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Go to skrubu.net, that's where my blog is. Or to snapshots.skrubu.net, or Flickr, where some of my pictures are.
September 24, 2006
This is not an end, but a new beginning
And so ends the story of Hittegodsbyrån. Time to be delici.ou... de.li.ci.o.... d.elici... de.couscous... err. I mean, the links formerly posted here will from now on be posted to del.icio.us/skrubu.
September 19, 2006
Mainoskupla | Puhkaise mainoskupla ja tee maan villein vastamainos! Kritisoi kulutuskulttuuria huumorilla ja mainosmaailman omalla kielellä.
Seitz 6x17 Digital | Create a high resolution 6x17 digital image (160 million pixels) in a fraction of a second!
September 18, 2006
September 17, 2006
Viral Video Chart | The world's most talked about videos...currently tracking YouTube, MySpace and Google Video
September 16, 2006
Apple iTunes 7 Draws Complaints | Problems posted on Apple discussion forums include sound distortion, songs skipping, 3-second delays in playing tunes, and lost tracks. The company hasn't yet responded to or commented on these issues.
Welcome aboard | In-flight announcements are not entirely truthful. What might an honest one sound like?
September 15, 2006
Graphic Language for Touch | This work explores the visual link between information and physical things, specifically around the emerging use of the mobile phone to interact with RFID or NFC. It was a presentation and poster at Design Engaged, Berlin on the 11th November 2005.
September 13, 2006
September 12, 2006
Simpson Crazy downloads, Tracey Ullman shorts | Our very first glimpse of The Simpsons, these are short clips which aired on the Tracey Ullman Show 1987-1989, before and after ad breaks. Here you can download all 48 episodes; this page also serves as an episode guide.
September 11, 2006
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September 06, 2006
Binary Sudoku | If you haven't tried Sudoku before, you'll want to start with the Newbie puzzle. But if you've been playing for a while, or if you just like to dive in with a pencil in each hand, then take a stab at the Power User puzzle. Either way, have fun.
September 04, 2006
September 03, 2006
25 New Ways To Use RSS | Many of us have come to realize how useful RSS is when it comes to tracking news headlines or your favorite blogs. It’s a great way to keep up without having to visit many websites. What most people don’t know is that RSS is an incredibly flexible technology that can do all sorts of other things.
September 02, 2006
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August 31, 2006
August 30, 2006
Ikea: Det är bara ett vanligt hundben | Ett foto i den senaste Ikea-katalogen har blivit en global snackis. Orsaken är att den föreställer en lycklig familj med hund, där en speciell kroppsdel på hunden har mycket mänskliga drag. Arbetsnamnet på nätet har blivit ”the swedish sausage”.
The Bridge | More people choose to end their lives at the Golden Gate Bridge than anywhere else in the world.
August 29, 2006
Photoshop Painting Techniques: Hair and Fur | If you haven't already, you will at some point in your design career be forced to composite hair or fur into a project. The specific reason isn't important. But how are you going to do it? Use a plugin? Not any of the ones I've seen. Copy and paste hair from another image? Too much of a pain, what with the complex masking and color matching. So what will you do, paint the hair follicle by follicle? Absolutely. But it isn't anywhere near as time-consuming as it sounds.
August 28, 2006
August 26, 2006
Red-Hot and Filthy Library Smut | Now, coming upon this post as you are, unawares, I feel I ought to clarify the title (which was alternately going to be sex libris) straight away by telling you what this post is not, in fact, about. By “library smut” I am in no way referring to the photo books on native peoples, or the illustrated health manuals, or any of the other volumes which, in your childhood, you lurked about the library aisle to find with the sole purpose of sneaking guilty glances at naked bodies. Nor am I referring to the “risqué” novels by Miller, Cleland, Réage, or Lawrence you leafed impatiently through as a teenager. No. What I’m talking about here is the full-frontal objectification of the library itself. Oh yeah.
Daguerreotype Photographs the Old Fashioned Way | Patented by Daguerre in 1839 after ripping off substantial portions of the technology from Joseph-Nicephore Niepce in the 1820s and 1830s, the Daguerreotype was heralded at the time as an amazing invention. The Daguerreotype remained popular for only a short time (25 years or so at the most) because it was (and remains) expensive, irreproducible, and tricky to make in the first place.
The Coffee Achievers | Digitized from a 1984 VHS tape. This is one of the famous Coffee Achievers tv spots, meant to encourage people to DRINK COFFEE. You can see how we here in the 21st Century have to laugh ourselves senseless at the idea that paid ads were necessary, and not even for a particular brand of coffee, just the product in general.
August 20, 2006
Flickr Related Tag Browser | surf Flickr's 'tag space'. Flickr tags are keywords used to classify images. Each tag has a list of 'related' tags, based on clustered usage analysis.
August 19, 2006
Fontifier | use your own handwriting for the text you write on your computer. It turns a scanned sample of your handwriting into a handwriting font that you can use in your word processor or graphics program, just like regular fonts such as Helvetica.
Amorphophallus Titanium | A celebrity of the plant world, the Amorphophallus Titanum, or "the corpse flower," is a rare bloom that's native to Indonesia and known for the extreme smell that it emits when it opens. Last week at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, "the Titan," as it's also sometimes known, bloomed for the first time in New York since 1939.
August 18, 2006
August 17, 2006
Digital Tampering in the Media, Politics and Law | Photography, of course, lost its innocence many years ago.
August 16, 2006
Viemärihyttynen | Jos heräät aamulla hillittömään hyttyskutinaan, jota ei vielä illalla ollut, olet todennäköisesti joutunut viemärihyttysen uhriksi. Se iskee sisätiloissa, erityisesti öisin kaupunkialueilla, ja sen pistot aiheuttavat usein voimakkaan allergisen reaktion. Veijari on hyvin varovainen ja lentää äänettömästi. Sitä onkin vaikea havaita.
Daily Type | a creative project run by several russian type designers. Day by day, they create original typefaces and post their results along with routine.
August 15, 2006
The Shape of Song | What does music look like? The Shape of Song is an attempt to answer this seemingly paradoxical question. The custom software in this work draws musical patterns in the form of translucent arches, allowing viewers to see--literally--the shape of any composition available on the Web. The resulting images reflect the full range of musical forms, from the deep structure of Bach to the crystalline beauty of Philip Glass.
BBC Radio 1 Documentaries - Kraftwerk | Pioneers, 20 years before their time, they invented much of what we recognise as the tools of electronic music. But quite apart from being inventors they were funky as hell and became the most sampled artsits ever. Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos presents Kraftwerk, so much more than 4 geeky German blokes who loved bicycles...
August 14, 2006
Me | The idea is simple, the result is stunning. On November 1, 2001, artist Ahree Lee began taking daily digital snapshots of her own face; and she has continued this project every day since. In 2004, Lee compiled all of her daily images into a montage with a wistful musical score. In the fast-paced parade of images you're about to see, each second of screen time represents about one week's worth of pictures.
Swing portrait | On April 15th, 2006 we went to a remote sound studio outside of Las Vegas to capture the greatest golf swing of our generation. We took a Phantom v5 digital camera, usually reserved to study military defense systems. This camera boasts the ability to shoot up to 4000 digital still photographs per second. We then turned it on Tiger Woods...
August 13, 2006
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August 11, 2006
5 Steps To Being More Photogenic | So the question is, why do some people always seem to look good in pictures? Truth is, some people have a triggered response when they are in front of a camera. They do certain things that make them look better. You can also develop a triggered response that makes YOU look better.
August 10, 2006
Smithsonian Photography Initiative | we hope to open new doors for you — both to the Smithsonian's extraordinary collections of photographs and to an understanding of the integral roles photographs play in our lives. Beyond offering more information about where to find photography collections throughout the Smithsonian, our website aims to be an educational tool, serving anyone who wishes to study, explore, and enjoy photographs of many kinds.
August 09, 2006
http://www.prankmike.com/ | A few of us at work have been pranked one too many times by a certain coworker by the name of Mike. He was out of town for a few days and we had some extra cardboard laying around. This is what happens when you push creative IT workers too far! Enjoy your new office Mike!
August 08, 2006
Helvetica | is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives.
Upside-Down-Ternet | My neighbours are stealing my wireless internet access. I could encrypt it or alternately I could have fun.
August 07, 2006
August 06, 2006
Jere Majava: Suomalaisten weblogien verkosto keskustelevana julkisuutena | Tutkimus perustuu laajamittaiseen osallistuvaan havainnointiin, vuoden 2005 tammikuusta vuoden 2006 huhtikuuhun toteutettuun virtuaalietnografiaan. Lisäksi tutkimuksessa hyödynnetään blogien välisiä suhderakenteita kartoittavaa verkostoaineistoa yhteensä 257 blogista ja niiden välisistä linkityssuhteista, sekä syksyllä 2005 eduskunnan käsittelemän tekijänoikeuslain herättämää mielipiteenvaihtoa kuvaavaa 280 blogimerkinnän keskusteluaineistoa.
Stendhal syndrome | a psychosomatic illness that causes rapid heartbeat, dizziness, confusion and even hallucinations when an individual is exposed to art, usually when the art is particularly 'beautiful' or a large amount of art is in a single place.
August 05, 2006
August 04, 2006
Posters are forever | James Bond posters have become one of the most popular items of film memorabilia. Launched to advertise Dr No in 1962, the posters have continued to become extremely popular and successful. With some of the rarest original posters reaching thousands of pounds, the world of James Bond posters forever continues to astound, aspire and entertain.
Hackers Clone E-Passports | A German computer security consultant has shown that he can clone the electronic passports that the United States and other countries are beginning to distribute this year.
August 03, 2006
August 02, 2006
Cool Hunting: Six Swim Toys | Summer's peak calls for something a little more inventive than an inner tube to distract from soaring temperatures. From a hydrofoil that can hit speeds of 17 mph to a floating table tennis game, these water toys will keep young and old cool and happy.
August 01, 2006
BRAVIA advert | 70,000 litres of paint, 358 single bottle bombs, 33 sextuple air cluster bombs, 22 Triple hung cluster bombs, 268 mortars, 33 Triple Mortars, 22 Double mortars, 358 meters of weld, 330 meters of steel pipe, 57 km of copper wire.
July 31, 2006
Cigarette pack graphics | unlike many other products where the
packaging is discarded after opening, smokers
generally retain the cigarette pack until the cigarettes
are used and keep the pack close by or on their person.
Thus, cigarette packs are constantly being taken
out and opened, as well as being left on public
display during use. this high degree of social visibility
leads cigarettes to be known as ‘badge products’.
packaging is discarded after opening, smokers
generally retain the cigarette pack until the cigarettes
are used and keep the pack close by or on their person.
Thus, cigarette packs are constantly being taken
out and opened, as well as being left on public
display during use. this high degree of social visibility
leads cigarettes to be known as ‘badge products’.
http://www.salakuunneltua.fi/ | Lue mitä ihmiset puhuvat Suomen busseissa, toreilla ja kaduilla. Mielenkiintoisia, hauskoja ja kummallisia juttuja. Et ole turvassa missään. Kaikki mitä sanot voi ja tulee esille salakuunneltua.fi:ssä.
July 30, 2006
What is the 1% rule? | It's an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it.
July 29, 2006
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555-0000 | This online database (compiled by 80-plus contributors with seemingly endless time on their hands) is a mind-numbingly comprehensive catalog of the famously faux telephone numbers used in film and television.
July 26, 2006
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July 24, 2006
How to Ruin a Web Design - The Design Curve | Group intelligence is multiplicative when idiots are involved - combining a half-wit with another half-wit does not result in a full-witted person, it results in a quarter-witted person (1/2 x 1/2 = 1/4). Combining a full-witted individual with a half-wit still only yields a half-wit. The more of these "wrong kinds of people" you have involved in the process, the worse things get.
July 23, 2006
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July 20, 2006
VISUAL FUTURIST: the art & life of Syd Mead | legendary "Visual Futurist" behind the films "Blade Runner", "TRON", "Aliens", "2010", and "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", and experience his Art like never before. This is a 5 minute trailer of a feature documentary.
July 16, 2006
Vintagephoto @ 2006-07-16T14:05:00 | At the second complex we visited, under the carport sat a photo album open to a random page. It had been rained on, and being in the shade, probably never had proper time to dry. Most of the pictures were just gobs of melted colors. Most of them looked fairly old (1970s-) just by looking at fashion, technology, and type of photo medium.
July 15, 2006
How to Cool Yourself Without Air Conditioning | Are you stuck on a sweltering summer day without air conditioning? Here's how to cool yourself down before your body becomes overwhelmed by the heat.
July 14, 2006
Monster.com Says Mac Skills Handy for Getting Hired | The Monster.com article shows a trend towards acceptance of the Mac in the corporate world, which has historically been fairly hostile towards Apple hardware and software. Many Mac users have stories about being ridiculed or shunned by their company IT department.
July 13, 2006
July 12, 2006
Solve Sudoku (Without even thinking!) | This instructable provides step by step instructions to complete a Sudoku puzzle by simple process of elimination.
July 11, 2006
Allegro Non Troppo - Feline Fantasies | scene from a 1977 animated movie by Bruno Bozzetto. Music : Sibelius - valse triste (sad waltz).
July 07, 2006
urbanized | a collection of photography by Robert Stephens. The images on this site reflect his interest in urban decay and the urban landscape in general.
activeCollab | an easy to use, web based, open source collaboration and project management tool. Set up an environment where you, your team and your clients can collaborate on active projects using a set of simple, functional tools. 100% free!
July 06, 2006
July 05, 2006
July 04, 2006
How to Write a Thank-You Note | ‘Sincerely, Help?’ Having trouble finding the right words to thank your Cousin Sal for that mango slicer? Should you even bother? Oh yes you should. Leslie Harpold tells why and demostrates how to write the perfect, honest thank-you note every time.
XHTMLized: Make sure machines dig your designs | Send in the design you want XHTMLized. In only 5 days we'll turn it into XHTML / CSS. Starting from $149, it's affordable & easy.
July 03, 2006
Website Flags | The web becomes more global every day, and country borders are blurred. What we really need in this day and age, even more than country flags, are flags for websites.
July 02, 2006
June 29, 2006
What's the Biggest Lie About Blogging? | What have some other bloggers, more wizened than me, found to be the biggest lies? So I asked my friends and colleagues, “What the biggest lie about blogging?”
SORELLARIUM 13 | My God, would have I loved to live on Moonbase Alpha among all that gorgeous furniture, illuminated wall panels, computers, monitors and germ free environment ! I'd never thought that someday thanks to the internet and the 70s revival during the 90s, it would be possible to have that wonderful furniture in my own home !
June 27, 2006
Older brothers a link in being gay | The last male child in a family of many boys is more likely to be gay than a boy who is born first or has less brothers, according to new research.
June 26, 2006
Design Barcode | Unsightly barcodes have been raping the beauty of package design long enough. That's why we came up with a way to give barcodes a fun and beautiful makeover, while keeping its functional utility intact. We christened this new type of barcode the "Design Barcode" and pitched it to various manufacturers throughout Japan. As a result, many companies adopted it into their package design, and we helped to turn barcodes into a new channel for companies to communicate to their consumers.
June 22, 2006
oh, don’t forget... | remind yourself, or someone else, about an event at a specific day & time queue up birthday reminders for the next several months have your to-do items sent to you throughout the day
June 21, 2006
BumpTop Prototype | Keepin' it Real: Pushing the Desktop Metaphor with Physics, Piles and the Pen. BumpTop aims to enrich the desktop metaphor with expressive, lightweight techniques found in the real world.
June 20, 2006
Why do we still believe in group brainstorming? | So you need some fresh, innovative ideas. What do you do? Get a group of your best thinkers together to bounce ideas of each other…? No, wrong answer.
Monty Python Rabbit with Big Pointy Teeth Slippers | Killer rabbits for your feet! People love fuzzy bunny slippers, but how does the bunny feel about it?
June 19, 2006
June 18, 2006
And You're So Funny? Write My Script | Ze Frank, in his Brooklyn neighborhood, makes and stars in video shorts on the Web. Like a lot of young adults, Mr. Frank, 34, has a Web site, zefrank.com. There, he documents elaborate and often ridiculous stunts of his own creation, like having two people on opposite sides of the world simultaneously place pieces of bread on the ground, creating what he calls an "earth sandwich."
Pianolina, the interactive Piano by GROTRIAN | Play with the floating tones, create new atmospheric melodies and let yourself be fascinated by the charm of the Pianolina.
June 17, 2006
Nokia replaces Playboy’s cover with another magazines cover | a fake cover for the reader to wrap around the Playboy and turn it into a business magazine
Computers Can Soon Transform 2D Images Into 3D | Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University has announced that they’ve found a way to help computers learn the geometric context of a 2D image automatically. Not only will we be able to generate 3D scenes from a single 2D image, the technology could also be used with gadgets and robots to better comprehend what their “eyes” see.
SMSRotateD | a demonstration application that triggers screen rotation based on the orientation data it retrieves from the Sudden Motion Sensor (SMS) built into newer Apple notebook models.
June 14, 2006
Diet Coke 'experiment' gives Mentos a surge in publicity | The company spends less than $20 million on U.S. advertising annually. He estimates the value of online buzz to be "over $10 million."
June 12, 2006
WeeklyShot | a new kind of group photoblog and photo challenge. Every week we announce a new theme, then photographers interpret this theme and upload their own photos in response. During the week users critique the images and decide which ones get featured on our homepage photoblog for all to see.
June 11, 2006
Future Batteries To Charge In Seconds | M.I.T researchers have revealed that they have been working on a breakthrough battery technology that could make fast-charging and long-lasting rechargeable batteries possible. But instead of developing something new, they turned to improving a technology from the past! And it turns out to be the capacitor, which was invented some 300 years ago.
Zarqawi Portrait Sets Record Price For Photography | the US Government paid a record-setting $286 billion -- plus $240 for framing -- for this portrait.
June 10, 2006
June 08, 2006
2 Minute Photoshop Tricks | a weekly(ish) podcast for beginner to intermediate Photoshop users. Our tips and tricks aim to give you a basic understanding of Photoshop by walking you through quick examples of real world Photoshop tasks. The tricks are designed to very detailed, straightforward, and as useful as possible.
The largest collection of free sounds on the internet | Now with 1,980 high quality sound effects for use in web pages and games.
June 07, 2006
David Hasselhoff - Secret Agent Man | David Hasselhoff is licensed to kill. He kills music genre after music genre and the occasional one hit wonder. Surrender or die.
10 flagrant grammar mistakes that make you look stupid | If you want to craft an error-free message that reflects your professionalism, be on the lookout for these common grammatical slip-ups.
June 06, 2006
Bread that now comes in cans | In a sense, it's the next best thing to sliced bread: Bread that comes in a can and stays fresh for up to three years, that is.
June 04, 2006
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June 01, 2006
The interrobang (‽) | a rarely-used, nonstandard English-language punctuation mark intended to combine the functions of a question mark and an exclamation point. The typographical character resembles those marks superimposed one over the other. In informal writing, the same effect is achieved by placing the exclamation point after or before the question mark, e.g. "What?!".
May 31, 2006
Can't remember the del.icio.us website URL ? Read this | The world's most popular bookmarking service - del.icio.us - is also the most ugly URL on the internet that gets even more confusing when typing the web address by hand.
Teddy Bear Remote Control | The teddy bear remote sits nicely on your sofa or bed and can be used to control your iPod or computer.
May 30, 2006
Lordin Ateenan-maski Kirppiksellä! | Euroviisuvoittaja Lordi lahjoittaa Kirppikselle Ateenassa kerran käytetyn kasvonaamionsa. Mukana Lordin terveiset ja koko bändin nimmarit. Kertakäyttöinen hirviön "kasvonahka" myydään - Kirppiksen tavoista poiketen - tarjouskilpailun perusteella eniten tarjoavalle. Rahat menevät lyhentämättömänä Ylen Hyvä -keräykseen.
May 29, 2006
May 28, 2006
The Simplest of All RAW Converters | Many Mac OS X "Tiger" users don't realize that they have a powerful Raw converter bundled with their operating system. Every 10.4 Mac comes with a handy application called Preview that most folks think of only as a PDF viewer. Even Apple touts its PDF capabilities without going into much detail about its hidden powers. The most notable of these lesser known features is Preview's ability to decode Raw files and convert them to other formats.
May 25, 2006
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Windows System Reqs. 1990-2006 | TechWeb compiled the Redmond, Wash. developer's stated reqs for each major Windows release since 1990's Windows 3.0.
Interactive Urinals | Industrial Designer Marcel Neundörfer has designed a urinal that features a pressure-sensitive display screen for some gaming fun in restrooms.
May 20, 2006
May 19, 2006
Raw | Let’s say you have a digital camera that shoots in Raw format. However, you’ve been using JPG files ever since you got it, due to a sense of familiarity, simply not having the time to figure out Raw, or because you don’t like the larger file sizes. Sound familiar?
May 18, 2006
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Born Into Cellblocks | In the penitentiary of Nuevo Laredo, children do time with their mothers -- and the cartels. Photo Essay byPenny De Los Santos, Text By Charles Bowden.
May 08, 2006
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May 03, 2006
Screw YouTube By Nathan Weinberg | I got kicked off YouTube over two months ago. The reason? Contributing to the success of their service. I uploaded a good number of videos to YouTube, almost none of which I owned the copyright to, all of which I got from other sources on the internet. My first video, the “banned” Xbox 360 ad, was for a time the second most watched video on YouTube, with close to two million viewings.
Popcorn may cause cancer | a recent FDA study found that a chemical coating used in microwave popcorn bags is seeping into popcorn.
Welcome to The Complete Works of Rob Hubbard | an unofficial web site dedicated to Rob Hubbard and his revolutionary and inspiring work on the Commodore 64.
May 02, 2006
The Renewed Wulffmorgenthaler | this new site had been designed to make you feel like a king. Even though we all know that you´re really a large hairy, drooling donkey. We hope you like it, you furry, disgusting creature of the night.
April 29, 2006
April 28, 2006
Mac Backup Software Harmful | A backup tool needs to be able to copy files faithfully for a successful restore in case desaster has struck. The surprising conclusion of my investigation is that almost all Macintosh Backup tools fail at their most basic task, the faithful copying of files.
Global-i | a 3-dimensional interactive globe that displays information about the world in your browser. The Earth can be rotated and inspected and displays can be changed to see information in the most appropriate form.
Helsingin kaupunginkirjaston asiakkailla on käytettävissään langattomia WLAN Internet-yhteyksiä | Yhdessä Helsingin kaupungin opetusviraston kanssa tarjottu Stadinetti löytyy useasta toimipisteestä. Sen käyttöön tarvitaan Helsingin kaupunginkirjaston kirjastokortti ja siihen liitetty pin-koodi. Käyttö on maksutonta.
April 27, 2006
Sex Toy or Baby Toy? - Take the Quiz | In practice, sex toys and baby toys have nothing in common. However, looked at from a different perspective, these molded plastic creations can seem all too similar. Take our quiz and see if you can tell the difference.
3D Sudoku Cube | is a perfect blend of Sudoku & Rubik's Cube. It is a Rubik cube of 3x3x3 cubes, and each face of 3x3 squares is a Sudoku itself.
April 26, 2006
April 25, 2006
58 Days Worth of Drawing Exercises in Microsoft Excel book & 58 Days Worth of Drawing Exercises in Microsoft Excel as Rendered for Web & Animated Daily Excel Drawings (mov, 14.86 MB) | Microsoft Excel is a program designed to track and compute information, but here I am using Excel as a drawing tool. These drawings are a part of a series of sixty drawings that I executed (more or less) every day for fifty-eight days.
April 24, 2006
April 23, 2006
From Weblog to CMS with WordPress | Could WordPress be used for full-blown websites as well as blogs? I believe the answer is definitely yes.
April 22, 2006
Multi-Touch Interaction Research | While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch sensing enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, as in chording and bi-manual operations.
The Past is Over | Can you imagine a speech given by president Bush that would convince you that he has had a change of heart and could actually be the president of your dreams? What if he were humbled in some way which caused a profound change in his outlook on life and his role as the leader of our country - turning the aggressive posturing of an all-attack-all-the-time leader into a gentler, wiser soul determined to demonstrate the power of honesty and vulnerability.
April 21, 2006
April 18, 2006
Encyclopedia Mythica | Here you will find everything from A-gskw to Zveda Vechanyaya, with plenty in between.
April 12, 2006
Massive List Of Plugins, Filters, Brushes, Actions & Gradients | It's amazing as to the amount of time and effort that people put into making plug-ins, filters, actions, brushes and such and then make them available to whomever wants them at no cost. All of the following are the "best of the best" and each one has received the highest rating from Adobe, and they are all free. I do not think that there are many items out there, that you have to pay for, that are better than the following...
Digg PHP's Scalability and Performance | It turns out that it really is fast and cheap to develop applications in PHP. Most scaling and performance challenges are almost always related to the data layer, and are common across all language platforms. [...] There is simply no truth to the idea that Java is better than scripting languages at writing scalable web applications. I won’t go as far as to say that PHP is better than Java, because it is never that simple. However it just isn’t true to say that PHP doesn’t scale, and with the rise of Web 2.0, sites like Digg, Flickr, and even Jobby are proving that large scale applications can be rapidly built and maintained on-the-cheap, by one or two developers.
April 11, 2006
Karpelasta surkein suomalainen | Kulttuuriministeri Tanja Karpela (kesk.) on "voittanut" Helsingin yliopiston valtiotieteiden opiskelijoiden Tutkain-lehden järjestämän Surkein suomalainen -äänestyksen.
Avoid Santa Claus approach to content management | Just what is a portal? I've spent the last couple of years asking this question. Nobody can come up with anything approaching a reasonable answer. Even people who are implementing portal technology can't fully explain what exactly the benefits are. So, I've come up with a definition of a portal: 'A portal is a website that costs you four times more.'
April 10, 2006
April 09, 2006
Robert X. Cringely: A Whole New Ball Game | I predict that Apple will settle on 64-bit Intel processors ASAP (with FireWire 800 please), and at that time will announce a product similar to Boot Camp to allow OS X to run on bog-standard 32-bit PC hardware, turning the Boot Camp relationship on its head and trying to sell $99 copies of OS X to 100 million or so Windows owners.
April 08, 2006
hifilit.com | The goal of hifilit is to make available the history of the Golden Age of Hi-Fi, as contained in sales brochures, promotional literature and magazine advertising. (When was the "Golden Age of Hi-Fi"? Generally, from the late 1940's to the early 1960's.)
Getting Real | details the business, design, programming, and marketing principles of 37signals. The book is packed with keep-it-simple insights, contrarian points of view, and unconventional approaches to software design. This is not a technical book or a design tutorial, it's a book of ideas. (171 page PDF, $19)
April 07, 2006
April 06, 2006
Ye Olde Graphic Designer | Basically, heraldry is a lost vocabulary. Every symbol, shape, colour and arrangement of colour means something. You can’t just say “I’d like to have a castle/rose/lion/boat on my sheild …” each of those symbols has meaning, and you’re not allowed to just slap them on at whim. Not only is each item symbolic, but there is a wealth of terminology used to describe graphic material in a way that could actually be quite useful. This language of heraldry is called Blazon.
Kolmoskanava (TV3) 1986—1993 | Siihen aikaan kun MTV3 oli vielä nimeltään MTV ja lähetti ohjelmia TV1:n ja TV2:n alivuokralaisena, käynnistyi kolmas valtakunnallinen televisiokanava. Kolmoskanava (lyhyemmin TV3) toimi Suomessa vuodesta 1986 vuoteen 1993 itsenäisesti.
April 05, 2006
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April 03, 2006
April 02, 2006
Bog Toilet Monster | Not to sound commercialized, however the shrieks from the unexpected shock is priceless!!!!
April 01, 2006
Battle of the 30-inch monitors: Apple Cinema Display vs. Dell UltraSharp 3007WFP | even if the panels are identical, equal performance isn't a guarantee; the way the panel is engineered makes a significant difference.
March 31, 2006
March 30, 2006
Mapplecroft Maps | a highly visual web-based resource which contains detailed country information for over 200 states and maps key social, economic, environmental and political issues and their significance to business and society.
March 28, 2006
Designers must write | Not using language efficiently is negligent and wasteful. It’s something a professional designer should never willingly do; nevertheless, I find that many of us shy away from these tasks, as we don’t feel that they are pure design. It’s sort of that attitude of, “that’s not in my job description”, that seems to keep us from strengthening this capability.
March 27, 2006
March 26, 2006
Yahoo! Design Pattern Library | We are very happy to be sharing our library with the design and development community.
Burning TV | a web-based television channel covering the independent music scene in Sweden. You can view music-videos with new artists and buy their music.
Faithful, sometimes fanatical Apple customers continue to push the boundaries of loyalty | They tattoo Apple's logo on their arm. They help sell Apple products, even though they're not paid to. One couple met at the Macworld Expo conference, got engaged and were married there.
March 25, 2006
March 23, 2006
8 Web Design Warm Fuzzy Feelings | The web design / development world isn’t always fast cars, eating caviar by the kilogram and relaxing on a giant water bed with a harem of concubines. Sometimes you can sit frustrated in front of a computer trying to get things to align, trying to make your site just work properly, for hour upon hour. However, there are also times of sheer elation whereupon you can enjoy a warm, fuzzy feeling (hereon abbreviated to WFF) from the satisfaction of having done something perfectly, or to the highest standard that current technology (or your crippling schedule) will allow. These are 8 of those times, in no particular order…
Shadi Ghadirian | I am a woman and I live in Iran. I am a photographer and this is the only thing I know how to do.
Quiz: How stressed are you? | adapted from one by the Marlin Company and the American Institute of Stress.
20 Rules Of Smart And Successful Web-development | ideas and concepts, which might improve the quality and popularity of your web-sites and provide a good foundation for successful development in the future.
March 21, 2006
March 20, 2006
March 19, 2006
The Truth About DRM and Your MP3 Player’s Battery Life | DRM can cause up to 25% loss of battery life.
March 17, 2006
March 16, 2006
Japander.com | Japander:n.,& v.t. 1. a western star who uses his or her fame to make large sums of money in a short time by advertising products in Japan that they would probably never use. ~er (see synecure, prostitute) 2. to make an ass of oneself in Japanese media.
March 13, 2006
March 12, 2006
March 11, 2006
Interview with William Shatner from 1987 | He's talking about computergames and his problems with the computer.
Perception of Fonts: Perceived Personality Traits and Uses (Usability News, February 2006 Vol. 8 Issue 1) | This study sought to determine if certain personalities and uses are associated with various fonts.
The Visual Dictionary | a collection of words in the real world. Photographs of signage, graffiti, advertising, tattoos, you name it, we're trying to catalogue it.
Rammstein "Mein teil" (Dir. Zoran Bihac) | FYI, each of the members did their own part of the video alone without the others knowing and the concept of each bit was the idea of that member.
March 09, 2006
The Logos of Web 2.0 | There is no official standard for what makes something “Web 2.0”, but there certainly are a few tell-tale signs. Web 2.0 sites nearly always feel open and friendly and often use small chunks of large type. The colors are bright and cheery — lots of blue, orange, and what we jokingly call the Official Color of Web 2.0: lime green.
March 08, 2006
March 07, 2006
Tiny Tokyo Collection | An experiment using photoshop to create the effect of a "tilt shift" lens, a la the photos of Olivo Barbieri.
March 06, 2006
Beer fights heart disease: official | More good news for those of you who like a swift pint or two: beer doesn't just fight cancer and make you clever but also blocks "interferon-gamma-induced chemical processes".
Cruise ship of the sky? | It might look like something from a science fiction movie, but its inventors hope the Aeroscraft concept aircraft represents the future of travel.
The man who hated Pooh | The man whose drawings brought Winnie the Pooh to life spent the last years of his life hating the bear with very little brain.
March 05, 2006
Splash Back | get all of the globs off the screen by pumping certain ones up and taking the rest out.
March 03, 2006
Olive OPUS | a 400GB hard drive that stores up to 1,100 of your CDs in lossless quality, allowing you to conveniently access all your favorite music.
Alien cow abduction | It's a serious probelm. Countless bovines have disappeared from dairy farms everywhere. And the number of missing cows are on the rise.
March 01, 2006
February 27, 2006
adland: Microsoft redesigns the ipod packaging | Well, they didn't really but the million papercuts film here is hee-larious to all who have ever experienced clients that dabble... a lot.
Passclicks | a new way to login to websites without users having to remember thir old style textual password.
Presentation Tips | This collection of tips was transcribed from a seminar given in Seattle by Edward Tufte.
Japanese whale blows 'water kisses' | A Beluga whale at an aquarium in western Japan has learned to blow bubble rings to spectators.
February 26, 2006
February 25, 2006
February 24, 2006
February 23, 2006
The Archive of Misheard Lyrics | the only domain named after the world's most commonly misheard lyric.
Linguistic turds | today’s taglines stink and are in no way shape or form worth the millions that get spent on their formulation.
Jesus Christ Superstore | Putting the fun back into fundamentalism and the laughter into sectarian slaughter.
February 22, 2006
Dog Fashion gone crazy! | It is nothing new to dress up your dog it seems. However, I come across so many dog shops, dog hair stylists, dog fashion shows, dog accessories….. I find it unbelievable!
Surreal Scania | How do different places become interesting? Can a wet and dirty road running through a barren field be appealing? What are the common denominators between a heavy industrial harbour and a nature reserve? In the project Surreal Scania we examine these questions.
February 21, 2006
February 20, 2006
February 19, 2006
A sponsorship waiting to happen | "One of the lasting images of these games is going to be these snowboarders with their iPods," said Abraham Madkour, executive editor of SportsBusiness Journal, a trade magazine that covers the sports industry. "It's the perfect form of subconscious marketing."
It's especially perfect for Apple because it doesn't pay a dime for the display. The company is not an Olympic sponsor.
It's especially perfect for Apple because it doesn't pay a dime for the display. The company is not an Olympic sponsor.
February 10, 2006
February 09, 2006
February 08, 2006
February 04, 2006
February 02, 2006
Kokoustarjoilun päätöksenteon tukijärjestelmä (KTPTTJ) | Määrittele kokoukseen osallistuvan henkilön parametrit [...] järjestelmä ehdottaa, mitä ko. henkilölle saa tarjoilla kokouksessa.
February 01, 2006
January 31, 2006
January 30, 2006
January 29, 2006
Hello Kitty Barf Bags | The Hello Kitty theme is pursued with mind-boggling thoroughness: the airline issues pink Hello Kitty boarding passes and luggage tags to passengers, and serves Hello Kitty meals and Hello Kitty duty-free shopping. Even the airsickness bags are Hello Kitty-themed.
January 28, 2006
January 26, 2006
SWISSMEMORY USB S.BEAT MP3 | Not only did we incorporate the world's first, tiniest USB Flash Storage into the Original Swiss Army Knife, we also managed to miniaturize a fully featured, high-end MP3 Player and fusioned it all.
Advertising their own wares: Ad agency websites | Just how good are Britain's ad agencies at marketing their own products?
January 24, 2006
ScanJet Music | The HP ScanJet 4c's SCL (Scanner Control Language) command set includes an unofficial PLAY TUNE command.
January 23, 2006
Gregory Colbert's Ashes and Snow | an ongoing project that weaves together photographic works, three 35mm films, art installations and a novel in letters. With profound patience and an unswerving commitment to the expressive and artistic nature of animals, he has captured extraordinary, unscripted interactions between humans and animals.
Motel Hell | Tacky and trashy Motel postcards of the 1950's, 60's and 70's. Forgotten places lost on the roads that time forgot.
January 22, 2006
Flickeur | (pronounced like Voyeur) randomly retrieves images from Flickr.com and creates an infinite film with a style that can vary between stream-of-consciousness, documentary or video clip. All the blends, motions, zooms or timeleaps are completely random.
January 21, 2006
Safari Standardized Feed Icon Installer | The developers of the ever popular Firefox and the Microsoft development team working on IE7 have shaken hands and agreed to use the same icon to indicate the presence of feed functionality. If Mozilla and Microsoft can agree on something, maybe we should get in on it too.
Snow in “tropical” Tokyo | Twenty odd years ago, snow happened several times a year. However, this time the snow is going to stick on the ground and accumulate for once.
January 17, 2006
The Animaris Rhinoceros Transport | is a type of animal with a steel skeleton and a polyester skin. It looks as if there is a thick layer of sand coating the animal. It weighes 2. tons, but can be set into motion by one person. It stands 4.70 meters tall. Because of its height it catches enough wind to start moving.
Planet Perplex | The purpose of this site is to show every type of image that I find surprising or amazing.
First impressions count for web | It takes less than 50 milliseconds to decide if you like a website.
January 16, 2006
January 15, 2006
January 14, 2006
Doctor Bans Boy From Playstation To Stop Head Twitching | A 9-year-old boy in California who suffered from uncontrollable head jerking movements after long hours of video game playing stopped the twitching after his doctor banned him from playing PlayStation, according to a report.
January 13, 2006
VisualComplexity.com | a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks.
Early and often: How to avoid the design revision death spiral | Without turning this entirely into a collection of designer war-stories and picaresque adventures featuring clients with personality disorders, I'd like to discuss some of the more common ways in which client feedback and collaboration can seriously derail a project.
How Friday the 13th Works | Like many human beliefs, the fear of Friday the 13th (known as paraskevidekatriaphobia) isn't exactly grounded in scientific logic. But the really strange thing is that most of the people who believe the day is unlucky offer no explanation at all, logical or illogical.
January 11, 2006
Revenge is a dish best served stuffed | A custom severed horse head plush that is actually quite comfortable to sleep on, albeit a tad on the south side of morbid.
Electronic Drink Caddie | The perfectly discreet way to enjoy hot or cold drinks right from your golf bag.
Adobe® Lightroom™ Beta | the efficient new way for professional photographers to import, select, develop, and showcase large volumes of digital images.
Windows Media® Components for QuickTime, by Flip4Mac™ | play Windows Media files (.wma and .wmv) directly in QuickTime Player and view Windows Media content on the Internet using a Web browser.
January 10, 2006
January 08, 2006
January 07, 2006
Aargh! | How to spell “aargh!” One ‘a’, two, three…? And how many ‘r’s? Not just “argh”, “aargh”, “aaargh”, ..., but also “argh”, “arrgh”, “arrrgh”, ... — and the product, with “aarrgh”, “aaarrrgh”, etc. It’s clear that a wide range of spellings are acceptable. What’s the most common?
Visual thinking practice: Randomness | Here's an exercise that will help you use random patterns for inspiration and hone your visual thinking skills. You'll need a deck of index cards and a cup of tea.
January 06, 2006
January 05, 2006
January 04, 2006
Online Braille Generator | This is a free tool which translates English characters to Grade 1 Braille.
January 03, 2006
January 02, 2006
January 01, 2006
Adobe Illustrator Tutorials | Step-by-step Adobe Illustrator tutorials with original source file download.
The Software for Starving Students CD | enhances the Windows and Mac desktop computing experiences by providing an easy way to install free, high-quality software titles via a user-friendly interface. It includes popular open source programs like Firefox and OpenOffice, intended to help students learn about and benefit from open source and free software programs.
December 31, 2005
You've got to find what you love | This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.
December 30, 2005
100 things we didn't know this time last year | 45. C3PO and R2D2 do not speak to each other off-camera because the actors don't get on.
December 29, 2005
December 28, 2005
The ultimate hangover cure? | Alcohol sales go through the roof at this time of year, as do those of supposed hangover cures. But the holy grail for revellers is a panacea that prevents damage in the first place - could taurine be the answer?
The History of Amazon’s Tab Navigation | Amazon.com popularized the tab navigation metaphor online. Through the years they explored multiple interface design solutions to make their growing product inventory accessible to Web users. As a result, some interesting lessons emerge when one looks at how the site’s top-level navigation has changed over the years.
Igloo Builders Guide | Building an igloo is easy and fun. And the igloo is a great place to spend the night on a small 'expedition' in the mountains. Much warmer than a tent, and can be built just about anywhere.
December 27, 2005
Mysql bäst i test - mer än bara prisvärd | Oracle och IBM hamnade på delad andraplats, medan Microsoft inte ens fixade pallplacering.
Tomten slog till 6-åring - polisanmäld | Tomten i finska Rovaniemi fick nog av sexåringens hyss och daskade till honom.
December 26, 2005
December 25, 2005
The Headington Shark | became the most famous resident of Headington when it landed in the roof of 2 New High Street on 9 August 1986.
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Christmas | A celebration so venerated, so long-lasting, and so ubiquitous — rich with traditions of both religious and secular origins — could scarcely avoid creating a rich legacy of folklore and legends. Here is but a sampling of some of the many tales we associate with Christmas and the holiday season.
December 23, 2005
December 22, 2005
"Highly critical" Flaw in discovered in Symantec AntiVirus | The only solution at this point is to filter RAR archives at email or proxy gateways, or disable and uninstall Norton AntiVirus.
Harry Potter Broomstick: Bad Vibrations? | Mattel is marketing a toy broomstick in its Harry Potter line that is raising eyebrows.
December 21, 2005
A photo tour of the Transparent Factory in Dresden | The building and grounds are beautiful, and the whole process of both making and selling Phaetons is totally different than that for any other car in the world.
Eero Aarnio plastic furniture | This website contains information about the designer Eero Aarnio and his famous plastic furniture like ball chair / globe chair, bubble chair, pastil chair, tomato chair and others.
December 20, 2005
The World's Longest Palindromes | In 2002, Peter Norvig read that Dan Hoey had created a computer program that had generated a 540 word palindrome in 1984. Thinking he could do one better, Norvig created his own version of the program. Both programs were based off of the classic phrase “A man, a plan, a canal: Panama.”
December 19, 2005
Template Resignation Letters | Guarantee a stylish and dignified exit by using one of these template resignation letters. You can now customise each one before printing, to fit your own circumstances.
Typeworkshop.com | origines from workshops given by Underware during the last years. Most of the stuff which you see on this website at the moment, derives from these workshops.
December 18, 2005
Will Apple Push "Intel Inside"? | It sure is hard to imagine Jobs & Co. putting the chipmaker's ubiquitous logo on their gleaming mach
Body of Christ? Not So Nice! A Sacri-licious Experiment | By themselves, communion wafers are pretty vile. That would explain why they have to "sell" them with a free sip of wine.
The Devil Is In Your Chimney! | Is Santa Claus, Satan? (A Special Report Concerning the Origin of Santa Claus)
December 17, 2005
December 15, 2005
Does your wife do this too? | a survey to find out when people who had been married for three years first heard their wife pass gas!
Pencil sharpeners banned after attack | a pupil dismantled one and used the blade to slash another child's neck.
December 14, 2005
adland: BBC "Faces" campaign withdrawn after more than 1300 complaints | "As a registered psychotherapist, I wish to protest that this image is disturbingly psychotic. Its unacknowledged aggression could make a fragile viewer ill"
Muppet Wiki | is a collaborative project to create an encyclopedia for everything related to Jim Henson and the Muppets.
December 13, 2005
How do you tackle an invasion of giant jellyfish? | They are called echizen kurage and they sound like monsters from the trashier reaches of Japanese science fiction. They are 6ft wide and weigh 450lb (200kg), with countless poisonous tentacles, they have drifted across the void to terrorise the people of Japan.
December 10, 2005
Visual Poetry | translates any text into a series of images by looking up the words on Google image search and projecting the most relevant results as a slide show.
December 08, 2005
December 06, 2005
November 29, 2005
Extreme Ironing Bureau | the latest danger sport that combines the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity with the satisfaction of a well pressed shirt.
Resurrect Your Writing, Redeem Your Soul | You know you’re on the Information Superhighway to Hell if crap like enhance, leverage, implement, context, driver, focus, core, actionable, outcome and stakeholder crops up in your copy.
November 27, 2005
Pixy: Let's Favelets | Favelets (or bookmarklets, or favemarklets) are browser's favorites (bookmarks) linked to a javascript code. Activating such bookmark will cause executing this code (instead of loading new page, like regular bookmarks do).
Google Analytics makes site owners illegal | According to Swedish and European Union law, it's illegal to set cookies without telling people on the site that you do, what they're used for and how they can be avoided.
November 26, 2005
November 25, 2005
November 23, 2005
Numberspiral.com | Number spirals are very simple. To make one, we just write the non-negative integers on a ribbon and roll it up with zero at the center.
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