Robert Denton

Staggering work of genius from Portland, Maine – Gardener, Photographer, Designer, Taco Maker, Birder, Biker, Wine Merchant

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Creative News Aggregation

Monday, January 10th, 2005

10×10 / 100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time / by Jonathan J. Harris This is terrific and I have failed to mention before. The use of RSS and some algorithm creates 10×10 of the most popular stories. Currently the process doesn’t scan very many news sources (why not CSM? or why just those […]

Great Plan…

Sunday, January 9th, 2005

43 Folders: Map Folding: Building a Weekly Plan I already have an outliner document like this! Well, I will… I did it for the summer redesign much like this but this is a bit refined in the right direction. The point of being able to quickly return to a reference point, a map of your […]

New Color fad predictions

Tuesday, January 4th, 2005

Adam Polselli’s 2005 Color Forecast Now, where did I put that color forecast from that industry trade mag?? IIRC this one doesn’t match all over but it’s got some nice colors we use already. 🙂 Here we go: Graphic Design USA: 2004 FASHION FORECAST FOR MEN AND WOMEN Another person talking about these colors. This […]

TinyP2P

Wednesday, December 15th, 2004

TinyP2P TinyP2P is a functional peer-to-peer file sharing application, written in fifteen lines of code, in the Python programming language. I wrote TinyP2P to illustrate the difficulty of regulating peer-to-peer applications. Peer-to-peer apps can be very simple, and any moderately skilled programmer can write one, so attempts to ban their creation would be fruitless. Great […]

print and web influence each other

Saturday, December 11th, 2004

hypulp

Information Design samples

Friday, December 10th, 2004

FUNNEL INCORPORATED | WORK | INFORMATION DESIGN

Friday, December 10th, 2004

Fast Company | The 6 Myths Of Creativity Mandatory reading. I agree with all 6 myths presented here.

Friday, December 10th, 2004

Purple Hearts: Back from Iraq – The Digital Journalist It’s not that this is being hidden. We all know how horrible it (war) is, that violence abounds in the face of any attempt at reason.

Just Helping

Wednesday, December 8th, 2004

We want to do something for a soldier or two… and need to compile a list of potential avenues. Here is the first. Any Soldier … Any Soldier Inc. … Care Package … Soldier Support Helping people in the lands our soldiers are most recently occupying (to exclude Germany and Korea and… of course) — […]

not sure this says much

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004

Economist.com | Lexington First, the party is increasingly dominated by people who have no yearning for growth: public-sector workers; academics and trustafarians who both live off inherited endowments; environmentalists who want to regulate SUVs and urban sprawl; and billionaires who are too rich to aspire to anything. (One of the best statistics of the campaign […]