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Archive for July, 2008


Software Salesman Sleeps in GG Park To Get By

Tom Sepa, who has a job, car, laptop, headset and prefers the term urban outdoorsman regularly sleeps in Golden Gate park because he can’t afford an apartment.
He makes $2k to $3k and month yet he and his wife can’t make $F rents. He washes up in Starbucks bathroom after he buys a coffee.
It is [...]

American Households Saved Less in 2007 Than in 1932

Since 2004 American households have been putting away less than $400 a year in savings. That’s almost identical to the saving registered during the depression. How can such a rich country have so little to save? (That’s a rhetorical one. Okay? ‘Kay.)

The NYTimes has done yet another no-holds-barred data analysis of how indebted our country [...]

Tips for Using WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin

Keith Dsouza has made a superb Wordpress plugin that ‘automatically’ upgrades your Wordpress blog software when they’ve released an update. Wordpress is constantly enhancing their product, and due to it’s global popularity they are forced to constantly enhance the security of the code base, both of which mean they update the code base 4-8 times [...]

Molly’s Done! Check Her Mad Clothing Skillz

Molly just turned in her final line at the Apparel Arts school where she’s been studying the last two years to be a pattern maker. In the world of high fashion there is the designer who dreams up the clothing, the pattern maker who turns the sketches into replicable blueprints, sewers who actually fabricate the [...]

Sweating Mushroom Hunting Insect

Last weekend camping in the Lakes Basin Region in the North Sierras I cam across this fungi that was sweating a watery liquid (no, I did not sample it …) and found a camouflaged insect with giant antenna hunting beside it. All happening silently beside a superb, deserted lake.

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Advertisement on Facebook

This image below is a screenshot of skyscrapper format ad which explains “Why Are Online Degrees are HOT?”
And I ask, why are online degrees so hot? And why is NexTag, the Comparison Shopping site displaying this ad?
And why did I see it on a Facebook page? Are they really this comfortable with letting advertisers saying [...]

Time Breakdown of Modern Web Design

Yuko, a super duper designer at Dogster, Inc. sent this pie chart to me. It would be much funnier if it wasn’t actually true =O

It’s from here and was posted here where there is a lot more to look at, such as this.