Sunshocked

Since I’ve leaked that one of Diligent Creative‘s goals is to pull non-profits to the bleeding edge of online strategy, some might appreciate my defining exactly what that is.

It seems that a formula of no sleep and immoderate drinking, mixed with handshaking and strangers, and topped with being caught in not one but two thunderstorms last week has left me quite ill.

My old design office had a saying: “after the blast.” It described the days where society has crumbled and designers were no longer valued for their newly irrelevant skills. We all had to have new jobs, after the blast.

Sci-fi author and sustainable design advocate Bruce Sterling ends his run at Wired magazine. In his final column, he swears he’s a Futurist. I respectfully disagree. He likes people way too much.

I spent all morning poring over Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines. One might imagine that they are quite spectacular. If you’re not a developer of Apple software (which, strictly statistically, you probably aren’t), you can still find plenty of value in “Part I: Application Design Fundamentals”. In fact, I printed out pages 23 through 52 and they now sit on my bookshelf.

“Pirates of the Carribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” comes out today. While some friends of mine attend the SF premiere in full pirate regalia, you can probably already buy the DVD on the streets if you know the right people. The Pirate Archetype is so celebrated throughout American culture that it seems obvious to me the RIAA and MPAA have no hope of stopping the plunder.