Monthly Archives: February 2009

Susan Sontag: why style is important

Why style is the most important element in a work of art

Brought to you by Saul Bass

Saul Bass: a designer who’s name you should know

You’re sitting in a chair, in the sky

Everything is amazing, and no one is happy

Some useful modifications to Joomla Podcast Suite

Modifying the feed view to display an image, and altering the module to provide easy CSS access

Securing passwords in your database

Add salt to your encrypted passwords for extra tastiness

Bottle-collecting shopping cart racers

Filmmaker Murray Siple follows some extreme shopping cart racers in north Vancouver

How to email a CEO

Basically: first a letter, then email

The Napoleon Dynamite problem

This is an old (If You Liked This, You’re Sure to Love That, Nov ‘08) but good article from the New York Times that I read parts of online, but just read in its entirety in the NYT print version. Very interesting discussion of the ability of computers to predict our movie preferences, especially in [...]