Our Table is Reserved

Please join us February 18-21 in Long Beach, California for some fun in the A/C at the 2011 AMI/USA Refresher Course.  We know you'll be looking for the registration information, so here it is!

Be sure to stop by the Metal Insect table and say hello.  Will there be new button designs?  Of course?  Will your old favorites be there too?  You bet.

What's that you say?  You have a great idea that you'd like to see us mass produce?  Send it our way!  If we produce it, we'll give you a $20 gift certificate and a free sample of your design!




Of course all submitted ideas become the property of Metal Insect Design, but we'll have some fun with them!

Stuff We Like: The Square

Well, this has been coming longer than iPhone on Verizon (NYT says 2011 and has moved from #3 to #2 most emailed at nyt.com in the time this post was written).


For us at MID, it will save time of inputing the card numbers manually.  (No lie: we totally thought of this while at the 2009 AMI refresher course.  Alas.)  There are competitors for Square and we know they're not far behind.  Look for healthy competition at an AMI Refresher Course near you (if you live in the LBC).  Off the cuff, I'd say that little square better be robust, because it looks like it could just snap off leaving the headphone jack hosed up.

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Gates says sticking kids at school in front of a computer is "ludicrous"

Here, we agree with Bill.  He was speaking about children from kindergarten through fifth grade, but did want more innovation in technology for post-secondary students.

Grants of up to $750,000 are available.

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Photostream is ... streaming

Our flux-capacitor is fluxing and we're getting the photos rolling.  If you have a photo featuring some Metal Insect gear, send it in and we'll get it posted!
You can send your photos to blog@metalinsect.com

Next stop, November 5, 1985!

TEDx | American Riviera

Well, we labored to tune in a just the precise moment when it all came together for our hero, his trusty aides, and the key to the universe.  But alas.  No feed found.  You can still get the protagonist's, er, brief bio, here.  We're sure it was there.  Somewhere.  We hope you all had better luck than we.

Send him your thoughts here or here.