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"Die Frau mit dem Etwas"DE 1925Lee Parry

Euro-film was never so fun – meet the European Film Gateway

July 26, 2011, by happykatie in Film, Photography, Web/Tech

Tempelhof soundtrack for EFG – European Film Gateway from Tempelhof on Vimeo. I’m a sucker for collections – button, stamp, vinyl toy, shoe, pen, cake platter, marble, autograph.  You name it, if there’s a big group / gaggle of something, I’ll probably stare fascinated for hours. Likewise with the European Film Gateway archive website – [...]

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Wordcamp Houston coming at ya’ August 7th (see you there?)

July 30, 2010, by happykatie in Education, Events, Web/Tech

Okay, so it might be ironic that I'm geeking out over Wordcamp Houston on my Typepad blog – but I am a seasoned and passionate WordPress lover too.  SERIOUSLY. Monica (of CoLab) and the Chris studs (of Primer Grey) and I (of Schipul, of course) have been hard at work getting next week's Wordcamp Houston [...]

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Easier: Kindle for Mac

March 23, 2010, by happykatie in Gadgets, Web/Tech

    You don't have to own an electronic reader to be excited about the abundance of books available electronically.  Amazon's Kindle e-book reading application is now giving a little love to Mac users (beyond their already handy iPhone app). I am the first person to admit that I have a special kind of love [...]

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Easier: Lovely Charts for your visualizing pleasure

March 2, 2010, by happykatie in Visualization, Web/Tech

  Thanks to the awesomeness of Web-based applications, many of us thrifty nerds have foregone the expense of uber-design applications (sigh, kinda' miss you Photoshop…) leaving us sad and alone in the world of creating beautiful visuals. But hark, here is Lovely Charts to connect you with… why yes, lovely charts.  How did you know?  [...]

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Best of 2009: Blog Love (Day 6)

December 7, 2009, by happykatie in Personal, Web/Tech, Weblogs

  Another day, another moment of retrospection.  We continue on with the fun that is Gwen Bell’s Best of 2009 Blog Challenge.  It’s fun, you should join in — just tag your Blog posts or Tweets with #bestof09 or #bestof2009. My Blog reading is an important building block of many different parts of my life.  [...]

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Best of 2009: Eating Out (Day 2)

December 2, 2009, by happykatie in Food and Drink, Personal, Web/Tech

  Cutie Gwen Bell has kicked off her Best Of 2009 Blog Challenge – taking the last days of this year to review the peeps, events and awesomeness that has made 2009 the bomb diggitiy.  Each day has a different focus that hundreds of Bloggers are making their own.  Check it! Food is a big [...]

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Best of 2009: Oh girl, you’re trippin’ (Day 1)

December 1, 2009, by happykatie in Personal, Web/Tech

  Cutie Gwen Bell has kicked off her Best Of 2009 Blog Challenge – taking the last days of this year to review the peeps, events and awesomeness that has made 2009 the bomb diggitiy.  Each day has a different focus that hundreds of Bloggers are making their own.  Check it! I don't travel so [...]

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When a rapper hates your software and your geekdom becomes pop culture

July 30, 2009, by happykatie in Advertising, Music, PR / Marketing, Video, Web/Tech

Jay-Z hates Auto Tune.  So much, in fact, that he includes the software in a recent song release entitled DOA – Death Of Auto-Tune (no kidding) — and features exploding software boxes in his rap video.  Best PR EVER!?!?!? It’s not every day that an influential celebrity takes that kind of swipe at a product [...]

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The Story of Twitter (all pretty-like looking)

June 30, 2009, by happykatie in Visualization, Web/Tech

Huge hat to tip Monolith for their beautiful Story (so far) of Twitter:

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One more reason to support the EFF – teach Copyright right!

May 28, 2009, by happykatie in Copyright, Current Affairs, Web/Tech

I've been an Electronic Frontier Foundation supporter for a few years now, if you haven't donated or read up on them recently today is a great day to do so! Recently, the Copyright Alliance Education Foundation unveiled its plans to disseminate a school curriculum titled "Think First, Copy Later" as well as other intimidating educational [...]

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