August 15, 2008 – 9:19 am
Geral Fauss And The Foam Finger - Designboom offers a truly enlightening interview with the inventor of the foam #1 finger. Who knew they made their debut at the 1978 Cotton Bowl — how did people possibly publicly express their belief about the proper ranking of their team before that day?
[via Leah]
Lot Of Every Nintendo [...]
August 12, 2008 – 9:48 am
Email spam has me so fixated that when I recently received an odd piece of its tangible ancestor, junk mail, I momentarily forgot what to call it. Land spam? Oh, no, that’s right, we used to call that junk mail.
This was a strange specimen indeed. What caught my eye was one of those oldschool Air [...]
The Telephone Piano
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How Many Social Networking Strategists Does It Take To Change A Lightbulb? - LinkedIn Answers at its finest.
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This week I was researching car stereo head units and my new Fujitsu ScanSnap S510M scanner, and I uncovered two helpful facts that took a fair bit of legwork to track down. I’m sharing the two somewhat unrelated pieces of information here in case you find yourself on similar quests in the future.
For Car Stereo [...]
August 5, 2008 – 12:17 pm
I found color palette community ColourLovers.com thanks to Cocolaco and one of the Pocketmakers tasks. After digging around in there, I found that you can order a set of pre-designed special Colour Lovers Moo cards with pleasing color combinations on the front of each. I ordered some, with no text at all printed on the [...]
Last time I changed the “feeling most like” photo on the Extraface “about” page, it went from McNulty to Colvin as I made the transition from my role at EarthLink to that of an independent consultant. Today, it’s time to change the photo again as I’m extremely excited to be joining Edelman’s Atlanta office [...]
Remember that white ferret I found in my backyard? His new family sent me some pictures. Looks like he’s having a blast:
Vintage IBM Slides - Full set here.
[via Nate Daiger]
Van Halen Plays The Cheese Aisle - I wish more deli clerks published via cheese label.
Batman Onamoatopoeia - An index of all the onamatopoeia used in Batman.
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Abbreviated Iron Man - Crap Movie Comics spares you all that time at the cineplex.
[via Brian Pilnick]
Police Anniversary - A [...]
Last night I attended RogueApron’s Mama Mediterranean dinner, which included lemon basil infused vodka, delicious lamb kebabs, rich moussaka, and handmade biscotti and panna cotta for dessert. The food, drink, and company were all fantastic, as was the atmosphere of the lovely garden at the host home. Atlanta weather cooperated by holding back the rains, [...]
Just like July, there are no real bulletin board displays in August except maybe in summer school and Europe. So for this month I freely chose from the available images in Bulletin Boards For All Occasions, by Margaret B. Randall, 1966.
Step Up To Something New
Experimenting. Different Music. A Good Book. A New Hobby.