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3rd August 2006

JacksonPollock.org

Paint like Jackson Pollock without making a mess: “Jackson Pollock by Miltos Manetas, 2003, original flash animation by Michal Migurski.”

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3rd August 2006

Justice League of Designers

“Repeatedly, I meet designers, who maintain full-time jobs, while running their own freelance studios outside of their day-to-day duties. Not only do these entrepreneurs have a steady 9-5 job, but they also insist on doing more work in addition to the work they do at the office. Which office is which?”

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3rd August 2006

Help Adaptive Path understand the Business Value of User Experience

“Some colleagues at Adaptive Path have launched a survey on the business value of user experience, and how organizations treat user experience. It’s brief (about 5 minutes), and if you fill it out, you can get a free copy of our report ‘Leveraging Business Value.’”

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3rd August 2006

How to create a LEGO mosaic

When my oldest son was born in 2001 LEGO offered a cool online ‘Brick-o-lizer’ that would take an uploaded photo and turn it into a five-tone grayscale grid of 1×1 bricks from which you could create a wall-hanging mosaic. LEGO would send you the exact right amount of bricks in bulk. Putting it together was as easy as paint-by-numbers. I did this for him and for his little brother in 2003. My daughter was born a few weeks ago and so naturally I went back to the Brick-o-lizer to create her mosaic. Imagine my horror to find out that it isn’t available anymore. How could I deprive my baby girl of her LEGO mosaic? Well. Obviously. I couldn’t. So, here follows instructions for doing it manually…”

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