Tuesday, December 9, 2008 –
Today I bought myself an M&M — or “Rainbow” — cookie from Starbucks. When I got back to my desk to get down to business, the bag I received had two things in it: 1. my cookie and 2. the piece of waxy tissue paper used by the barista to pick up the cookie.
I assume that the baristas use the tissue paper to maintain the illusion of cleanliness during the transaction. I mean, those same hands are handling my money, and who knows where that’s…
By: Fred LeBlanc
Tuesday, December 9, 2008 –
Logan, as is his wont, happily trotted into the bizdev office, and picked up Karin's winter boot and began happily whining and walking around with his new prize. Nils noticed and went to the rescue...
Nils: Want me to press the eject button?
Karin: Could you please? I don't want to get slobber on my boot.
Fred: He doesn't slobber, he just puts it in his mouth!
Karin: Here, take this boot and tell me what this is…
Thursday, December 4, 2008 –
It is by now well known that I am prone to sentimentality. As the great philosopher Popeye frequently said, "I yam who I yam". Or something :-). Anyway, today is the day of our by-now traditional holiday party, and I hope you're coming. This year the party feels a little more poignant to me...
Our holiday party is by tradition held on the first Thursday of December, just a week after Thanksgiving this year, and more or less a month after the…
Thursday, December 4, 2008 –
Tonight is iMarc's annual holiday party. Like past years, one of the best aspects of the party is seeing what madness our creative director, Craig Henry, will create for the invitation.
This year's theme was record covers. Craig and Christian photographed all employees on various days. The original photos were bland—just us iMarcians posed in awful sweaters in front of solid backdrops. Then Craig went wild in Photoshop.
The final result: eight…
Monday, December 1, 2008 –
Last year I discussed how the CAPTCHA is a world class user-UNfriendly construct. It's heavily used in the fight against form-spam in an attempt to separate humans from computers by requiring humans to perform challenging cognitive tasks — typically interpreting distorted text.
It's as common as ever, but today I ran across a particularly unpleasant form on the New York Times website:
Bonus points if you can correctly identify the first word…
Friday, November 21, 2008 –
This morning, Karin and I met with an organization that's preparing to re-do their website. They're going about it the right way — starting with basic strategy and planning — and we were asked to submit a proposal to lead them through this process. Since that's basically what I do here, I was there to talk about it.
During some great Q&A, they asked a very, very good question:
What are the three most important things to a great website?…
Friday, November 21, 2008 –
The 5th season of LOST starts January 21st, 2009 and the vague clues have already started. A few weeks ago, ABC released the teaser trailer for the upcoming season. More recently, iTunes added a music video for “You Found Me” by The Fray, a song will be heard in the Season 5 premiere. The video contains clips from the teaser trailer with a few new clips thrown in. What grabbed my attention most was a logo that flashed twice during the video.…
Monday, November 17, 2008 –
Fred: How's the data-entry going?
Dave: Great. I spend half my time entering data, and half complaining to Patrick
Fred: That sounds like my day...every day. That's how I roll.
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Thursday, November 13, 2008 –
Today, the iMarc business development team is at the annual New England Museum Association (NEMA) conference. The NEMA conference is attended by museum colleagues and executives as well as vendors specializing in museum services. iMarc is there because we've built a number of museum websites including Museum for African Art (New York), Newport Restoration Foundation (Rhode Island), Seacoast Science Center (New…
Monday, November 3, 2008 –
We're 11 Years Old
If we were a person, we'd be in 6th grade.
If we were a dog, we'd be 77 years old.
If we were latin, we'd be celebrating our Undecinnial.
If we were married, we'd be receiving gifts of steel.
If the world had adopted my new number system, we'd be onety-one.
We've left the realm of counting years on our fingers or toes. What was life like before we reached an age that required three syllables? Check out…
By: Robert Mohns
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