The iTunes 10 UI is an abomination

So, iTunes 10 looks like Apple's col­lege intern office bitch slapped the design together over the week­end while on a ben­der. What hap­pened to those LEGIONS of UI design­ers they employ?

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Special Guest Appearance

While not cred­ited as such, my spe­cial guest appear­ance at Adam Riff™ com­prises the bulk of his update today. I'm the IM con­ver­sa­tion in the red; I'm always so well dressed. This text may have been edited some, but the gist remains true.


… bend over Abigail Mae, 'cos …

When I'm hun­gry, I like to head down to one of the Cor­rals. What Cor­rals? SO MANY CORRAL. Dou­ble word score bonus if you fig­ure out which one is me.


How are people getting here now …

Once in a while I like to run down the Google Ana­lyt­ics results and see how peo­ple stum­bled over my site. Here's a peri­odic run down of some of the more pop­u­lar (or inter­est­ing) search queries that are land­ing traf­fic here lately.


Give Thanks and Praises

I'd just like to take a moment to thank Soma Design for their excel­lent Word­Press theme "The Eru­dite," which I am now using (albeit mar­gin­ally mod­i­fied). Addi­tional thanks to KING­desk for their equally excel­lent work on the wp-Typography plu­gin, with­out which jus­ti­fi­ca­tion of text would be neigh impos­si­ble to tol­er­ate. Also, thanks to Mered­ith Man­del for the


Who is Ryan McKern?

Let's take about two min­utes and have a small con­ver­sa­tion about the other Ryan McK­erns peo­ple might be look­ing for: The McKern fam­ily name isn't espe­cially pres­ti­gious, being best known (if it's known at all) as the sur­name of Uncle Leo (who was the best num­ber two that num­ber six ever con­fronted). But we're not con­cerned with


Megasus, or why aren't you …

Lit­tle known fact: I love metal. Maybe not the metal that the crazy kids in black on black attire with stringy hair lis­ten to, but metal none the less. Which is why it behoves me to point you to Mega­sus. (Pic­ture bla­tantly stolen from The Prov­i­dence Daily Dose. Credit where credit is due.)


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