August 28, 2007
Brown Paper Tickets - The first and only fair-trade ticketing service!
From terrible service to unreasonable fees to unscrupulous backroom deals, the ticketing industry has been violating its customers for years. We took the complaints that we all have about this industry and used them to create the Ticketing Bill of Rights.
(tags: events marketing tickets)
August 25, 2007
So, this whole “not having a car thing” is rippling into other things. The current struggle is whether to change dentists. I have been going to Enspire Dental, formerly Farah & Associates, for several years now. Well, they’re out on Liberty and not on a bus line, so I pretty much can’t get to them [...]
August 23, 2007
Guy invited us to his house tonight for an ice cream social. He had all the usual trimmings: chocolate sprinkles, almonds, various ice cream flavors (strawberry, vanilla, and chocolate), chocolate syrup, neighborhood kids, and raptors.
Ummm…raptors?
Yup, raptors.
AÂ woman from the Leslie Science Center brought a kestrel, a barred owl, and a juvenile bald eagle. All the birds were injured [...]
D*I*Y Planner Hipster PDA Edition | D*I*Y Planner
Welcome to the D*I*Y Planner Hipster PDA Edition 3.0, a series of approximately one hundred free productivity forms designed for printing onto index cards (a.k.a., the Hipster PDA). Designed especially for the D*I*Y Planner project by Douglas Johnston, th
(tags: indexcards notecards notes productivity templates tools work paper howto [...]
August 22, 2007
Dave and I are nearing our 7th wedding anniversary, and that sounds like a lot to me. It doesn’t feel that long, which I suppose is a good thing. He and I were together for 6ish years before that, so our relationship feels like a long term, stable thing.
This past weekend my husband and I [...]
August 17, 2007
People making news
Ann Arbor-based Internet marketing firm Pure Visibility hired four new employees. Dunrie Greiling will be responsible for project management. Greiling was director of operations at a Web design and development firm. David Brenner will be a marketing impre
(tags: dunrie purevisibility press)
Internet Archive
I love the wayback machine
(tags: timetravel website archive reference)
August 15, 2007
Linkable notebooks
Notebooks you can link together
Simply slide the back cover of one book into the front cover of another
(tags: notebook journal organization productivity writing work)
Gillian Welch - Cherry Red “Miss Ohio” Ladies T-Shirt: Fast Atmosphere Artist Stores
(tags: wishlist music)
Startup Metrics for Pirates (long version) » SlideShare
This is a 5-step model for creating a metrics framework [...]
August 13, 2007
Biologists Helping Bookstores
Biologists Helping Bookstores is a guerilla effort to reshelve pseudo-scientific books (books on intelligent design, for instance), taking them from the Science section and moving them to a more appropriate area of the store, like Philosophy, Religion, or
(tags: from_kottke books science activism)
August 12, 2007
Cooper | Insights | Journal of Design | Articles | Collaboration with development is a handshake, not a handoff
Our team consisted of a design communicator, an interaction designer, two visual designers and an engagement lead.
Wow. A design communicator? Interesting title
(tags: agile design development process ux webdesign)
Jaiku | Dunrie Greiling
(tags: dunrie aggregator blog feeds)
Funny, the books I’m reading this weekend are affirming each other. I suppose this means nothing more than I have consistent taste. I’m now reading The Sound of Mountain Water by Wallace Stegner. He writes about the value of wilderness as more than just a place to hike, ski, photograph, raft, or play. He writes [...]