October 2006

830!

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Earlier this month a Scrabble player named Michael Cresta, in Lexington, Mass., scored 830 points in a single game! He and his opponent scored 1,320 points, making it the highest individual score and the highest game total ever in regulation play.  •  Stefan Fatsis, the author of the greatest (and …

Baladodiffusion

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Yes, "baladodiffusion" is the French word for "podcasting". Say it three times fast in a throaty accent... I dare you. Proof. Props to my friend SZ.

Trailer Park Boys... the Movie

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This might be old news, but if you haven't seen it already check out the trailer for the Trailer Park Boys movie. I just watched it three times on loop. So good. Damn, this is going to be the one movie where living in California might actually mean it gets to theaters later than Atlantic Canada …

What's a TLA?

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If you haven't seen it already, silverorange housemate Peter Rukavina has started an intriguing side project all about three letter acronyms. His new site 3LA.ca is a podcast/blog/dictionary where Peter endeavors to explain all kinds of three letter acronyms in a concise way for a wide audience … read more »

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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

I post some of my personal photos on Flickr

I used to contribute on the Digg Weblog

I connect with people I actually know in the real world on Facebook

This Blog

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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