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links for 2006-11-14

  • Candle on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
    “If the kitchen are being slow the absolute worst thing you can do is refuse to make eye contact with the people who have been waiting an hour. Offer them more drinks, make them laugh, apologize for the chefs.”
    (tags: anecdotes advice eatingout restaurants reviews rachelandrew)
  • Geek to Live: Essential tools for the placeless office - Lifehacker
    One thing I love about Gina’s features is that they’re less “look, this is cool” and more “I’ve been using this, formed an opinion and now am gonna share it with you”
    (tags: business organization productivity lifehacker lifehacks management office travel tools software)
  • Five steps to a better design portfolio, by Jeffrey Veen
    Fantastic advice from Jeff Veen on improving your design portfolio.
    (tags: advice art blog business design portfolios tips webdesign freelance)
  • Bag ban to save island from death by plastic - World - Times Online
    “Zanzibar, the spice island that has become a tropical tourist paradise, has banned plastic bags in an attempt to save its threatened ecology.”
    A brave, bold move. I admire them
    (tags: environment politics tourism plasticbags africa legislation important)
  • Creating Passionate Users: Add graphics to your blog, book, or presentation
    Cathy Sierra talks about and shares tips and techniques for creating those brilliant graphics and charts she includes in most of her entries. I love that I can get from the graphic whether I am really interested in the article or not ;-)
    (tags: blogging marketing tips teaching GTD howto information interesting business brain)
  • There’s something (crappy) about Borat… (plasticbag.org)
    “But given the hysteria around the film I really thought someone ought to stand up and say that this particular emperor is probably walking around at best half-clad.”
    (tags: culture movies borat tomcoates plasticbag funny humour quotes sachabaroncohen)
  • On Wattson and Electrisave… (plasticbag.org)
    “The citizen of the future will have some of their personal fuzziness removed as the sharp data edges of their lives are captured and tracked for personal use. And I’m not sure what I think about it. Except that it’s fascinating.”
    (tags: efficiency environment future plasticbag psychology statistics measurement personaldata comments)
  • Photo Matt ยป Unlucky In Cards
    One of the very few redesigns where I’ve just opened the page and gone “Wow, that’s beautiful”. Go Matt!
    (tags: redesign beautiful photomatt matt blogs wordpress people personal)
  • BBC NEWS | World | Africa | S Africa approves same-sex unions
    “South Africa’s parliament has voted in favour of plans to legalise same-sex weddings - the first African country to approve such unions.”
    (tags: gaymarriage gaypolitics gayrights southafrica africa home constitution rainbownation)
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