Sam Pierson's Blog » Cool Stuff http://sampierson.com/blog Augmentation of an Imperfect Memory. Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:41:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The Greatest Logo Ever http://sampierson.com/blog/cool-stuff/the-greatest-logo-ever/ http://sampierson.com/blog/cool-stuff/the-greatest-logo-ever/#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 21:05:55 +0000 sam http://sampierson.com/blog/?p=557 From RailsConf – Ben Scofield showed this, the greatest logo ever. Viget Labs had a bowling competition with a startup and needed a logo for their team. So they told one of their designers to create the most awesome logo ever. Note dinosaur with hatchet, shark with nunchucks etc. Awesome indeed.

Bowling Thunder Logo

Bowling Thunder Logo

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CSS IS AWESOME mug

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]]> http://sampierson.com/blog/cool-stuff/the-dhh-startup-school-talk/feed/ 0 Meraki mesh networking http://sampierson.com/blog/cool-stuff/meraki-mesh-networking/ http://sampierson.com/blog/cool-stuff/meraki-mesh-networking/#comments Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:22:18 +0000 sam http://sampierson.com/blog/?p=247 This stuff looks fun.

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]]> http://sampierson.com/blog/cool-stuff/edward-tufte-on-iphone-design/feed/ 0 The Secret History of Silicon Valley http://sampierson.com/blog/cool-stuff/the-secret-history-of-silicon-valley/ http://sampierson.com/blog/cool-stuff/the-secret-history-of-silicon-valley/#comments Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:51:48 +0000 sam http://sampierson.com/blog/?p=224 A lecture by Steve Blank at Google about how World War II got silicon valley started.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP59tQf_njc

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