I found this shirt over the weekend and decided to find out the deal with the Ames Bros.
Verdict? They do good work (although their website needs serious help).


Uh-Oh!, men’s t-shirt

So flew Virgin America this past week. They have a good attitude and sense of humor which is refreshing when you’re flying. The interior is has been modernized on the surface – using things like diffused neon lighting and shiny white plastic shells on various surfaces (it’s lipstick on a pig, as much as can be done with a standard plane interior).
What really made my trip was the fact that the entertainment console had DOOM as one of the featured games.
It made my trip until DOOM froze my console twice. It’s always something, ain’t it?

Webmonkey has redesigned their site (again). I’ve seen some posts poking fun at them for another redesign, people wondering what the point is.
The point for me is that I’m glad Webmonkey still exists. I’m actually amazed it still exists.
When I graduated college in 1999 with a degree in Graphic Design (read ‘print design’), I made the choice way back then to become a web designer. I loved print, but the web was way too interesting for me to let go of. My next step was to learn how to do this web stuff, and since we didn’t have courses on web design, Flash or HTML back then (and our computers were steam-powered and made of wood) the place I turned to was Webmonkey.
For anyone in the process of learning web design, I highly recommend browsing through some of their lessons and tutorials. I would bookmark their HTML & Special Characters Cheatsheets, I use them to this day.

We wouldn’t want to “dampen the world’s appetite for oil” now would we?
Shit, they might go and find something that’s better than oil, and that would suck!

I just went live with product site for Sebrx. The site was done for my client, Revision Skincare.
A thanks goes out to Josh Jennings at AirLevel1 for the solid development support.

(Thanks Quigga.)

From the Dallas Morning News: Why doesn’t Microsoft out-innovate Apple?
First off, what the hell is in the water in Texas? Either the writer is extremely dumb, or they published this “blog” post just to get a lot of comments (and you’ll see there’s a lot).
The writer ends the piece by answering his own question. Yes, innovation has nothing to do with how much money you pump into a company, or a department. Also, giving a company an ‘innovation lab’ does not infuse them with forward thinking.
Innovation comes from the DNA of a company. It has to start from leaders and weaves through everyone else in that company. Innovation can never come from the other direction. Innovation cannot stem from a junior level employee and spread throughout the company and all the way up to senior management.
As a hypothetical – transplanting Jonathan Ive from Apple into Microsoft will not help Microsoft spawn a breakthrough product. The only think it will help spawn is an angry mutant version of Ive.

I spotted this on 3rd Ave & 93rd St. I guess we’re not hiding this fact anymore, eh?

AT&T launches “Surface” computing at retail


…and AT&T is a also getting ready for the 3G iPhone.
All I have to say is, if my iPhone ever finds itself on top of a Microsoft Surface, it has my full permission to take a dump on it.

Ballmer Calls Vista ‘A Work In Progress’ (via)

In the modern era of regular online updates, most pieces of software are effectively works in progress, even after their release. But Ballmer’s use of the phrase is surprising, because to most people it would tend to connote “something unfinished,” said Michael Gartenberg, a Jupiter Research analyst.
“It’s hard to imagine that a comment like that is the type of thing that is going to instill greater confidence” about Windows Vista in the minds of companies and individual PC users, he said.

Wow. It sounds like Ballmer is taking cues right from the Iraqi War playbook. Both are ‘works in progress’, right?
Why don’t you have the balls to call it what it is – failure on an epic scale*.

*please note I am in no way saying Windows Vista is comparable in damage to the War in Iraq, I’m merely comparing the use of rhetoric.

iameuropean.com – portfolio of Kamil Gottwald

I’m not knocking LinkedIn for ‘adopting’ this feature from Facebook, I just think it’s interesting. And it makes sense.
The Originator (Facebook):

The Adopter (LinkedIn):