Extolling the Virtues of Blockbuster Museum Exhibitions in the Form of a Rant

There are two blockbuster cultural exhibits happening simultaneously in Atlanta. Tutankhamun: The Golden King and The Great Pharaohs and The First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army.

Due to heavy promotion of these events over the past year, I went to both

Magento or Mag-er-pain-in-the-ento

Any way you look at them, whether from a design standpoint or a development standpoint, shopping cart platforms suck.

I recently implemented one of the newer entries into the shopping cart market, Magento, on a low-budget client project. I had done my forum

Bailing Out Excessive Greed

I’ve read dozens of articles lately about the proposed Congressional bailout of the Big Three auto makers. In each of the articles, the inevitable diatribe against auto unions and overpaid auto workers comprises the bulk of the word count.  What is

Extinct Primate ReDiscovered

Researchers trolling the lush mountaintop rain forest of a remote Indonesian island recently rediscovered a primate long thought to be extinct.

The Pygmy Tarsier is one of the world's smallest and, now, rarest primates.

I can fully appreciate why the three

Atlanta Gas Crisis Chicanery

What has happened to investigative reporting?

For example:
1. Why has no mention of Governor Perdue's taxpayer-financed European vacation made the headlines during the gas shortage?

2. Why has no one mentioned the curiously convenient link between the gas

The Magical Suckerhole

As promised, here is a glimpse of our epic summer ski adventure to Chile. This photo was taken as a suckerhole passed over Valle Nevado. In ski parlance, a "suckerhole" is what we call a fleeting patch of blue sky that travels across an otherwise gloomy

The “Cost” or “Quality” Conundrum

At 16toads, we often receive referrals from other small business owners who have a colleague in dire need of a web site or a “fix” [read: repair]. Often times, the individual who was referred has already gone the through the web design process with another

Absolut Ignorance

A current Absolut ad running in Mexico has managed to elicit cheers from Mexicans and (who would have guessed) condemnation from people in el Norte.

The billboard and press campaign, created by advertising agency Teran\TBWA, is a colorful map depicting what