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Top 5 Flag Designs

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The last top five list I tried was very entertaining, so I'll try another. These are my choices for top five flags from around the world. Flags are some of the finest and oldest examples of 'branding' to be found and there are some truly wonderful examples. Simplicity and originality are the most …

Vexillology

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Well, didn't I just learn something today – vexillology is the scholarly study of flags. I've made several posts in the past concerning my favorite flags, yet I was clearly in the dark about the vexillological arts. Indeed, the umbrella organization, the 'Fédération internationale des associations …

Metis Marker

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 •  The fantastic Canadian Design Resource has an article today about the historical flag of Canada's Metis people. I've made several posts in the past about flags and the Metis flag fits well with the other standouts I've mentioned previously. According the description, the Metis flag *"epresents …

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 … read more »

Top 5 Greatest Band Names

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Compiling and debating top-five lists seems like an annoying habit that is easily transferable to a weblog so I may incorporate this as a somewhat regular feature. First up: "The Five Greatest Band Names of All Time". I base my incredibly subjective reasoning on overall impression and on the …

Favourite Favicons

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Over the past month or so I've been collecting some of my favourite favicons on the web for interest's and posterity's sake. In case you're unaware, favicons are the wee icons that are displayed occasionaly, it seems depending on how the stars are aligned, in the location bar of your browser or in …

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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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