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Evan Troxel

Neil Armstrong, First Man on Moon, Dies at 82

This is saddening news. I was just gazing at the moon tonight actually. To be that man and risk everything. Neil Armstrong, who made the “giant leap for mankind” as the first human to set foot on the moon, died on Saturday. He was 82. “And when Neil stepped foot

""Insert Meaningful Design Story Here""

I think they left the "Meaningful Design Story" slide in by mistake, or maybe they're just trying to convince us/the courts that they really have one. Certain colleagues in design school used to talk like this all the time. We have a running joke in

12% of IKEA Catalog Pages are 3d Renderings?

I had no idea. This makes me sad. Not that they are rendered, but that I couldn't figure it out. I've been doing 3d renderings for a long time and I this just shows how good these artists are. It's kinda like watching the

✱ Hang Tight

Here's a picture I made yesterday. The dragonfly was hanging on tight for a few seconds in heavy wind, then flew off to find another twig to hang onto. This was captured with my Olympus OM-D and 40-150mm lens using manual focus.

The New Microsoft Logo

John Gruber: The four-pane thing used to be the Windows logo; now it’s the logo for the whole company. Windows, Windows, Windows, Windows. Microsoft is betting the company on Windows. This can't turn out well. ∞

The Pros & Cons of Betting the Company on a Single Product

This is a fascinating read. There are so many things I want to do... I just have to convince myself that the worst thing that could happen is failure. And failure isn't that big of a deal. But if that thing actually takes off, it could change the

A Typeface For Creating Simple Graphs

FF Chartwell looks like an amazing tool for infographics and data visualization. Who thinks up this stuff? Well I'm glad they do. Using OpenType features, simple strings of numbers are automatically transformed into charts. The visualized data remains editable, allowing for hassle-free updates and styling. The site details