This blog is basically in a coma. I doubt it will get much of an update until the summer. Cya then.

/nat

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I love the internet. If possible I want to be able to touch it all times. I want to be able to see a billboard, find it interesting, and plug the company’s website into a hand held device and find out about them. I want to walk past a cool t-shirt, or other product and place an order right there, or at least post information about it to either an online to-do list or twitter or something. I want information at my fingertips 24/7. This doesn’t mean I’ll be using this information at all times, but the possibility so that when something comes up I can know the answer to what glycyrrhizin is. This is the information age after all. (more…)

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A blog that I am currently loving is Serif. Serif provides interesting designs that usually center around typography. Serif also talks about innovations in type and other news in the design world.

One neat thing that Serif does is hold these things called “revisions.” Revisions allow for readers to send in their versions of current designs. The current revision, revision 4, ends today. Revision 4 asked readers to design covers for their favorite books. I am very sad that I stumbled across this so late, because I would have loved to make a cover for my favorite book, Neuromancer.

So head on over to Serif and check out some of the designs people have submitted. They are all very good.

In other news:

• Crazy EA employee going through wikipedia and changing history. - This just pisses me off
•  Some high schools forcing students to specialize. - I am a strong believer that students should spend HS figuring out what they want to do. I even think that requiring students to declare a major upon entering college is ridiculous. The current mindset in parenting is to push kids into maturity at a younger age, and this in my mind is what is causing all of the problems we have in education, especially here in California.
• If you haven’t played with Pandora yet, you should. And if you have and want to save what you listen to Last.Fm, check out PandoraFM

Hasta

/Nat

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Thunderbird that is. According to this post by Mitchell Baker, the Thunderbird product is not getting enough love, and I totally agree. Having thought about the topic a little, I think one of the better solutions is to break Thunderbird off and create the Thunderbird Foundation. Although I don’t have a buisness background, or even a deep connection to the Thunderbird movement, here is my reasoning.

• Thunderbird is a powerful product but the shadow that Firefox and the infamous Outlook cast is dark and long. While many know of Thunderbird’s existence, it is not a mainstream product the way Firefox is. Creating a separate foundation will, in theory, promote much needed hype and help Thunderbird establish itself more as it’s own product and not the bastard child of Firefox.
• In terms of Outlook, Thunderbird has heavy competition. Outlook is one of those applications that works well enough, but it is so widely used, especially in the business world that many users aren’t realizing it’s potential. I believe that if Thunderbird gets moved to it’s own foundation, it could have the opportunity to have more money and people thrown at it, not too many mind you, and become a more professional app.

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