All over the world, libraries are embracing technology, and their collections are becoming increasingly accessible.

Extremely clever scientists have been working on sugru for over 5 years to give it as many great physical properties as possible, so it can be as versatile and useful as possible for you. sugru is like modeling clay when you take it from its pack. Once it's exposed to air, it cures to a tough flexible silicone overnight using the moisture in the air. Working time = 30 mins. Cure time = 24hrs (3-5mm deep)

4'x4'x2' Standard
Industry standard, ten drawer work box designed to hold all standard grip needs such as tools, clamps, etc. Bottom drawers accommodate standard aerosol cans standing up. Great for prop masters too! Made to order. Call for availability and lead times. ($2250)

handles, hinges, tacks, locks, rollers, tin, leather, clamps, corners, tools, supplies, nails, drawbolts, lidstays, rollers, loops, banding

Writing a business plan is an easy way to help create a focus for your business and educate others about it. A well composed business plan can be used to procure a loan and get investors. If you don't know how to write a business plan, then this page will help guide you through the process, step by step.

In my day job, I not only hear a lot of PowerPoint pitches, but I also read a lot of business plans. The PowerPoint pitches explain my Ménière's disease, but the business plans explain my recent need for reading glasses. One of my goals for blogging is to reduce the external factors that are causing the degradation of my body, so this entry's topic is the zen of business plans.

This is a guide to options and tools for laying out global text in the CS4 versions of InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator. None of them are obvious or documented in the regular versions of the application, but there are a dizzying variety of options

The financial analysis is the most concrete, practical part of the business plan, the section likely to arouse the greatest interest.

Your business is great. You’ve invented something better than sliced bread. You offer such an amazing service at such a great price that people should be knocking your door down. And they might be. But they’re all asking for a proposal. Proposals are a fact of life. We all do them, and we’re all trying to blow our prospects away. But most proposals are bad.

Everyone makes the same classes of error…
1. Invalid competitive advantages
2. Lacking an unfair advantage
3. No one said they'd buy it
4. Incorrect positioning against competition
5. No significant route to customers

We are not on this earth to be busy. We are here to build relationships, experience life, go places, create things, help others, or whatever else you decide.

A process for replacing the paper (aka Moleskine Reloaded) while retaining all the other wonderful attributes of the Moleskine.

n their classic book Peopleware , Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister report on studies of programmers' productivity relative to the characteristics of their work environment. The results are clear: human factors issues impact programmers greatly.

We’ve made plenty of paper flowers out of colored paper and old catalogs, but we recently found a new material that creates wonderfully frilly petals, perfect for these paper flower pins. Our new paper ribbon has a fun texture and comes in lovely colors. Layering fuchsia and pool, we created these festive flowers with a few cuts and folds, held together by floral wire and floral tape.

It’s nothing short of summer in a glass. It tastes like lemonade. It tastes like iced tea. There are crisp cucumber slices and a splash of 7-Up (for some low-brow fizz, you know?) in a tall glass with ice cubes and if that has not convinced you — and seriously, how did that not convince you? — hopefully its name will.

"For every $1 spent on the library, a community sees an average of $4 in return."