Sponsored by Alaska Robotics
Filling the sponsor box this week is Alaska Robotics, a small group in Juneau making comics and short films, like The Last Unicorn, The Watch, and Buy Back Alaska.
Matt Haughey on The Pipeline
In Episode 6 of the Pipeline, I talk with Matthew Haughey, the founder of MetaFilter and publisher of the long-running weblog A Whole Lotta Nothing about the MeFi community, limiting its growth, the evils of VC, the PVRblog sale, and writing about deeply personal issues. Thanks again to Campaign Monitor for making the show possible.
The Chiquita Banana Brand Refresh
A great interview by design:related with DJ Neff regarding the totally awesome Chiquita Banana brand refresh.
Too bad Tropicana didn’t hire these guys.
Fred Wilson explains Double Entry Accounting
Another great entry in Fred Wilson’s “Monday MBA” series of posts.
This is exactly the kind of thing that I wish had existed on the web when I launched my first business back in the mid-90’s.
You only need to “rock it” for 5 minutes a day
Five minutes to write a blog post that changes everything, or five minutes to deliver an act of generosity that changes someone. Five minutes to invent a great new feature, or five minutes to teach a groundbreaking skill in a way that no one ever thought of before. Five minutes to tell the truth (or hear the truth).
CSS Border Radius Builder
A handy border radius creator for making those clever curved corners in CSS.
Idea for improvement: use jQuery sliders for the radius adjustments.
Why Ad Blocking is harmful to your favorite websites
A well written article explaining why you should disable ad-blocking for the sites you enjoy visiting.
There is an oft-stated misconception that if a user never clicks on ads, then blocking them won’t hurt a site financially. This is wrong.
LOST Apple Patent
I thought I recognized the source of the line drawing in that recent Apple patent application.
And yes, recognizing that this was in fact a scene from LOST and then being able to find the episode it came from almost instantly does confirm that I’m way too into the show for my own good.
This is just a start. There are hundreds of articles in the archive.
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