Unlike Seattlest Dan we haven't gotten our hands on one yet, but like many we are fascinated by the brown color choice for the new Zune players. The rich chocolate brown/bright green color combination is one we find personally very pleasing, in fact it turns up in our house. But we share some of the skepticism about whether it will work on a consumer product--it could work, but it is risky. Anil Dash over at Six Apart is pretty damn sure it is a bad idea to call the actual product color "Brown" and he put a nice little commercial together (replete with a now infamous midterm election picture) to help the Zune marketing people sell it for Christmas. Enjoy! more ›

The world of blogs is becoming more mainstream everyday, which sucks, 'cause now we can't feel very special about our online-publishing selves. All we have now is the silent suspense of the impending consequences for all this cyber posting. All we can do is be careful. But whatever you do, don't tell Jen, Jake or Gothamist that we are blogging on the job. Why not, you ask. Because people get fired. more ›