YakShaving

Yak•Shaving (noun) Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem

Month: September, 2007

links for 2007-09-11

Comparison of web application frameworks – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia useful for sdr uit2.0 (tags: web design application software reference) How to Write Remarkably Creative Content | Copyblogger (tags: creativity writing)

A vegetarian guide from treehugger.com

vegetable Napoleon with tomato coulis flickr credit: Amelia PS I use a variety of excuses when people ask me why I am vegetarian. Actually, I mostly got asked why I was a vegetarian this past summer when I was in the PRC. One excuse that I used was that it doesn’t make sense environmentally or [...]

Entrepreneurs and Saving the World, etcetera

Last week, Bill Clinton spoke at the Inc 500 conference about entrepreneurship and challenged small business owners of the fastest growing small companies to tackle large systemic problems by using their creativity: the health care crisis and poverty. In my large scale systems planning workshop class on Tuesdays and Fridays, that’s exactly what we’re doing.  [...]

“Simulacra of Simulacra of Simulacra”

Those are Gibson’s words, in the eyes of protagonist Cayce Pollard in Pattern Recognition to describe the tons of ubiquitous fashion knockoffs that spawn more knockoffs in an inevitable and vicious cycle. Arrgh. Apparently, it wasn’t enough for “Crocs” to make their legendary and woefully dreadful apparitions that seem to be omnipresent at teen summer [...]

Easily the worst software experience ever.

Parallels Desktop for Mac is the bane of my existence. It oft prevents me from entering into my Windows XP virtual machine– and in doing so gives me the gray screen of death (equivalent to the blue screen in Windows). For those that run Macs, you know how absolutely RARE it is to get a [...]

links for 2007-09-06

Vector Logo Database (tags: vector logo database) Typography: Tools and Techniques of the Trade (tags: design typography communication text)

links for 2007-09-05

Pecha Kucha: Get to the PowerPoint in 20 Slides Then Sit the Hell Down (tags: design storytelling powerpoint japan video)

new look

oh. This blog, yakshaving has a new look. hope you enjoy it!

good movies

I don’t know why but I have been on a movie kick recently.  I think it’s because I spend a lot of time in Evanston and there is actually a decent video rental place up there  (big ups to After Hours Rentals on Foster Rd, right by the El stop. Anyway, based on a conversation [...]

links for 2007-09-02

Why Facebook Is the Future – TIME (tags: facebook apps)