By Michael Doig on Monday, July 28, 2008Filed Under: Featured, General, Unboxing
I recently received my House Industries Ampersand T-shirt. They packaged the T-shirt in a cool box, included 4 stickers, and several brochures for their new font set. One of my favorite things about getting orders from House is the smell. The ink off of those brochures is hypnotic. It is like a giant scratch and [...]
By Michael Doig on Friday, March 21, 2008Filed Under: Featured, General, Philosophy
A great set of videos on sales and marketing from Eben Pagan. If you have any interest in starting a business online, these are a must watch.
By Michael Doig on Wednesday, March 5, 2008Filed Under: Featured, General, Podcasts
The show has moved to 5x2podcast.com.
By Michael Doig on Monday, March 3, 2008Filed Under: Featured, General
Yesterday, I was walking down Ocean Ave. and I heard something that sounded like a bunch of parrots. I looked up and low and behold there were a pair of squawking green parrots hanging from a wooden nest attached to an air conditioning unit on the 6th floor of an apartment building. I was stunned. [...]
By Michael Doig on Monday, February 25, 2008Filed Under: Adventure, Featured, General
This is a photoset from my recent trip to Santa Cruz Island in California. The set has loads of pictures of dolphins, mainly because, well there were loads of dolphins. Somewhere in the middle of the slideshow there are a bunch of photos with splashes all around, that was a huge dolphin feeding frenzy. The [...]
By Michael Doig on Sunday, February 3, 2008Filed Under: Featured, General, Tutorials
Getting a parking ticket sucks. If you have a car in a large city, chances are you have received at least one parking ticket (if not more). I’ve discovered a little loophole that won’t make parking tickets go away, but it will save you money. On the back of the parking ticket there is usually [...]
By Michael Doig on Saturday, February 2, 2008Filed Under: Design, Featured
Over at barcodeart.com you can create a personal barcode using information about yourself. Here is mine. Enter personal information about yourself to be bar coded. All of the calculations in Barcode Yourself are based on real world facts, gathered from the Internet. Data like the Gross Domestic Product of each country. Lichtenstein is #1, USA [...]
By Michael Doig on Monday, January 7, 2008Filed Under: Design, Featured
Despite the fact that there are literally thousands of free WordPress themes available, many bloggers are buying themes. I’m not talking about those template factory themes, these premium themes are put together by top designers and are priced anywhere from $29.99 for a personal license to over $250 for a developers license which allows you [...]
By Michael Doig on Monday, December 3, 2007Filed Under: Featured, Philosophy
James Randi is an interesting character. He is a magician, escape artist, and a huge skeptic of paranormal claims. His foundation offers a one million dollar prize to anyone who can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event. Part of his reasoning for offering such a large [...]
By Michael Doig on Sunday, November 25, 2007Filed Under: Design, Featured
Black Friday in Manhattan was a mad house. Shoppers were crammed into Best Buy and Circuit City looking for the items that were advertised in the circulars. I felt like everyone in New York was going to open one of 5 things on Christmas morning. If you want to make an impact and get something [...]