Brett Kelly

High-profile incidents of tragedy and social injustice always produce a strange and annoying side effect: a pervasive, semi-orgasmic realization that spreads through an alarmingly large chunk of people — most of whom curiously have smart phones. They get to be angry. And it feels amazing. Generic, inspirational platitudes are shat out across the social networks [...]

Every so often, time and/or resource constraints require that we buy our food from the only burger place worth visiting: In-N-Out. We’re not so much with the grains and whatnot these days, so I like to turn my Double-Double into a delicious burger salad. Sort of. Anyway, apropos of nothing in particular, I give you [...]

So, this just ate up about 30 minutes of my day and I thought I’d stick it on the blags just in case somebody else ever has the same problem. In a web page I’m building, I’m using jQuery’s $.get ajax function to pull some data from a remote site. This function takes an optional [...]

Like most people, public speaking scares the living hell out of me. A couple of hours ago, I took my seat at a table onstage at New Media Expo (NMX). Bookended by Leo Widrich, Craig Jarrow and Mike Vardy, where we would talk about productive blogging. Needless to say, I was pretty freaked out. I’ve [...]

Theo frickin’ Huxtable just [replied to my toot]( http://storify.com/inkedmn/conversation-with-inkedmn-and-malcolmjamalwar). I win because that’s awesome.

I don’t quite recall exactly when I saw Taken for the first time, but I’m not ashamed to admit that it’s among my favorite action flicks of all time. It’s reminiscent of Schwarzenegger’s 1980′s, revenge-laden Commando, but far better. I highly recommend it if you’re into watching bloodthirsty Europeans unleash 90 minutes worth of torment [...]

When I click into the Omnibar in Google Chrome and type a single letter, it (usually) autocompletes a domain that I regularly visit. Because I’m a masochist, I’m going to list them for you here. I’d be curious to see what comes up for you guys, as well. A — App.net, the other white meat. [...]

Preamble: Know that I’m incredibly jaded when it comes to politics and, more specifically, politicians. They’re all liars and, despite all of the inspirational (and slanderous) messaging, they want to be re-elected more than anything else they’re saying they want. Now then. Pretty sure 90+% of the people watching the debate had already decided where [...]

I don’t have the first clue what I’m doing. Almost none of us do, really. Oh, we (myself included) like to posture as though this isn’t true, but we all know it is. About ourselves and others. With that said, I think it would be prudent to do the following: Assume that this is true [...]