It doesn’t happen often, but there was an interesting TED talk recently. The topic-a little esoteric for some, perhaps-was flag design, and specifically municipal flag design.

Flags-at least well-designed flags-are cool, so I checked it out.

The talk is structured largely by the five principles of flag design:

1. Keep it simple
2. Use meaningful ( Read more... )

5 years ago: In mid-2002, I had just been let go after seven years of work at Sapient. I’d also just started my LiveJournal, and was about to leave for an amazing 12-day tour of Scotland with the DargonZine writers. 10 years ago: 1997 In mid-1997, I had just finished a four-month stint of grand jury ( Read more... )

Yes, I’m early this week. I’m that good.

Those of you who pick up the Friday Five from my page might want to know that there’s an official Web site at http://fridayfive.org/, and there’s an RSS feed at fridayfive_feed that you can put on your friends page.
What was your first Halloween costume? The first one I remember was a skeleton. Ha ha, look at the skinny ( Read more... )

What's your favorite piece of clothing that you currently own? That'd be a toss-up between two things. My Shimano cycling sandals ( Read more... )

Recently, I've tried to be a lot more supportive and (specifically) a lot less judgemental about stuff. Unfortunately, there's one group of people that I can't stop being judgemental about. So it makes sense to talk about it here.

There's a circle of people I know who share some of the same interests as me. It's not a single group, or even specific ( Read more... )