Metallic Gum Glitter type of thing?

I'm looking for a screen-printing service that lets me do 3+1 color prints. I want to do a few special edition shirts that have a glitter/metallic effect on top of them.

Any ideas? I won't deal with cumbersome companies, just upload a PDF and get an online preview is enough. The ones with the cumbersome workflows make you pay for their intellectual shortcomings anyway and I don't plan on funding morons.

Please help this Woman out

She has the RIAA Gestapo on her ass for something she has no clue that it even exists.

Her kid's friend pirated music via Kazaa on her computer. IMHO the parent(s) of the other kid would be responsible for not teaching the id about piracy.

If you think about it, the kid should be punished directly, circumventing the parents. Let it be service hours and lots of preaching about what copyright really is.

There are a lot of artists that can't afford the lawsuits that the big 4 are pulling off (which is basically marketing on the back of others). So if you pirate their music, you're ruining their livelihood. In the age of podcasting, chances are that people will go after you, outside of the court if you pirate their fav artists music. But I digress...

Right now that Woman needs help to fight off the wrongful prosecution of the RIAA.

PDF + Flash vs. Accessible Design?

Now that Adobe acquired Macromedia that heinous Freehand app might be off market but what they're doing with Flash is just scary.

While Flash is a great tool for interactive displays, mini games and to embed audio and video into a web-site, using it to solely build a website is a strict no-no.

If you want to lock out people with a disability and do some content euthanasia that's never a great marketing scheme. Guess what, blind people buy skin-care products too! But what Adobe has done here with parts of their web-site is beyond embarrassing for any web designer. What can be a valid reason to display text in a Flash where HTML would have been better? Search engines can't find it and the major screen-readers won't see them for their users.

With the emerging of poorly designed websites like adobe.com it's getting incredibly hard for makers of screen reader software. They now are brutally forced into breaking flash content apart and guessing the text that's flattened to paths due to idiotic font licenses issued by elderly morons or trying to get down through the layers that cover the text that is embedded into the .swf file. Guess what, even giants like JAWS need to make money on their software, if you make their job impossible, you will loose sales. Not because they may abandon your format or focus on another business but because YOU where too stupid to produce an accessible document.

Recap:

1. Flatten type to paths in a PDF = You're an idiot.
2. Flatten type to paths in a Flash movie = You're an ignorant idiot.
3. Using a flattened PDF in a Flash movie = Braindead.

Leaving text as text would break some font licenses made by some ignorant numb-nuts. I think they deserve a kick in the very same. Would you believe that in 2005 there were licenses that would not allow a font to be rendered at a height of 200 pixels? The name of that foundry is Hoefler and Frere-Jones. Great designers, but ignorant morons. You also can't embed the fonts in a PDF or a Flash.

Happy Holidays!

MediaTemple GFYS, will ya!

Media Temple totally sucks monkey balls!

Guess what? Those fuckers left me down again. The whole site just down. 3rd time in one month!

I pay just a little below $20 each month to get insulting idiots as tech support and a totally inferior server framework.

A fine quote from Full Metal Jacket that involves eyeballs comes to mind.

Now I understand why customers are leaving by the busload. MT used to be a good choice, now it's a cage of fools, not more.

The End Of All Things

Sit down with me here, my friends reflect on things that were, things that may come and those we lost on the way to get there.

Friendships that faded, business relations that will not last. All we see now will change, whole industries will fall prey to the few that learn to glide with the times.

Here, at the end of all things we meet to watch and live the changes breathing new life into friends long gone bringing new hope to the world.

If the above doesn't make any sense to you, here's the English version:

In 2006 everything will change for me and my business as for a lot of other people in different fields of business. Existing relationships will change, even long standing business relationships will need to go in order to do what is most dear to my heart.

I won't go into detail here, but once it's official I'll post it here, probably as my last post to blogger.

Right now I just want to thank everyone subscribed to this feed for your support and comments during the past year. Why almost all of you insisted on taking the 3 extra clicks and e-mail me instead putting your comments here will probably remain shrouded in myth.

Phone Deathwish?

Ok, here's my plan, a bit of an experiment. I'm selling my phone and canceling my landline contracts.

So the total cost a year for my business account are €599.88. So what I'll do is replacing it with an additional SkypeIn account, a decent headset and maybe a DSL upgrade.

So I pay like 20 bucks a year + the skypeOut fees that are minimal, even on a global level.