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Posts from July 2008

Posted
30 July 2008 @ 6pm

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notes

Brother Dale

AKA Uncle Dale
Thanks for the gem, We Jam Econo!


Posted
29 July 2008 @ 2pm

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visual

Who we’ve trained to be

A sales presentation slideshow from IBM, circa 1975.


A hummingbird

I saw a hummingbird outside my office window on Monday. It was gray, nothing like the photo below!

Even so, it was very excellent.


Posted
17 July 2008 @ 12pm

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design

Cultural Compression

Mark Pesce has put together an intriguing essay on how cultural change is accelerating, and how everything we know about the institutions of our day will be obsolete in 20 years time. I enjoyed and agreed with his retrograde analysis, but my caveat for his semi-apocalyptic view of the future is that 20 years is […]


Posted
16 July 2008 @ 11am

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design

Open government

Man raises money via the internet for election
The power of knowing your audience.


Posted
9 July 2008 @ 10pm

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film

bettie page poem

fearful ordeal in Restraintland,
the relief, all of us
the truth from Tennessee
beautiful eyes - now this way!
lovely
too tight very strict, more(!), tigress
might I tempt you, charming
watch the waves
the blessing of family
truly thankful, we’ll get by
the queen of acrobats
civilized and primitive
depending


Posted
8 July 2008 @ 10am

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design

Coal mining

Coal mining might be the dumbest industry in the US today. I saw an episode of the Morgan Spurlock show 30 Days where he works as a coal miner. Get this: when the miners are closing off an old section of a mine, they literally grab the support posts with their arms, and pull the […]


Posted
8 July 2008 @ 10am

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notes

Show and Tell

If you want people to feel a certain way, show them, don’t tell them.


Posted
3 July 2008 @ 2pm

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notes

Verizon - almost enough to spur me to agency

Verizon’s customer service has failed me so many times, it’s like they’re a summer school teacher. I generally avoid calling them, because they know much less than I do, never have a solution to any problem I’m experiencing and generally waste about an hour of my day. However, sometimes, there’s a problem on their end, […]


Posted
1 July 2008 @ 8pm

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notes

Comics

I had a great conversation with Mikey about the comic medium, and how it hasn’t yet evolved to its full potential. Despite having the ability to capture the best of film and literature in one form (pictures AND text!), 90% of all comics ever made deal with boyish fantasy heroes. Can you imagine if the […]