December 2005
8 posts
links for 2005-12-22
Writing Documentation Using DocBook
A nice tutorial on using DocBook to produce cross-media documentation.
(tags: DocBook Documentation Programming)
links for 2005-12-16
Instructables
How to make cool stuff.
(tags: DIY Design Cool)
Bags Unlimited
A cheaper online alternative to the Container Store.
(tags: Shopping Cleaning)
It's Really a Cool Zone
What does Sperling’s Best Places to Live have to say about my city?
Reston is an unincorporated planned community and census-designated place located in western Fairfax County, Virginia, in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. As of the 2000 census, the community had a total population of 56,407.
A strain of Ebola called Ebola Reston was named after the community, after monkeys...
links for 2005-12-12
Dupont’s Self-Charging Smoke Alarm
Ugly but potentially life-saving.
(tags: Design Shopping)
Memories Past Historical Outfitters
Need to dress like Robert E. Lee? This is your place. Amazing they can make this stuff at this price-point.
(tags: Shopping History)
But Can I Get a Clam for a Neopet?
Wired offers some possible insight into why Neopets is so damn creepy:
Dohring brought two things to the company: expertise in market research and a deep commitment to the principles of Scientology. After college, he spent four years in Toledo working for the church in “counseling and communications.” In the writings of Scientology leader L. Ron Hubbard, Dohring discovered a...
links for 2005-12-07
Fender® Hello Kitty® Electric Guitar
This is too cool. I might need one, in an ironic hipster way.
(tags: Design Funny Shopping Guitar Instrument)
links for 2005-12-06
Picturing the Banjo at the Corcoran Gallery of Art
A whole art exhibit dedicated to artistic depictions of the banjo. Plunk!
(tags: Exhibits Art Music)
links for 2005-12-05
Woot
One really good online deal every day.
(tags: Blogs Cool Shopping Ecommerce)
Designer Bios
(tags: Design Art)