The Value of a Good Alter EgoIn recent weeks, blogs like Lifehacker have championed tactics and services aimed at increasing a person’s online visibility. While this may be useful for a future President of the United States, a far more useful lesson would be how to create an [online] alter ego.
Take Henry Chinaski and Kilgore Trout. Doppelgängers like Bukowski and Vonnegut’s […]
Craigslist Has What You NeedI owe a lot to Craigslist. The community classified website has a simple style that hasn’t been changed for as long as I’ve seen it, and its users successfully keep out spammers and other commercial interests despite its open nature.
Craig Newmark, the creator, keeps himself refreshingly low-profile and seems genuinely happy to have contributed such […]
Thumbs Down to Microsoft ExpressionsI’ve been fiddling around for a couple of hours with Microsoft Expressions, the design application for Silverlight’s BETA flavor. It earned a resounding thumbs-down. I’m not completely thick, and I couldn’t follow the instructions to make a simple rollover button.
Now which Edit Template did I want again?
Besides boasting instructions obviously written by a programmer, the […]
Leonardo Da Vinci SiteWhile looking at the Webby Awards, which are given out annually in lots of categories, I came across this Leonardo Da Vinci site with lots of great stuff. It’s got images of sketches, paintings, and inventions, plus a thorough and expansive history of everything Da Vinci.
Besides all of the great information, the site has a […]
I’ll Have the Roast Duck, With the Mango SalsaIt’s no secret that I’m a big fan of the GEICO cavemen (if not the company they promote). Not only are the commercials consistently hilarious in an of themselves, they’ve created an entire reality for themselves in just a few short TV ads.
Now, they’ve expanded that reality and put in online. Just check out the […]
