I’m a big fan of the AMC series Mad Men. One thing that I draws me to it is the setting. The details and fashion are very well researched. If you have watched the entire series to date, you will notice changes to the set design and the characters fashion. Subtle yet very specific changes that reflected the changes over
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You might have noticed a bit of a gap in the posts in the past few weeks as I took a break from writing to concentrate on some other urgent projects. Now back, let’s dig into something I heard about a few days ago. Since I don’t shop at the store, I was not aware that the retailer Abercrombie &
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As a Canadian Astronaut and current Commander of the International Space Station, Chris Hadfield has taken hundreds of images from space and tweeted them. To Dave MacLean of the Nova Scotia Community College in Lawrencetown, N.S., the images were more than just a cool perspective from the International Space Station. MacLean teaches a class on advanced geographic sciences (geographic information
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Falcons may like fish, but in this case my lunch included a Millenium Fish, not Falcon. Or maybe it was just the toy that came with my order from the Red Stag Tavern. Anyway thought it funny enough to archive and share with everyone. Update: I just had to share this below as it was too was also too funny.
A viral funny that hits home is running around with local circles on social media. This is the prank of a couple of young lads who had the forsight (thank god that is all of the fore) to moon the Google streeet view car. This however is interesting in more than some youthful prankness. View Larger Map When you use
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Comscore releases a chart in honour of International Women’s Day which looks at how women spend time on the web and found that Canada is ranked second just behind the US and very close statistically to the UK. The data is based on information from January 2013. Perhaps it is a factor of mobile, but one would expect Asian and
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Behance, a New York City based “design centrictechnology company” was aquired by Adobe in December. The company has created a platform to showcase creative work and was a response to the “countless creative professionals suffering from inefficiency, disorganization, and careers at the mercy of bureaucracy”. Interestingly they partnered with LinkedIn in 2010 so ou can add Behance Projects
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A website I recently came across is not only useful but interesting. The backwards process of Whatthefont.com where one is trying to identify a font from a graphic, the website fontsinuse.com does a great job of cataloging images in category, format and font listing. The images are explained as to origin and also the fonts are listed. This could easily
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It’s far easier to like a post than comment is it not? Think about a friend posting a picture. How often do you comment as opposed to simply liking it to let them know you appreciate the post. Now think about posting as a Facebook page admin. When you post something you are more often to get a like than
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An interesting thing happened on Fab.com – a design and Pinterest leaning site. When a certain sideboard caught my eye I wanted to Pin it. I saw this come up in a pop out window: I wanted to not bother with the sales message. What then showed after an image refresh, but not a browser refresh was this: The code
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