There’s something to be said for that whole genetics thing …
No, that’s not a picture of Cohen. Striking resemblance though isn’t it?
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Month: March 2009
Picking Colours That “Go Together”
A nice web app (Flash) :Color Scheme Designer 3
Much like the Gnome application called Agave.
Entrepreneurs: Then And Now – Guy Kawasaki
A quick (10 minute) video capture of a lecture Kawasaki gave to a Stanford audience about entrepreneurial-ism then (late 90’s) and now.
Also note that the video is part of a cool site (Academic Earth) that lets you review some videos of academic presentations from Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, MIT, and other schools. There are even entire courses online.
Other interesting ones after a little browsing:
Root Cause Analysis Example
A good example of root cause analysis, how to apply it, and the results it gives you. This example looks at the root causes of poor software requirements (how topical!)
Inexpensive Light Tent How-To
Here’s a quick and cheap way to make my own light tent.
Another Reason To Not Let The Youngin’s Watch TV
From the article:
Young children who spend more than two hours glued to the TV every day double their subsequent risk of developing asthma, indicates research published ahead of print in Thorax.
So let’s see … prolonged TV viewing is now associatd with asthma, obesity, diabetes, promiscuity and smoking.
Great Top-Like Applications
This blog post lead me to 4 great new top-like applications: htop, iftop,iotop,apachetop
Lemon Juice Is A Simple Stain Remover
Stains based on fruit and vegetables can be removed by using lemon juice before washing, rather than using chemical-based stain removers.
Great Poem From The Bus
Translink has a few feet of ad space on some buses dedicated to getting Canadian poets “published” or at least noticed. One day last summer I read this poem and thought it absolutely wonderful. Now I think I’m going to add the poet’s book to my list of interesting books to buy.
Excerpt from “Had I Stayed On The Farm” by David Zieroth
I married the skinny girl
and our kids ran free as chickens
one of them, the second boy
moving along the ditches for days
trapping muskrats and living on chokeberries and bulrushes
sleeping by a little fire of sticks
wrapped in his jacket, and we hardly noticed
he was gone until he returned
as someone else, burnt and smoky
his sisters silenced by the strides he took
to reach the pump, his hands
a mesh of little nicks and cuts where
the cries of the animals had entered him
LEGO Design Wheel
Interesting approach to capturing a high level view of a user’s experience with a product or service from LEGO. Visual, easy to understand – not sure how to capture value in it though. Perhaps the little “i” and “<” icons are the key.