Design
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“16 Straight” T-Shirt Is A Bad Idea
So Coudal Partners is selling a T-Shirt at http://www.sixteenstraight.com/. From my days of youth in Pittsburgh through the 90s of Jordan to the parade on LaSalle Street last Fall, if there’s one thing I’ve learned as a good-karma fan of a 13 championship teams, it’s this: keep your mouth shut until the last game is…
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Yahoo! Widgets Advertising: Cup-A-Lerter
The other day I was upgrading to Konfabulator 3.0 , otherwise known as Yahoo! Widgets. A “widget” is basically a little piece of software that does a simple task, usually by querying a database on the internet or some other source via web services. There are widgets for stocks, the time of day, sports schedules,…
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Meetings and Power
As the former president of a Catholic elementary school board, and a member of this-and-that parish group, ad-hoc committee, and other community groups, I am pretty familiar with the inside of a meeting room. I am also pretty familiar with the idea of obsessively photographing obscure picture sets. That’s why I am taken in by…
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Richard Koppe: 15 Drawings
koppe_cover Originally uploaded by juggernautco. Here are scans of a limited edition piece by underappreciated Bauhaus guy Richard Koppe. I bought this for $3 in a garage sale in the Western suburbs of Chicago. There is very little info on the internet or even at the library about Richard Koppe. He hung…
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Metra Reversible Seats
Flips Back & Forth Originally uploaded by juggernautco. Yesterday I took the Metra. I was reminded how well-designed their reversible seats are. Sturdy, thick, simple device for flipping the seat over and facing the other direction if you feel like moving forward, with the train, seeing what’s up ahead; or if you feel…