| Monday, October 30, 2006 |
| Marketing by Dilbert |
My friend Julie sent this to me a few months ago. Probably the best cartoon ever. |
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| Monday, October 16, 2006 |
| Brett C.ttf |
Over the weekend, the coolest girl in the whole universe showed me www.fontifier.com. For $9 it takes your handwriting and turns it into a typeface. Mine is pretty accurate, but since I never write in lower-case, you'll have to hit your CAPS key for it to be realistic. On second thought, it still won't be realistic because I write in a hybrid CAPS-cursive-print melange known by the state of California to cause cancer in the retinas of lab rats. And I can't figure out how to get realistic ligatures...but anyway... If you want to download Brett-C.ttf, you can get it here. Just promise not to write anything about how much you love fruit or celery with it. |
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| Wednesday, October 11, 2006 |
| pmayne signs off |
After years of creating award-winning websites for Richter7, he left today for a position at Move Networks.
Good luck Paul- and don't forget to take that framed photo montage of Mazzotta with you wherever you go. |
| posted by Brett Crockett @ 3:00 PM |
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| Sunday, October 08, 2006 |
| The Weekend |
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| Tuesday, October 03, 2006 |
| HeartBloom |
This is my new favorite flash movie. Better than Homestar Runner and even better than...nevermind...the actual movie isn't very good (well, it's what you get with basically no drawing skills and 12fps), but I like the concept/story. Click Here to see it. |
| posted by Brett Crockett @ 6:00 PM |
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| Monday, October 02, 2006 |
| Child Killer |
A couple of months ago, I finished Freakonomics by Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner. The whole book is worth reading and answers questions like:
"What do schoolteachers and Sumo Wrestlers have in common?"
"How is the Ku Klux Klan like a group of real-estate agents?"
and "Why do drug dealers still live with their moms?"
I was particularily interested in a chapter near the end that explored whether a gun or a swimming pool is more dangerous. The following is an excerpt from the book, and below is the remainder of the PSA campaign I schemed to bring awareness to the issue. In fact, in a recent year, there were 175 children killed by guns compared to 745 drowned in pools.
"Consider the parents of an eight-year-old girl named, say, Molly. Her two best friends, Amy and Imani, each live nearby. Molly's parents know that Amy's parents keep a gun in their house, so they have forbidden Molly to play there. Instead, Molly spends a lot of time at Imani's house, which has a swimming pool in the backyard. Molly's parents feel good about having made such a smart choice to protect their daughter.
"But according to the data, their choice isn't smart at all. In a given year, there is one drowning of a child for every 11,000 residential pools in the United States. (In a country with 6 million pools, this means that roughly 550 children under the age of ten drown each year.) Meanwhile, there is 1 child killed by a gun for every 1 million-plus guns. (In a country with an estimated 200 million guns, this means that roughly 175 children under ten die each year from guns.) The likelihood of death by pool (1 in 11,000) versus death by gun (1 in 1 million-plus) isn't even close: Molly is roughly 100 times more likely to die in a swimming accident at Imani's house than in gunplay at Amy's."
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