Tag: design
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Corporate America Goes Postal.
The U.S. Postal Service is now allowing companies to design and print their own first-class stamps “We want to make mail more interesting to consumers.” (Joanne Veto. USPS Spokeswoman.) Joanne, I just don’t think this will do it. There are very few companies who, I believe, adhere to a decent looking brand and even fewer…
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Public Apology.
As someone pointed out on Gothamist, the flyer I wrote about below was NOT created by Wal-Mart and instead created by a group called Wal-Mart Watch. Had I read the entire flyer and visited the Web site prior having written both Jake at Gothamist and the post below, I’d have realized that they seem to…
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Wal-Mart Goes Viral. Maybe.
(Edited to add: I have written a public apology for the post below.) I exited the 4/5/6 today. The usual groups of people were standing outside Grand Central handing out menus, free rags, and the latest giveaways, whatever they cold pile on a passerby. They’re like attack fish, these people. I usually ignore them. Today,…
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The Post Wherein I Turn a Tiny Beef I had With Comment Spam Into Waging a War Against Everything.
For over four years, I used blog software built by my husband. As many of you know about two weeks ago we moved mihow.com over to Typo. It’s a great package for the most part. It’s easy to use and the templates are well designed. I haven’t run into too much weirdness or frustration using…
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Screw You, You Little Prick.
Today, I stupidly decided to go visit the “on site” visiting work nurse to get a reading for my cholesterol, my blood pressure, and my glucose. And it’s a good thing I did that because I found out that I’m dying. On March 28th, 2006 (yes, that’s not even two months ago) I went in…
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Go Back To Those Gold Sounds
My dearest, most lovely, most amazing, and talented friend, Soung, eloped on January 10th. It was a Tuesday, otherwise, I would have been there. Damn you people for eloping on a Tuesday! (When it’s central, so essential) I met Soung when I was 18. We lived together in college. Katrina introduced us. Soung was the…
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The New Yorker Caption Contest.
The other day I was flipping through our weekly New Yorker when I discovered that they had a weekly caption contest. I mentally recorded the comic, and within a few seconds, I had decided on a caption. This is the comic: My caption: You don’t emit squiggly lines, do you? After running it by Tobyjoe,…
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Flickr, mihow.com, and Scarlett Johansson
OK, so there are a few things I’d like to talk about today. First, I’m going to talk about Flickr. Then, I’ll bring up my pictures. Finally, I’ll talk about Scarlett Johansson and how she’s in my foyer again. I like Flickr. I really do. At first, I wasn’t super keen on it. I remember…
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Friday Free-For-All.
My sister-in-law sent me three pictures yesterday. The photos were the considered “rejects” that had recently come back in the proofs sent over by a professional photography studio. I wasn’t so sure they should actually be considered rejects, however. Internet, check this out. (In all honesty, this is the type of thing that has Tobyjoe…
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