Archive for December 2005

  1. Wal-mart: The High Cost of Low Price

    Over the weekend, I watched Wal-mart: The High Cost of Low Price, a recent documentary look into the business practices and influence of the largest corporation in the world. The film had some high and low points, but definitely is worth seeing.
    From a factual and anecdotal perspective, the film excels. There are a lot of [...]

  2. Happy Holidays, Everyone!

    Happy Holidays, Everyone!

    Carbomb and Mary sent me this wonderful holiday card last week. It was illustrated by Mr. Carbaugh himself.
    Is there anything that guy can’t do?

  3. Update to the presentations

    Nguyet pointed out earlier today that the incrementing on my S5-based presentations was a bit annoying. Soooo… I’ve updated them, sans incrementing. Check them out:

    Meaningful (X)HTML
    CSS Building Blocks

  4. Color photos from the World War I era

    This is amazing. Almost a hundred years ago, Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii was using a three-exposure camera to take what amounts to the red, green, and blue channels of a photo. He then projected the three exposures through their associated filters and, well, you can see the results:

    “Color film was non-existent in 1909 Russia, [...]

  5. And now a word from Mr. Eric Meyer

    AIGA has been posting a series of podcasts with the speakers for An Event Apart.
    In Talking with Eric Meyer: An Event Apart #02, Eric is asked why designers should have to worry about code.

    “You should have to worry about code for the same reason a print designer has to worry about ink and paper weight, [...]