If you’re at all interested in political advertising and you lean left, check out Slate’s Damned Spot series, which “disects and explains” campaign ads. Their take on the Bob Corker’s ad against Harold Ford is hilarious, as is their take on Tom Reynolds’ Foley apology.
Starting Wednesday, I’m planning to do some phone bank work for [...]
The photo on the right was taken with my little tiny PowerShot, so you can tell that I gave up on the idea of doing any real photography while I was at the Aging by Design conference (I decided not to schlep both a camera and a laptop…the laptop won this time, hence this post [...]
I’m off to Boston this weekend for the third Aging By Design conference at Bentley College.
I just went to print my hotel confirmation, and noticed that they apparently were trying to be helpful and give me driving directions to the hotel. Except that the first six directions leave a little to be desired:
Depart Start on [...]
Because of a bit of a serendipity trifecta (boss out this week, only one meeting to reschedule, one of the last nice days of the season), I took an unscheduled vacation day.
Aside from other mundane things, one job was to go thru the change I had in my change basket, and take some of [...]
Until my recent fascination with photography and Flickr, the GW Parkway was generally just the way I got to and from work and parts north (typically heading home to Pittsburgh) and south (usually the airport).
But the GW Parkway is really the George Washington Memorial Parkway, and it includes a lot of off-the-beaten-path memorials in addition [...]
Uh oh. I’m in big trouble. I’ve just learned how to find out whether or not any of your photos are in Flickr’s Explore.
I don’t have the 17 photos there that Mike Lee does, but given how awesome a photographer he is, the fact I’m there at all (I have two) is like crack…seriously!
BTW, the [...]
Christina Wodtke (of Elegant Hack) has a very interesting article on Boxes and Arrows about the current state of their (incredibly long) redesign.
The essence of the article is the importance of collaborative iteration. Good stuff.
But what I particularly liked was this little tidbit:
We thought if we wrote nice, semantic HTML all it would take to [...]
I went pumpkin shopping with my 11-year-old nieces today. I liked these, but they went with the traditional model.
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