Category: Misc

Less Cursing, Better Pictures: 10 Suggestions The New York Times’ David Pogue offers 10 suggestions for better digital photography.

Flickr Schwag 1.0, baby! One of the most often requested Flickr features is schwag. We’re pleased announce the arrival of Flickr Schwag 1.0. These three buttons and two stickers can by yours by sending a Self Addressed Envelope* to:

Paper Airplane and The Two Way Web: A Collaborative and Decentralized World Wide Web This paper describes a radical new vision of the World Wide Web and browsers that deeply embed collaboration and editing.

WWJDT: What Would Jesus Dance To? “God is interested in truth, and only in truth. And that’s why God is more interested in Rock & Roll music than Gospel… If you can’t write about what’s really going on in the world, I mean, ‘Please, don’t patronize Me!’”

Progressive U The new media voice for progressive students and other problem solvers.

(from Salon.com) Mena and Ben Trott thrilled the world of bloggers with their Movable Type software. Then their company, Six Apart, received venture financing and they decided it was time to get serious. In the spring of 2001, Mena Trott, a Web designer in San Francisco, began a quirky Web log called Dollarshort. This was Read More …

After software, the most important tool to a hacker is probably his office. Big companies think the function of office space is to express rank. But hackers use their offices for more than that: they use their office as a place to think in. And if you’re a technology company, their thoughts are your product. Read More …

I’ve been getting some questions about these topics lately and learning a lot about it myself, so I decided to put some information together in a post. Do you like reading this site? Do you come here regularly? If so, you may want to consider using a news reader (aggregator) to receive updates from all Read More …

(interview originally published at twohundredby200 magazine) Michael C. Place was born in North Yorkshire, England in 1969. He graduated from Newcastle College in 1990. He then went on to work at Bite It!, London with Trevor Jackson working on mainly record covers for Champion Records, Gee Street Records for artists such as The Stereo MC’s Read More …

(interview originally published at UrbanVancouver.com) Jeremy Crowle is an up-and-coming Canadian painter, illustrator, photographer, and all-purpose lunatic. I recently had the chance to interview him and we got to talking about art, politics, environmental sustainability, and relationships. He currently works at a Vancouver graphic design studio and his work can be seen at the Alibi Read More …

Hey tough-guy! Not hardcore? Want to pretend you are so you fit in at Burning Man? Maybe you want to get inked, but are scared it will hurt. Or you like the idea of tattoos but don’t know what you want to get. Maybe you’re afraid of catching Hep C from the tattoo needle. Well Read More …

I’d love to come up with a comprehensive list of sites that are weblog search engines, directories, listings, trackers, and major aggregation points. Here’s the group so far. Blogarama, Blogdex, Bloglines, Blogsnow, Blogstreet, Blogwise, Daypop, Feedster, Globe of Blogs, Popdex, Technocrati, Waypath If you know any I’m missing please leave a comment. I’d love to Read More …

Lots of you are probably already involved and helping out, but for those of you who aren’t, we’re in the process of breathing some life back into *spark-online. We’re really early in the game so far, but here are a couple highlights. + We’ve selected WordPress as our publishing platform.+ We’ve begun to port the Read More …

A great new article posted today by Design Council. Design runs deeper than look and feel – it can help you decide what you do and how you do it. What comes to mind when you think of design? Your last office makeover? Your business cards? Perhaps it’s the artwork on the last book or Read More …

Cameron takes us through the development of his current site design. Good job articulating his internal thought process. Jason and half the frickin’ internet discuss CSS, XHTML and standards. Again! This one is a good intro to the whole topic though and be very relevant to people considering trading in their tried and true old Read More …

The following assertions were collected from public statements made by George W. Bush and his official spokesmen since 1997. Originally from Harper’s Magazine, May 2004. The President of the United States is not a fact-checker. I’m not a statistician. I’m not a numbers-cruncher. I’m not one of these bean counters. I’m not very analytical. I’m Read More …

McSweeney’s lists crack me up. Here’s a couple of a favorites and a link to the archives. Titles of B-Movie Westerns That Give the Impression the West was Wilder Than Previously Imagined Three in a Saddle My Pal Trigger Under the Tonto Rim Pirates of the Prairie Pals of the Saddle Law of the Lash Read More …

Time for some shout-outs. It’s been way too long. My friend Cris is now a rockstar. Josh’s company Burnkit redesigned. Boris is working hard at urbanvancouver.com. Cameron took a wicked Marketing job with Playground. Mr. X is burned out with Pimps and Chuds. Jeff is taking some time off too I think. Paul is going Read More …

I have such great friends. Knowing that my company has recently been acquired and that likely that will mean the end of a job I’ve really enjoyed… my friends have started to rally and help me find a great new job. Here’s one I received from someone who was very well intentioned, but must not Read More …