Renters amok, brokers rocked, and the hallmarks of clean code:
Rental car company Avis has no problem with a blogger writing about them, but for some reason they have a big problem with said blogger also using their logo in the post. Doesn’t anyone understand the term “fair use” anymore? Madness!
Buzz is that E*Trade is on [...]
Where, oh where was this when I needed it a few months ago! During my regimented reading, I came across Scott Berkun’s 2004 post on how to survive creative burnout. I’m linking to it now so I’ll have easy access to it when (not if) my batteries start to drain again and I start to [...]
Tonight we feature cable boxes, fake boxes, and squeeze-boxes:
I don’t know what’s gotten into the FCC lately, but they’re actually making…sensible decisions!  Looks like they’re about to impose some significant new regulations to open the cable market.  Long overdue.
For future reference:  Pixel Mana has whipped up this nice template for creating boxes in Photoshop.  Never know when you need [...]
…just not missing (for once).
No posting from the future today. Just a return to writing, then plenty of vegging out. And why not, seeing as how I’ve been working like a dog most of the weekend, and running for my life part of it, and having my guts twisted in knots for the remainder. No, [...]
Continuing the tradition of doing the bare-minimum:
An English mom said she ordered someone in a gorilla suit to deliver a birthday message to her son at his school.  Instead, he got a stripper….
The Sunlight Foundation whipped up a layer for Google Earth to show where and what projects U.S. government officials are budgeting funds for across the country. [...]