August 2008

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• life, work

  Dave Packard’s “11 simple rules” – timeless

  08.18.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  You have probably heard of these before, but these 11 management rules presented by HP co-founder Dave Packard in 1958 were very true then and remain so to this day: 1. Think first of the other fellow. This is THE foundation – the first requisite – for getting along with others. And it is the [...]

• design, gadgets, ict / computers

  That’s one cool virus

  08.11.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Absolutely brilliant: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

• design

  Country logos – vewwy sweet

  08.11.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I bumped into this nice overview of official country logos, mainly used for international promotion along the lines of “we’re nice, come visit us and spend money”. Well-designed mostly, but it does strike me that they’re often very, even extremely colorful and full of flowers, hearts and sunshine. Apparently the flower is one of the [...]

• tv

  NBC cuts ‘n’ slashes the Olympics

  08.10.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  From Slashdot: techmuse writes “Viewing the 2008 Olympics opening ceremony online at NBC’s Olympics website, you can see that the order in which the countries were presented was very different from the actual order of the countries in the ceremony, as listed at Wikipedia. NBC skipped roughly 100 countries ahead, then jumped back and forth, [...]

• life

  Are you sure you want to take anything into the USA?

  08.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  You may have heard about the new Homeland Security search rules that basically allow the U.S. government to grab your laptop (or any other digital or analog information carrier) from you upon entering the United States, take it to a location of their choice and read and copy anything off it and share it with [...]

• web design

  Have you taken the survey yet?

  08.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  If you haven’t, and you build/develop web sites as (a part of) your job, you really should take the ALA 2008 survey:

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