Carrie, the Merengue Dancing Dog
WordPress is an extremely user friendly content management system for websites. Users can easily add and update text, images, video, audio and more using the WordPress platform. Here’s an example of a video. It also gives viewers the option to enlarge and watch large/full screen or directly on YouTube.
This clip is from the David Letterman show with Dave welcoming Carrie, the merengue dancing dog.
This dog smiles thru the whole performance, right? This one’s for YOU, Cohen & Phyllis! Click here for another better/longer clip of Carrie dancing.
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I recognized 5 faces on this little icon.. that’s pretty cool! Are you one of them???
I LOVE Google Doodles
I love Google doodles. Google doodles are the daily design features, or what the company calls “decorative changes” on the Google homepage that commemorate an event, holidays — current or historic — or anniversaries. They are generally a theme-based twist on the company logo that can be static or interactive. They have become so sticky over time that people come to Google’s landing page out of sheer curiosity about the day’s doodle. People even collect them. View entire collection here.
Google has a dedicated team of designers who turn out one creative doodle after another, every day. The idea for a doodles are generated not only in-house as well as from general public. Ideas can be sent to proposals@google.com. and fan logos are invited at proposals@google.com.
The idea of Google doodles began in 1998, informs Google:
…when founders Larry and Sergey played with the corporate logo to indicate their attendance at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert. A stick figure drawing was placed behind the 2nd “o” in the word, Google and the revised logo was intended as a comical message to Google users that the founders were “out of office.” While the first doodle was relatively simple, the idea of decorating the company logo to celebrate notable events was well received by our users.
A year later in 2000, Larry and Sergey asked current webmaster Dennis Hwang, an intern at the time, to produce a doodle for Bastille Day. Pleased with the result, Dennis was then appointed Google’s chief doodler and doodles became a regular occurrence on the Google homepage.
Chief Doodler. Nice job, with an even better job title.
Anyway, I look forward to Googling, which I do a google-plex times day, because of the doodles. Do you?
That’s one mighty UGLY (type) face you got there!
You work in this biz long enough, and you get to know a lot of faces. Typefaces, that is. We love the fact we now have a bazillion faces to choose from, and the list is growing daily. With all those purdy faces out there, you gotta wonder WHY WHY WHY in the name of humanity and all that is sacred in the world, do people select some really butt-ugly, hard to read fonts for their logotypes and literature?
1) Comic Sans. Every kid’s party place or preschool thinks this is cute and kiddie- like and fun (that’s fun!!! with multiple exclamation marks) It’s not. It’s just poorly designed, and has bad, bad spacing issues. So stop the insanity now. Check out bancomicsans.com to see a real rant on this one. Maybe buy a tee shirt for me.
2) Papyrus. Papyrus is supposed to look Middle Eastern, Biblical, scholarly. This was selected as the title font for the movie Avatar. I saw it up there on the silver screen and cringed in my seat. But, the font choice didn’t seem to hinder the movie’s success. To date, Avatar is the highest grossing film ever…$2,782,275,172 and counting. Go figure.
3) Brush Script. Come on. A font is a font. Don’t try to pretend someone is in your PC with little paint brushes. Ugly, unbalanced and ugly. And it’s ugly.
4) Curlz. Unless you’re a 9 year old girl in pink tights, inviting your little girlfriends over for a My Little Pony Party, you have no excuse for using this one.
Ok. I’m done. I feel much better now. Thank you.
Got Stink Bugs?
The brown marmorated stink bug is damaging fruit and vegetable crops in the Middle Atlantic States, and these six legged stinkers are now invading homes to prepare for the winter to come. We had 8 of these little visitors in our home over the past week.
They have also been observed on ornamental trees, butterfly bushes, sweet corn, field corn and soybeans, but their pilgrimage into homes is causing big problems and what is making the news most recently.
The brown marmorated stink bug was first detected in the United States about 10 years ago, and is native to Asia. It is different from our native stink bugs that are kept in check by natural enemies. When irritated, stepped on, or crushed, they emit a pungent odor that is sometimes described as skunk-like.
PS: ” Marmorated” .. I looked it up.. means “Having a marbled or streaked appearance.” They really ARE kinda pretty, with the marmorated shield like body…though I am glad they are only about .75″ long!!