November 5, 2009 @ 7:49 pm
Google launched a new feature (not really a feature, actually) today called Dashboard that lets you easily see all of the information that Google stores about you in one place. The site is an easy way to get to each Google product’s settings/privacy pages without having to log in to each service.
If you use Google products and services on a day to day basis, I recommend that you go to your Google Dashboard and see if you’ve got any settings you might want to change.
November 5, 2009 @ 6:30 pm
CNN’s new website is holding up well while streaming the information and breaking news from Fort Hood, where a shooter (or shooters) opened fire this afternoon on the military base.
Keep up to date with the CNN news stream here.
November 5, 2009 @ 6:25 pm
Back in May of this year, I posted about a wonderful redesign project by Dustin Curtis who took it upon himself to redesign the American Airlines website. Dustin’s reasons for doing this were to hopefully inspire American Airlines to do something about their barely usable site and to generally give them a better online presence in the midst of competition from people like JetBlue (who have a great online website).
As the story goes, Dustin was then contacted by somebody — Mr. X, as he is known — who worked at American Airlines and wanted to clear the air with some knowledge of how the design process works at AA.
Well, Mr. X volunteered that information and then AA fired him for apparently breaking a non-disclosure agreement which is unfortunate because Mr. X seemed pretty passionate about what he did at AA in his letter to Dustin.
I’m not going to go into who was right or wrong here, but I hope American Airlines gets over their red tape and thinks about what they’ve just done.
November 5, 2009 @ 5:53 pm
Shakesville did a nice play on words with the traditional 3 Wolf Moon T-shirt by incorporating a totally different kind of wolf into the mix. You know, a Virginia Woolf.
This should go on sale ASAP. Seriously.
November 5, 2009 @ 5:49 pm
Photo: Rick Gersbach
This is just fantastic! Archival Clothing took a trip to see the innards of the Horween Leather Company, one of the oldest and still surviving leather tanners in the United States.
Although you don’t get to see the process from beginning to end, you do get a sense from the photos of how meticulous the process is. Head on over to Archival Clothing to see the photos.
November 5, 2009 @ 11:21 am
CAPTION: President Barack Obama attends a ceremony at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Del., Oct. 29, 2009, for the dignified transfer of 18 U.S. personnel who died in Afghanistan. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Here’s a closeup shot.
