If you’re looking for a way to quickly compare population, unemployment, or say – median household income – check out Social Explorer Here’s household income based on the 2000 Census – zoomed into the Twin Cities
http://eightandfive.com/2006/12/22/flash-developers-first-impressions-of-wiis-internet-channel/ (Â sorry I decided to post to another blog I contribute to, but seems to sort of fit what we’re covering here as well )
“For many years web design was an unnatural paring of graphic design, software design and product design, all of these disciplines assumed that there was an endpoint that was “done”” – Karl Long You already know I agree with Karl. In my experience, the practitioners that really ‘get’ web design compare it more to urban [...]
A while back I was window shopping online at Ikea when I came across their Error message. Instead of feeling frustrated or angry, I was delighted to see this:
Curbly – the latest project from Minnesota Ruby on Rails Rockstars, Bruno Bornsztein and Ben Moore – is like a Web 2.0-compliant Digg + MySpace + ReadyMade magazine (Between you and me – this is great because ReadyMade got a little too cool for itself a couple years back). Curbly has lots of big pictures, [...]
I’m a little late on posting this, sorry. Big congrats to local Ruby on Rails superstars, Slantwise Design, and the rest of the team behind SaySwap.com.
UPDATE: Joe Clark in the comments was right. Too many negatives got me confused. Target’s motion to dismiss the case was rejected. The case is proceeding. Thanks Joe. In February of this year, a lawsuit was filed against our own Target.com for being inaccessible: “The complaint cites various problems with Target.com: alt-text is missing from [...]
Matt Bartel fires one across the bow. Not cool Matt. Not cool. Why you gotta be hatin’?. There are far better targets for your vitriol. Like this or this. Ironically, I suspect the site in question will link to the Strib far less than MNSpeak.
At the last house we renovated, we rented a bunch of mini dumpsters from TUBS, both on the move-in and the move-out. Each dumpster was about $100 and we got to keep them for a week. It worked well for things like, “clean out the garage this weekend”. On the downside, the dumpster truck consistently [...]
We hear that all the time. Write to your elected officials! Let them know what you think! Sadly, it seems that most politicians are about as tech-saavy as your average rock. So no matter how many emails you send, odds are that you’ll never hear back from them. And that seems to be common knowlege [...]