Mid July , being barbeque season, is a good time to run one of my fave 1950s comic book ads for the Original Kentucky Tavern Barbeque Ash Tray. Beware of buying one that’s not an original but a newfangled cheap shit imitation, I guess. And it’s so much in one: “a miniature fireplace, a cigarette …
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A wee gem from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s journal, dated October 1848: “Every poem must be made up of lines that are poems.” Poetic Lines
Third party Amazon shopping web site Uncluttr makes shopping Amazon a simple drag and drop experience. Searching for a product brings up images of the results with prices; you can view more details for each result by hitting the more info link. Once you find something you like, just drag and drop the item into …
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There’s a malady sweeping the nation that’s highly contagious to concertgoers. It doesn’t have a name yet, so let’s call it Excessive Ovation Syndrome (EOS for short). Those suffering from it stand and applaud at performances that aren’t good enough to deserve such enthusiasm. In extreme cases, they shout “Bravo!” during events that are best …
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Designer name to come Today’s question: how would you design a jacket for a novel that desperately, aggressively, willfully tries not to be a novel – a book that “does away with most narrative conventions – plot, colorful characters, dramatic conflict,” using instead “a collage of very short anecdotes, apocryphal legends, aphorisms, (and) lurid gossip…run(ning) …
Good use of a phallic symbol for this cover of the comic featuring the story “Dollman fixes a Crook’s Goose”. Say, whaa?!?!? (click for a closer look) It’s Dollman Monday!
Every month we take a look around and select some of the most interesting web-development-related web-sites. We read articles, check out tools, analyze the advantages of new resources. Below you’ll find useful references, tutorials, services, tools, techniques and articles we’ve found over the last 60 days – an overview of web-sites you shouldn’t have missed …
In a previous post, I mentioned how I like to read about and study Hollywood because it makes my own industry look sane and rational. The people who create and run television shows and films cope with a level of chaos and randomness that would cause most high-tech entrepreneurs I know, myself included, to switch …
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Public computer surfaces are reservoirs for methicillin-resistant staphylococci. The role of computer keyboards used by students of a metropolitan university as reservoirs of antibiotic-resistant staphylococci was determined. Putative methicillin (oxacillin)-resistant staphylococci isolates were identified from keyboard swabs following a combination of biochemical and genetic analyses. Of 24 keyboards surveyed, 17 were contaminated with staphylococci that …
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