a double shot yet again for our new on dvd this week- it was a rather ‘holiday’ sort of week for me; my apologies! so, what’s capping off the rest of the month? well, we’ll start with the week of the 22. my pick is easily war of the worlds. i have since purchased and [...]
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Here’s a holiday dinner factoid that I’ve never been sure about — does turkey contain a natural sedative that makes you feel sleepy after eating a lot of it? It was a topic of course, at the thanksgiving dinner table this week. mikull.com has the answer: this is a simple urban legend.
In this instance, lore [...]
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this past saturday myself, michelle, damien, erin, scotto and albert went out to see bad religion. we caught them at the starland ballroom in in jersey- used to be some dance joint in sayverille. pretty nice place for shows. ah yes, back in ‘91 or ‘92 i remember seeing them at the roseland in the [...]
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i was upstate a week ago, and doing a lot of work this week- so we have a belated new on dvd post spanning 2 weeks of releases. let’s start with the 8th: my pick for this week would have to be tim burton’s rework of charlie and the chocolate factory. it won’t ever be [...]
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It is my experience that design seldom can do much good for most second-
and third-tier companies and organizations. The reason for this is that
these sorts of entities almost always fail themselves before they even
enlist the services of a designer or a design agency.
More often than not, companies and organizations first need business
consulting before they need [...]
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Why is defining design so confusing for designers? Do that many of us not even know what we’re doing, or is it that we’re just trying to be all things to all people? Whatever the reason, it seems that each designer who weighs in on the matter has a slightly (or vastly) different take on [...]
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Working as an accessibility consultant in an IT company is a very frustrating job right now. Highly publicized lawsuits and deep-rooted accessibility myths leave us with a lot to explain when the final product does not really help visitors. Our clients simply don’t care about accessibility as much as we’d like them to, and there [...]
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monday morning at HighEdWebDev05 opened with a presentation from keynote speaker Steve Krug, author of Don’t Make Me Think.
“After a decade writing computer manuals, in 1989 Steve Krug moved up the food chain to usability testing and interface design so he could fix the problems instead of explaining them. Since then, he’s evaluated and [...]
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my boss gave me the opportunity to attend a conference- so sunday i got up early and made the trip to rochester ny for HighEdWebDev05, an annual conference specifically tailored for web developers working in higher education. that’s me! i was sent up alone so it was a little nerve racking at first, considering i [...]
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is there any question what my pick of the month is? of course- star wars: episode III. and i can say this without geek preference; this was one kick ass star wars flick. easily the best of the prequels.
honorable mention this month to the new edition of office space- a comedy classic. you need [...]
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