Presentation separated from structure. Structure separated from
content. The foot bone connected to the ... what were we talking
about? Michael Cohen steps in to examine our assumptions and relieve
our separation anxiety.
"Schlotzsky's reports 40 percent of customers consider Wi-Fi and
Web browsing as factor in visiting: As the chain has expanded to 38
company-owned and franchise stores mostly in the South that offer
in-store free computer access and Wi-Fi, their latest market research
shows a significant uptick in awareness.
The company reported that 40 percent of customers surveyed
considered Wi-Fi and computer access a factor in their decision to
come to Schlotzsky's, while 6 percent said Wi-Fi access alone was why
they were there....
But the CEO wasn't a geek; he liked seeing entire families or
sports teams or groups of parents and kids come in and spent time
using the high-speed connection. It's important to recall that a small
but significant minority of Internet users have broadband; for the
rest, Schlotzsky's offering is a profound (and free) pleasure.... [Wi-Fi Networking
News]
This screams libraries to me! We already provide the high-speed
access and the computers, so why is it so difficult for library
directors to understand the benefit of adding wireless to the mix?
Maybe we just need the financial and marketing resources to do
these kinds of surveys and promotions, but then it's a chicken and egg
scenario, isn't it? It doesn't really matter if wireless users are the
chicken or the egg, because they should be library users.
CSS: A Designer's Guide
CSS: A Designer's Guide06/17/2005 06:51 PM Whether you're a CSS adept who needs help remembering the 342 approved
hacks, or a traditional print (or Dreamweaver) designer for whom CSS
layout is scary and confusing, Charles Wyke-Smith's designer's guide
to CSS has you covered.
So much for the separation of powers
So much for the separation of powers03/23/2005 05:33 PM An anti-abortion judge never confirmed by the U.S. Senate could cast
the deciding vote in the Schiavo case.
Jail separation under fire02/11/2004 02:39 AM A decision to separate paramilitary prisoners at an NI jail is
dangerous for staff implementing it, an MP says.
BarlowSpam: No Degrees of Separation01/07/2004 02:15 PM An ecosystem is an information sorting engine. Whether photons
entering a rain forest or heat gradients entering the deep ocean,
biological systems pass these differences back and forth among
themselves, creating increasingly complex matrices of structure.
Hence, Life. And yet, the most complex information sorting system yet
devised by humans, the Internet, remains relatively simple and flat,
rather as life was before the Cambrian explosion. Every IP address is
like a single celled animal, with larger critters yet to emerge. I've
been expecting to see more new forms of order in Cyberspace than I
have so far and am always watchful for the substrates of connection
that might support it as it emerges. Lately, I've been watching sites
that seek to narrow and map the famous 6 degrees of separation, like
Friendster, Tribes.Net, and LinkedIn.Com. I'm not entirely sure these
things are going anywhere truly interesting, but they are certainly
diverting to observe from a sociological standpoint. The former two
are like gigantic singles bars for Burning Man refugees, while the
latter seems to function largely as a means to reduce professional
surface tension between aspiring business types. It occurs to me,
however, that since I am eager to increase the personal connectivity
among you BarlowFriendz and give you better opportunities to know one
another without passing through me, these sites might be useful to us.
(There is already a so-far fairly quiescent BarlowFriendz "tribe" on
Tribes.Net.) At least, it feels worthy of an experiment....
Six degrees of separation in identity management
Six degrees of separation in identity management08/18/2004 04:46 AM John Guare's play "Six Degrees of Separation" posits that we are all
connected by six or fewer stages of circumstance or acquaintance. As
one writer explains:
New: Illustrations with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook
New: Illustrations with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook01/05/2005 02:00 PM O'Reilly's Illustrations with Photoshop follows nine artists through
the inception and creation of works ranging from advertising to
settings for graphic novels.
Conjoined Twins to Undergo Third Separation Procedure
Conjoined Twins to Undergo Third Separation Procedure02/19/2004 12:11 AM On Friday, Carl and Clarence Aguirre, 22-month-old Filipino twins who
are joined at the head, are scheduled to undergo their third operation
to tease apart the network of shared veins in their heads.
New: Photo Retouching with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook
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ColorCache - The Color Designer's Swiss Army Penknife
ColorCache - The Color Designer's Swiss Army Penknife12/19/2004 03:46 PM This compact utility is the color designers equivalent of the Swiss
Army Penknife. ColorCache packs in a color picker, color scheme
generator, web preview tools, a color scheme management system and
much more. Designed to fit seamlessly with the way you work,
ColorCache sits quietly in the system tray ready to be summoned with a
simple mouse click or key press. Compatible with most graphics
programs, ColorCache is a popular choice for professionals and home
users alike. [PRWEB Dec 15, 2004]
O'Reilly Launches the Designer's Notebook Series with 2 new books
O'Reilly Launches the Designer's Notebook Series with 2 new books01/04/2005 12:47 AM O'Reilly has announced today that it will kick off their new
"Designer's Notebook" series with 2 new books: "Photo Retouching with
Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook" and "Illustrations with Photoshop: A
Designer's Notebook," (US$24.95) both first-time English translations
of the cutting-edge French editions.
In each notebook, the authors share their secrets in workshops that
demonstrate the step-by-step
creation of their work. Unlike any other titles available, these
full-color books offer professionals the creative license and
technical know-how they need to create one-of-a-kind digital images
using Photoshop.
[Links from this story may be found on MacMerc.com. Click the title to
delve deeper.]
Creating Photomontages with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook [Flickr]
Designer's NY Store Selling Bush Deck of Cards (Reuters)
Designer's NY Store Selling Bush Deck of Cards (Reuters)06/07/2004 10:40 AM Reuters - A newly minted deck of cards of
President Bush and members of his team akin to the Saddam
Hussein cards hawked during the Iraq war are selling at a brisk
pace in New York.
"The Vermont Governor: Dean Narrowing His Separation of Church and Stump"
O'Reilly Releases new volume in Designer's Notebook series: Photomontages
O'Reilly Releases new volume in Designer's Notebook series: Photomontages02/05/2005 09:07 PM Photomontages are, of course, multiple photographic images that, once
artfully combined, assume a new and more complex definition is both
believable and aesthetically thrilling. "Imagine fresh laundry
taking flight from a clothes dryer," says the O'Reilly press
release, "a woman posed inside a perfume bottle, or a triptych that
shows the play of light and shadow over the facade of a building at
different times during the day." Interesting ideas and in "Creating
Photomontages with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook"(US $24.95)
well-known French artists reveal the techniques used in creating these
and other projects.
The Vermont Governor: Dean Narrowing His Separation of Church and Stump
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'Wichita Faro' online game is Web designer's fond tribute
Dilemma Over New Flu Vaccine12/15/2003 05:51 AM Vaccine experts deciding on this season's flu shot had to choose
between using last year's formula, though a new strain was building
strength, or creating a new vaccine and risking complications, delays
and possible shortages.
The LinkedIn dilemma
The LinkedIn dilemma12/16/2003 03:01 PM
Here's what stopped me from writing an endorsement for somebody on LinkedIn today: the requirement
to define our relationship as one of these choices:
The same kind of thing stopped me from joining the identity-badge
party at the Digital ID conference recently. I'm bugged by forms that
invite or require me to specify the unspecifiable. Particularly when
Google already knows the subtle truth of the matter. For example, the
signup for nTag asked me to state
my interests. But I already do that all the time. Everything I write
is a statement of my interest in something. Should it be my job to fit
those interests into the Procrustean bed of somebody else's form?
...
The Democrats' dilemma | csmonitor.com11/19/2003 08:03 AM "WE COULD COME PERILOUSLY CLOSE TO A ONE-PARTY STATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE COULD WIND UP WITH TWO MORE ANTONIN
SCALIAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” .. The Christian Science
Monitor .. The Democrats’
Dilemma
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Pakistan Again Poses Dilemma for U.S. (AP)08/09/2004 05:30 AM AP - Pakistan has again proved it is the single-most crucial player in
the war on terror: the site of an al-Qaida ring that was targeting
this country and led to the raising of the terror alert, and the
nation whose cooperation is needed most to make arrests happen.
The 80-Cent Dollar Dilemma08/27/2004 01:40 PM Whitney Tilson shares how he protects his portfolio in uncertain
times. Grok Description matches for Separation: The Web Designer's Dilemma GrokA matches for Separation: The Web Designer's Dilemma
Formerly Conjoined Twins See Each Other (AP)
Formerly Conjoined Twins See Each Other (AP)08/10/2004 02:24 PM AP - Six days after surgeons separated them, 2-year-old twins Carl and
Clarence Aguirre got their first looks at each other on Tuesday —
but seemed more interested in their mother and a television set.
Doctors Separate Conjoined Filipino Twins (AP)
Doctors Separate Conjoined Filipino Twins (AP)08/04/2004 10:09 PM AP - Two-year-old twins from the Philippines who were joined at the
tops of their heads were surgically separated on Wednesday night,
Montefiore Medical Center announced.
Conjoined Filipino Twins Undergo Surgery (AP)
Conjoined Filipino Twins Undergo Surgery (AP)08/04/2004 05:16 PM AP - After tearful kisses from their mother and grandmother,
2-year-old conjoined twins from the Philippines underwent surgery
Wednesday to separate them.
Twins swap clothes to flee jail (Reuters)
Twins swap clothes to flee jail (Reuters)12/22/2004 01:02 AM Reuters - A man has escaped from a Swedish jail after switching
clothes with his identical twin brother, officials say.
Twins Swap Clothes to Free Felon from Jail (Reuters)
Uses for clothes hangers other than hanging clothes
Uses for clothes hangers other than hanging clothes05/05/2004 07:54 PM Kirby sez:
"Short page on an industrial design website that is soliciting ideas
for reusing wire coat hangers. Worth visiting just for the picture of
octopi drying on coat hangers in Indonesia." Link
Conjoined Tortoises Separated in Arizona (AP)02/10/2004 02:56 AM AP - A pair of conjoined tortoises were separated Sunday at a Tempe
animal hospital in what is believed to be the first surgery of its
kind in Arizona.
Conjoined Boys on Brink of Separate Lives (AP)
Conjoined Boys on Brink of Separate Lives (AP)08/01/2004 01:29 PM AP - If all goes well during a daylong operation Wednesday, Carl and
Clarence Aguirre, 2-year-old twins from the Philippines joined at the
top of their heads, will wake up in separate beds.
Never Iron Your Clothes Again!
Never Iron Your Clothes Again!06/01/2004 06:34 PM “German manufacturing company Siemens, has built a machine that
looks like the upper body of a mannequin and uses similar technology
to ironing systems employed by professional clearners and laundries.
You just put your shirt overtop and the shell inflates with hot air
and presses the shirt into shape in just 6.5 minutes, as compared to
the average of 8 minutes ironing it by hand. It could take an hour, as
far as I’m concerned - anything’s better than ironing by
hand.”
Next up: I'm a Senator and I can't keep my clothes on!
Let Your Virtual You Try On Clothes01/27/2004 01:44 PM It's been almost five years since Levi's opened a store where they
asked customers to give them all sorts
of personal info, which Levi's would then use to create
"customized" offers for you. Of course, this required you to tell
Levi's all your various measurements - which many people didn't feel
comfortable doing. Now, however, folks at Toshiba are finally looking
to go further. They're creating a system that can create a
real-time 3D avatar of yourself. The idea is that, instead of
trying on clothes, you just let this system scan you, and it will then
present the virtual you on a screen and you can have it try on various
clothes to see how you look. To be honest, I hadn't realized the
process of actually trying on clothes was that difficult. I'd also
wonder about the system, since the stores offering it would have
plenty of incentive to make clothes look better on you on the screen
than in real life. Besides, I would think it's pretty difficult to
accurate show how clothing would look on someone. The reason we have
try-on rooms is that just holding up a shirt against you doesn't
necessarily show how it really looks on you. A computerized model
isn't necessarily going to be able to do much better. The one area
where this might be interesting is for online sales (though, you'd
have to be scanned somewhere else first). I'm pretty sure others are
trying out similar systems - but usually they involve just typing in
basic measurements.
The Emperor Has No Clothes
The Emperor Has No Clothes12/02/2003 01:03 AM If you say that Outlook 2003 is better and faster with client-side
operations, you're dead wrong. I detailed the downgrade in today's
Windows Fanatics newsletter. Too bad someone hasn't developed a
specific benchmarking utility so that I could prove (beyond a shadow
of a doubt) how OL2k3's code is crappier. You may think the program is
working fine, but after using it for a couple of months, play with
OL2k again and you'll see exactly what I mean. Upgrade at your own
peril - and start looking for a better Windows PIM. I stand by my
original statement(s)....
Clothes make the mullah
Clothes make the mullah01/05/2005 01:53 PM In Iran, home to some of the best-dressed clergy in the Islamic world,
looking good is part of the job.
Separation: The Web Designer's Dilemma
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Kirby sez:
"Short page on an industrial design website that is soliciting ideas
for reusing wire coat hangers. Worth visiting just for the picture of
octopi drying on coat hangers in Indonesia."