Announcing FlakeNot

For the last few months, Ross and I have been working on FlakeNot.

FlakeNot keeps track of all your invitations in a single place. To sign up, forward pretty much any email with a date and a time in it to new-event@flakenot.com. FlakeNot will create an account for you and remember all the events you send it.

Once you’ve forwarded some events, send email to calendar@flakenot.com and you’ll get an email with your upcoming events. And visit flakenot.com to see your calendar on the web.

That’s it. No fancy logo. No social network, no profile photo. No Flash applet. No Google Maps mash-up. No video chatting with random strangers. Just a quick, simple way to keep track of all your invitations, so you can get out there in the real world and spend time with your real friends.

Yes, it works with Evites and Facebook invites. Yes, there’s a version of the site optimized for your Android/iPhone/Palm Pre. Yes, we plan to support Google calendar, write a Facebook application, and integrate with iCal. Yes, yes, yes.

Fonts for sale!

After years of work and months of polishing, I’m happy to announce that five of my fonts are now available for purchase at MyFonts.com! Between now and March 10th, you can get any of these fonts for 30% by entering the promotion / gift certificate code BLOGMAR10 at checkout.

If anyone has any problems whatsoever ordering these fonts or getting the promotional discount, email me.

Tracer T

I gotta get me a copy of this “Tracer T” program:

I’ve heard you can also use a program called “Pin G” to view people’s PIN numbers.

(note: if you’re not a hacker this will make zero sense to you, but trust me, it’s hilarious.)

What remains to be discovered

Sci Du Jour asks:

What technological/scientific advances/discoveries are you most looking forward to in the next 25 years?

A few years ago I read John Maddox’s What Remains to Be Discovered: Mapping the Secrets of the Universe, the Origins of Life, and the Future of the Human Race (Amazon link). It’s an amazingly broad survey of all the bleeding edges of science and tech today. I most remember the bits about materials tech—all sorts of new materials, super sticky glue, super strong lightweight materials, materials with memory and self-healing properties, are just on the horizon.