Kimberly Blessing

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock

Posted February 9, 2009 at 9:56 PM in Funnies, Geekout, Television, Videos | Comments (1)

I keep telling people that I’ll play ‘Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock’ with them, but I get blank stares in return. How does everyone not know about this game? Learn more from the following video, and watch The Big Bang Theory!

Last week’s links

Posted February 8, 2009 at 8:03 PM in Links | Comments Off

• Ongoing Echoes from the Women of the Long House A brief history of the influence of the Haudensosaunee (Iroquois) women on early American feminists.
• The XX Factor : For Women, Good Jobs Depend on Good Contraception … and Yet … “Let’s be real: Most women couldn’t be 21st-century workers without contraception.”
• Acing a job interview with deliberate practice The Influencer Blog uses Ben Franklin’s self-improvement process as inspiration for preparing someone for a job interview. The technique, which I’ve used, works.
• Jo Ellen Parker ’75 to lead Sweet Briar College Fellow Bryn Mawr grad (and dean when I was a student) will take over in July.
• The Angry Grammarian: Verbed nouns, and the people who hate them. On "unfriending" and more.
• Stephen Ibaraki interviews Dame Wendy Hall A broad spectrum of questions are asked and answered in this audio interview.
• Lone male student rooms at Bryn Mawr In my day, there were around 10 men rooming on campus each year. Now there's just one, the first in 10 years? Seems odd.

Are you In Control?

Posted February 5, 2009 at 10:28 PM in Industry Events, Web Standards | Comments Off

The good folks at AIGA Cincinnati have announced a new Web design conference — the In Control Web Design Workshop Conference — which will be held June 11-12 in Cincinnati.

Organized largely by Christopher Schmitt, it’s a single-track conference of longer workshops. Unlike other conferences where sessions last an hour, speakers at this conference will be in control (ha!) of the mic for nearly two hours. This will give attendees the opportunity to really dive into the topics being presented!

I’m leading a workshop on my favorite topic — style guides and standards. After many years of creating and maintaining style guides, and many requests from readers like you, I’m finally working on some templates which will be part of the materials given away at this session.

If you want to be among the first to get these resources, register now! Through May 10, use discount code INCBLES to get $50 off the early bird rate. Managers, discounts available for groups of three or more.