space to imajin

NYC has come a long way since 9-11

2007-11-22T10:51:00.001-05:00

This is mainly comments bait :)
What does this movie say about the American public's view of disaster in New York city and the shifting of the American Zeitgeist.

HOW TO - DIY Projector

2006-03-26T02:52:00.000-05:00

I have GOT to make this!

HOW TO - DIY Projector: "

Here's how to make a pretty low cost, but impressive, homemade projector - [via] - Link.

[Read this article] [Comment on this article]"

(Via MAKE Magazine.)

what will they think of next...

2006-03-21T18:52:00.000-05:00

: "Our cases are not just fun accessories, they also protect your iPod from the occasional drops and inevitable scratches caused by all those other toys you keep in your bag."

see the rest here

Welcome home Steve...welcome home.

2006-03-13T13:22:00.000-05:00

Steve Harvey is the new Mr. Clean: "....last summer in Atlanta, he stepped onstage in front of 16,000 churchgoing folks at the Bishop T.D. Jakes annual Mega Fest conference.

'You can't be any more scared than that. I've had some traumatic stuff in my life, but I've never been more nervous, more jittery, more anxious about anything. It was tough,' says Harvey, who can be heard weekday mornings on WMXD-FM (92.3). 'I was thinking, 'This could go bad for me. This could just not work.' A lot of these jokes, I'd never done anywhere before. I'd just wrote the stuff for that night. But it was church stuff. It was stuff I knew. Then I took some jokes about subjects I want to get into, but keep it clean and not offend these people.'

He originally filmed the 74-minute comedy concert with hopes of putting it out on DVD. But his show went over so well, it's getting a studio release and is set to open Friday on 11 metro Detroit screens."

Velocity Art And Design: Modern Playshed

2006-03-12T12:27:00.000-05:00

Very neat and cool addition to any backyard. I wonder of my girls would like this.

Modern Playshed

So...aaahhhh, when is this coming to Paitilla?

2006-03-09T23:35:00.000-05:00

CarLoft - balcony parking at its best

didn't you see the memo?

2006-03-09T18:24:00.000-05:00

Not everyone has the same modus operandi for tackling their day at work. But in this series of interviews from Fortune magazine, there is a common thread...passion for what they do. I hope everyone who takes the time to read this will truly feel lifted to tackle today, tomorrow and.....

FORTUNE: Secrets of greatness: How I work

> Entrepreneurial Proverbs

2006-03-08T17:51:00.000-05:00

Momentum builds on itself -- just start. Do whatever you can. Draw a user interface. Write a spec. Make something, anything, that people can see and touch and try. A prototype is worth ten thousand words. One you start moving, you will find that people start to carry you along. more

S A A B

2006-03-08T16:44:00.000-05:00

THIS is what I believe Saab could always be....

finally.

when the client designs....

2006-03-01T14:33:00.000-05:00

Microsoft ipod packaging parody

MAKE: Blog: Bookcase made from a ladder

2006-02-23T09:41:00.000-05:00

If the wife goes for it I will do this in our new home, in the office of course :)

MAKE: Blog: Bookcase made from a ladder

Made from the most incredible "toy" ever.

2006-02-17T05:01:00.000-05:00

LEGO - Batman

Wi-Fi Hotspots in Panama City

2006-02-09T16:28:00.000-05:00

Great places to log on while your out and about or just chillin' by the pool in one of these hotels. Click through and take a look.

Wi-Fi Hotspots in Panama City

The Experience Economy and your bottom line...

2006-02-08T02:55:00.000-05:00

Knowledge@Emory: "it’s the experience that ultimately drives the profit margin and this is making companies stop and take notice. “The profit potential is a main driver to move to being an experience provider,” Metters explains. “For example, the price of a bottle of Coca-Cola can be anywhere between $0.50 and $5.00, depending on how much “experience” is involved. Selling a warm soda in a supermarket generates $0.50 in revenue, while selling a cold soda at a sporting event generates ten times the revenue. But the price the business paid for the soda remains the same.”"

click here for more

Where I went to University in Jamaica

2006-02-03T10:48:00.000-05:00

click here to see Utech, Jamaica

The Art of Recruiting

2006-02-01T06:33:00.000-05:00

read this now

Roll Your Own Ringtone

2006-02-01T06:28:00.000-05:00

Stuff like this just makes me feel all groovy inside :)

In Jamaica maybe....

2006-01-27T10:06:00.000-05:00

I would love to do this in my home country, Jamaica....

Powerful...powerful

2006-01-25T10:09:00.000-05:00

From the pole to the pulpit

Incredible story, incredible story....

Now THIS is a magazine cover!

2006-01-24T20:21:00.000-05:00

Kanya does it again...

Unbelievable

2006-01-23T09:02:00.000-05:00

Kobe scores 81 in one game...

What NFL???

In a blink...

2006-01-19T08:13:00.000-05:00

The next time you think a quote for a site is to much, read this.

Streamload....

2006-01-18T10:52:00.000-05:00

This'll come in handy....

Products like this revolutionize entire industries...

2006-01-18T10:41:00.000-05:00

Sure beats spending a boatload of money on an iPod for trips and such!

Fujitec eases bottlenecks

2006-01-17T20:42:00.000-05:00

An office tower here in Panama will have this system, can't wait to try it out :)

Fujitec eases bottlenecks

Web users judge sites in the blink of an eye.

2006-01-15T10:07:00.000-05:00

If you think, your site design isn't critical to your online success, think again. Read this article ....NOW!

Talking with Virginia Postrel

2006-01-08T08:16:00.000-05:00

Boxes and Arrows

Would YOU do this....

2005-12-30T08:01:00.000-05:00

CNN.com - Florida teen skips school, sneaks to Iraq - Dec 29, 2005

$1 million Web idea - Yahoo! News

2005-12-29T14:45:00.000-05:00

These are the ideas that change the world.

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Because chances are, Alex Tew, a 21-year-old student from a small town in England, is cleverer than you. And he is proving it by earning a cool million dollars in four months on the Internet. read more

Unspeakable grief....

2005-12-28T08:36:00.000-05:00

It's with unbelievable angst, anger and bewilderment, that I read this article. Dijon, an energetic, passionate loving guy and a friend of mine lost his family to a fire in Stone Mountain, Georgia. I am still in shock as are hundreds of family and friends.

I first met Dijon while studying at Utech. He was the then boyfriend of Jeanette Calder, of of my best friends and a fellow Seventh Day Adventist. They eventually broke up and Dijon went on to become Student Union President and apparently moved to the US. As I look at this article online and see Dijon's image I can't help but ask of course...

why...

But as Dijon said later in the story, he places the blame squarely at the right feet..."this idiot devil". So many times we blame God for the hurt and pain we feel when tragedy strikes. But I wish us all to remember that God created this world PERFECT! The devil came and messed it up tempting Adam and Eve to sin and forever changing the course of earth's history.

The devil hates humanity, he hates our joy, he hates our potential, he will do EVERYTHING in his power to mess our lives up!

I can never feel truly say I feel Dijon's pain but I do know this:

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

Be strong in the Lord Dijon, may your reunion with your family in heaven when the Lord returns always be your blessed hope.

your friend,
Yorkali

ATLANTA, Georgia:

HUNDREDS PACKED the New Hope Seventh-day Adventist Church in Atlanta yesterday to pay tribute to the lives of Tracey-Ann Plummer, her stepdaughter, Dilia and son Dijon.

The three perished in a fire which engulfed their five-bedroom house in Atlanta on December 22.

Yesterday's four-hour-long service was filled with tears, grief and emotion as mourners wondered aloud why such a tragedy befell such a loving family.

A FATHER'S ANGUISH

The grief-stricken father and husband, Dijon Plummer Sr., expressed his grief to the congregation as he told of the "pain" that only he could feel.

Manual for micro dwellings

2005-12-19T06:48:00.000-05:00

Connected living. Architecture thinking different!

The Chappelle Theory

2005-12-18T19:12:00.000-05:00

The most enthralling piece of journalism I have read in a very long time. Most people of course will equate this with fiction. But sometimes fact is...you know the rest. Anyway click the link if you dare. It is mid boggling and eye opening...it truly is.

The Chappelle Theory

After a day or two I will post my thoughts.

wow

Fascinating graphic communication..

2005-12-16T18:07:00.000-05:00

G A P M I N D E R: HOME

Behold Kong, King of Dayton, Ohio

2005-12-16T18:03:00.000-05:00

How interesting...a newspaper that doesn't care about sales.

Cool Tool: Lumix FZ5

2005-12-13T15:20:00.000-05:00

Lumix FZ5
Ultra sharp, bargain-priced digital camera

Style vs Design

2005-12-11T07:06:00.000-05:00

I wish all my clients could read this...

Style Versus Design
Why Understanding the Difference Is What It's All About
BY JEFFREY ZELDMAN

My father was a Sunday painter, and his art books played a formative role in my childhood. Like many kids, I was fascinated by sheer representation. I lost myself gazing at painstakingly rendered engravings of battling gladiators, picturesque villages, and Roman ruins at sunrise. I understood art to be synonymous with drawing well. The more painstaking the detail, the more lines in the etching or leaves on the tree, the better the artist in my childish, unformed estimation. Later, I discovered comic books. Still later, museums. Maxfield Parrish made me want to take drugs, and also made me realize I could never be a painter. Paul Klee seemed like a bad artist who couldn't draw. Andy Warhol was a cheater because he used assistants.

I do not pretend to understand art today, but I do know that my earliest impressions had little to do with the nature of art, and everything to do with pure visual sensation. Like Disneyland and the circus, art was spectacle. But you can only ride the Matterhorn so many times, and you can only chomp so much cotton candy, before nausea sets in. From sensation, I graduated to style. Steve Ditko's Spider-Man. Pop art. Rock, and then soul, and then punk album covers. I was a Style addict. I could not tell good from bad, but I knew what was cool.

"Many young web designers view their craft the way I used to view pop culture. It's cool or it's crap."

Many young web designers view their craft the way I used to view pop culture. It's cool or it's crap. They mistake Style for Design, when the two things are not the same at all. Design communicates on every level. It tells you where you are, cues you to what you can do, and facilitates the doing. Style is tautological; it communicates stylishness. In visual terms, style is an aspect of design; in commercial terms, style can communicate brand attributes.

It can also convey the designer's contempt for the subject matter. "This is boring, so here are some stripes and here's a drop-down menu, so you'll know I'm better than this stupid assignment." On this level, style is an underground language, from one peer to another, having nothing to do with the site's visitors or purpose. Indeed, this stylistic appliqu� can interfere with the site's purpose. Then the usability gurus step in, blaming Design for the failings of stylistic fetishism.

Designers driven by Style can succeed if they are lucky enough to pick and choose projects that benefit from their stylistic obsessions. Most web designers do not have that luxury. But that doesn't stop them from applying the stylistic vocabulary of leading designers to the projects they do have to work on. And so we end up with e-commerce sites that resemble rave flyers, and informational sites embellished with occasionally dazzling but more frequently misguided and inappropriate intros.

The web used to look like a phone book. Now much of it looks like a design portfolio. In fact, it looks like the design portfolio of 20 well-known designers, whose style gets copied again and again by young designers who consider themselves disciples. Distinctions between graphic design and communication design are lost on these designers. As is the distinction between true style, which evolves from the nature of the project, and derivative pastiche, which is grafted onto many projects like a third arm.

When Style is a fetish, sites confuse visitors, hurting users and the companies that paid for the sites. When designers don't start by asking who will use the site, and what they will use it for, we get meaningless eye candy that gives beauty a bad name ? at least, in some circles.

Trouble is, we live in a society obsessed with surfaces (and afraid to peer beneath them). In a consumer culture where we buy $200 sneakers because they look cool and Beck's song was used in the commercial, flash and dazzle are the highest-prized commodities of all.

For some clients and too many young designers, multimedia Flash projects have become synonymous with web design. If it doesn't sing and dance, it must not be good ? and it certainly isn't cool. Great work is being created in Flash (SWF), and it's receiving overdue recognition in award shows ? particularly in traditional, high-profile award shows, where "the digital stuff" precedes the multimillion-dollar TV commercials. Judges expect TV commercials to have a brilliant concept and higher production values than most commercial films. Naturally, they expect web sites to blow them away, too.

Boundary-busting, stylistically baroque experiments built with the latest technology will continue to win awards as long as judges continue to view them in the latest browsers on wide-screen G5s and Pentiums with T1 connections. And, it goes without saying, they will win these awards only if they are prize-worthy in their graphic design and programming. We're not talking about bad design, here. We're talking about design at the highest levels ? but design of a certain type only.

Most of my colleagues design sites like this. My jaw drops when I witness their achievements, and I cheer when they take home their well-deserved prizes. But I also worry.

"Not enough designers are working in that vast middle ground between eye candy and usability where most of the web must be built."

I worry because this type of design, which is appropriate in certain settings and inappropriate in many others, is the only type of web design achieving recognition. Thus it is the type of design young designers are emulating, not only in their personal projects (which is great), but also on commercial projects where it may cause harm.

I worry because young designers who confuse style with design are learning to copy their heroes' technical tricks and stylistic flourishes, but not necessarily learning to communicate in this medium. "Bullet Time" is great for "The Matrix," but not for documentaries. And since much of web design is informational ? or is supposed to be ? the wholesale grafting of other people's stylistic achievements onto informational sites does not advance the medium; it just makes it confusing.

I worry because there are designers who will never evolve their own, individual styles, let alone learn to evolve brand-appropriate styles for particular projects. Because recruiters lack critical vocabularies, and will place people whose portfolios demonstrate a knowledge of "what's cool" in jobs where they will be miserable. ("With your talent, you'll turn that place around.") Because eventually traditional designers who do understand branding and communication design, and who do know the difference between Style and Design, will enter this market and displace some young designers who have never had the chance to understand the craft they practice.

I worry about the medium, because not enough designers are working in that vast middle ground between eye candy and hardcore usability where most of the web must be built. And there are fewer and fewer incentives for web designers to toil in these fields, since this type of work pleases web users but wins absolutely no recognition from the industry, aside from a paycheck. ("My God, it loaded so quickly and worked so well, even in IE3 on my Dad's old Dell machine." You know how awards show judges are always saying things like that? Neither do I.)

Most of all, I worry about web users. Because, after ten-plus years of commercial web development, they still have a tough time finding what they're looking for, and they still wonder why it's so damned unpleasant to read text on the web ? which is what most of them do when they're online.

As long as our society values Style over Design, surface over substance, this situation is not going to improve. Of course, I think the same every four years, when I have to vote.

WOW!!!!

2005-12-06T14:00:00.000-05:00

Incredible special effect on this Japanese film. Set your hands to catch your jaw as it heads to the floor!

yw

Ten Golden Rules

2005-12-06T06:41:00.000-05:00

Getting the most out of knowledge workers will be the key to business success for the next quarter century. Here's how we do it at Google.

Comic for 04 Dec 2005

2005-12-05T13:31:00.000-05:00

Muahmmad Ali - How to be a Man 101

2005-12-04T11:31:00.000-05:00

I grew up with an abusive father. As most physically abusive parents, his abuse reached an apex when I was younger and smaller. As I grew up and got tall and bigger, the abuse slowed and eventually, when it looked as though I might be able to defend myself, it stopped altogether. This is not a new story.

I'm forty-four years old. The first time I remember hearing the name Muhammad Ali was in Juanuary, 1971, when he fought Joe Frazier in New York's Madison Square Garden. The highly touted "Battle of the Century." I grew up in rural Missouri so the mere sound of the name Muhammad Ali grated on my ear. I didn't know a muslim from muscrat. But I did know this: My DAD hated that "loud mouthed, draft dodgin' nigger." And I hated my dad. So I decided I loved Muhammad Ali.

read more

Push-Button House by Adam Kalkin

2005-12-04T02:15:00.000-05:00

Treehugger: Push-Button House by Adam Kalkin: "Shipping container prefab houses certainly aren't anything new (we featured them some time ago, here) but the latest incarnation from architect/artist Adam Kalkin is pretty darn slick, so we had to mention it. The Push Button House is exactly that: it starts as a shipping container until a button is pushed, and it turns into a house."

read more

Will your brand be remembered?

2005-12-02T09:51:00.000-05:00

MAKE: Blog: MAKE's Mostly Under $100 Gift Guide 2005!

2005-12-02T09:27:00.000-05:00

MAKE: Blog: MAKE's Mostly Under $100 Gift Guide 2005!

Forget the stupid XBOX! Get your child THIS!

2005-12-02T09:15:00.000-05:00

MAKE: Blog: MAKE's Mostly Under $100 Gift Guide 2005!: "LEGO Robotics Invention System 2.0
Cost: $199.00 ($100 on eBay or less!)

A recent news blurb said that Mindstorms isn't a great commerical success, but it still makes one of the best gifts you can give anyone. At $199 (or less in retail), it's a little pricey, but out of the box, you can build a Candy Sorter, a Robotic Arm, and an Artbot; program your creations on your computer and tap in to a huge LEGO community. Just look at all the things the person you give this to could make!"

My poor country ....

2005-12-01T03:28:00.000-05:00

It breaks my heart to blog this...but it's the truth.

New York Daily News - Crime File - Murders hit a record in Jamaica

This..is going...to be....INCREDIBLE!

2005-11-27T19:50:00.000-05:00

fluxiom - capture, manage, access and deliver content across your enterprise

Panama Canal Miraflores locks time-lapse, 1 week compressed into 11 minutes - Google Video

2005-11-26T23:37:00.001-05:00

Mesmerizingly cool!

Panama Canal Miraflores locks time-lapse, 1 week compressed into 11 minutes - Google Video

2005-11-26T23:37:00.000-05:00

Mesmerizingly cool!

Let the designer's design...

2005-11-23T07:12:00.000-05:00

Insights into the purpose and effect of physical elements, design, and layout of web pages ...and why clients should let designers handle design.

Design Psychology | Articles | Stylegala

A few selling tips...

2005-11-23T07:05:00.000-05:00

If You've Tried Everything Imaginable And Your Product Still Won't Sell,

here's what you're missing

The golden number...

2005-11-23T06:52:00.000-05:00

No I'm not talking about a lotto ticket number. This link below will take you to a page that talks all about Phi. A ratio that shows up in the natural world in many places. From humans to animals to plants. An incredible journey into intelligent design awaits you.

God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.

click here

technorati tags: phi, golden section, intelligent design, God, golden, natural world, yorkali, design

No home left behind...

2005-11-22T22:21:00.000-05:00

When I read stories like this, I am reminded that the U.S. ain't all it's cracked up to be. Politics, money and beuracracy can be a lethal poison for any country, developed or "third world".

CNN.com - Venezuela sending cheap oil to Massachusetts - Nov 22, 2005

35mm Lego Camera

2005-11-22T17:17:00.000-05:00

What can I say, I LOVELEGO!!!

A troubling moving, touching tale by Anderson Cooper.....

2005-11-20T16:02:00.000-05:00

My brother's suicide

The new iPod _______ ( you make it up :)

2005-11-20T09:00:00.000-05:00

Steve visits the SNL set, hilarity ensues.

Find free music

2005-11-19T22:33:00.000-05:00

Geek to Live: Find free music on the web - Lifehacker

Fatastic branding in these ads!

2005-11-18T15:01:00.000-05:00

cool stuff / advertising - TELUS Mobility

Very very cool...

2005-11-18T14:43:00.000-05:00

Now I really want one :) My friend Sam may be interested!

Boing Boing: Laser etched PowerBook

1984

2005-11-16T13:35:00.001-05:00

the ad that changed the world...sort of.

Thinking small...

2005-11-16T13:35:00.000-05:00

Google Thinks Small

Google Thinks Small - Forbes.com

Flash and the user's experience...

2005-11-14T05:36:00.000-05:00

Tim Burton's Corpse Bride online | And all that Malarkey: "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride web site reminds us that Flash can still provide an undeniably superior user experience."

This is tight!

2005-11-13T15:05:00.000-05:00

Dock your iPod in a stone why dont'cha!

BRAND INCUBATOR, Ltd.

Adventist longevity on CNN.

2005-11-11T10:13:00.000-05:00

ADVENTISTS AND LONGEVITY IN THE NEWS AGAIN — Terry Butler, Co-investigator of the Adventist Health Study-2, reports that CNN has been at Loma Linda University for two this week following up on National Geographic’s story about Adventists and longevity. They’ve been interviewing some of the older people there. The report will be shown on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360 degrees”, Wednesday, November 16, at 10 pm ET.

You can do anything - but not everything.

2005-11-11T06:32:00.000-05:00

I hope as many people as possible that I know can read this article, I know for sure I need to read it! ( link at end of excerpt )

There is always more to do than there is time to do it, especially in an environment of so much possibility. We all want to be acknowledged; we all want our work to be meaningful. And in an attempt to achieve that goal, we all keep letting stuff enter our lives.The problem is that we also want to finish what we start. Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started. That’s why a lot of my work has to do with how people deal with their input — email, phone messages, reports, conversations. Everything that isn’t where it should be is an open loop, an incomplete, a distraction that slows you down.…if you allow too many things that represent undecided, untracked, unmanaged agreements with yourself and with others to gather in your personal space — that will start to weigh on you. It will dull your effectiveness. You’ve got to dig into the mess and put those things to rest. Productivity is about completion.

Fast Company Interview with David Allen - Lifehacker

technorati tags: GTD, getting things done, procrastination, life hacking,

I want one :)

2005-11-10T19:57:00.000-05:00

Boing Boing: Mario/Che t-shirt

A great post from Kirk Franklin's blog

2005-11-10T19:43:00.000-05:00

KIRK_FRANKLIN_dot_us » Back on the block…

Get off the grid dang it!

2005-11-10T09:01:00.000-05:00

THIS is the future of solar energy!

Shortly after dawn on a typical Arizona morning, a wave of photons born eight minutes earlier in the big yellow fusion reactor in the sky clears the Superstition Mountains and sweeps across Phoenix and the Valley of the Sun. On a fenced-in stretch of gravel at the edge of booming Mesa - the largest suburb in the US - the stream of newly minted light strikes what looks like a lunar lander, all bundled wires and glinting aluminum. The photons ricochet off 25 mirrors arranged in a 5- by 5-foot square and converge in a shaft of light brighter than the sun at high noon. The tightly focused stream crashes into 100 square inches of silicon suspended over mirrors, sending a spray of electrons dancing down a copper wire. A CPU revs and tiny motors whir. As one, the mirrors adjust their positions ever so slightly. And the latest attempt at keeping pace with humanity's epic appetite for energy begins another day of pulling power from the sky. read more

Your 7-Step RSS Marketing Plan

2005-11-10T04:18:00.000-05:00

Your 7-Step RSS Marketing Plan

Top 40

2005-11-09T12:51:00.000-05:00

Design Observer: writings about design & culture: Observed LX: "The American Society of Magazine Editors picks the best 40 magazine covers from the last 40 years."

ABSOLUTELY SPLENDIFOROUS!!!!!!

2005-11-08T10:32:00.000-05:00

One cool ad!

Headphones with built-in iPod dock

2005-11-07T10:13:00.000-05:00

All I want for Christmas...

The Military Applications of Silly String

2005-11-05T02:32:00.000-05:00

Silly String saving lives!!!

Is Technology Taking Over Your Life?

2005-11-01T03:14:00.000-05:00

Is Technology Taking Over Your Life?: "Some Ways to Know That Technology Has Taken Over Your Life

1. Your stationery is more cluttered than Warren Beatty's address book. The letterhead lists a fax number, e-mail addresses for two on-line services, and your Internet address, which spreads across the breadth of the letterhead and continues to the back. In essence, you have conceded that the first page of any letter you write *is* letterhead.
2. You have never sat through an entire movie without having at least one device on your body beep or buzz.
3. You need to fill out a form that must be typewritten, but you can't because there isn't one typewriter in your house -- only computers with laser printers.
4. You think of the gadgets in your office as 'friends,' but you forget to send your father a birthday card.
5. You disdain people who use low baud rates.
6. When you go into a computer store, you eavesdrop on a salesperson talking with customers -- and you butt in to correct him and spend the next twenty minutes answering the customers' questions, while the salesperson stands by silently, nodding his head.
7. You use the phrase 'digital compression' in a conversation without thinking how strange your mouth feels when you say it.
8. You constantly find yourself in groups of people to whom you say the phrase 'digital compression.' Everyone understands what you mean, and you are not surprised or disappointed that you don't have to explain it.
9. You know Bill Gates' e-mail address, but you have to look up your own social security number.
10. You stop saying 'phone number' and replace it with 'voice number', since we all know the majority of phone lines in any house are plugged into contraptions that talk to other contraptions.
11. You sign Christmas cards by putting :-) next to your signature.
12. Off the top of your head, you can think of nineteen keystroke symbols that are far more clever than :-)
13. You back up your data every day.
14. Your wife asks you to pick up some minipads for her at the store and you return with a rest for your mouse.
15. You think jokes about being unable to program a VCR are stupid.
16. On vacation, you are reading a computer manual and turning the pages faster than everyone else who is reading John Grisham novels.
17. The thought that a CD could refer to finance or music rarely enters your mind.
18. You are able to argue persuasively the Ross Perot's phrase "electronic town hall" makes more sense than the term "information superhighway," but you don't because, after all, the man still uses hand-drawn pie charts.
19. You go to computer trade shows and map out your path of the exhibit hall in advance. But you cannot give someone directions to your house without looking up the street names.
20. You would rather get more dots per inch than miles per gallon.
21. You become upset when a person calls you on the phone to sell you something, but you think it's okay for a computer to call and demand that you start pushing buttons on your telephone to receive more information about the product it is selling.
22. You know without a doubt that disks come in five-and-a- quarter-and three-and-a-half-inch sizes.
23. You own a set of itty-bitty screw-drivers and you actually know where they are.
24. While contemporaries swap stories about their recent hernia surgeries, you compare mouse-induced index-finger strain with a nine-year-old.
25. You are so knowledgeable about technology that you feel secure enough to say "I don't know" when someone asks you a technology question instead of feeling compelled to make something up.
26. You rotate your screen savers more frequently than your automobile tires.
27. You have a functioning home copier machine, but every toaster you own turns bread into charcoal.
28. You have ended friendships because of irreconcilably different opinions about which is better -- the track ball or the track *pad*.
29. You understand all the jokes in this message. If so, my friend, technology has taken over your life. We suggest, for your own good, that you go lie under a tree and write a haiku. And don't use a laptop.
30. You e-mail this message to your friends over the net. You'd never get around to showing it to them in person or reading it to them on the phone. In fact, you have probably never met most of these people face-to-face.

Turning procrastination into action | 43 Folders

2005-10-31T15:00:00.000-05:00

To all my procrastinators out there, there's hope. Thank GOD!!!

She's goth to have it...

2005-10-28T17:15:00.000-05:00

I wonder what Mr. Weatherbee thinks of all this.

shes_goth_to_have_it.jpg (JPEG Image, 441x3081 pixels)

This is pretty cool...

2005-10-28T17:03:00.000-05:00

Skype on regular phones | News.blog | CNET News.com: "Skype on regular phones
October 28, 2005 2:08 PM PDT

Skype users will soon be able to use their regular phones to talk for free over the Net. A company called Vocal Technologies is coming out with a new analog telephone adapter that supports Skype.

The adapter hooks up to a PC running the Skype software, and then people can chat for free over the Net to any other Skype users anywhere in the world. The beauty of the new adapter is that it eliminates the need for Skype users to purchase an expensive computer headset to use the service. The new adapter called S-Link will also support other VoIP providers and it will also still allow regular local phone calls."

2006 Nissan Xterra named Motor Trend Sport/Utility of the Year

2005-10-26T07:05:00.000-05:00

USB 2.0 Tuner Box - Gizmodo

2005-10-20T16:13:00.000-05:00

Cute tiny powerful stuff here!

What's a MINIPRENEUR

2005-10-19T18:42:00.000-05:00

TRENDWATCHING.COM Newsletter | Global Consumer and Marketing Trends | October 2005

WOWOWOWOWOWOWOW, FINALLY!!!!!

2005-10-19T15:00:00.000-05:00

teacher, teeeaaaaacha!.....permission to drool please

Nissan GT-R PROTO

Spookingly coool!

2005-10-17T23:12:00.000-05:00

Real-time HTML Editor

you saw it here first

2005-10-17T22:44:00.000-05:00

do not press this red button

Meet the Life Hackers - New York Times

2005-10-17T22:19:00.000-05:00

Meet the Life Hackers - New York Times: "When Mark crunched the data, a picture of 21st-century office work emerged that was, she says, 'far worse than I could ever have imagined.' Each employee spent only 11 minutes on any given project before being interrupted and whisked off to do something else. What's more, each 11-minute project was itself fragmented into even shorter three-minute tasks, like answering e-mail messages, reading a Web page or working on a spreadsheet. And each time a worker was distracted from a task, it would take, on average, 25 minutes to return to that task. To perform an office job today, it seems, your attention must skip like a stone across water all day long, touching down only periodically."

Technology - BitTorrent: The Great Disrupter

2005-10-17T17:26:00.000-05:00

Technology - BitTorrent: The Great Disrupter - FORTUNE - Page

oh sooo puny pc

2005-10-14T17:03:00.000-05:00

THE RAW FEED: gadgets, games and geeks

Lendmonkey - Beta

2005-10-14T11:07:00.000-05:00

Lendmonkey - Beta

This is downright scary...

2005-10-14T11:03:00.000-05:00

Read this article on CNN today, incredible findings...below is the intro.

In more than 80 clinical trials, Dr. Glenn Wilson, a psychiatrist at King's College London University, found that workers distracted by phone calls, e-mails and text messages suffer a greater loss of IQ than if they'd smoked marijuana.

there's a happy ending though :)

A Powerful Article!

2005-10-13T13:37:00.000-05:00

User Experience
The State of the Experience

The question you have to ask yourself as a business owner is this: what kind of experience do you want your customers to receive before, during, and after they have purchased your product or service?

Yes, you're reading that correctly

2005-10-12T18:59:00.000-05:00

Yes, you're reading that correctly, originally uploaded by elcaseo.

This is soooo coool :)

Me Brad, Me Make Model

2005-10-09T22:32:00.000-05:00

A most interesting pair...

gravestmor { tales of architectural propaganda } » Me Brad, Me Make Model

You say you want a revolution!

2005-10-09T20:46:00.000-05:00

The most amazing interface I have laid eyes
{and would love to lay fingers}on

Tactiva — Introduction to the TactaPad

Mac Mini PVR

2005-10-09T09:00:00.000-05:00

Gotta make me one of these :)

MacMerc.com: mini PVR with EyeTV and ConvertX

1000 Things Made Of Bamboo

2005-10-09T08:52:00.000-05:00

My good good friend Jeanette back in JA ( or I think she is) is gonna love this link :) Enjoy this one sister.

CNET News.com's Blog 100

2005-10-07T13:24:00.000-05:00

With more than 14 million blogs in existence and another 80,000 being created each day, how is a person supposed to find the ones worth reading?

Consider me officially i n s p i r e d

2005-10-05T15:33:00.000-05:00

The Mind of an Inventor - Next Frontiers - MSNBC.com

He built his first computer as a child. In his 20s, he had moved on to supercomputers. Now Danny Hillis is thinking of bigger things.

Tutorials - a guide to the language of web design (Web Design from Scratch)

2005-10-05T15:11:00.000-05:00

A very thorough tutorial for all my friends interested in starting to do web design.

Online Newspapers are 99% Bad

2005-10-05T09:15:00.000-05:00

I wonder if I can get The Gleaner in Jamaica to use this as a guide.

Very clever and simple alarm system

2005-10-04T13:43:00.000-05:00

Door Stop Alarm - Magellan's Travel Supplies

Mobile office for your laptop, very nice!

2005-10-04T13:32:00.000-05:00

Lapdog, una oficina portátil sobre tus piernas

Bright Feet - Home

2005-10-04T13:30:00.000-05:00

This is sooooo coooool!!!

Bright Feet - Home