howies® partners with Timberland. My favourite Welsh clothing company announced today that they’re partnering with Timberland. They seem pretty happy with the deal so Timberland must be a decent, ethical company. Here’s hoping it’ll be long and fruitful union.
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The Art of Business: Catch Those Errors Before They Catch You. As someone who’s worked in the print industry, I think this article on proofreading gives some excellent tips. Like it or not, if there are errors in the copy text the client will blame you, regardless of whose fault it actually is.
OpenDocument Now Published ISO Standard. This is the word processing document format used by OpenOffice which aims to break the format lock-in of the mighty Microsoft Office. By achieving ISO certification it can now be implemented into any software product without royalties. It’s a small step, but hopefully it’ll help wider adoption and convince organisations and governments that they should store their documents in this format, rather than Microsoft’s proprietary document.
Are green magazine covers cursed? Interesting article on the superstition that a green-coloured magazine cover will kill your sales.
OS X disk image vulnerability debunked. Alastair J. Houghton shows exactly how security research should be done by providing a thorough analysis of the recently highlighted Apple OS X disk image (DMG) vulnerability. He proves that it doesn’t overwrite any memory and therefore can’t result in kernel-mode arbitrary code execution by unprivileged users. Exceptional (heh) work!
Granularity for students – lifehack.org: (via BoingBoing)
Granularity is a tremendously useful strategy for students. The typical spiral-bound student-planner doesn’t seem to encourage it; that tool is often little more than a place to store due dates: “research paper due.” But no one can just write a research paper. That paper can only be the result of numerous small-scale tasks. It’s not surprising that students who think of “write research paper” as one monolithic task are likely to put it off far longer than they ought to.
Judge Says U.S. Money Violates Rights of the Blind. America is one of the few countries in the world whose currency isn’t distinguishable by blind people. Most use different-sized notes, raised text or other methods to allow identification by touch. A recent court ruling means that the US has to start working on a solution.
It’s amazing that this has only just started to be addressed, but now that it has it poses some interesting questions. Will cash and vending machines all have to be modified? The money drawers in registers? Will it be applied retroactively to currency already in circulation? Say they were to create embossing stamps that create raised areas on the notes, would there be any security measures to prevent the incorrect stamping of bills?
I’m intrigued as to how they’ll solve this problem, the potential costs could be huge.
Shock news: ASA gets something right! Geeklawyer comments on the Advertising Standards Agency’s recent decision to reject complaints against no2id’s recent Guardian advert portraying Tony Blair as Hitler.
Watch a few online vids, get a free copy of Vista or Office Sounds too good to be true: get a free copy of Vista Business or Office 2007 Pro just for watching a couple of Microsoft propaganda videos. Engadget has confirmation from another source inside Microsoft that this is, in fact, the real deal, and that the number of copies of software that Microsoft has available for this offer is in the “five-digit range”. Update: the free copies of Vista have all gone, looks like there’s still some office ones left, though.
ROLLERtoaster: the best thing to happen to toasters since sliced bread. I’m not sure what the whole collective obsession is with toasters, but this one does look pretty damn cool.
