Ashley Richards

On Wednesday evening I went to a little pre-Supernova 2004dinner. Joichi Ito suggested the dinner, however he was not in attendance as he was in Japan or somewhere. But 110 people showed up anyway. Talk about the power of suggestion. (Or the power of a blog.)
Since Supernova had a session entitled “Syndication Nation: Is [...]

I tried to cut myself off. It lasted a day. I can’t take it anymore! I need a the ultimate information manager. Does it even exist?
Give me something that will do all of these thing: be an rss reader, manage my email, a newsreader for my rec.music.phish newsgroup, tell me if my favorite websites [...]

On 16 June 1904 Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, two characters in James Joyce’s Ulysses, set out on their epic journey through the streets of Dublin. Today also happens to be the 100th anniversary of Nora Barnacle and James’ first date, and let’s just say Nora wasn’t the good little Catholic girl that evening down [...]

Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg, DreamWorks, Pixar, and at one time Disney. What do all of these things have in common? They all had highly successful, well-received films because they know how to tell a good story well.
Think about the types of films that they’ve all created. Many of them had fantastic special effects and featured cutting-edge [...]

In this week’s Metro, the Fly had a brief write up about someone who’s placing hoods on the Rodin statues at Stanford and writing “Rumsfeld was here” in chalk on the ground. A project design grad student, Steve Bishop, was able to snaps some photos of the hooded Rodin statues before the Cantor Arts Center [...]

Think you have an excellent grasp on the English language? Do you question the grammar of your copywriter? Are you an engineer or programmer who insists that you can write better than your technical writer? Well sir, I challenge thee to a English contest!
You have 1 month to put your money (5 bucks) [...]