Category: Cool

Some Links For The Evening

As an occasional graphic designer, I know when something is ugly, which is why I find so much pleasure in bad logo design (and the domain made me laugh, too).
Using Lightbox with the Photoshop-created web photo gallery (doing this with a project I’m working on).
BlueOregon takes The Bulletin to task on one of their editorials.
Futurama’s coming back — this time for real (not like last time).
My First Dictionary is probably not the best way to introduce your kids to words — but it’s great for the rest of us.
If you hate the Office 2007 “Ribbon” menus, you can go back to the old-school menus with this.
10 Things Not to do in New York City.
Big Mess o’ Wires, a cool-looking homebrew CPU.

June 14, 2009

Links For The Day

Long day at the office, but still have some good links to share.

Six free PSD/(X)HTML Templates that are very nice.
If I die, I want to make sure I have a final blog post written beforehand (thanks Barn for this).
Northwestern University is getting Comp. Sci and Jcomm majors to play nice with each other (this is course work I would’ve loved to have been a part of).
How many balloons would it take to lift a house (like in Up)? At the very least, 9.4 million.
Somebody needs to port this Mac “virus” to the PC. (be sure to watch it in action).
Mofuse has allowed me to create mobile/iPhone versions for both this site and Bend Blogs. Not a huge fan of outsourcing it, but since I can brand it with my URL, it’ll enable me to keep the URL should the service die. Now I just need to setup either .htaccess redirect or some PHP detection code. Will work on that…uh…sometime.

June 8, 2009

It May Be Photoshopped, But Who Cares?

Conan’s new set looks a lot like a Super Mario Bros. level. Heck, even Nintendo thinks so.

June 4, 2009

Can’t Keep The New iPhone Rumors Straight?

There’s likely to be a new iPhone announced this next week. If you’re having a hard time keeping track of all the various rumors (from all the various sources) concerning the new phone, The Green Room has it all in a nice, cited, graphical form.

And no, we still don’t have the iPhone here officially.

June 2, 2009

Back To Business

Yesterday’s concert went well, despite me buggering up my elbow playing the bongos on a latin piece we were playing. It’s one thing to play the bongos in a jazz band, it’s another to try to play them over the top of a larger concert band — you need a lot more volume, and my elbow wasn’t handling the impact very well.

Just the same, back to business on the blog, and it’s time to clear out some links.

So you’re in love with one of your friends, but she already has a boyfriend.
Save time watching most of the crap that comes out of Hollywood — it’s all explosions and clevage anyway.
CollegeHumor games the Amazon.com reviews.
Turn of Windows Geniune Advantage with Microsoft’s help.
I’m printing up some of these for my next meeting.
Open Source Media Systems.
Going back from XHTML to HTML.
xkcd Gets A Book Deal.
The infinite photo (possibly linked to before, but too lazy to look).
I must be a criminal mastermind, since I use the command line all the time.
Thank you Captain Obvious: Facebook makes you stupid.
How cell towers work.
Kiss the next 10 minutes goodbye fans of Diablo and Doom.
Blue whales are big.
How to create custom Twitter backgrounds (like I give a rip).

June 1, 2009

Meme Scenery

What if you took all those popular videos and photos that have floated around the net over the years and removed their main subject? The remaining scenery would look like this. Can you guess which videos or photos they’re from?

May 27, 2009

Browsing The Web at 300 baud

Before everybody had high speed, we geeks connected to the ‘net with modems. Usually we connected with the 56kbps variety (my first modem was a 2400baud, but that was just for community BBSs). You could never try (nor would you want) to browse the modern web on a 300 baud modem — unless you’re this guy: