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Alan Moore, Kevin O’Neil – League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

admin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:38:00 +0000

Alan Moore does a BBC interview on some of his more famous comics – this one is on ‘The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’.

Steve Jobs Interview – 2010, All Things Digital

admin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 06:02:03 +0000

Long, gloves off (in a respectful way) interview with Steve Jobs. Covers a lot of ground and quite interesting.

“Work smarter, not harder”

admin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:31:45 +0000

From baheyeldin.com

“Work smarter, not harder” is something that sounds good, but in reality it is often a hollow sentence with no substance in it. In the corporate world, when a manager informs his team of staff cuts, while the workload is the same or more, “smarter” does not mean anything other than “do more with less”. If this “working smarter” was tangible and doable, then why was it not employed before the staff cuts? Huh?

Here is a Dilbert comic lampooning this misused non-wisdom …

FlyFire – MIT’s micro-copter swarming pixels in the sky

admin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:03:17 +0000

Not sure if the double rotor copters seem quite as high tech and precise as the video footage, but if it’s MIT it must be real, right? And it would/will be amazing to see.

http://senseable.mit.edu/flyfire/

Gesturecons – icons of the multi-touch interface

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:31:03 +0000

The interface method of the future? A collection of icons meant to help developers of multi-touch interfaces develop user manuals. An icon is worth a thousand words.

Gesturecons.com, more info at adamkinney.wordpress.com.

Navigate Browser with Keyboard Shortcuts

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:10:45 +0000

Just F6 keyboard shortcut is a time saver. Incorporating keyboard shortcuts into your web browsing technique makes sense. Try it. From mooooo….. to Super Moo!

Short and sweet post with keyboard shortcuts: codinghorror

‘No one belongs here more than you’, book and website by Miranda July

admin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:59:15 +0000

Simple and addictive. One of the 15 websites mentioned in ’15 websites that break the rules’

Hand becomes canvas for animal art

admin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:57:03 +0000

Guido Daniele

Handimals

Very nice collection of animals painted in great detail on hands, from angel fish to alligators to bald eagles.

elephant

Barbie was modeled on a German cartoon character, an ambitious hooker named Lilli

admin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:10:11 +0000

The original Barbie, based on a German doll named Lilli, was sold as a collector’s item for adults only. When Mattel purchased patent rights to Lilli, the company instructed its designer to make her look less like a “German street walker.”

http://www.salon.com/life/feature/1997/11/26facts.html

http://www.salon.com/life/feature/1997/11/26harlot.html

from here:

http://randazza.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/mattel-finally-learns-how-to-chill/

Firefox add-on ‘LastPass’ saves all your passwords… aaahhhh, fiinally.

admin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:00:19 +0000

For a long long time, in a land far far away, I’ve been writing and remembering, and, yes, forgetting, my numerous and more than numerous passwords. Over time, as I subscribe to more and more password embellished sites and services my password scribbles and clever remembering tricks have gotten messy, tedious and burdensome. I have 1Password for Safari but browse mostly in FireFox (love affair with the Web Developer tool bar and Firebug) where the version I have does not work. I was going to upgrade so that I can use it in FireFox but found this add-on, LastPass, seems like a no brainer. It’s free. And convenient. And secure. Works from any platform or browser application. Add it, use it, and stop the password headaches.