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Archive for March, 2007

The New ‘It’ Camera Bag

By Emile • Mar 27th, 2007 • Category: General

I recently returned from an ABSOLUTELY AMAZING snowboard trip in the Rockies of Colarado. Upon preparation, I realized I wanted to bring my digital SLR on the slopes without putting it at full risk - yes, I fall on my arse a lot. A number of solutions crossed my mind, but when I […]



Quotable Quotes

By Emile • Mar 27th, 2007 • Category: General

Some things that have come across my eyes these past few weeks:

“I want my vet bills and I want some compensation for what they did to my kids _ and for the company’s neglect,” said Majerczyk, a medical assistant in a dermatology office. — Via Banterist.com
Among the more counterintuitive characteristics of art and design […]



More On Business Cards

By Emile • Mar 18th, 2007 • Category: General, Noteworthy

I have yet to officially make it to a SXSW web conference, not because of the lack of desire, but resources both time and financial.  Last year, some of my favorite posts were on the business cards that were collected: get a bunch of designers together and you can easily and simply expect that the […]



SWL Notes - Vol. 15: The Frozen Camera Edition

By Emile • Mar 14th, 2007 • Category: General

Find your passion and find a charity, you’ll be amazed at how good you can feel when you combine the two!

I finally stumbled across a great sparklines plugin for Wordpress. You can check it out here.
Dashboard spy seems like a really cool idea, most especially for FileMakers such as ourselves when we have to […]



More on that cool business card

By Emile • Mar 12th, 2007 • Category: General, Noteworthy

I’m proud to see that the site survived an avalanche of both Digg and Reddit traffic that spiked on Friday.  The post that was so noted was on the above pictured business card. You read about things that take off on Digg, but are seldom prepared for it when it happens. Luckily and […]



Watershed Moments

By Emile • Mar 9th, 2007 • Category: General

You’ll have to forgive me before I even start this post.  The seed that spurs it is not necessarily a good one, but it’s the kind of thing you have to write or tell or scream, and so I write.
It’s a difficult thing to surround oneself with a whirling vortex of negativity and confusion, most […]



Secret Weapon Notes: Volume 14

By Emile • Mar 5th, 2007 • Category: General

Mario + flute + human beatbox = Greg Patillo = Awesome [ via Reaction ]
Pixelated artwork composed with Rubik’s Cubes [ via Signal vs. Noise ]
One of Samuel L. Jackson’s dialogues from Pulp Fiction was rendered in type - definitely check it out!! [ ditto ]
Shaun Inman has helped articulate a great way to manage […]



John Mayer: The Village Sessions

By Emile • Mar 4th, 2007 • Category: General

What’s amazing is the typecasting we do for nearly every thing in our society these days, and John Mayer has come to be no exception to that rule.  His TRY! album which was a live concert with the John Mayer Trio featured blistering blues guitarwork and got his youthful and largely female audience bopping and […]