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Gap Reveals Human Rights Conditions

Oct

4

2004

Fast Company | Gap’s New Look: The See-Through On May 12, Gap Inc. released a report that had jaws dropping in corporate boardrooms and activist corridors across the land. The 40-page “social-responsibility report” details, with unflinching honesty, the problems the $6.5 billion clothing retailer found in the 3,000 factories it contracted to produce clothing for ...

Site Upgrades

Sep

28

2004

I’ve been playing with a trial “Typepad”:http://www.typepad.com subscription, and while I think I enjoy the flexibility of using “Movabletype”:http://www.movabletype.org (specifically the plugin support) too much to leave, it has inspired me to work on a bit of a redesign-from-scratch. I’m probably going to go with a layout inspired by the mixed media layouts, but sticking ...

Free Online Cliffnotes

Sep

9

2004

CliffsNotes has announced that they’ve got 180 literature guides online for free viewing. The snag is that viewing is the only thing that’s free. Downloading and printing the guides will cost $5.99 The CliffsNotes site is at http://www.cliffsnotes.com. Free Cliffnotes sounds like a fantastic resource. I wonder if now searching for literary titles and terms ...

Video iPods

Sep

8

2004

We don’t think people have a burning desire to watch video on tiny little screens,” Jobs said earlier this year. But Gates points to the growing phenomenon of kids watching videos during long car trips as proof that there is a market for small screens. “I guess Steve’s kids just listen to Bach and Mozart,” ...

Why I’m a Mac User

Aug

31

2004

[Richard Scoble](http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/) of Microsoft asked: > “Mark: tell me what you can do on a Mac that you can’t do on a PC? > Give me, say, five examples. Here’s your chance to do some great > advertising for Apple. The kind they can’t buy.” While I don’ feel the zealous need to defend my ...