shiny things in messy little piles

Category: miscellany (Page 14 of 15)

a chicken makes my day

Some­times even the dullest of research projects brings a lit­tle snick­er. To wit, while cruis­ing the great gobi of amazon.com look­ing for chick­en cook­books (don’t ask) I found this lit­tle list. And now my day is all better.

-mag­pie

Wired Magazine, the Cluetrain, and Synchronicity

Odd to me that I should dis­cov­er the Clue­Train Man­i­festo (I pre­fer to think of myself as fash­ion­ably late to the par­ty) in the same week that the lat­est of Wired mag­a­zine final­ly makes it to the top of the ought­ta read pile with it’s arti­cles about on-line open­ness. Includ­ing Clive Thomp­son’s The See-Through CEO with it’s painful­ly time­ly con­clud­ing para­graph. (I won’t spoil it for you.) Con­tin­ue reading

Color Help for the Design Impaired

I’m not a design­er and right now our home­page is ugly. Real­ly ugly.

ugly version of blackdogandmagpie.net

One of my prob­lems is that I haven’t been able to decide on a col­or scheme. Until, that is, I was stand­ing in the bath­room brush­ing my teeth this morn­ing and look­ing at the paint col­or sam­ples that I have taped to the wall. (Try­ing to decide what col­or to paint the bath is a whole ‘nother prob­lem…) Con­tin­ue reading

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