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Raise your hand if you’ve done this. Now, the rest of you, raise your hands because you’re lying.
Since Wednesday, there have been developments in the ongoing Nebraska License Plate Debacle. And by developments, I mean the kind head-removal-from-anus that cannot be called anything other than “heroic” in the world of politics. What was once stonewalling and inability to admit failure has transformed into someone in local government actually standing up and saying “you know what? This is a little fucked up right here and we may have to do something about it.“
Throughout it all, the gang at CollegeHumor.com (which has only been identified as “a college humor website” by the local press — subtle, right?) has floored me as the strut about as some bizarre peacock-unicorn hybrid with their insistence of victory and balls-out unapologetic manner. They remind me of those two dudes who punked Boston with the Moonenite graphics for Cartoon Network a year or two ago. It’s sort of totally awesome. If I lived anywhere else I’d give that guy a high five. Living here, probably I’d fake the high-five and punch him in the balls.
But really, if these recent developments hold, his actions will actually guarantee that the worst option never gets made into the newest license plate, something we should all be thankful for, should it come to pass. The real problem here is how the designs themselves are “commissioned” and selected for presentation for the state to vote on. Until that’s fixed, we’re all just picking out our favorite turd to smear our cars with.
Hey everybody! We’re always hard at work over here adding new things to the site, and from today forward you might notice some links under each post to the social bookmarking site of your choice. If you see an article, comic, or podcast that strikes your fancy and you want to let your friends (or the world at large) know about it, just click one of the icons and it should take you straight away to that site.
As a test I dropped The Big Geek Switch onto my Facebook, and the process was clean and simple. We’re using Byrne Reese’s Promote This plugin on Movable Type, and for someone who knows very little about the engine driving this site I found it very easy work with and integrate into our template. Currently it doesn’t have Twitter support, which I’d like, but it does work with some other sites not listed above, so if there’s a site you use that we don’t have up there let us know and we’ll see about getting that in.
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I few months back Donovan and I struck out onto the world wide web’s second coming, er, “2.0.” 36 Point does have a Facebook group which is open for all to join. We try not use it to tell you how cool we are, or to vote for us when we are up for a prestigious Kid’s Choice Award or anything (though we are guilty of that to some extent), we sort of view it as fan-central to the things we do, and we like to take good care of those who care about what we do. Donovan and I are also generally accepting of friend requests on that network, though tossing out insults in your messages is probably not the best way to get on that train, as a few can attest. Tossing out locations like “I live in Australia and think you are cool” is probably the best way, come to think of it, based on recent examples. Not that we profess that Facebookers should uproot and head for the Land Down Under, just that it helps if you’re already there.
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The Reflex Blue Show with Nate Voss and Donovan Beery, Episode 15: Social Networking
August 13th, 2008 |Posted In: The Reflex Blue Show
Hello internets! We’d like to take a moment to welcome ourselves back to you! We welcome social-networking genius and web 2.0 savant David Kadavy back to the show to chat for a pleasant 34 minutes about social networking and entrepreneurial instinct of designers. We also spend a solid 5 to 10 minutes with the most pointless Mountain Dew Taste Test of all time (Not Halo Mt. Dew = FAIL).
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Nate Voss is a designer, illustrator, talkshow host and design journalist. Working in Omaha since 2001, Nate served four years on the Board of Directors for 
Donovan oversees all creative development at