LINKS FROM July 2005
Cisco Harasses Security Researcher
"If companies have the power to censor information about their products they don't like, then we as consumers have less information with which to make intelligent buying decisions."
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The step-by-step process of redesigning Digg
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Security researcher quits job and blows whistle on Cisco's fatal flaws
"Now he's under a restraining order from Cisco, arising from his disclosure of critical flaws in Cisco's routers that threaten the world's information infrastructure."
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CSS Image Maps - Flickr-like Technique?
"Below is a sample image map that's built entirely using CSS and XHTML."
"And what about previously unsupported CSS2 properties? Have we got :hover support on any element other than a yet? Sorry. What about selectors? Same as ever. Could we at least ask for a bit of position: fixed? Keep wishing."
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"What we're witnessing is viral contagion - the beginnings of what some hope will spawn an epidemic of suicide attacks."
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Pew Internet: Teens and Technology
Teens and Technology: Youth are Leading the Transition to a Fully Wired and Mobile Nation
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Omg?!?!
gapingvoid: "Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships, that is why good ideas are always initially resisted."
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What creativity is for Steve jobs? It is all about experience connectivity
"When you ask a creative person how they did something, they may feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after awhile. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had
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In One Stroke, Podcasting Hits Mainstream
"Overnight, iTunes 4.9 has already become the most popular podcast-management software on earth; Apple says that within 48 hours of its release, Pod people had subscribed to more than a million podcasts."
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"A lot of the links to the service say things like "full of AJAXy goodness!" or "guess how small the dev team was?" or "it's Ruby on Rails!". People, this is a tool for helping your business make more money."
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"Open Media 100, self-proclaimed, self-important bloggers glad-handing every other blogger with WordPress and a stupid idea ….vomit vomit vomit."
Press release from Feedster talking about the new ability of AOL portal users to customize their homepage with RSS feeds. Score one for Feedster.
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Hillary vs. the Xbox: Game over
Senator, would your probe of video games also take a look at the substantial benefits they can provide?
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Killer resources for entrepreneurs
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What are the best ways to represent visited links?
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"How do you turn a middle-aged, bookish writer who loathes computer games and violence into a gun-toting, head-stamping street punk? Simple - deliver a stack of the latest consoles to his front door."
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A guide to open bars in New York City. Wow . . .
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How Craigslist Has Changed New York
“Erotic servicesâ€? providers, reality-TV casting agents, Eames loversâ€â€all have plenty of reasons to celebrate the site’s fifth anniversary.
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"Ah, the summer rooftop party, one of the delights of New York socializing, whether the setting is a Fifth Avenue terrace with manicured topiary or a sprawl of tar in Chelsea miraculously transformed by a Weber grill . . . into an egalitarian penthouse".
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Side-Business Software: The neglected software market
"Who cares about the Fortune 500? It’s time to care about the Fortune 5,000,000."
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Some great quotes about dealing with terrible clients.
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The "Americanisms" section of The Economist's style guide.
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Coldplay X&Y Album Art Generator
You type your words and it encodes it into Coldplay X&Y album art
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"I’m so Goth, I carry black food dye around in case I have to eat anything that's not black."
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10 Worthwhile Albums You Might Have Missed This Year
Pitchforkmedia.com: "a few albums we've all really enjoyed this year, but which-- whether a result of a technicality, bad timing, or just bad luck-- have managed to elude our Best New Music section."
Net Rage: A Study of Blogs and Usability
Catalyst’s proprietary test of the usability of blogs, conducted in late June and early July of 2005
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"Mixing vector and photo is one of the hottest trends in the illustration industry today . . . In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at how to create this effect in Illustrator.
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Ten Tips for New Trainers/Teachers
Creating Passionate Users: "It's not about what YOU do... it's about how your learners feel about what THEY can do as a result of the learning experience you created and helped to deliver."
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Interview > Mark The Cobra Snake!
"The now famous 'party photographer' took some time out of his busy schedule to tell us all about his baby, LA Weekly, hot girls, his truck jewelry, and eventually traveling to outer space."
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Keeping T-Shirts in the Moment
NYTimes: "Lately limited edition T-shirts, most likely made in someone's cellar in Brooklyn, have suddenly become the hipster's preferred mode of expression."
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Co-opting the creative revolution
Digital technology is providing people with the tools to produce and share content like never before, and it is set to throw the relationship between them and institutions into turmoil, say experts.
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A visualization of what life could have been like if different things had happened. Follow all the paths.
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PyObjC Plug-ins (Tiger QS Only) Upgrade Notice
PyObjC finally comes to Quicksilver for Tiger
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KCRW to Podcast Morning Becomes Eclectic
" Beginning Thursday, July 21, Los Angeles based public radio station KCRW (89.9 FM and KCRW.com) will offer podcasts of live sessions performed by unsigned and independent artists on its signature music show, Morning Becomes Eclectic hosted by Nic Harcou
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Vanilla is a PHP / MySQL solution that is 100% open-source.
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"Before resealing a can of paint, blow one deep breath into the can and close it quickly."
A list of the designs discussed in The Zen of CSS Design.
Three-dimensional looking chalk sidewalk art.
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Things My Boss Said to Me Without Elaborating.
McSweeney's: "Quick. Tell me everything of consequence that has happened."
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The VERY LONG May, 1996 article about tobacco whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand that was the inspiration for the movie The Insider
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Over 100 Quick and Easy Healthy Foods
"The World’s Healthiest Foods has an excellent list of healthy foods which need less than 30 minutes of preparation and cooking times. "
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Forgotten pictures of popular people
Don't miss Hasslehoff's chest hair on page four.
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The Education of Elisabeth Eckleman: Haunted Halloween
In this installment, Elisabeth takes her T.A., Raj, to a costume party, where he refuses to dance. You decide what happens next.
A 1997 article examing Hotmail's use of "viral marketing" to grow it's user base
A new Pew study indicates only 9% of Americans know what an RSS feed is
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Nothing To Fear From Executive Blogging
Bob Lutz of General Motors: "To any senior executive on the fence about starting a corporate blog, I have a word of advice: Jump."
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CNet looks at the top 10 web fads over the last 10 years. Where's Dahler Mendi?
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Steve Rubel's top 10 tech trends for the next 10 years.
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Why children love Roald Dahl’s storiesâ€â€and many adults don’t.
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"The secretive research group that helps run the movie business."
Inside the big switch: The iPod and the future of Apple Computer
"The cold, hard reality here is that the Mac is Apple's past and the iPod is Apple's future, in the same way that the "PC" is the industry's past and the post-PC gadget is industry's future."
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An Open Letter to the Leader of the Ant Nation Residing in My Bathroom.
"Why do you want to be in my bathroom? What do you seek? There is no food there! Not a morsel. Were you to attack my kitchen, attempt a coup there, I would kill you with the same abandon, but I might be more understanding of your plight."
How two mathematicians came to the aid of the Met.
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By buying Web player Intermix Media and its runaway hit social-networking site, the media conglomerate gains on the Internet giants
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Top Ten Ways to handle Bad Clients
"There is nothing more frustrating than a bad client that turns your project into a nightmare. I've had my share of them and I thought I'd give my ways I handle them."
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On the Job, the Pauses That Refresh
NYTimes: "There is a point, of course, where distraction becomes blatant slacking off, but I would argue that some percentage of time wasted during work is actually a part of the work."
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NYTimes: "While most of us don't think about typography, beyond choosing among the preinstalled fonts in our home computers, consider an up-and-coming font, like Bello."
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See what happens when you zoom all the way in.
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When a Man Dies in a Sex Act with a Horse -- What's a Reporter to Do?
How a Seattle Times reporter handled a story about a man who died while having sex with a horse.
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You give them 28 characters (including spaces) and $9.95, you get back your very own custom stencil.
How foie gras became the new fur.
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The fired nanny from the New York Times article refutes many of the claims from "The Nanny Diaries are Now Online"
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The New Nanny Diaries Are Online
Once again showing that people don't get fired for blogs, but for their indiscretion in using them.
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"FontFreak.com, one of the largest and most visited free-/shareware font archive on the net."
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A blog about creative information visualization
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New York's #1 Escort Reveals All
The $2000 an-Hour Hooker and the Sex Mogul Who Loved Her
Big businesses are not the only ones who can benefit from sending work overseas. Individuals can make cost and time savings, too. Ben Hammersley investigates
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The inspiration for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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'This is what real British rap looks like'
No longer the poor relative of its American cousin, UK hip-hop has finally established itself as the voice of the nation's youth, says Mike Skinner.
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How one company transforms its employees into entrepreneurs.
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"Ladies and gentlemen, Tom Cruise has tossed off the shackles of Hollywood oppression and is piloting his Scientology-fueled funny car straight towards you."
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"John D. Berry journeys through the bowels of our transit systems in search of enlightenment and a few clear directions."
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Carny Lingo from Welcome to The Fair
"I believe this is the most comprehensive glossary of carnival terms to be found anywhere on the Internet."
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Rides From the Amusement Park of My Collective Memory.
McSweeney's: "Custody Battle"
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Does Friendster appeal over wifester and familyster?
The Onion considers just what makes internet social networks appealing
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"Much of the "canned laughter" used on the soundtracks of sitcoms is said to have come from tapes that were originally recorded during broadcasts of "The Red Skelton Show""
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The fundamental unit of the web
Kottke.org: "And now it seems that there are several efforts underway to cut the fundamental unit down to the phrase or word."
"These are online games that, in my opinion, offer a "good experience" - good game design with an overall attention to quality. Unless otherwise noted, they're all free, online, and available right now."
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Jerry Yang co-founded Yahoo, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year
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Readers proclaim their love for and loyalty to everything from iPods and TiVo to scum scrubbers and baby blankets.
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Interview with Eric von Hippel: "I mean that product and service users-both individuals and firms-are increasingly able to innovate for themselves."
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A Guide to Getting Things Done
Wired breaks down just what Getting Things Done is
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In order to do a better job of developing, communicating, and pursuing a strategy, the head of Ideo says, you need to learn to think like a designer. Here's his five-point plan for how to make the leap.
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Indie-rock hero Frank Black goes one-on-one with his literary hero, the indomitable Ray Bradbury.
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Tom Peters interviews Jason Fried, president and founder of 37signals
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"The 37signals manifesto was our original site from 1999-2001. It's a collection of 37 nuggets of online philosophy and design wisdom."
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Google Information for Webmasters
Google explains how to get yourself listed and ranked on their search engine.
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Jakob Nielsen explains the three things holding up usability on the web.
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"Pre-filters" vs. "Post-filters"
"But in Long Tail markets, where distribution is cheap and shelf space is plentiful, the safe bet is to assume that everything is eventually going to be available. The role of filter then shifts from gatekeeper to advisor."
You're emotional. Deal with it.
"People don't choose rationally to listen to your message and then have a feeling about it. They choose to listen to your message because they have a feeling about it."
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Directors Reveal Their Top 10 Lists
Everyone loves a list - even film directors. But what do their Top 10s say about their personalities?
ESPN catches up with infamous Cubs fan Steve Bartman
"Simply click one button while you're listening to a favourite shared track and it's copied to your machine, and added to the iTunes Music Library (and a playlist, so you can keep track of your downloads)."
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Marketers See Opportunity as a Web Tool Gains Users
New York Times jumps on the RSS advertising article bandwagon. Let the downward spiral begin.
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A backup of the Pacman widget on MacUpdate
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"The drop shadows are implemented in valid XHTML and CSS, with no CSS hacks or JavaScript. We call it ydnar Drop-Shadow-Fu."
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McSweeney's: "A penny saved is a penny you don't have to earn by writing excitedly about wealth-management investment strategies for baby-boomer retirees."
These are the AOL video clips from the Live 8 concert series from July 2nd.
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Anil Dash offers tips to clueless PR people for pitching bloggers
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"This is designed to work in tandem with a separate MT blog you use for links and display in a side bar or inline on your main blog (using MTSQL or similar like myself)."
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Calculate the distance of your walk (or run) using this cool Google Maps remix
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Kerouac's Belief and Technique for Modern Prose
Everything you need to do to write like Kerouac
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Inside Odeo with Evan Williams
Another interview with Evan Williams on Odeo
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"Much like many of you I not only got into personal productivity to get things doneâ€â€I want to do great things."
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"“Firefox?� The Rabbi stops and thinks for a minute, rubbing his beard. “Ah yes! The one that blocks all the schmutz.�"
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BusinessWeek looks at Cornerstone and other so-called "experiential" brands marketing to the hip
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How did Mad Hot Ballroom survive the copyright cartel?
"Answer: by limiting music that played in classrooms, haggling over clearance fees, and cutting out a scene."
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Dear Blog: Today I Worked on My Book
"For years, book authors have used the Internet to publicize their work and to keep in touch with readers. Several, like Mr. Battelle, are now experimenting with maintaining blogs while still in the act of writing their books."
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Inc.: "Refining your company's message is an ongoing process and it requires considerable discipline."
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Typo is a lean engine that makes blogging easy.
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"Started by three Harvard sophomores in February 2004 as an online directory to connect the higher education world through social networks, Thefacebook now registers more than 5,800 new users a day."
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The Star Maker of the Semipopular
NYTimes profile of Nic Harcourt, DJ of KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic
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On Moleskines: "Even if you're carrying it to another boring staff meeting to take notes about sales projections, the notebook makes for a fantastic emblem of creative possibility."
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A VC: "Blogging 2.0 has developed to the point that the $410 million that The New York Times paid for About.com is going to look really cheap in a few years."
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Why Analog Property Rights Are Wrong For a Digital World: DRM vs Plasticity
"Since most DRM is based on the fundamentally flawed notions of analog property rights discussed above, it can (in the long run) never work in a digital world."
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"AjaxToolbox.com offers the AjaxRequest Library. It simplifies and extends the capabilities of the XMLHttpRequest object and allows you to immediately jump into working on the ideas you have"
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"Recently I was lucky enough to grab the attention of the venerable Quicksilver developer, Alcor, and ask him some questions about the OS X-altering program he conceived."
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The no frills inspirational site.
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"This is a collection of Javascript source files, examples, and concepts. Use these instead of always re-inventing JavaScript solutions."
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An answer to how many calories are there in that California roll.
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A look at the different ways people in London, Paris and Madrid use their mobile phones.
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Face-to-face with Brian Eno, the brainiest person in pop
Brian Eno, aka the brainiest person in pop, tells Alexis Petridis why his attempts to oust the prime minster were destined to fail
"No matter how much you loved "Napoleon Dynamite", Vote For Pedro shirts aren't cool anymore."
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Klosterman: "The Ten Best Proper Nouns of the Spin Era That Are Not Albums (or EPs), as Selected by People Who Are Currently in My Office."
Whatever happened to the five kids in the movie "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"?
"As far as the actors go, we're happy to report they all escaped the chocolate factory unscathed."
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An ongoing collections of quotes and references to design in business
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"A thought struck me about how successful, modern mainstream brands (think Jet Blue, Axe, even Fox News) now behave. They act like insurgents."
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Business Week's cover: the kiss of death
A look back at Business Week covers over the past thirty years and the havoc they cause.
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Essentials of CSS Hacking For Internet Explorer
"By careful structure planning, I managed to stripe down all hackery to a much less additional rules."
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This widget displays the much of the essential information from the CSS Cheat Sheet from I love Jack Daniels.
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A look at different ways to keep yourself cable clutter-free
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Can woman live on Mickey D’s alone?
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Shortcuts to find a real person when you call an automated phone system.
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Ten years later, the story of Suck.com, the first great website (A very very very long history of Suck.com)
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Some cool experiments with CSS that include all the code.
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"Inspired by a post from Joe Kraus, this past Thursday we had the first of hopefully many "Hackathon" days at FeedBurner world headquarters to celebrate the last day in our old, very cramped office."
This year's finalists are a mix of newcomers, new discoveries and veterans that have learned some new tricks.
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