April 2008
Monkey Boy uses a Mac? →
Sure looks like it. Unless this is a Photoshop job. To see the original, go here. Photo taken by “Paint.It.Black.”
Web Standards Design + Development, a Group of... →
New LinkedIn group for standards-minded web developers and designers, spearheaded by Greg Storey.
★
Love, Hate, Think, Believe, Feel, Wish →
Twitstori is the “the first step in an ongoing social experiment based on twitter” and it is very cool. The geniuses behind this project are amy hoy and thomas fuchs. Amazing!
WatchIn May 1996, Rory Cellan-Jones took a tour of the Dundee office where the first version of Grand Theft Auto was being developed. (via BBC NEWS | Technology | The first Grand Theft Auto)
Serial killers answer letters from guy pretending... →
Radar asked Bill Geerhart to send follow-up notes to the serial killers he wrote in the late 1990s, posing as a 10-year-old. The killers promptly replied (both in 1998, and recently).
in…
NiceToMeetYou™ →
via http://ntmy.org/
turner04.jpg (JPEG Imagen, 700x264 pixels) →
via http://www.graphic-exchange.com/images/07objects/turner/turner04.jpg
stella_bomb.jpg (image) →
via http://bp1.blogger.com/_AeDm7b7X5IE/R8SK3AyrtaI/AAAAAAAAAak/uhaQfd_iOVw/s1600-h/stella_bomb.jpg
Flickr Photo Download: tv-02 →
via http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1586048153&size=o
High Tech Noon →
Star Trek was originally pitched by Gene Rodenberry as “Wagon Train to the Stars.” What if High Noon was described as Star Trek in the O.K. Coral? You’d probably get something like this:
Warm Sunny Day, part 2 →
Coworking Crawl →
Today we’re on a crawl of the wifi hotspots of Birmingham. It’s like a real ale pub crawl only much more nerdy. The idea is to find places with free wireless and see whether they’re good to work in…
WatchGolden Eagle Throws Goat off Cliff
Crash Bonsai →
Crash Bonsai - Toy cars crashed into lovely bonsai trees! [via]
Golden Eagles can be up to three feet long with... →
Golden Eagles can be up to three feet long with a wingspan of over 7 feet. Here’s a video of a Golden Eagle hunting for food, a process that involves throwing live goats off of cliffs and then…
Subway Sea Monster & Monkey →
Joshua Allen Harris is building on his subway creatures project with this Subway Sea Monster and a Subway Monkey.
“Let your friends know about ExpanDrive by becoming a fan on Facebook. We’d love...”
– http://www.facebook.com/pages/ExpanDrive/11387674398
Rivet: Another Mac media sharing app for your Xbox... →
Filed under: Mac, Microsoft Xbox 360
There isn’t much we find wrong with Connect360, the $20 media sharing app that helps your Mac play friendly with your Xbox 360. In fact,…
Mac clone lust. →
Ah, spring! When a gentleman’s fancy turns to Mac cloning! Like ZDNet’s Jason Perlow. … I have to think that this whole idea of commercially produced Mac Clones has legs…
Ah, so Perlow’s…
Fried Egg Candle →
Doesn’t this fired egg candle look great once it’s been burning for a while. Top design.
iPlayer tip jar? →
As someone who doesn’t own a television the BBC iPlayer has had an interesting effect on my viewing habits. Normally if I fancy watching an hour of so of moving pictures I’ll hit the…
“ITV F1 have won their second Baftas in two years. For the many non-British...”
– ITV F1 wins another Bafta — they must be clueless » vee8 - a Formula 1 blog
Camino 1.6 →
While I was away at FOWD, Camino 1.6 was released, with lovely new features like the find bar (at last!), OpenSearch support, and many more. Wonderful stuff! In particular though, I had a lump…
From Design to Deployment →
A proper blog post is to follow, but for now, here are my slides in Deployment.pdf (PDF) for the talk I gave at the Future Of Web Design in London 2 days ago. The demo page of Cheesophile is…
Her Chair →
Her Chair. Simple and sexy. [via]
The story of a salvage team racing to save the... →
The story of a salvage team racing to save the Cougar Ace, a 55,000 ton cargo ship packed with Mazda cars valued at $103 million that nearly flipped when the ballast tanks on either side of the…
No CSS Reset →
When asked recently about using a CSS reset stylesheet, I readily admitted that I don’t use them. I don’t use them for my blog or for any project that I work on. Admitting such can raise an eyebrow…
Techno →
strip for April / 15 / 2008 →
One Nation Under CCTV →
This impressive One Nation Under CCTV piece popped up over the weekend in London.
“One such copy seems indicative of the whole Vista experience. On boot up,...”
– Robby Walker - Hasta La Vista, Vista
Generic Joke →
Here’s something I believe everyone can enjoy.
Q: How many of a group does it take to perform a task?
A: N. One to do the primary activity and N-1 to do something loosely related.
Oh, those…
mymacdrips →
my dog sighs posted a photo:
Animated →
via http://pichaus.com/p13x/animated+2+
06_zabavnie_givotnie.jpg (image) →
via http://bp2.blogger.com/_taPC-1l2iog/R7xW7MnE0kI/AAAAAAAAXjc/mTphYluQYBQ/s1600-h/06_zabavnie_givotnie.jpg
Enhance Your Ad Designs with 3D Splashes →
In this tutorial I’ll show you a creative process that gets you using your crazy brain. The workflow for creating the splashes involves taking photographs of thrown paint. Through photography you…
Movie Gadget Friday: Johnny Mnemonic →
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Ariel Waldman contributes Movie Gadget Friday, where she highlights the lovable and lame gadgets from the world of cinema. For last week’s installment of Movie…
Even Gigantic Celestial Bodies Prefer Firefox to... →
Apparently there are nerds in space, too. This was spotted in variable star V838 Monocerotis of the constellation Monoceros and, holy moley, it looks like the Firefox logo! Whatever. I’ll be…
Traffic Police Mumbai: Waving | Ads of the World:... →
via http://adsoftheworld.com/media/print/traffic_police_mumbai_waving?size=_original
“Enter your Last.fm user name and the Pipe will find featured Muxtapes that...”
– Pipes: Muxtape Recommendations
Schumacher: anatomically correct? →
We’ve all seen quite enough of Max Mosley’s anatomy, so here’s Michael Schumacher’s.
No, the seven-times world champion hasn’t been up to any mischief: this is a 1:18 scale presentation model…
“Comments. I got rid of them. I know this is going to be contentious. My current...”
– Steven Frank (of Panic) on his self-authored blog platform (via marco) (via phonkmeister) (via ) mkg completely disagrees, loves comments, and can’t see why should anyone blog if he or shes not interested in what readers think. I’m extremely intereted in what readers think—but many readers don’t...
Pie by Psyho
Such amazing detail and vision in... →
Pie by Psyho Such amazing detail and vision in such little images. I’m particularly fond of the turtle swimming in the beach wedge, not just because I like turtles, but because of the…
You Have To Burn The Rope →
You Have To Burn The Rope is one of the most fulfilling games I’ve played for ages. Take a look, have a go and enjoy the whole experience…including the tune at the end if you win. [via…