From the monthly archives: March 2008

While I was reading a few news sites via Google News, I noticed a few bacon related stories. Two of them made me smile and one infuriated me. Here are the stories and my thoughts on them.

Business Week: Bring Home Better Bacon

It must also be the most politically incorrect food in [...]

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Disasters in Photoshop are always a good time if you’re not the one that caused them. That’s why the blog Photoshop Disasters is my new favorite read. It’s full of all kinds of Photoshop mishaps like lazy clone tool usage, over retouching, and awful composition. The best part is that this is stuff [...]

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Zombies Love Bacon

On March 26, 2008 By

If there was ever a Zombie attack I would be sure to protect my bacon. (pun intended) To train for that day I play the game Boxhead: The Zombie Wars.The graphics are simple but the game play is intense. You play a Boxhead survivor trying to fend off the Zombie hordes with hand [...]

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Almost every electronic manufacturer in Asia is coming up with an iPod Touch or iPhone knockoff. I thought it would be a fun idea to create a list of the top 5 knock-offs. I like how the knockoffs tried so hard to copy Apple’s products but left out most of the features that make [...]

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After reading an article today about Universal Music cozying up to Apple again, I feel the music industry is doomed to fail. What they want to do is sell iPods prefilled with music from Universal Music’s massive library. Then charge a subscription fee for unlimited access to the rest of their music. Also [...]

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I have been a member of the Indesign Listserv for a while now. It’s a great tool for asking a lot of fellow designers for help with day to day problems. Well today someone decided to post a little humor on the listserv instead of troubleshooting questions. I usually hate “forwarded” type messages [...]

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Zombies Ate My Neighbors

On March 18, 2008 By

I was browsing on YouTube and I found this amazing video from a Mexican band called Doughnuts in November. The video is a classic zombie B-Movie with lots of blood and foul language. Enjoy!

Note: If you watch the video closely, I bet one of the Zombies will look familiar.

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Happy Irish Bacon Day

On March 17, 2008 By

It’s really St. Patrick’s Day; I just made up Irish Bacon day. I was trying to come up with a good topic for today and then it hit me. Today would be a great day to talk about Irish bacon.

In Ireland and the UK they just call it bacon, but since Americans [...]

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Last night I went to the monthly craft night at the Creative Treehouse in Bellevue. I am not really a craft kind of guy, but it turned out to be a great time. I met a lot of new bacon lovers and learned a new skill called Shrinky Dink.

The craft of [...]

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When I was at the Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival I met a Chef that appreciates bacon as much as I do. His name is Lance Avery; he is the Corporate Executive Chef for Sara Lee. Lance created a Maple-Bacon and Pumpkin Cheesecake that was out of this world. After taking only one [...]

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