http://blog.matthewkammerer.com An ordinary day in the life of Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:48:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hey guys! I am SOO excited to announce we JUST launched http://www.UXBooth.com. This website is a joint project with 3 friends who already own and operate great websites.. The UX Booth is a group that writes about User Experience, and offers free Website Usability Reviews that all designers and developers can benefit ... http://blog.matthewkammerer.com/2008/11/28/ux-booth-a-blog-about-usability/ That title is what I could see in our future. This article from CNN interests me: Scientists hope to clone extinct species Researchers at the Riken Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, used cells from mice that had been frozen for 16 years at -20 Celsius (-4 degrees Fahrenheit). They extracted the ... http://blog.matthewkammerer.com/2008/11/09/rich-chose-to-freeze-themselves-after-death/ I recently Stumbled onto the website of Liz Wolfe. I wanted to share a bit of her work I found inspiring, take a look! These are only a few of her pieces of work. http://blog.matthewkammerer.com/2008/10/05/inspiration-from-liz-wolfe/ Many pictures like this video can be found in this article: Creative and Live: Burst. http://blog.matthewkammerer.com/2008/08/13/choice-fm-video/ Yesterday, as a helicopter flew closer to the tree tops than I'd seen... ever.. I pondered something. If, more so when, there is a way to keep a platform in the air that can sustain life for an extended period of time, where will they park such "air ship"? Now, this is ... http://blog.matthewkammerer.com/2008/08/02/land-ownership-and-how-height-corresponds/ This summer I have the pleasure of working for www.ReConstruct.org. My official title is Facility Assistant / Photographer. My main responsibilities include: taking digital pictures and short videos of individual volunteers and groups, uploading them on our site daily and creating the DVD for groups to take home at end of ... http://blog.matthewkammerer.com/2008/05/30/summer-at-reconstructorg/ I found this today while browsing Gizmodo. How awesome is this? Nothing screams impeccable taste like having a fireplace in the middle of your coffee table and now, thanks to Planika Fires, you can keep the flames roaring without worrying about smoke or soot. The company makes the magic happen using ... http://blog.matthewkammerer.com/2008/05/18/smokeless-fireplace-yes-please/ Okay, I'll admit it. I am very impressed. I normally use fireworks for my graphic design and slight image touch ups I do. I used some basic photoshop tools on this recent photo I took and I am pretty happy with the results this far. Remember, this is only about 10 ... http://blog.matthewkammerer.com/2008/05/18/some-basic-photoshop-touch-ups/ This morning I got an email from FastWeb with the title 'FastWeb Alert'. At first I wondered if I had finally been awarded one of the many scholarships I had applied for. As suspected, that was not the case. The first paragraph of the email was as follows: Recently, a column appeared ... http://blog.matthewkammerer.com/2008/05/13/fastweb-alert-email-a-news-article-reveals-fastweb/ I found this video via digg this morning. It showcases an eight year employee of Google who's main purpose is to identify websites who try to raise their page rank by using potentially 'black-hat' processes. Some website owners think having misspellings at the bottom of their page are alright, and just ... http://blog.matthewkammerer.com/2008/05/12/the-other-spam-website-spam-baiting-search-engines-and-more/