David McCreath

From Will Durst: The George W Bush 2006 State of the Union drinking game. Plus fondue! With Li’l Smokies!

Tagged by [Mike](http://www.muledesign.com/hoof/stable/four_things.php) for my very first meme 3\/4R!
Four jobs I’ve had:
1. Assistant manager of all concession stands at the Ft. Worth Zoo
2. Graphic Designer
3. Programmer
4. Web Developer
Four movies I can watch over and over:
1. Serenity
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension
4. The Maltese Falcon
Four places I have lived:
1. Ft. Worth, Texas
2. Bielefeld, Germany
3. Austin, Texas
4. Anchorage, Alaska
Four television shows I love to watch:
1. Battlestar Galactica
2. The Shield
3. The Daily Show
4. Clean Sweep (a momentary fascination that will probably pass within the month)
Four places I have been on vacation:
1. Kauai
2. Antarctica
3. Morocco
4. Great Britain
Four of my favorite dishes:
1. Pad Thai
2. Enchilada Plate
3. Peanut Butter and Jelly
4. Dr. Pepper, Snickers, and Nacho Cheese Doritos
Four websites I visit daily:
1. [kottke](http://kottke.org)
2. [Signal vs Noise](http://37signals.com/svn/)
3. [Daring Fireball](http://daringfireball.net/)
4. That which cannot be named, but is [good]
Four places I would rather be right now:
1. San Francisco
2. Austin
3. Kauai
4. Argentina
Four bloggers I am tagging:
1. [Micki](http://mickikrimmel.com/redcarpet/)
2. [Phil](http://blog.myspace.com/langsqual)
3. [Tom](http://blog.myspace.com/hunglikeamouse)
4. [Adrian](http://blog.myspace.com/toofastformetal)

Dan Sandler on the true nature of evil. He makes a good point.

The thieves folks at Sitesurfer Publishing seem to want to do a good job, but really, if you’re going to steal a design from someone and sell it to a client as your own work, you should at least have the common decency to change it a little bit and the common sense to re-brand it, like any right-thinking rustler would. The stylesheets in use at Colorado Land Rush are still clearly labeled:

/*
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adaptive path master screen file
version: 2003.02.20
----------------------------------------------- */

Ooooops. And you would think that would go double for people doing work for lawyers.

UPDATE: So the people at coloradolandrush.com seem understand that they were hoodwinked, and have taken down the offending site. Here’s a screenshot for those interested. Addtionally, it appears that not only does Sitesurfer do work for lawyers, they do work for intellectual property lawyers. Nice.

Yesterday, for the first time that I can remember in my life, I got a haircut before I really needed to. First flossing daily and now this. For me 40 is not the new 30, 40 is the new 12.

Consumer Reports on which kinds of products are worth buying organic. Pretty much what we do, and it also highlights the pitfalls of the “organic” buzzword (lack of certification standards for seafood, for example).

From Creating Passionate Users, a Crash course in learning theory. This is good and timely. I’m about to start teaching web development to public school teachers.

“In Action” is not a good name for a newsletter, no matter how you *write* it, because when someone *says* it in his or her head (or to someone else, for that matter – “Hey, Frank! Did you see the last issue of _Edify In Action_?”), it will always *sound* like “[inaction](http://www.answers.com/inaction&r=67)”. And if you do a haphazard job with the display, like Edify has done here, it’ll even look like it. This is doubly true if the development of your main product is glacial.

AMERICAN HARDCORE – The Film
“Hardcore was more than music — it was a social movement created by Reagan-era misfit kids. The participants constituted a tribe unto themselves — some finding a voice, others an escape in the hard-edged music; some sought a better world, others were just angry and wanted to raise hell.”
I know some of the Texas folks that are going to be featured in this film, and played shows with most of the Texas bands at one point or another. I hope the movie is good.

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Random Screen‘ is a mechanical thermo dynamic display which does not rely on any electricity.” Cubes with one transluscent side that each hold a single tea candle with a specially cut beer can that displays or hides the light according to the heat from the candle. Very pretty.