Ye Olde Dixies

It wasn't supposed to be about the South.
Let me tell you how did it start.
Did you hear about Earth Hour before? Well, according to discredited Wikipedia:

"it's held on the last Saturday of March each year, which asks households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change".

I don't believe in climate change (caused by humans anyway), so after turning all lights on at home I jumped into my gas guzzler and drove away for two hours.
On my cruise I bought brilliant CD (yes it's environmentally unfriendly 1.2mm thick polycarbonate piece of plastic) called "Country Roots". What a pleasure ;)
What remained me to ask all this question again...
What trigger Civil War? Why Dixie people opposed good cause?
Why United States didn't follow Britain and just bought up and freed all slaves? Was it about slavery at all? Maybe it was about Republic and how that idea was executed?
Couple of articles to think about...
The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Debate
The Economics of the Civil War
Reasons for the Civil War

You've Been Helvetized!

Apparently love for Helvetica goes beyond computers screen.
Maybe one day I'll take a walk on the san-serif side of life too...

Paddy Whackery?

How many times you felt you're surrounded by utter imbeciles at your workplace? How many times you had to explain dozen of times why using "free" images from google search isn't completely legal? Working with Marketing staff who could hardly use a computer?
Well, at least you're not alone.
Interesting discussion on Irish work Ethic is held on Creative Ireland.

London Calling

Another interesting article from Irish Times.
Young Irish people who have never known bad times are heading to London in search of work – and finding things are not much better there.

"It is, a major wake-up call for younger people, particularly those leaving college or who lived it up during the boom years. For people my age and younger, we never experienced anything like this. We weren’t prepared for it and were probably living the high life for too long. Lads who used to be able to miss a Monday because of drink and walk into another job – those days are gone.”

London calling, yes, I was there, too...

Dai Nipponjin

Something special for all those who were disappointed with Watchman movie.
Big Man Japan is mockumentary about giant Japanese superhero.

World's smallest and... cheapest HD Camcorder

Pure Digital Technologies just announced the smallest and what's more important the cheapest HD Camcorder Flip Mino HD Price tag below $230. Some technical info: 4Gb internal memory, H.264 compression, fixed focal lens, size... much smaller then pack of cigarettes (10s).

Prince (this time Designer) of Persia

SRA Design website is down again... That's a pity. It offered different perspective as a independent hub for graphic artist from Arabic speaking / Persian provenience.
That's correct there are designers in Iran too. Sometimes it's clash of cultures something absolutely different perspective of seeing things. But always creative.
So, watch this space; SRA Design.

Back to the good old days

It seems pendulum has swung again.
This time it's all about being kind on the capital letter and the semicolon.
We may still photoshop photographs and google for information but at least style, punctuation and formality are back.
"When people are losing their jobs, correct dress and correct usage of words seem like a good insurance policy" writes Lucy Kellaway.

Full article Irish Times