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OrangeCoat's brick test
In Malcolm Gladwell's new book there is brief anecdote about a test that asks people to come up with creative uses for a brick. Gladwell compares the answers of two people with above average IQ's with...
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Kick in the pants from Ralph Bakshi
Below is a short video of Ralph Bakshi discussing entrepreneurial animating during tough times: He punches Disney in the groin for poisoning a generation of animation. Chastises young animators today...
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What Can You Fit Into 344 Square Feet?
Chinese architect, living in Hong Kong, has a 344 square foot apartment that uses a stainless steel gliding wall system design to create the equivalent of 24 rooms (slide show). The effect of the...
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Bring Down IE6
23% of the visitors to this site are still using IE6. No offense to those people but: it’s finally time to take IE6 behind the shed and shoot it.And I'd pay good money to be the trigger man. Using IE6...
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A nice little piece of advice from Michael Caine
Be like a duck. Remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath- Michael Caine it sounds even more profound if read using a Michael Caine accent. Via RFMUBS
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As follow-up to yesterday's post, let's join the SC Brewer’s Association in a chorus to help state legislators understand that South Carolina breweries should be allowed to provide small samples of...
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Public Service Announcement
I spent the past weekend in Charleston for a wedding and brief respite. While there, I couldn't help but notice the prevalence of Papyrus (the typeface) employed on many signs, restaurant menus,...
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Pecha Kucha - Nature designs man, man designs nature
Excellent Pecha Kucha video from Aaron and Susan "Nature designs man, man designs nature." Watch it http://bit.ly/yMpWY
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The OrangeCoat Coffee Cupping
We all like to taste good things, but we rarely know why we like something or how to describe it. We see this same problem when talking about design and business in general. This is why over the...
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If you're at a loss for words
Please stop pretending that the phrase, "it is what it is," means something. Consider replacing with "c'est la vie." It represents a more complete thought and has an apostrophe.
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You Say Tomato
Our second tasting event is set. South Carolina sun ripened, heirloom tomatoes are ready to be tasted and enjoyedWatch Greenville HD Video Coverage of the EventWhy Are We Doing This? At OrangeCoat the...
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Garum
After I get settled into the new house, I'm going to make authentic garum fish sauce and see what dishes it might complement.Use fatty fish, for example, sardines, and a well-sealed (pitched) container...
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Photoshop's Reduce Noise Filter FTW
Sometimes clients provide photos. Often times those photos are in rough shape. Today we addressed a particularly rough-looking image. It appears to be a photograph taken around 1991 with a disposable...
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My Dog Pooped During a Client Meeting
An interesting declaration over at SEED Magazine piqued my interest this afternoon. "Nearly universal literacy is a defining characteristic of today’s modern civilization; nearly universal authorship...
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On sensitivity
Where no appeal to a carpenter's level is possible, sensitivity becomes necessary. -Page 157, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
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Robots beating us in games is step one in robots simply beating us.
Willow Garage should not brag or be praised for teaching a robot to play pool. Robots playing games is the first step to robot domination. Thanks to @abowman5000 and Andrew Price for helping to inform...
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A brief interview with Fred Brooks
Edwin Land, inventor of the Polaroid camera, once said that his method of design was to start with a vision of what you want and then, one by one, remove the technical obstacles until you have it.Fred...
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OpenIDEO
OpenIDEO is an interesting idea, but my question is, is this just spec work for a good cause? And if so, does that make spec work any better?
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There's hope in barbeque
John T. Edge makes as impassioned an argument on the healing powers of barbeque as can be done. If you don't believe there is hope in barbeque after this video then there is no helping you.
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Where good ideas come from
Steven Johnson's Where Good Ideas Come From gets the white board treatment. Chance favors the connected mind.
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