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Archive for December, 2008

A Tribute to Spam

December 26th, 2008

The color of Spam Is natural as the sky: A block of sunrise Old man seeks doctor “I eat Spam daily,” he says Angioplasty Pink beefy temptress I can no longer remain Vegetarian Sales are up, poetry is being written … and even the in-box-clogging-kind-of-spam is enjoying the limelight: Spam has never looked—or tasted—better. – [...]

The End

December 22nd, 2008

A while back, a former MFer wrote about some of the all-time best typographic title sequences. Just the other day, I learned of this Flickr group pool in the same vein. But instead of title sequences, this was end sequences. Specifically, stills of “The End” at the close of classic films and cartoons. Some may [...]

Suitcase Fusion conflicting with Mac OS X 10.5.6

December 18th, 2008

Recently, we’ve come across some problems with running Extensis Suitcase Fusion (12.1.7) or Extensis Suitcase Fusion 2 (13.0.1) on the latest update of Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.6). In some instances, Suitcase refuses to open when asked to. That’s not good, especially if your work involves jumping back and forth between dozens of different typefaces [...]

Musings on the similarities between mountaineering and entrepreneurship

December 4th, 2008

A few weeks ago I wrote a post entitled, “The Advantages of Failure: Crying Like Nancy Kerrigan at 26,200 feet on Mount Everest.” It drew some parallels between overcoming obstacles in mountaineering and running a business. I found that learning from experiences could turn failures into advantages. It’s sort of like the old quote, “That [...]