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Alpha: Whiskey Echo Bravo Lima Oscar GolfApril 2004
No Babies Thanks
The weirdest thing just happened fifteen seconds ago at work. The phone rings. I answer with my full name to distinguish myself from the other Dan at silverorange. The guy on the other end asks if I paged him. Confused, I tell him I haven't. Then, he introduces himself and he turns out to be …
We Like Stuff
Our little crew at silverorange have recently started a site called silverorange stuff where we're reviewing lots of stuff we own. So far I've reviewed my bike helmet, some chairs, and my headphones.
Fantastic Flying Discs
It's getting warm outside, so maybe it's time to start planning another disc golf tournament for charity. One of my co-workers just brought to my attention an amazing collection of the art of the flying disc or frisbeetm. There are discs promoting world championships, tv shows, movies, tournaments …
Retracing "UHF"
Fifteen years after the original release of Weird Al Yankovic's incredible movie UHF, Rob "Flack" O'Hara went and retraced the steps of our wily hero George Newman and his unlikely sidekick Stanley Spadowski through Oklahoma City. Among other locations he visits Burger World, Channel 8 …
Hampshire Pewter Website
A couple of days ago, we at silverorange launched a new website for Hampshire Pewter. It's been a great experience working with their company. This has been the latest in a series of sites for mid-sized east coast clients that handcraft fine wares. I think there's really something about working …
Thunderbird Takes Off
The Mozilla visual identity team, which I'm lucky enough to play a small role in, has just released the new Thunderbird logo! Jon Hicks was the illustrator behind both this new logo and the Firefox logo released a few months ago. • I've been using Thunderbird as my primary mail client for the …
More Favourite Favicons
I've been keeping my eye out for more good favicons and I've found quite a few nice additions to the original collection. Again, let me know if there are any sites you'd recommend. • Choosing which favicons to include is obviously a really subjective process, but there are a few criteria that …
Eastlink Legalese
I stumbled across our local internet service provider Eastlink's terms of service yesterday and noticed some confusing and maybe disturbing points in it. I can understand them wanting to ensure people aren't sharing copyrighted material to reduce the company's liability, but does point 'e' not … read more »
Users are People Too: II
I just received my copy of 37signals' book Defensive Design for the Web this morning. Scanning through the introduction, it's interesting to see the same comments I had made a few months ago (long after the book went to print) about avoiding referring to people as users. Matthew Linderman and … read more »
Hinterland Who's Who
Any true Canadian will remember with a sigh of nostalgia hearing the haunting opening theme from Hinterland Who's Who and the incredible monotone voice describing our national wildlife. Every one of the advertisements is available online, including perennial favourites like the beaver, the muskox …
Magnum Degrees
I had considered adding a sidebar on the right of this site with a list of books I'm currently reading or reviews of books I've recently read. Instead, I think I might occassionally write full posts about books that I'd like to recommend. If you know me and if I own the book (as I do today's …
Local Exhibitions
If you're in or around Charlottetown in the next few weeks, there are some great art and graphic design exhibitions to be seen. On Saturday I was at the Confederation Centre of the Arts where they are still displaying a very diverse collection of photos by George S. Zimbel. They stretch back over …
Fleeting New York
It's been a couple of weeks since I was in New York and I figure a brief post about it is in order. Thanks to everyone who offered their great advice before the trip. It was much appreciated. The following are my incredibly concise impressions of the city garnered from a whirlwind trip. Please …