Dan Bornstein

(a.k.a. Danfuzz, for mysterious reasons)

• Contact me
• A bunch of fun stuff cleverly disguised as a web service
• My coldlist
  • Media / Personal Spaces / Printed Matter
• Random bits of prose / slice o' my life
  • Cameo / Wood In San Francisco
  • FC (A Dream)
  • (Other) Words And Pictures
  • The Good, The Bad, and The Danfuzz. Am I a narcissist? Perhaps. But if you follow the link, then you'll only be encouraging me.
• Private stuff (don't bother)

Features (from around the 'net)

• I too am in love with Björk, but my site doesn't compare to the Brunching Shuttlecocks. Maybe the real mccoy will end up actually hearing the love song written in her honor.
• Five videos to be aware of
  • I'm A Cow
  • Video Game Nostalgia Comes To Life
  • Eat Bleach And Die
• The Empire That Was Russia. This is an exhibit of early color photography done in Russia, not by using the typical (modern) technique of a single exposure of a color emulsion, but rather by taking three color-filtered plates of red, green, and blue, to be recombined later.
• The Orphanage of Cast-off Mascots. This is a collection of advertising mascots from the 40's and 50's, painstakingly extracted off of microfilm by someone who cares.
• Pokey the Penguin. This is the best comic strip I've found in quite a while, on or off the 'net. It's like Zippy, only even more absurd, but as if drawn by a 10 year old on an Atari ST.
• The Morbid Fact Du Jour. This is a site with all sorts of "fun" facts.
• Futurist Programming. If you're of a computer "science" bent at all, check this out. It's a half (perhaps completely?) serious rail against current practices in the field. Check out especailly the translations of popular terms in the notes section.
• The Exploding Whale. It's not an urban legend, and you can download the movie to prove it.
• Museo de las Momias. That is, the Museum of Mummies. Not for the faint of heart--it's images from a museum that specializes in what its name suggests.

My Book About Me

(Remember, it's not a home page unless you have something extremely self-centered on it!)

I started my career as one of the original employees at Kaleida Labs (may she R.I.P.), makers of ScriptX (a pretty cool multimedia programming system, which later morphed into a net-centric Java thingy before finally dying). More recently, I was at Electric Communities (aka Communities.com, may she R.I.P.) for about two years, working on their Java extensions known as E. In 1998, I cofounded Xigo with my brother Jeremy and my good friend Lenny. It was pretty fun and the business was a novel net-available service and web-hosted application. Unfortunately, despite very promising business opportunities, the venture capitalists decided to pull the plug in 2001 (may she R.I.P.). I eventually landed at Danger, where I'm working on some of the most personally-fulfulling projects of my career. But enough about work. (If you care, you can read my résumé.)

When I'm not chained to my computer bringing home the cured pig innards, I've been known to do digital art (still chained to the computer, but just not as much innards) in several forms: visual--molesting images for PANIC or other OTIS/SITO work (something I haven't done enough of in ages) or who knows what else (or just for personal pleasure); audio--chained also to my musical gear at home, making strange ambient/industrial/techno noises (if only to get back at the neighbor's dog). See the Fuzzboy Page for more details.

Sometimes you can catch me wandering the aisles of Le Video, the world's best video rental place, looking for a good indie, cult or Hong Kong flick, or tossing back kamikazes at The Top while listening to good dnb music (especially Tuesday nights these days), or at a concert I found out about from the-list. I'll admit to having a soft spot for industrial and goth clubs, but I haven't really been getting out much in that scene lately. So it goes.

If you use something of mine from this site, let me know. If it's not-for-profit stuff, then just use it and give me credit. If it's for-profit, then email me, and we can work something out.

-dan

P.S.: I have no actual ties to the dairy industry. Really.