Hi. I'm Matt Kirkland, a web & industrial designer.

I'm a part of Brand New Box, a web design and development firm in San Diego. We make City Gates, the content management system for church websites.

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July 12, 2008: Shakespeare on death
RICHARD:
Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;
Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth,
Let’s choose executors and talk of wills:
And yet not so, for…
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Another piece of evidence in the “Are Dolphins Robots?” debate:  a mechanized dolphin submarine.  Don’t miss the YouTube videos of the thing in action.
Another piece of evidence in the “Are Dolphins Robots?” debate:  a mechanized dolphin submarine.  Don’t miss the YouTube videos of the thing in action.
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How to Type a Macron (on your Mac) Pat points me to this good resource for my long-neglected Latin studies.
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July 10, 2008: Eliot, from The Waste Land
“After the torchlight red on sweaty faces
After the frosty silence in the gardens
After the agony in stony places
The shouting and the crying
Prison and palace and reverberation
Of thunder of spring…
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Chad Krizan sends in an NFL-themed proposal to Ex Unum, Pluribus!
Chad Krizan sends in an NFL-themed proposal to Ex Unum, Pluribus!
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Q: Are you a robot? Nate finds further evidence that dolphins are, of course, robots.
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July 9, 2008: Eliot and exploring
“Old men ought to be explorers
Here and there does not matter
We must be still and still moving
Into another intensity
For a further union, a deeper communion
Through the dark cold and empty…
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July 8, 2008: Eliot and time
“Time and the bell have buried the day”
- T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton (Four Quartets), 1943
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"Social networking features" is the new Flash Intro Thanks, Mr. Zeldman.
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Why I Am a Designer While I am way too young to have ever used Bestine in the professional world, my personal version of this graph is otherwise very similar.