How the Starbucks Siren Became Less Naughty
[update] Starbucks logo changes again. You are probably here because you looked closely at the Starbucks logo and were a little confused about what is depicted on it. Is it a mermaid? What are those...
View ArticleTT : Homer Shrugged
1) The trilogy that I actually care about is complete. The Golden Transcendence : Or, The Last of the Masquerade is here, and it doesn’t dissapoint. I’ll write my review soon. Is it just me, or did the...
View ArticleTT : Thought Tally : Dude, Where’s My Biochemistry Degree? or Kinky Crew...
is going to like this. As I learned from TV Guide Magazine, Ashton Kutcher majored in Biochemistry. — According to one of the most annoying things a customer can do at the checkout line is to say “He...
View ArticleAnd Lipstick Too
I have a small collection of cheap box cameras that my grandfather bough for my in his garage sale adventures. I decided to look into filling the rest of space in one of my bookshelves with specimens...
View ArticleBlinking Tema’s Stuff
Thanks to the wonders of the WaybackMachine Lebedev watchers can track what everybody’s favorite Russian designer has in his office at temporal markers A B C and D. If you open these links in different...
View ArticleZe Paul Frank
In my career as a web development I’ve seen a lot of brilliant and competent people, as well as a lot of utter incompetents, on all levels of the corporate ladder and working at all levels of...
View Article7 Things You Can (Mostly) Do Without in Your Web Business
I’ve spent a lot of time in meetings about websites. Not as much as I’ve spent building websites, but a sizable chunk of my career. I mostly spent that time listening and not being listened to. But now...
View ArticleThe House of Lamps or Lamp Lust
I firmly believe that expensive and well designed office chairs like Aeron or Mirra make a very good investment. On the other hand my friend, a very successful entrepreneur, tells me that much cheaper...
View ArticleI only play a doctor on TV
So, those magnum Jupiter brains at Crispin Porter + Bogusky managed to crap the bed with their Microsoft ads instead of making Microsoft cool. For some reason this made me remember these three...
View ArticleThe Claw or Playing Not So Hard
When I began my career hiring managers still said things like “we work hard, and we play hard”. The “playing hard” usually consisted of drinking tequila shots after work and having either a ping-pong...
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