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via YouTube – 8/28/2006-Peter Schiff Predicts The US Economic Collapse With Unbelievable Accuracy

Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space… Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.

Buckminster Fuller

Jeffrey stumbles upon the answer to his dreams:

The nightmare that woke me concerned a town called Gale, Kansas.

It was a town for young murderesses and their parents.

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : A Town Called Gale

• You took the 2008 ALA Survey For People Who Make Websites, right?
• Large Hadron Collider via Faruk

• Paris for president, bitches.

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  The TENORI-ON is a unique 16 x 16 LED button matrix performance instrument with a stunning visual display. For DJs & producers it is a unique performance tool enabling them to perform using MIDI and load the TENORI-ON with samples to ‘jam / improvise’ within their set BPMs.

• “I am a straight male who speaks to women. They want me. They want me to talk to them, and to take them to another world. I’m good at it. I’m a pro. A ladies man. I speak to younger women. I speak to older women. I speak both Spanish and English. I have been thrown offers left and right. They want me to meet up and have my way with them, but I keep it only to phone conversations.”

  via The Morning News

Old Honda Civic, originally uploaded by noeljackson.

An old honda civic in beautiful condition, found in Ferndale Michigan.

Note: This is an article written a few months back.

I don’t drink… Often. Of course, socially, it’s, to me, a necessary evil. Every six months or so, I’ll have a drink. (Then again, I haven’t had a drink in over a year…) Usually, to remind myself how disgusting it is. That is just my personal opinion. Some love their ale or spirits.

But, stumbling from city to city, to country, to town, you meet lots of people. And conversations are spoken that startle you.

Recently a friend of a friend recited to me the details of his first encounter with heroin – he swore he never did it again. He said, “it’s not that it’s bad, but that it’s so good… just utterly indescribable. I mean, just man, it’s not even possible to put into words.”

Another friend of mine swears by Ambien, and takes it every night before bed.

And, I see a pattern in the acquisition and use of drugs as something to cure what we call, “The Human Condition.” Anxiety, panic-attacks, fear. Some of us call it life.

The more I grow up, the more I notice that in some facet or another, everyone is trying to tame their human condition. Chocolate, sweets, hugs, sex, heroin, pot, electronics, vitamins, healthy food, running. We all, subconsciously, or not, are in a perpetual state of altering our state of consciousness.

I take my daily dose of vitamins, heart medication, and 150 oz. of water for the day, to alleviate my symptoms of dysautonomia. I feel better doing it.

This is all related to the recent death of a 102 year old scientist and experienced psychedelic user, Dr. Albert Hoffman: the inventor of LSD. He used it continuously until his death, at the ripe old age of 102.
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Some nice Helvetica usage. A poster for a movie coming out entitled “Blindness.”

Peace Sign Window, originally uploaded by noeljackson.

Monotone, the theme eight6 (that’s me folks) developed in conjunction with Automattic is now available for download.

Head on over to Wordpress.com to download Monotone v1.

I wrote this a month or so ago, and never published it.

We live in amazing times. Just amazing.

The internet has blessed us all with the power to communicate with each other. It took a while, but we finally realized that the internet doesn’t have to be all about cats and animated gifs. Even though, those are still two very popular topics.

Not just geeks are on the net anymore, either. I just learned, Kanye West has a blog… and it’s probably actually HIM blogging on it! Not to mention he has a Vimeo account (”suck on that Flickr,” says Vimeo founder j/k)! BTW, Kottke, who I rubbed the wrong way many years back, alerted me to all this, on his unimaginably popular blog.

After watching this video, how can you not love the internet?

We’ve finally learned that there is more to life than “me” and that the “we” is what makes the world go round.

The internet does have a heart. It enables us to do some really amazing things.

Recently, along with Coudal Partners, 37Signals, Metafilter, Happy Cog, Iconfactory, Core77, Daring Fireball, Emma, Business Brickyard, and skinnyCorp, I got to help kids benefit from your filthy gambling habit. My design studio eight6 donated $1000 to buy some books for kids, by matching your donations.

I’ve always been unnaturally excited to help others. Being able to do that through my work, is gratifying. eight6 is heavily focused on helping the world and it will always be a core part of who I am and what my company represents. It sounds “deep,” and kind of corny. But it’s pretty simple. We build and design things (usually websites), using design to clarify communication and in return, help make good things happen.

In the next few months I’m going to be launching a program to help loving geeks help the world become a better place, just by doing what they do. Sounds interesting? I think it is. It will be an experiment, but an interesting and, hopefully, a fruitful one.

• I met Jacob at a bar with my friend Ryan.
• I went to Kiki De Montparnasse while in NYC this past month, with my friend Leigh. (perhaps both links) NSFW (depending on where you work)
• Joseph Querio has some amazing artwork, that I picked up at my local comic shop Detroit Comics
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• Randomly found: MIND CONTROL TECHNIQUES AND TACTICS OF THE New World Order
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• Web 2.0 fails to produce cash. Can I say “I told you so?” [via Hugh]
• Wordpress is 5. I can’t believe it. I recall having a conversation with Matt when he was working on extending b2 to Wordpress… I so wish I saved that chat transcript. What young geeks we were.

Seriously, awesome.

Originally uploaded by ext212

Being a designer today means you probably work with the Web in some way. I’ve always used the Web as my design medium (usually), but many designers don’t (some, not at all).

Many people have a great affinity towards their profession and even more towards their particular area of expertise within. I’m an “interaction designer,” you’ll hear, or “I’m a graphic designer.” It’s good to define yourself, but bad to box yourself in. The hard part, is doing the former without the latter.

Is it bad to be a “print designer” and not know HTML? Yes. My Mom even knows HTML. No really, she does! Being a “designer” means you are a creator. You know how to use a paintbrush, right? Then figure out what HTML is. Fightin’ words? Perhaps. But, shoot, HTML has been around since ‘89!

On the other hand, is it bad to be a “Web designer” and not know about CMYK? Yes. Web designers should know more about color spaces than any print designer, yet most are baffled at the thought.

But, what about development? Should Web designers know about code (PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.)? Yes! (You knew that was the answer.) Some may remark, “that’s what developers do.” Well, developers do know how to code, but they are also master designers. The MVC “design” is just one example of elegant design. “Code is poetry,” as Matt puts it.

Is it bad to be a “Web designer” and not know how to code? Yes. This is your world, you aren’t just producing HTML and CSS, it all eventually touches some procedural language.

Learn about everything that goes on with what you create. You should know what developers are doing, and they should know what you are doing – even just a little.

Learning about programming can open a whole new world of ideas and opportunities, especially for designers. Joshua Davis is just one of the coolest and most integrated designer/developer/artists out there. And, he does it all without a single thought to “what” he is. He makes things, period. He learns about whatever he needs to, to create integrity in his work.

We’ve gotten so much press about it, so I hate to point to it as an example. But, without programming, we wouldn’t have created Monotone. As a Web designer today, it’s not just a choice to learn to code, it’s a responsibility.

Your integrity reflects in everything you do. Without accountability, your integrity is null. Some people aren’t programmers, but if you can write HTML, I’m sure you can write a little old program.

Overlap your expertise. Code, write, draw, create.

Bucminster fuller was a man of great integrity and ideas, most notably for creating the first geodesic home – he was a visionary, far far ahead of his time. Currently I’m reading a few of his books (all simultaneously). In searching, curiously for houses, I came upon this:

• Brian Cox: What really goes on at the Large Hadron Collider

• Bruce Schneier, a famous cryptologist — or at least as famous a cryptologist as cryptologists are likely to get in this century — once described attempts to make digital bits uncopyable as “trying to make water not wet.”

• dripbook is an interesting portfolio app/site.
• The biggest jerks, Wikipedia style.
• Khoi Vihn using keynote as a utility layout tool.

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  This is the first glimpse at my newest creation.

• A is for Atheist.

  The OUT Campaign allows individuals to let others know they are not alone. It can also be a nice way of opening a conversation and help to demolish the negative stereotypes of atheists. Let the world know that we are not about to go away and that we are not going to allow those that would condemn us to push us into the shadows.

• A collection of Madonna photos from Vanity Fair.
• Why I won’t vote for hillary. Among other things.
• For some reason, the idea of another SPEED movie just doesn’t get old. Ha! [via Joshua Blankenship]
• Rob Wychert is venturing out across america in a kick ass Corolla. His site for the journey, just flaunts brilliance. I love it.
• Why is it, I have no problem with the Miley Cyrus pictures, except for the fact that Billy Ray, who if you don’t remember wrote “Achy Breaky Heart”, is in them.

It’s been a long time since I remember someone talking about the cite element. It’s my favorite HTML element…

So, lets revisit:

Valid examples of the element:

<blockquote cite="http://yourreferencesite.com" title="Article, title, author, date">
<p>This is one paragraph</p>
<p>Yet another paragraph</p>
<p>Says: Your Source<a href="http://yourreference.com"><cite>Your source:</cite>
</blockquote>

Aside: technically shouldn’t forum software use something like:

<dt id="n33"><cite><a href="/profile/">Author Name</a></cite><br /><strong>12.12.12 00-00-00</strong><br /><em>Title</em></dt>
<dd>
<blockquote cite="#n33">
<p>comment goes here</p>
</blockquote>
<p><small>Forum signature</small></p>
</dd>

I go topless, that is, sans-iPhone, sans-computer, to all of my meetings and meals. I like to use more tangible objects to illustrate any ideas, or take notes and I think that even one subtle distraction from a ill-timed txt message can ruin the mood fast. Sometimes I still sneak a laptop around with me, but I’ve broken the habit pretty well.

I just updated to the WP trunk. Which is just fantastic.

I need a new design to go along with the upgrade, so until then, I’m sticking with Kubrick.

Holy crap this is awesome. Seriously, I freaking can’t believe it.