Wednesday
Jul 14, 2010
The Perfect Pour
A simple but quite informative graphic to help you decide how to take your coffee. I, of course, take the weak-sauce route with a mocha 99% of the time. Click to view the entire piece.
via Plaid Creative
Related: The Utility Journal blog has just started a reoccurring theme called Tip Sheet. The first one is on Tea.
Tuesday
Jul 13, 2010
Mad Men season 4
Forget the fact that NFL players report for training camp in two weeks, it’s time to get your TiVo’s set for the fourth season of Mad Men in just two weeks. It’s been by far the most addicting (and more than likely the least benefiting) show the wife and I have watched consistently in years.
They’re making it easy for you to get semi-caught up over the next few weeks if you’re behind with a Season 3 marathon as well as all 13 episodes from last season being on video on demand for the next month. Otherwise, Netflix or iTunes seasons 1 & 2 to catch the entire back-story.
The attire, the drama and the story lines are all top-notch.
Also, if you don’t follow along through RSS, you missed the season 4 cast photo I posted the other night. You should subscribe so it doesn’t happen again.
Of those who do watch, anybody care to share their favorites? Episode? Character?
Thursday
Jul 1, 2010
Field Notes: County Fair Colors
Wow, Coudal might have just sucked me in. I’ve been meaning to swing by and pick up a new Moleskine, but goodness, these County Fair edition of Field Notes could be enough to sway me away from leather. I’d also take the map below as a print for my wall if they decided to produce it.
Thursday
Jul 1, 2010
Test Your Focus
For a long time multi-tasking was a buzz word in the corporate setting and a desired trait in many job interviews. It’s too late for me to hunt down the research but I have come across a few different articles in the last year or two debunking the myths that we are actually good at multi-tasking or that we are more productive when we attempt to be. As much as I like having a variety of projects to work on, I do find that my productivity tends to suffers when I jump quickly from task-to-task during the day.
I just spent the last 5 minutes testing my personal theories on some simple NYTimes interactive tests. As I imagined, I scored quite well on the Focus portion and fell short of average on the Juggling Tasks (multi-tasking) test. Care to see how you perform?
Wednesday
Jun 23, 2010
Andy Murray Tennis Street Magic in London
My wife has started playing tennis a couple of times a week, looking forward to the day she can do things like this. Crazy.
via swissmiss
Tuesday
Jun 15, 2010
Tightrope by Janelle Monae
Finally got around to checking out the video posted by Joshua and can confirm that this is probably a good addition to your summer of 2010 music rotation.
Friday
Jun 11, 2010
Daily Drop Cap
I feel like I’ve posted about Jessica Hische’s work before but I can find it anywhere. Either way, her Daily Drop Cap was already a pretty awesome experiment on her part to push her illustration skills and spread the word but she upped the stakes yesterday with some awesome letter-pressed business cards to accompany.
Today’s drop cap is probably one of my favorites:
And the new business cards: Read the rest of this entry »
Saturday
May 29, 2010
I Code in Tables
- Pages have the ability to be far more flexible for each device that accesses them
- Page load times are often shorter with well-written code
- Search engines — like Google — mention well-written code in their documentation of ways to rank higher in their results
- Code-nazi’s sleep better when you abide by the rules written in their books and they don’t call you out in the blogosphere