30 Oct 2006

I can’t believe these are only $36.00! They look outrageously expensive.

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30 Oct 2006

For every cup of coffee sold by coffee chain stores, poor farmers in coffee-growing countries like Ethiopia only earn about 3 cents. Yet the coffee industry makes billions of dollars – Starbucks alone has already made more than $5.8 billion in net revenue this year. To give its 15 million farmers a better cut of

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28 Oct 2006

R Kelley’s ghetto soap opera. Chapter 1 More chapters: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Thanks Pieter!

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28 Oct 2006

Control Arms has been campaigning for 3 years for tougher control over the arms trade with the help of ordinary people like you and me. After three weeks of campaigning in New York and three years of campaigning around the world, the Control Arms campaign achieved a massive victory on Thursday when the UN General

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27 Oct 2006

“Every choice you make defines you. Own your choice.” The flash version is gorgeous too!

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26 Oct 2006

Despite worldwide outcry and a ban on whaling in place since 1986, Iceland, like Japan, continues to kill whales using cruel methods, saying it’s for “scientific” purposes. But now the government of Iceland has gone even further, launching a commercial whale hunt for the first time in more than two decades. Permits have been granted

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26 Oct 2006

stylegala: “dobmobi has posted mobilized XHTML templates for download (free; see links at bottom). From what I see they’re mostly a cookie-cutter starter kit (of course), but perhaps a good place for mobile web dev newcomers to begin.”

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25 Oct 2006

For the next 48 hours. Thanks Dan.

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25 Oct 2006

Andy Budd: “7 Habits of a Highly Successful Freelance Web Designer“. Among other sound advice in the article is this: “It’s important not to specialise at the expense of your other skills. Clients and agencies like well rounded people with a wide set of interests. Your skills should resemble an inverted T. Generally very broad

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25 Oct 2006

But especially the hand made ones! Check this sweet instructable out! Using bits of lego you can make this awesome USB Lego stick! If that’s not your cup of tea, instructables has all sorts of goodies and gadgets you can make including this mad scientist light a Teddy Bear Remote Control and that USB monster thingy I posted yesterday. See for yourself!

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