Seriously!
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog
July 29th, 2009Twitter Updates Officially Called Tweets
July 27th, 2009
All the haters can put on their haterpants and mourn, cry or simply continue with their hating: Twitter updates are officially known as tweets. A recent little Twitter homepage update changed that today.
I don’t see why people hate it personally. Anyone care to enlighten me on why they hate it? And if you do hate it, what would you rather it be called?
Nirvana-roll’d
July 22nd, 2009
Mix one part Nirvana with one part Rick Astley, stir gently and enjoy a total mindwarp.
The Wearable Internet Makes the iPhone Look Like a Toy
July 21st, 2009And further demonstrates my love for TED and the genius people who speak there. The idea of being able to make it even easier to learn about products you’re purchasing, take photos among a myriad of other benefits just gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.
Reservation: not into the idea of putting a chip into my brain as stated at the end of this talk. It short circuits enough on its own.
Living with First-Person Shooter Disease
July 20th, 2009Genius? Maybe. Hilarious? Definitely.
One Word, Dude.
July 17th, 2009
Here’s a playlist built around the idea of one word or phrase, including goodies from the UK Office, Jurassic Park and Fargo. Repetition can be funny and sometimes a little weird.
Trent Reznor Talks Band Sites
July 16th, 2009
I’ve recently discovered Stereogum’s site, and found they had a great article wherein Trent Reznor talks about good things to do when you’re creating your band’s site and marketing your upcoming record. Among other things, he mentions the benefits of giving away free downloads of your music as a way of building your fanbase and email list, and that you should understand and take advantage of all the social media sites you can.
There was one thing in particular which is worth restating when it comes to bands’ sites:
…Have your MySpace page, but get a site outside MySpace – it’s dying and reads as cheap / generic. Remove all Flash from your website. Remove all stupid intros and load-times. MAKE IT SIMPLE TO NAVIGATE AND EASY TO FIND AND HEAR MUSIC (but don’t autoplay). Constantly update your site with content – pictures, blogs, whatever. Give people a reason to return to your site all the time.
The whole article’s really worth a read, especially if you’re an indie musician who’s trying to get their music out to everyone.
The Robots Will Eat Us. Maybe.
July 15th, 2009
TechCrunch says that a proposed military robot known as EATR would refuel on biomass while deployed on missions. If it’s on the battlefield, it could potentially be eating on people too. I question whether or not that would happen on two counts.
One: dude, it’s HUMANS. Two: if Max Brooks didn’t write a book about it, it’s not possible.
Using CSS Transformations: A How-To
July 15th, 2009Lately I’ve been using more advanced CSS3 transformations in my design—both for Webkit and Mozilla—and I wanted to share some of what I’ve been doing.
I’ve launched two sites in the last little bit that take advantage of those: a site for musician Brooks Wood and a site for Houston-based Leyendecker Landscape. In both of these, I’ve tried to take advantage of some great CSS features for those browsers that can handle it and just letting those that can’t ignore it. In this demo, I’m focusing on the form elements since they’ve always tended to be boring.
I’ve attached a link to a working demo of the forms with a brief explanation of how I did what I did. Read on for more. Read the rest of this entry »
Direct Mail Marketing Fail
July 13th, 2009
Loving that Time Warner Cable, who provides my internet, sends me this today in the mail. I tend to agree.