Gladwell In Sunday’s New York Times Book Review, Steven Pinker responds to my description of him as occupying the “lonely ice floe of IQ fundamentalism”: What Malcolm Gladwell calls a “lonely ice floe” is what psychologists call “the mainstream.” In a 1997 editorial in the journal Intelligence, 52 signatories wrote, “I.Q. is strongly related, probably more so than any other single measurable human trait, to many important educational, occupational, economic and social outcomes.” The 10 Best Blogging Platforms in 2011 Online merchants are competing for customer attention and loyalty in an Internet landscape where people create their autobiographies across social networks and businesses have to discover a reason to be relevant in that narrative. Blogging, which some suggest is a waning art for individuals, can be a publishing platform for savvy online stores that create content to better engage potential shoppers and build a relationship with them. Ecommerce-related blogs can focus on product information, how-to demonstrations, or even social topics. Examples of good ecommerce blogs include REI and Toms.
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How To Build Your Own Single Page Portfolio Website This post was originally published in 2009 The tips and techniques explained may be outdated. A great looking portfolio site is crucial for any designer to instantly present their work to potential clients or employers. A simple, single page site can do this effectively by displaying three key features of large header with short introduction, examples of your work and methods of contact all in one, extremely browsable page. Let’s take a look at producing a single page portfolio concept in Photoshop, constructing the page in XHTML/CSS and adding some fancy functionality with jQuery. Last month, I had the pleasure of writing an article for internationally renown NET Magazine, also known as Practical Web Design in the US.
Male pattern boldness High performance access to file storage Long time readers of my blog will know that I'm a huge fan of design patterns. Patterns wrap complex architectures with simplistic descriptions. They create wonderful buzzwords that we can use instead of resorting to actual human language descriptions. And they help enforce that feeling that we're all a part of an elite clique shunned by society not by their choice, but by ours. Forty Lesson Learned The Hard Way By Lee Silber One of Jimmy Buffett's best songs is "A Pirate Looks At Forty". It's about a friend of his (Jimmy insists he is NOT the pirate) who could not find his place or make his mark in the modern world. I turned forty-years-old this year and I sometimes feel like I am just now getting it right. (Hey, forty is the new thirty, right?)
MacComedy - Mac-centric humorous articles, pictures and more Click any video or MP3 to watch/listen to it in your browser. Check out the grand opening of the Apple Store at Easton Town Center in Columbus, Ohio, on September 7, 2001. So why's an video of an Apple Store on MacComedy?