What’s for Dinner?
I tried this recipe for Shrimp and Spinach Curry with some large wild shrimp last night and it was quite tasty.
Christen Booth
Creatively Distracted
Christen Booth
Creatively Distracted
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Not everything is worthy of complaint.
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Super Happy Fun Time Friday
There is a lot of cool stuff I came across this week, but no backstory. The University took the day off today for spring break, which meant I didn’t have to go to work. I did go, however, because like…
Imaginary Instrument
Though this video was released quite some time ago I totally missed it until now. The funny thing is that the site I saw it on first didn’t say anything about the instrument being real or fake and I thought…
Tagged!
Just to prove to Chris that I actually DO read I’ll definitely respond to the challenge. The funny thing is that the book I’m actively reading right now is an ebook with absolutely no page numbers – which is a…
Super Happy Fun Time Friday
A couple years ago my parents came up for a visit to Alaska. Part of the trip involved some campground “camping”. The kind with those giant bath houses that have concrete floors and many shower stalls. One night while I…
Coasters From Sesame Letterpress
Sesame has a collection of letterpress printed coasters that would make me sacrifice the finish on my table to save these beautiful coasters from the swelling ravages of water. Gorgeous. You can view their creations in their Flickr photoset.
A Personal Annual Report
Nicholas Felton has designed the Feltron, an annual report to summarize his personal experiences in 2007. Brilliant and beautiful. [via pica+pixel]
Super Happy Fun Time Friday
Actually on a Friday this time. Hell just might freeze over today.
- Piwik - Weird to say, but cool in concept. This is a web statistics tracking project aimed to develop a open source competitor to Google Analytics.
- jQuery Tutorial - Think jQuery can do cool things, but don't think you're up to par? This tutorial is a good place to get started if haven't yet gotten the hang of it (like me).
- Custom laser engraved stuff from moleskines to laptops. The laptops are particularly beautiful. Too bad these Flickr photos aren't organized into a set of all this guys engraving or I would link directly to it. [via Brian Faust - who also has an awesome Friday list]
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Photophlow: Flickr’s Live Community
Around Christmas time I received an invite to Photophlow and had such a fun time chatting with other Flickr users there that I really wanted to blog about it. I was swamped back then and am finally getting around to…
One Designer’s Reflection on Unused Work
Last year, for his presentation at the HOW Conference Armin Vit took a look at sample of 100 of his old logo designs, either ignored or discarded after other designs had been selected by clients, and attempted to extrapolate meaning.…
Graphic Design History: Backfill
In graphic design, as with all other creative professions, it is just as important to know what came before you as it is to have a vision for where you are going. Surfing around this afternoon, I came across The…
Visualize What You Eat
Spotted in the Shared Reading of Danielle, one of my two super cool sisters. Foodsel is a website that provides visualizations of food nutrients based on food category or by manufacturer. It also can display equivalence – “eating this food…
Stixy for Web Development
If you are a web developer who works with clients from a distance, Stixy is a tool worth looking into. Need reasons? it’s free it enables collaboration/sharing on projects it’s well-suited for visual presentation How? Sign up for an account.…
A Gym that Generates Power
I've often wondered just how much energy was being "wasted" - converted to heat and lost to the environment - at the gym as I watched all the people sweating away on their stationary machines. Well, one man is trying to capture back some of that energy and make use of it.
Adam Boesel, a personal trainer in Seattle, is determined to discover new ways to utilize the energy his clients generate to power his gym.
UCLA Russian Language Podcast
Years ago, I had the good fortune to spend an entire year in Russian language school, and the class instructor, Brianne Fortier (apologies if the name is misspelled), was the absolute best teacher I have had in my entire life.…
Inappropriate Touching?
Is it possible to enjoy the feel of a web site too much? You know, in a way that is flattering it at first, but then you can’t stop because of one overly-gratifying, sexy feature it has? Is there a…
Publish PDFs Online With Issuu
Issuu is a web-based service that allows you to upload a PDF document and share it online. Issuu takes the PDF and converts it to a “magazine” style display in Flash format. You, or anyone else, can link to the…
Happy Fasnacht Day
Its that time of year again, Fasnacht Day, or Fat Tuesday. Years ago Pennsylvania was settled by a large number of German immigrants, a group now referred to as the Pennsylvania Dutch. They brought with them their tradition of Fasnacht…
Nokia 770 and SMS
Nokia’s 770 is a great little internet tablet of for my budget and while I’ve come to expect a bit of “slow browsing” while using it, I’m still pretty happy with what it can do. There is ONE thing that…
Casting Shadows
The shadows this pendant light casts across the ceiling are beautiful! Spotted on the FlatPak house flickr photostream. FlatPak house – Aspen, CO Originally uploaded by FlatPak house
GM’s Futurama and the ’39 World’s Fair
A few years ago I picked up a copy of Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways, and Houses in America – a fascinating read to say the least. This book opened my eyes to the interconnectedness of architecture, infrastructure, and design. Since…
Lipsum Cuffs
I’d really like to have one of these – but I would LOVE to have two so I could run around like Wonder Woman deflecting poorly set type with my giant bracelets. You know, like a sort of anal-retentive super…
NYT Nod to New Words
I should really start reading the NYT. There is a consistent two week lag between the time they publish an article and I discover it though my network. That seems a bit too much of a delay for me, so…
Philippe Starck on Design
I’m a big fan of the TED Talks, brief snippets of visionary inspiration, and what better time to catch up on them than while I’m typesetting course guides for work. Perfect. Mind-numbing leading and alignment tasks are now tolerable. What…
Future Predictions from 1908
The NYT article The World of Tomorrow looks back at future predictions made in 1908 for 2008. Ken Perlin’s is my favorite. Image of the 1908 World’s Fair exhibition site in London (image from the Wikimedia Commons)
Download Rainbows End
Just to prove I’m not above reblogging news from BoingBoing – Vernor Vinge’s book Rainbows End has been made available as a free download. (Preview here) I loved this book, and while it isn’t a literary masterpiece, it does give…
Coffee Art
It was warm enough to go for a long run today which left little time for eating breakfast. Coffee is my breakfast of champions this morning. Who knew there is so much coffee art on YouTube? And who knew it…
OpenSocial and VLE Possibilities
With Google’s announcements of OpenSocial and Android there is little doubt they have positioned themselves in a key role in online communities for the near future. There is a lot to contemplate in that sentence alone, but I’d like to…