22 Jan 2010, Posted by Matthew Reinbold in Design, Events, 0 Comments

Debbie Millman Illuminates Iconic Brands

Any Yahoo with Microsoft paint can make a Googlable logo. But what transforms a forgettable placeholder on a piece of letterhead into an iconic brand that last even after the company it represents is gone? Debbie Millman attempted to answer that question at Salt Lake’s AIGA meeting last night.

17 Jan 2010, Posted by Matthew Reinbold in New Work Ways, 0 Comments

Business Lessons from the King of Pop

John Nese runs the world famous Galcos Soda Pop Stop in Los Angles, California. In a lovely little bit of online video he explains what makes a small store like his special. Not surprisingly, what he mentions are lessons that a lot of businesses could benefit from.

15 Jan 2010, Posted by Matthew Reinbold in Software Humor, 1 Comments

CodeMonkey!

A music video for the Jonathan Coulton song, CODE MONKEY! Because, honestly, were you really getting anything done on a Friday afternoon?

14 Jan 2010, Posted by Matthew Reinbold in Die Bucher (the books), 1 Comments

die Bücher (the books) – Suarez’s Daemon

Descriptions of Daniel Suarez’s Daemon might remind you of Charles Stross’s novel, Halting State. Both start with a misbehaving MMORPG. Both have autonomous software agents wielding influence in the physical world. Both have broken protagonists fighting not only to keep the virtual world at bay but their own shadowy pasts.

The difference is that Daemon does it terrifyingly, realistically, fabulously *better*.

08 Jan 2010, Posted by Matthew Reinbold in Wunderkammer (the links), 0 Comments

Wunderkammer: Jan 8th, 2010

Branding, bots, and underwear bombers, oh my! It’s another roundup of curiosities from around the web which I affectionately call… THE WUNDERKAMMER!