August 31, 2008
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Click to enlarge these 14×17″ marker drawings:
I’m this close to launching a new art-centric blog, but these wouldn’t wait.
Speaking of which, I need help naming the new “not just my stuff, but also the work of friends and emerging artists” site.
Preliminary brain scans of my ever-loving TwitterPals narrowed the name down to:
Doodleist.com
Sketchify.com
Which name do you [...]
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August 31, 2008
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You were expecting maybe Alan Alda?
More mixed media greeting cards by Tony Federico.
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August 27, 2008
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I love seeing movies at the Arclight. For a few dollars more you get reserved seating, online ordering, nice auditoriums, no pre-movie ads, no fake radio (”And now the latest from Kenny Chesney!”), and a better audio visual experience.
That extra couple of bucks attracts people who care about movies while it repels teenagers and assorted [...]
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August 20, 2008
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Occasionally you’ll hear “why are all these open source people Mac slaves? Cognitive dissonance much?”
This is why:
The open source ecosystem is an ocean. Your PC is an aquarium.
For platforms the internet relies on, you want Free Open Source Software all the way. Linux, MySQL, Apache, PHP, and Firefox being open source helps keep themselves and [...]
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August 20, 2008
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For the past two weeks I’ve been getting two calls a day from telemarketers at (866) 402-1044 (may they burn in hell forever and ever amen).
Yes, I’m on the do not call list.
Yes, the first couple of times they called I said “take me off your list”.
Yes, I’ve filed a complaint.
Now all I can do [...]
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August 19, 2008
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1) Interestingness
2) Relevance
3) Actionability
In this post we look at two bad examples and one excellent example of emails from various web services.
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August 11, 2008
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I hereby revoke UserVoice.com’s internet license. I can do that, right?
Previously: Modal dialogs are the new deadly sin of web design
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