, for...

What wagon is that?

This will be the summer of the iPhone. It ships sometime in the next three weeks and everyone seems to be dying to get their hands on it, including my kids. But I have never been interested in an iPhone....

I am in awe over the quality of Marc Andreessen's blogging. How come he waited so long to do this? Has he been saving these posts up for years and is now laying them on us day after day? In...

comScore is introducing its Widget measurement service today called Widget Metrix. The WSJ has the story and this chart. I got a preview of the data last week and I had two comments for comScore which I'll share with all...

Kareem left this comment on my post about Andreessen's posts:When you've got an efficient and transparent market Can you dig into this a little more, Fred? In my (limited) experience, the VC market seems anything but efficient, and one website...

I am listening to Pink Floyd's Money this morning. Money, get back.I'm all right jack keep your hands off of my stack.Money, its a hit.Don't give me that do goody good bullshit.I'm in the high-fidelity first class traveling setAnd I...

Peter Rojas of Engadget fame is starting a record label based entirely on the free music concept. The NY Post has the story....

I am a new woman today. I accidentally stayed up from 4:30am on Saturday until 8:30pm on Sunday, 40 hours or so, and by last night I was an irritating moron and didn't feel too well, either. I didn't plan...

I bought my first copy of Exile on Main St. in 1980 at Nuggets in Kenmore Square. It was played so much in the Lounge that I had to get a second vinyl copy in the mid 80s which I...

I'll leave all the blogging about the way they ended the Sopranos to others. But there's just one thing I've got to say. I was so into the jukebox scene. Tony's flipping through finding the song they are going to...

Everyone's who has been to an amusement park has seen a photo like this. You get off the ride and they have them on screens so you can check yourself out as the roller coaster took the big drop. This...

***Added a bit later - How cute is Mandy's new sweater? Don't you want her to sell the pattern? I need a lacy little sweater like that, go bug her to write it up*** Good morning, kids. I haven't been...

I told you last week that the addition of Marc's voice to the blog world was going to be fruitful. And man has it ever been.A post on how to be more productiveA post debunking web 2.0A post on how...

I wrote a post several years ago titled 'I Love Jet Blue' (no link because I'm blogging from my phone). In that post I talked about how Jet Blue gives me what I want (leg room in the back, free...

The End Of Basketball City Originally uploaded by fredwilson. It's sad to see the end of basketball city. So many great moments there over the years. I realize that the Hudson River Park Trust has big plans for this plot...

City Sunrise Originally uploaded by fredwilson. The westside highway at 6am in the morning is a wonderful place this time of the year. The light is awesome. The city is mostly asleep but it's stirring. I did some photobiking this...

On the skids? What are you, a lumberjack?

Alex and Jamie performed three acoustic numbers in a Minneapolis studio last month. The Bakery - on the new Fluorescent Adolescent EP (no link because I can't find it anywhere)Only Ones Who KnowFluorescent Adolescent Check it out. I really like...

My friend David came in yesterday and showed me the cool web service he's building to bring live music to the masses called Baeble Music. Check it out. The band he showed me is called Mando Diao and I've been...

Some Etsy Sellers Made This Sign For Etsy's Office Originally uploaded by fredwilson. I was out at Etsy's offices, aka Etsy Labs, in Brooklyn this morning. I love going there because the company's offices are also a big workshop, open...

I run ads on this blog from two ad networks; Federated Media and FeedBurner. They sell the ads and serve them on this blog. I get the opportunity to approve the ads and occasionally I do decline ads but not...

Jake at Bluejake left a comment on my original post and linked to a bunch of photos he apparently took inside the shuttered Domino Sugar Factory. This one is my favorite but they are all great and there are also...

I have this new thing I do that has me so excited. And it has to do with housecleaning, so it probably won't excite you the same way, but oh man, it's effective. I just haven't had enough hours in...

I've got this book Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time on my widget on the right sidebar. It's on my to read list. The Gotham Gal just finished it and her review makes...

One of the greatest gifts I was given in life was moving homes every year for the first dozen years of my life. I learned to embrace change. It's been a curse too in some ways, but it pays huge...

Hello, y'all. Just a quick note -- I'm at the parents' house down south -- it's the little mama's birthday in a few days, and it was La's birthday on Saturday (good day, deYoung Museum and the Vivienne Westwood exhibit,...

Sailors were living it large in the 16th century.