10/5/2007

* Comic Cornucopiates: with superheros Souperman and Salt-teen. The artist, Dan Boyd will have a booth at the Midwest Comic Book Associations Conference this weekend – Fall Con at the State Fairgrounds.

* “Most people fear change because they overestimate the risks and underestimate the gains. If you want to convince them to change, you have to address both issues.” from 37 Signals writeup on how to escape the waterfall. The Waterfall Model is a philosophy regarding the software development process originating from back in the 1970′s. A more modern approach, which has been gaining significant recognition, is Agile Software Development. Agile started in the 1990′s because “the waterfall model [was] seen as bureaucratic, slow, demeaning, and inconsistent with the ways that software engineers actually perform effective work.”

* Coupons on your cell phone via Cellfire and the related write up at WSJ. “Coupon-cutting has gone mobile”

* “Lettering buffs and cinephiles alike may enjoy this lovely Flickr set containing final frames of classic films. Romantically, these hearken back to an age before typesetting replaced hand-lettering as a matter of convenience…” via A Treasury of Hollywood Lettering at www.typography.com


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