A nice follow up to the previous article about budgets and website pricing on the Blue Flavor blog. It’s never easy to explain to someone how much a site costs, but this gives you a good idea what Blue Flavor generally charges. Visit site
A nice discussion about why it can be better for everyone if the budget is discussed up front. You’ve got to build that trust up first! Visit site
“Home to 8,000 people, Kuzumaki is lucky enough to have a territory of 400 square kilometres (154.4 square miles), an area the size of Yokohama with its 3.6 million residents.” Ah… my old home in Japan. Visit site
“While the firefighters were reportedly saddened by the sight of 63 people burning to death, on the way back to the firehouse they agreed the club was probably just full of stuck-up bitches anyway.” Visit site
I’ll stop linking to The Big Picture… someday. Visit site
I love all the bundles in Textmate, except how difficult they are to install. GetBundle makes easy to quickly grab ‘em. Highly recommended. Visit site
Just a concept but I’d love to see Coke actually produce something like this. Visit site
I’d love to get my pile of corks turned into a few sample tiles. I plan on sending what I’ve got in this weekend. Visit site
“Leave it to the Japanese to come up with the best way to demo a building. No muss, no fuss. It’s just brilliant. And 20% faster than the old way, which is messy, indeed.” Visit site
I’ve wanted to get twatson [at] me.com since I realized this was coming out and have now acquired it. My username OCD is now complete. Visit site
@#$%&?!!! for swearing is apparently a grawlix, well not officially yet, but I’m going to start using the term. Visit site
Can’t wait for this. I’m a radio addict and can’t get enough NPR. I’ll definitely be taking a close look at this API when it gets released. Excited to see what “widgets” they’ll be releasing as well. Visit site
Numbers and frequency distribution geekery Visit site
“Are they the best a man can get? Fuck, no. Gillette is the best a man can get.” Visit site
I think these will elevate my pong game to a whole other level. Visit site
Nice heat map of the most walkable neighborhoods in Seattle. Wallingford coming in at a respectable #10. Visit site
Some more photos and information about Ercolini Park on the West Seattle Blog. There’s also this video on Blip.tv of the actual ribbon cutting too. Visit site
“A More Perfect Union spells out the preamble to the United States Constitution with forty friends in a high school gym in New York City.” Touching and well done. Visit site
Some gruesome and gorgeous shots from The Big Picture. Visit site
A great set of tips here and I particularly like this bit: “Yes, designers can make mistakes and take wrong directions. And yes, you need to give them direction. But you must tell them what you need, not how to achieve that goal.” Visit site
I’ve done it and it worked great. If you’re antsy and want to get it a few hours early this article from Wired seems to be the best one out there. Visit site
“Their latest mission involved filling a subway car with identical twins, creating a human mirror. Genius.” Genius indeed. Visit site
And people say Twitter isn’t good for anything. Visit site
Sara’s great new technique using CSS to put captions on top of photos. I got to help with it since my new homepage design was the guinea pig, and as a designer I have to say I totally love it. Flexible, clean, and sexy. Well done. Visit site
A little video project I did for Blue Flavor, and a bit more about why on the Blue Flavor blog as well. Visit site
The future is here. Still no word on my jet pack order though. I’m blaming UPS. Visit site
“How’d a nit wit like you get so tasteful.” Visit site
Some fantastic commentary from Matt Brown about shooting in a digital world. I know I’m a “chimper”. I’m hoping to try out some of these ideas to try and see how it affects my shooting. Visit site
Sucralose, high fructose corn syrup, all of it is disgusting. I’m don’t consider myself a health nut but I like to eat food, real food and the fact that this stuff keeps getting shoved into more and more products is sad. Visit site
Iron, Ampersand, yes please. Visit site