When I first debuted my site redesign, J asked, "Why do you have a pink Decepticon symbol in your header?" "What are you talking about? That's a book." Pause. "Ohh...
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Gizmodo just featured an image from the upcoming book The Visual Miscellaneum: A Colorful Guide To The World’s Most Consequential Trivia. As a lover of design, data collection, charts, and graphs, data visualization is right up my alley. I was delighted to discover that there exists a corresponding blog called Information Is Beautiful. Unfortunately, the blog is still fairly new and so only houses 13 posts - not nearly enough to quench this geek's unsatisable thirst for knowledge. However, I have no doubt that the blog will blow up very soon...
Continue readingI don't know how they do it, but Squarespace never ceases to amaze me when it comes to SEO. Before switching over in September '08, I hosted my blog on WordPress which seemed to be the de facto standard for serious bloggers. After befriending some internet marketers, I read up on numerous articles, blogs, and e-books on how to best optimize my blog for search engines - essentially, how to "trick" Google into placing my posts at the top of targeted search queries. I re-worded my titles and posts. I tried my best to utilize meta tags and keywords to my best advantage. I installed numerous SEO plugins. It wasn't all for naught. I saw some improvement in traffic; I'll grant you that. However,...
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Continue readingI know I should wear an apron when cooking, but I don't. (An apron would prevent the numerous greasy stains on my clothes. It would've also averted that nasty burn I got on my boob from a glob of jumping oil. Why was I cooking naked? Don't ask.) However, this Measurement Conversion Apron is cute AND functional - especially for American r-tards like me who are mathematically challenged and uninformed in the ways of the metric system. Via Lifehacker. ...
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