ramblings

Bombay Sapphire is apparently the gin for graphic designers. I wonder which brand is the absinthe for graphic designers?

How to build your Glow Discharge Plasma Panel: Every home needs one of these sweet babies.

The Diamond Invention: How diamonds went from common rocks to a multi-billion dollar business controlled by the De Beers cartel. Oh… and diamonds aren’t forever.

Special thanks to the waitress at the Austin Grill last night who left me her pen to sign the check with— I think I’ve got a new favourite pen.

First transparent aluminum, now this: they’ve created “metal rubber,” which is undeniably cool. Of course, the accusations of reverse engineering alien technology are already flying furiously.

For the first time, two weeks ago, I received a book from Amazon that was defective. The last few pages were bound into the book crooked, and lower then they should have been, resulting in the tops of the pages still retaining the fold from the press, and since they weren’t trimmed, they were still …

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Reminds me of the Windows switchers ad campaign that Apple used to run, these folks are Republicans… but they’re not about to vote for Bush in November.