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Manga

Katherine — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:29:48 +0000

Yet another thing all the cool kids are doing…

My Manga Character

It looks nothing like me, so I may have to work on it a little more. I still prefer my awesome webmistress avatar regardless.

The Webmistress

Update:

I think this one might be a little better.

All the Cool Kids are Doing It

Katherine — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:08:43 +0000

Since Shawn and Carlie did it, I figured I’d have to find out who I look like lest I die of curiosity, so here it is. First, it took me forever to find a head-on, reasonably recent photo of myself that didn’t look like crap. I look stoned though. I am pretty sure I look nothing like these chicks, but some of them are fairly flattering. Funny.

As an added bonus: heh heh… one of these is not my husband:

MyHeritage: Family trees – Genealogy – Celebrities

Public Art Gone Wild

Katherine — Tue, 20 May 2008 04:35:14 +0000

I stole this from Shawn. I’m sure he won’t mind. This is perhaps the coolest use of a wall that I have ever seen. Other walls will be jealous.

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Wet chihuahua cocoon

Katherine — Sun, 11 May 2008 20:30:23 +0000

Posted by kdruckman on Natuba

Hiring Outside the Box

Katherine — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 05:36:02 +0000

I’ve met quite a few people recently who are involved in startups in one way or another, and when I happened upon the blog below, I thought the points raised might be relevant not only for open-source businesses (and soccer apparently), but for a much broader segment out there. I would imagine that whether you are building a web 2.0 dream team or a killer waitstaff, seeing past experience thereby avoiding breaking old habits may be worthy of serious thought.

In particular:

In open source, we do, too. To do it well, I think it’s best to mold people to the task, rather than trying to retrofit old, calcified ways of doing business onto a new model. If you’re hiring for an open-source startup, intellectual youth is on your side. This doesn’t translate, necessarily, into physical youth. It just means you have to hire people who don’t have a vested interest in seeing the world through yesterday’s model.

Also interesting is that this guy used linkedin to find employees. Crazy… social networking actually works???

The rest of the blog

White Linen night in the Heights

Katherine — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 04:47:11 +0000

This looks kinda fun.

More Partisan Politics for the Under Five Set

Katherine — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:59:34 +0000

I posted this in January. Now they have cute little bibs to go with the books!

I can’t quite put my finger on the reason why, but this freaks me out in much the same way as ”Veggie Tales.”

Start Your Own Virtual Winery!

Katherine — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:02:35 +0000

I forgot to mention what may be the most surreal part of the Crushpad model.

Crushpad Commerce is a program that allows anyone to turn their passion for wine into a full-fledged commercial wine brand – without the high cost, complexity or time commitment required to operate a traditional winery.

I think I’ll call mine Oscar… delicate, but with a hell of a bite (just like my chihuahua).

Web, Voyeurism and Wine? Awesome…

Katherine — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 07:52:19 +0000

Seriously? Apparently so!

Good Lord, It’s a Crowdsourced, Web 2.0 Winemaking App

Crushpad is a San Francisco winery where you are the wine maker. Crushpad provides grapes from the West Coast’s top vineyards, an industry-acclaimed wine making team and a state-of-the-art winery 100% focused on making wine in small lots. You choose your level of involvement and we do the rest. No matter where you live, you can now make your own “cult” wine.

But really it’s all about the “Crushpad Cam.”

I have no words…

Rice U Shoutout

Katherine — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:08:54 +0000

Leave it to our friends down the street to come up with something this freaky/brilliant.

Rice University turns skeleton into a data network