Personal Coffee Mugs
Everyone at my new place of work has a coffee mug on which their own design is printed. I had the bright idea of printing this on it… clever and ironic huh?
Everyone at my new place of work has a coffee mug on which their own design is printed. I had the bright idea of printing this on it… clever and ironic huh?
Thanks to Timo for this link regarding his friend Robert Bradbrook’s film about his family’s Peugeut 404 [re: earlier post]. They don’t make cars like they used to y’know.
8bit music at micromusic.net
You’re sick of the ‘all your base’ meme right? Well v-2.org doesn’t care… read Adam’s intelligent piece on the subject [‘horizontigo’ – why didn’t I think of that?].
I’m almost there with the long overdue CSS overhaul. Thanks to glish.com for the excellent 3 column model which matches my requirements perfectly.
Visiting Jodrell Bank when I was a kid was always an amazing experience; and after watching Tom Baker as The Doctor fall from its great height on TV when I was about 4 years old, it became a place of awe and mystery. Just what was that huge breakfast bowl on metal legs doing there? Seeing it dominate the horizon as I sat on the back seat of the family Peugeot 504 is an image permanently etched on my mind. It was the biggest thing in the world. And now… after uncertaincies about its future, it appears that Jodrell Bank is getting upgraded so that it can study the cosmos [and search for intelligent life] more effectively. I’m glad.
The new scroll device at THREE.OH is a vast improvement from the usual dhtml scroller. ::: So are you going to reboot?
Google Groups – “a terabyte of human communication”.
undesign – good ol’ greyscale
Recommended music: Kid Spatula: Full Sunken Breaks and Tortoise: Standards.
“It looks extremely burnt and damaged, but who cares!” That’s right… a burnt out chunk of Mir is currently for sale on eBay. Of course, no-one knows what it looks like because it’s still out at sea with the fisherman who ‘caught’ it. RRight.
The stats for the Seti@home project are pretty amazing. Download the screensaver here.
Tonight was my final web design teaching session with a group of photography students. I’ve had a very short amount of time to teach them the fundamentals but I think it has been a success. So… armed with only Simpletext, a browser and Fetch 3.03, here are [partially finished] portfolio sites by Laura, Christina K, Christina, Robert and Sophie. OK… so they all look very samey and incomplete but the important thing is that I’ve layed the foundations for them to go on to produce a decent site for themselves [ignore the crappy banner-ads, freeservers.com is only a temporary arrangement]. As you might have guessed, I’m feeling quite pleased with myself… these guys didn’t know much about computers nevermind the Internet before the classes began, and now I’m confident that they know their stuff.
So it looks as though world peace isn’t on Bush’s agenda then. ::: Another spanner in the works in our quest to fully understand the history of human evolution.
Bread… Milk… Eggs… Lightbulbs… iMac… Potatoes… Baked Beans…
I especially like the Countdown video at hexstatic. It cheered me right up this morning [for non-UK readers, Countdown is a daytime-TV word-play show hosted by the one and only Richard Whiteley. It launched the legendary Channel 4 and attracts millions of viewers each day, more than any other Channel 4 program].
Nice intro at 8EDGE.COM. Shame the main interface leaves much to be desired. [cheers Sean]
Another hilarious publicity stunt ::: I hate this kind of generalisation; this way of describing entire nations of people with one sentence is partly responsible for the level of racism and nationalism that inflicts the human race.
Ever wondered what the car in the new Levi’s Ad is? Well it’s a Triumph 2000 Mk1.
Woo… I have a fusion panel at waferbaby > fusion > brains.
The 800×600 debate? I personally believe that designing ‘liquid’ pages is important; I like being able to open my favourites sidebar [on IE5/Mac] and having a daily browse through various weblogs and news sources without having to collapse the bar. Designing flexible sites is not only good practice as it makes browsing easier for the end user, it also creates a bit of a challenge. I have respect for those web designers who can create flexible pages without sacrificing the quality of their layout design. ::: Email – ‘third revolutionary step in human communication’? That’s a big statement. ::: Coke on tap? That’s right mums and dads… stick a coke-tap on your sink and watch your kids freak out on caffeine and sugar while their teeth slowly rot away [Donald Daft? Has April Fool’s Day come early?]. More questions later…
An introduction to SMIL and SVG at AListApart. I’ve been meaning to learn more about SMIL for a while as it seems to straddle my parallel interests of standards compliance, XML, XHTML, CSS etc., and rich media, video content, etc. Unfortunately time has prevented me… I guess I’d better look into it.
Apple news: 1GHz Macs may be due for august release and it’s the end of the line for the cube.
May I point you in the direction of new content over at v-2 Organisation? ::: I’ve been happily pooting around in my new car [something like this] over the last few days and I’ve re-learnt that having a car is both a joyous and empowering experience [I can now visit all the places in the North of England that I’ve been meaning to go to for the last 5 years], and also a bit of a burden. ::: FUSE Light – the clever technology used to create Habbohotel.
Some mad visual effects at Noodlebox [your monitor settings need to be set to millions of colours].
There is some unfortunate meme splicing going on here.
Retro interface design at reservoir media.
Salon.com People | Mr. T makes his comeback … fool. ::: Stupendously busy with work at the moment, hence the lack of interesting posts just recently.
The threat of invisible mirror matter.
PC users should download the Scope browser; it’s fast, neat and only a 91k download. It’s main ‘selling point’ is that can render pages using both the IE and Mozilla [Netscape] engines which can only be a good thing for developers [this can be found in: Tools > Scope options].
motion is an excellent zine/mailing list about decent new music [cheers Jim].
I totally agree with Token in his latest rant about the Flash 5 interface. I’ve tried on numerous occasions to work it out, but I’ve failed everytime. It’s overly complicated, cumbersome and doesn’t seem to stick to any standards used in other heavyweight design packages. The only Macromedia software I like to use is Fireworks, but that is because many of it’s shortcuts are based on standards layed down in Photoshop. I know Flash is a very different piece of software, but why can’t it employ the same level of useability as other major applications?
It/Ginger, the mysterious and world changing invention by Dean Kamen has been uncovered. It is a hydrogen fueled 2-wheeled scooter – “the first generation of a new mode
of transportation that will compete with and possibly replace
automobiles”. This article also cites Kamen’s ‘Stirling Engine’ as being “an almost perpetual motion machine”. Well I’ll be.
Collaborative net art work by Masaki Fujihata: Light on the Net. Such a simple idea. [via Adam]
The number of mobile phone users in Western Europe is expected to reach 300 million by the end of this year. In a couple of years time, WML will be the ‘betamax’ of mobile communications and you’ll be designing sites on and for your desktop machine that will work on the countless millions of Internet enabled phones/PDAs without batting an eyelid. This has to be a major development, especially for the likes of us webloggers.
One Day Soon Resign. Nice
I’m not quite sure what the point of this interface is, and sites that ask me to be patient while loading really annoy me. Why should anyone have to be patient while using the web?
Forget WML, XHTML has to be the future Web interoperability:
To Use or Not to Use: An XHTML Roadmap for Designers ::. XHTML Basic – a W3C recommendation.
The mp3 revolution is allowing unsigned musicians the chance to get their music heard by the masses without spending a fortune on CD production. Unfortunately, it also allows very bad musicians to get their work online. Here’s mp3.com’s worst of the worst. Personally, I like the sound of ‘Hallucinogenic Gyro’ by The Farmingdale Sound Machine. Hmm.
ALA: Back to Basics – interesting read about inefficient WYSIWYG authoring applications like Dreamweaver and the importance of using Source. Couldn’t agree more.
BBC News | ENTERTAINMENT | Bard ‘used drugs for inspiration’
mememachine.net goes all minimal with some skillful CSS manipulation. ::. Just checked my new design in the Lynx browser and I was surprised how neat and tidy it looks – the benefit of validating your site through W3C. Still haven’t gone the whole hog and removed tables though. ::.
Woohoo ADSL
So is there any good news around at the moment? ::. Mango – the analog laptop.
