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Archive for November, 2004

Mitch’s Vacuum

Tuesday, November 30th, 2004

v-2 Organisation | interface usability | Suspect device 005: Dyson DC07 root8cyclone vacuum cleaner
As the author states, a big wet kiss to the Dyson cleaner. After using one in our offices (yes, some of us vacuum our own office) I couldn’t agree more and madly want one for home but two things: 1. [...]

Saturday, November 27th, 2004

ELSEWARES | Shop Outside the Box
Designed by… various goods by small time designers.
Also, nice e-commerce implementation!

Don’t forget Exxon

Wednesday, November 24th, 2004

Adam Greenfield of the site above asks the question:

v-2 Organisation | news | Question of the day
What corporation or other institution have you voluntarily given the most of your own money to in the course of your life?

(With imperfect records, I can’t be absolutely sure, but I believe my top three are something like United [...]

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 is [...]

sorry, your recipe is out of the cupboard now

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004

feeding dexygus seconds: IMBB #10: Cookie Swap: Chez Panisse Gingersnaps
Chez Panisse Gingersnaps
8 ounces unsalted butter
1 1/4 cup 2 Tbsp. sugar
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
2 small eggs or 1 1/2 large eggs
1/3 cup molasses
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
2 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
2 1/2 tsp. ground ginger
1/8 tsp. ground black pepper

share your music — well, your music choices!

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004

// hicksdesign – Song Info – “The World at Large” by Modest Mouse
I love it when someone connects up their music library to a web site. It is a way of community building or finding other influences you may never come across.
Jason Kottke does this with movies. and books I believe.
I used to keep a [...]

funky

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004

YouWorkForThem | Multimedia:

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004

Favorite Designs � Whitespace

GIS in action… sadly

Monday, November 22nd, 2004

Nuclear Terrorism – Blast Maps

Wednesday, November 17th, 2004

Errol Morris
Everyone should visit this site.
A good rebuttal to the MPAA and RIAA whose model of packaging cultural activity is broken, and like the Sunnis in Iraq, they are mad about it and attacking the very people who are attempting to help them.
Fog of War was amazing. Simply said — a great documentary in [...]

Wednesday, November 17th, 2004

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
The Bowdoin Film Society is showing this… it was a tragic film really.

Wednesday, November 17th, 2004

Blogslot
A blog about copy writing standards and problems. Associated with the book, Lapsing into a Comma. The blog is a fun read, and the book’s title is great.

DHTML Hell?

Tuesday, November 16th, 2004

The work of Scott Schiller, both technical and creative in nature. scottschiller.com v4
This is incredible. Look at all the dhtml this person has written. It’s insane and very well done.

CMS a1.2

Tuesday, November 16th, 2004

SeagullDocs : Home Page
Seagull is an OO PHP framework with the core modules licensed under BSD, and the following Design Goals.
Well, a silly title for a lengthy process of finding some CMS suitable to our goals.
If nothing else, this emerging php framework give a list of desires. I’d like any CMS to have meta-data [...]

Dan Glickman says

Tuesday, November 16th, 2004

Motion Picture Association of America President Dan Glickman, holds a pirated copy of a movie as he tells a new conference, held at UCLA’s School of Theater and Television, of Hollywood industry plans to sue people who illegally distribute movies online, in Los Angeles Thursday, Nov. 4, 2004. (AP Photo/Stefano Paltera)
Here’s the deal… if the [...]