Month February 2007

Flash for Atmosphere

I normally don’t pay too much attention to the gratuitous eye candy of Flash web sites. But when atmosphere is part of what you’re selling to your audience it can really work when its done just right – as it…

Super Happy Fun Time Friday

Sites that have stayed in open tabs today: Google Buys Adscape – an ingame advertiser boo box – Tag > Click > Money… supper consumerism from the comfort of your own web site. A folding screen on a portable device…

Toilet Paper Math

Overall, I try to avoid activities that involve math – though many tasks related to graphic design make it unavoidable. What really irritates me is standing in the grocery store in front of the toilet paper trying to figure out…

Twingly

Twingly is a screensaver that serves as a visualization of the global traffic in the blogosphere… and very addictive to watch. Normally, I run the open source Electric Sheep screen saver, which is very pretty, but I’m switching over on…

Job Titles

Does anyone’s job title EVER match just one job provided in a web form drop-down box? They really should be multi-select boxes.

New Rig

New! With more productivity packed in every byte. The new laptop is making the once painful tasks of building/texturing much easier. I’ll post more about the specs later, but right now am just amazed at all the things I wasn’t…

Hurry Up and Wait

The Museum of Modern Beta Betas – Most Anticipated is a list of web apps ranked by popularity by how many are waiting for it. Data is being pulled from del.icio.us and updated every Saturday to keep the list current.…

V-Day

Before the day actually ends I want to end it by pointing out that Valentine’s Day is one of the lamest excuses for a holiday of all time. For one day each year let’s mark on our calendars to remember…