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In praise of whimsy
How serendipitous. A friend of mine sent an article that contained a link to the very story I had been wracking my brain to recall for some time. It's about a college student who drops out, but chooses to follow his whimsy and takes the odd class in calligraphy. He never finishes college. Years later, [...]
Continue reading...The Tao of Eastwood
10. June 2008
No idea where I found this, but it amused me greatly: "Sergio Leone, who directed Eastwood in his breakthrough role in the Man With No Name trilogy of spaghetti westerns, said he liked the actor because he had only two expressions: 'one with the hat, one without it.' " Bonus: "Clint Eastwood," by Gorillaz httpv://youtube.com/watch?v=qpDer9wdUEw
Continue reading...Fail is a four letter word
10. June 2008
I understand that J.K. Rowling's commencement speech at Harvard caused a stir. While some students grew up reading Harry Potter and were delighted to hear her, others felt it was beneath the dignity of the school to have an author of (gasp!) children's books speak to the future rulers of the free world. I don't [...]
Continue reading...Hitting the reset button
7. June 2008
We recently decided to give our business a reboot. As any Windows user knows, a reboot is sometimes necessary to clean out the memory and bring the system running back to peak performance. Not that our business hasn't been successful and all that. It has. But perhaps symptomatic of a deeper funk, we've been struggling [...]
Continue reading...You can have this Pulitzer when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
25. February 2008
And, indeed that day is coming. Meanwhile, it's interesting to see where the old bastions of power are still hanging on. By a thread. To wit, this quote from a NYT article on the Polk-award-winning political blog Talking Points Memo: Sig Gissler, the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, said in an e-mail message that online [...]
Continue reading...Kids rule. No, really.
31. December 2007
While we adults were geeking out about the potential of Second Life, the kids had their own virtual-world revolution. Brooks Barnes reports in NYT that Webkinz (by toymaker Ganz) had 6 million logins in November. I can attest personally that most of those sessions were probably longer than one hour and ended only with lots [...]
Continue reading...Spies like us
21. November 2007
Hotel Room 1931, by Edward Hopper NYTimes has a story about how hotels and airports have started to notice that their customers like to carry laptops and use the Internets when they travel. OMG, who knew? It's fun to snark at big companies for missing the obvious, but I don't think this kind of blindness [...]
Continue reading...Pet Peeve #124: Cryptic Filenames
4. November 2007
Nine times out of 10, when I download a PDF, Word doc, etc. from a site, the filename is some cryptic string of letters and numbers. I'm sure it makes sense to the code crackers at NASA, but when I try to download a printer template, how the heck am I supposed to find it [...]
Continue reading...Emptor caveat
30. October 2007
Beware the buyer. (Okay, I'm not a Latin scholar, and Latin grammar probably doesn't work that way, but you take my meaning.) NBC Universal made a high-profile decision in August not to renew its contract to sell its video content through iTunes. Instead, they've chosen to join forces with News Corp. to build a new [...]
Continue reading...The only thing to fear…
26. October 2007
When we work with clients on UI redesigns for existing sites, one of the considerations that invariably comes up is how much change current site users will tolerate. Sometimes the fear of disrupting the current experience, however flawed that experience might be, has the potential to stifle innovation and prevent breakthroughs that could really benefit [...]
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