Cheese & Burger Society We are the Cheese & Burger Society. We firmly believe that cheese is the Grand Pooh-Bah of every cheeseburger ever grilled at a backyard barbecue or served at a roadside diner. Not just any slice of cheese, but the one and only Wisconsin Cheese. (tags: cheeseburger cheese cheeseburgers flash burger burgers [...]
Never be annoyed by a Flash animation! Blocks Flash, but if you want to see it, just click on. Flashblock is an extension for the Mozilla, Firefox, and Netscape browsers that takes a pessimistic approach to dealing with Macromedia Flash content on a webpage and blocks ALL Flash content from loading. It then leaves placeholders [...]
Top 10 Japanese Snacks Sites "We’ve scoured the net for all the best sites on Japanese snacks, and here’s what we have come up with. Admittedly it’s a pretty small niche, but there is more than enough information out there for Japanese snack fans to get their fill." (tags: Japan Japanese Japanesefood food foods snack [...]
Google does not use the keywords meta tag in web search ranking About a decade ago, search engines judged pages only on the content of web pages, not any so-called "off-page" factors such as the links pointing to a web page. In those days, keyword meta tags quickly became an area where someone could stuff [...]
How a PR firm contracted to Monsanto appears to have played a crucial but invisible role in shaping scientific discourse "Monsanto knows better than any other corporation the costs of visibility. Its clumsy attempts, in 1997, to persuade people that they wanted to eat GM food all but destroyed the market for its crops. Determined [...]
The Evolution of Apple Ads A stunning compilation of some of Apple’s most notable advertisements from the 70s until the present day, including a few videos ads. (tags: design mac apple art marketing inspiration advertising computer history macintosh creative ads branding ad evolution vintage advertisement advertisment advertise timeline …)
iPhone paper stand / dock Download and print the template PDF to do it yourself (tags: design mac apple download art iphone ipod todo phone print diy pdf paper template ipodtouch project crafts itouch origami papercraft papier dock stand cardboard holder …)
Umberto Eco – Eternal Fascism: 14 Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt In spite of some fuzziness regarding the difference between various historical forms of fascism, I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot be [...]
Does Google Analytics have a pageview limit? Google Analytics is a free service that offers users up to 5 million pageviews a month. If your site generates more than 5 million pageviews per month, you will need to link it to an active AdWords account in order to avoid interruption of your Google Analytics service. [...]
Is China crowing too soon? Private vs state business: It’s quite hard to compete when you’re playing against the referee. In his book ‘A Century of Ebb and Flow’, author Wu Xiaobo argues that entrepreneurs’ problems pre-date the founding of the Communist party 60 years ago. Under the Qing emperors and the Nationalists who succeeded [...]
Google’s undocumented (and yummy) PDF embedder/viewer Google Docs offers an undocumented feature that lets you embed PDF files and PowerPoint presentations in a web page. The files don't have to be uploaded to Google Docs, but they need to be available online. (tags: tools content webdev google online html document pdf documentation documents embedded docs [...]
Besieged by attacks, AT&T dumps Kevin Mitnick Over the past month, both HostedHere.net, his longtime webhost, and AT&T, his cellular provider since he was released from prison more than nine years ago, have told him they no longer want him as a customer. The reason: his status as a celebrity hacker makes his accounts too [...]
Nigiri Te – The Hands of Sushi Gods "I asked each of the chefs to show me their "nigiri te" — the hand motion they use to form their nigiri sushi." (tags: photography japan sushi …)
Jungle Disk – Online backup and storage powered by Amazon S3 and Rackspace Jungle Disk lets you store files and automatically backup all of your data easily and securely to Rackspace Cloud Files and Amazon S3. (tags: software tools mac internet osx application online macosx windows security linux backup service share hosting storage files amazon [...]