Social bookmark, taxonomy

by | Oct 22, 2009 | Post

I have started to use Delicious.com (former Del.icio.us, I guess) to keep my design/writing/inspiration related bookmarks in one place. I was nervous: I have never used a social bookmarking service before and I rarely bookmark a website even in the browser in my...

History teaches us nothing

by | Oct 21, 2009 | Post

Nothing remains the same. People change, hard drive crushes, and billboards get overwritten. You cannot get away from your past, though. In the above billboard's case, they did their best to clean-install a new identity, but ended up creating a creepy 3d-like...

Why manhole covers are square?

by | Oct 20, 2009 | Post

Legend has it that evil Microsoft's evil boss, Steve Ballmer, once thought up this question while he was jogging with his bodyguards henchmen junior staffs. (why are psychopaths corporate executives always lonely and needy?)Q: Why manhole covers are round?A: To...

神鬼XX

by | Oct 19, 2009 | Post

Using four pictographs is the norm for creating a proprietary name in Taiwan. Most of the idiomatic expressions (成語) consist of four characters, as well as names for restaurants, TV programs, and movies.Wait, why four? Isn't 4 supposed to be an evil number in...