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- Project TiVo
- It looks as though TiVo is getting in on the whole “viral marketing” bandwagon. Done with a pretty obvious nod to Lost‘s “Dharma Initiative” films, the Project Bluemoon video talks about where TiVo came from. You can grab a much higher quality version at tivo.com/bluemoon.... full entry
- Automated Image Layouts
- Well, I’m way behind the curve on posting this one, but I only just got around to finally reading the article. Back in the July issue of A List Apart, Harvey Kane shared an article about doing an Automatic Magazine Layout. Essentially, what it does... full entry
- Inconveniently True
- The movie has been out for a while now, but I finally got a chance to see An Inconvenient Truth. It’s a very compelling documentary about (as I’m sure you know, dear reader) global warming. Specifically, it chronicles the efforts of Al Gore to highlight,... full entry
- World Cup
- Anyone who knows me well, probably knows that I love soccer (that’s “football” to all the rest of the world, of course). This summer will bring the 2006 World Cup, which is being held in Germany this year. Now, most people would probably assume that... full entry
- TinkerTool for OS X
- Just a quick post here to mention a handy little OS X application called TinkerTool. What it does, is simply give you access to various preference settings in OS X that often aren’t normally available. The one that immediately jumped out at me was “Disable... full entry
- Roller Derby
- Last weekend, I went to see a roller derby match and had the most fun I’ve experienced in quite a while. The match pitted the ‘Rhinestone Cowgirls’ against the ‘Putas del Fuego’ (how can you not like that name?) and included such roller girls as... full entry
- This Spartan Life
- Thanks to a Wired.com article, I found out about a great new Halo-based Machinima series. If you’re unfamiliar with machinima such as the popular “Red vs. Blue” series, then check out the linked Wikipedia entry. Anyway, the Wired.com article introduced me to This Spartan Life,... full entry
- Boston Legal on ‘Protesting’
- Today certainly wasn’t meant to be all “political”, but it appears to be heading that way. This week’s Boston Legal episode (not a show I watch, mind you) had a clip where James Spader’s character is apparently defending someone for tax evasion. His closing argument... full entry
- Visualize Your Tax Spending
- Posted over on Boing Boing, Xeni pointed to this very cool visual representation of how US taxes were spent in 2004. It’s fascinating to visually see how much was spent on one thing (the ‘Bureau of Indian Affairs’, for example, at $2.462 billion) compared to... full entry
- 40 Layouts, 1 Source
- HTML.it has a new Layout Gala feature. Simply put, it shows you how to achieve an amazing forty different CSS-based layouts all using the same base HTML source. Not only that, but the layouts have also been “tested successfully on Internet Explorer/win 5.0, 5.5, 6... full entry
- MapSurface ‘Demo’
- Over on his Blogography, Andy Budd has posted some information for a new stats package he’s been testing on his site called MapSurface. Apparently evolved from a link tracker system, MapSurface looks pretty interesting and Andy explains in his post how you can see it... full entry
- Watch Democracy
- No, I’m not talking about the “democratic process” or anything like that. Rather, I’m referring to the new “internet TV platform” known as Democracy. It’s kind of hard to describe (so just go and take a look), but the Democracy player is sort of an... full entry
- Info on Firefox 2.0
- While on the topic of Firefox, I came across an article today discussing the forthcoming Firefox 2 release. The Information Week article mostly mentions bookmark/history integration and improvements as well as tabbed browsing improvements, both of which are welcome changes, of course. Looking at the... full entry
- Firefox and RAM
- Unlike Derek, I still use Firefox as my primary browser. I tried Safari as my main browser for a couple of weeks after (finally) upgrading to OS X 10.4 not too long ago, but it ultimately just didn’t quite work with me the way I... full entry
- Star Wars Movies as MMORPG
- Most people these days are at least aware of the existence of MMORPGs - online games that allow hundreds or thousands of users to all play the game together in a persistent universe. One of these games (one I don’t actually play myself, I should... full entry
- Target.com sued by blind student
- As this arstechnica article describes, a blind university student is suing Target for not being accessible to the blind. This goes right along with my entry Saturday on accessibility in design. Here’s one major reason: take a look at the validation results, or look at... full entry
- The Video Post
- After browsing YouTube and some other places, I figured I’d just share some of the videos I came across. I think they’re all pretty good, but judge for yourself. Urban Ninja—This guy is simply amazing: flipping and jumping and springing everywhere. Wish I could do... full entry
- Bubbly Tooltips
- This site has been using Nice Titles on this site for over two years now. Well, Alessandro over at web-graphics.com has put up an alternate way to do the same sort of thing that he titles Bubble Tooltips. The functionality is largely the same, but... full entry
- Bush as Text Adventure
- Matthew Baldwin of “Defective Yeti” has posted what the Bush presidency might look like if it were a text adventure game. > EXAMINE CHAIRS They are two several chairs arranged around the center of the room, along with two couches. Under one couch you find... full entry
- Thank You, Chuck Norris
- If, by some chance, you don’t get the title reference then you need to watch more Vince Vaughn movies. Anyway… Chuck Norris is awexome, we all know this. If you don’t know that, then you deserve a roundhouse kick to the face. Just in case... full entry
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