Flood, Fire, Pestilence

At the end of my quiet little street is a small, unassuming store called The Sacred Seed. Despite its claims to be an "exotic seed and houseplant shop specializing in medicinal, rare, and otherwise intriguing plants" it carries a wide range of cannabis seeds including varieties such as Island Sweet Skunk, Afghani Special Indica, and Swiss Bliss (take that Swiss Miss!).

Flag of Amsterdam

I've walked past the store just about every day for the past year. About six months ago I noticed that they had started flying a really interesting flag in the window. Today I stopped and ask the owner and discovered that it was the official flag of Amsterdam. Apparently the three "St. Andreas crosses" represent the three dangers that have traditionally plagued the city: flood, fire, and pestilence and no one is quite sure where the black and red colors come from. More on the flag can be found on this site and at the Wikipedia. Big points to Amsterdam for a bad-ass flag.

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Daniel Burka

My name is Daniel Burka. I'm a web designer living in San Francisco. Currently, I'm the director of design with a startup called Tiny Speck and for several years I was the creative director at Digg. I grew up in PEI, Canada, where I was one of the founders of silverorange. Aside from obsessing about interface design and css selectors, I'm a frequently-falling rock climber, a lazy cyclist, and an often out-of-bounds disc golfer.

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I'm a web designer living in San Francisco, California. I sometimes get the chance to present lectures and workshops at conferences around the world, where I speak about iterative design strategies, designing for large online communities, and more broadly about interface design for web applications. I've posted many of the slides from past presentations I've done on Slideshare.

Currently, I'm the director of design at a small gaming startup called Tiny Speck. Until October 2009, I was the creative director at Digg. I was also one of the co-founders of the social content-sharing site Pownce, which is now a part (heh heh) of Six Apart. Back in 1999, I helped found silverorange, a stellar web development and design firm based in Prince Edward Island, Canada. I continue to work with silverorange, but as an inactive partner.

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I'm not currently looking for any kind of work and sometimes I take a long time to respond to email, but if you'd like to contact me please send an email to daniel [at] deltatangobravo [dot] com

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I tweet when the mood strikes at Twitter

I sometimes review products on Silverorange Stuff

I sell my amateur photography on Clustershot

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I used to contribute on the Digg Weblog

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The technology that powers this blog was built by silverorange on their Swat open-source web application toolkit. I'm no longer working on day-to-day projects at silverorange, but they're available for hire if you're looking for top-notch interface design or web application development.

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