new jack city > flan has always had a preference for toys made of tennis-ball felt. she is a purist. she likes just plain tennis-balls, too, and lately is rarely seen without one in her mouth. she takes them out to eat, but that's about it. so we went to cutter's mill, which is like the whole foods market for pets, and in addition to a lot of fancy food and treats, got her this big tennis-jack, which obviously, she likes....

Posted on August 27, 2006

> our lives are changing on the fast-track now. we are doing things both more public and more private. lots of things we have worked for for a long, long time, are coming true. please disable your RSS feeds - do the things is no more. want to keep track of amber's pursuits? there's still the knitting tarot (after the book and deck have been made available for sale at the end of '07, this blog too will cease to be, so go while you can...) amber is also a regular features writer for KOREAN QUARTERLY where she also writes a...

Posted on March 23, 2007

What does it mean to test early, and test often, really? > Working, as I do, in a software consultancy, I spend some fair amount of time providing estimates on how much time it's going to take to "do UX" on a project. I think there are as many ways to estimate effort on an activity like this as there are people who "do UX". Some of the most popular methods I find in use around here begin with a question. A question like: "How much time do we have?" "How much money does the client have?" "How much did it cost last time?" I'm going to start referring to these methods...

Posted on July 06, 2006

There's more tarot here than you can shake a stick at. Even a very large stick. See people rave about the 80's tarot, explore the trinity doughnuts tarot and watch the knitting tarot come to life as a letterpressed deck and book set, before your very eyes.

last official call for the KNITTING TAROT > hello KNITTING TAROT friends, this will be our last notify e-mail to this list and our last blog post to the KT RSS feed. we have been touched, and overwhelmed at times, by the response we have gotten to the KNITTING TAROT now that it is available for sale. embedded in our page now (http://www.notsoswift.com/amindandacard/knittingtarot) is a map representing all the different points on the globe where KT sets have been ordered. take a look! there are people using the KNITTING TAROT all over the united states (including hawaii), canada, england, ireland, scotland, new zealand, norway, and even rio de...

Posted on October 22, 2007