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Colour Gadget

A Windows sidebar gadget for finding, saving, and copying colours. It's really pretty.

Viscosity

Create and save your own modern art with Viscosity. Winner in the Art category at SXSW 2008. Finalist at Flashforward 2007, FITC 2007.

Words you can type with one hand

A useful reference for people who use the computer one hand at a time.

The Collective Type Project

Interactive art project. The average of lots of people writing the same thing in the same place.

Circles are Awesome.

Interactive tool showing the properties of circles. Math is fun again.

Blood Hose

A Flash experiment emulating liquid streaming from a movable source.

Racecar

Pole Position-esque racecar game.

Communiqués

Drawings sent via email when words wouldn't work.

Microsoft Max

Share photos, read news. R.I.P.

The Jerde Partnership

Dynamic Flash website for LA architects.

Work Gymnastics

My old job afforded certain opportunities.

Telephone to Text

Convert your phone number to text.

Operation: Moustache

What happens when I try to grow a moustache.

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Basically.

March 3.

Heard at work today:

"Basically, it's a flattened hypertree."

Basically.

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Learnings

March 1.

The first 6 months of working for a large company are spent trying to understand what people are saying. With my 5 year anniversary of working for a large company soon approaching, I feel it necessary to remind myself and others that not understanding someone doesn't make you stupid. It makes them stupid because while their words are English, they are likely speaking metaphor. And if not metaphor, they're likely verbing nouns.

What makes these terms so easy to hate is the same thing that makes them so easy to use. They're just terms that make people feel clever when they could have used normal understandable terms.

Learnings.org catalogs these terms. It's like a white collar Urban Dictionary.

These are my 15 most least liked corporate buzzwords:

  1. Learnings
  2. Speak to
  3. Take it offline
  4. Bandwidth
  5. Open kimono
  6. Drink from the firehose
  7. It is what it is
  8. Leverage
  9. Low hanging fruit
  10. Free cycles
  11. ...

Forget 15. I hate them all.

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