http://www.thecolorof.com/#find - A site that averages images to show you what the color of your search term is. Check out their small gallery - the gallery of sounds I found especially interesting, and I would love to see a much bigger gallery of places ( Read more... )

Read any one page from http://pleasefireme.com. There's nothing about my current job that comes close to approaching the entries here ( Read more... )

You get everyone in the company switched from a simple black screen to a new, extremely distracting screen saver that no user can change.

Originally posted here: http://hrafn.dreamwidth.org/503840.html. Pick your poison and comment there.

The image at the bottom of this page really says it all.

I have many days where that image comes to mind (though usually just the beginning and the end bits, not so much the middle bits).

It warmed my heart immensely to read this.

A video showing the change in unemployment rates in the US, color-coded by county, from Jan. 2007 to Dec. 2009.

A year ago, 20+ year old Boston architecture firm Cubellis had 400 employees. Now they are shutting down. (via pale_chartreuse)

I get various newsletters from the AIA; one of them provides updates on the Architecture Billings Index, which is a way to sorta measure how well the industry is doing. Here's an excerpt from the last such email, received about a week ( Read more... )

Seriously. It smells like a bottle of hand lotion exploded somewhere nearby :(

So there was a Halloween party at work on Friday. They were very strongly encouraging people to wear costumes. So, after talking to a coworker about how serious they really were about that, I decided to dust off the Borg pirate and wear that (sans the major lower arm prosthesis, cause I wanted to be able to hold a drink -and- a plate of food, and ( Read more... )

First, the alarm woke me from the middle of an aggravating dream about French toast. As in, I was trying to make French toast, and having Issues. Like, the person I made the first piece for? Decided to put off eating it in favor of something else. I had to make a 2nd batch of batter to make MY first piece, but by the time Ungrateful Wretch rejected ( Read more... )