Dan Bornstein

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

• Contact me
• A bunch of fun stuff cleverly disguised as a web service
• Random bits of prose / slice o' my life
  • 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.

Features (from around the 'net)

• 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.

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 (later acquired by Microsoft, who shut the company down, may she R.I.P.), where I worked on some of the most personally-fulfulling projects of my career, and as of 2005 I've been at Google, working on the Android project. 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. These days it's mostly audio, somewhere in the ambient/industrial zone. See the Fuzzboy Page for more details.

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.