Archive for April, 2007

All Hail Drinky Crow

Friday, April 13th, 2007

Yes, it’s true. Our hero Drinky Crow gets his own TV show on Adult Swim. Video preview below the fold.

Conway’s Game of Death

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

Here’s a flash game featuring the rules from Conway’s Game of Life, but set up so you pilot a ship that must destroy the growing cells. It’s more impressive from a conceptual and technical execution level than a playability level.

the human cost of Mexicans

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

the human cost of Mexicans, via the ONN

top 10 cheesiest movie moments

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

top 10 cheesiest movie moments

Nuggets for nerds

Monday, April 9th, 2007

Two of em’, today:
Wiredrive is a hosted portal solution for agencies, designers and vendors allowing them to build “presentations” of comps, QTs, pdfs, etc. in a simple, organized and templated solution.
Noble and I saw this demo’ed at SXSW – Nintendo has opened the Wii architecture up in a very select way (a very un-Apple way, [...]

I’m not a Twit

Monday, April 9th, 2007

And I’m not the only one that thinks Twitter isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be - Kathy Sierra is actually scared of it.
As if we didn’t have enough problems with focus and attention span, Twitter, with it’s 140 character limit, is like having everyone who is online right now IM’ing you at the [...]

tourfilter

Friday, April 6th, 2007

This brings together two things I love - music, and specifically LIVE music, and homegrown web apps. Developed using RoR, tourfilter spiders the sites of music venues big and small for 3 dozen cities across the globe. You enter the bands you just can’t miss (which I did last night - damn you, [...]

Mothra sighted!

Friday, April 6th, 2007

The legendary giant mutant moth has been found off the coast of southern Japan. Godzilla is currently about 300 miles due east of Tokyo. Thanks Google’s new MyMaps, many other menaces have been located as well.

Do you have any websites in the car, sir?

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

Mark Boulton linked to this great article by Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain on the redesign of the ExpressionEngine website. This a thorough and revealing snapshot of a one-man web design team and his travels to Oregon and back to design a website for a web publishing system. He talks about his own method of design-time [...]

Design Feed

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

Aggregate, beautifully, with design-feed.net, which collects over 200 feeds related to design, inclusive of interior, industrial, product, visual and web.