Game Design Sketchbook: Crude Oil (1)
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Michael Palin for President (2)
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Along Came a Spider! (1)
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Photo via GETTY. Oh, Artichoke and La Machine, how do we love thee? Let us count the ways. First, you brought the Sultan’s Elephant and the Little Girl Giant to London. And at this very moment, to the delight and terror of all, you’ve set a 30 foot-high, 37 ton mechanical spider rampaging through the streets of Liverpool. Incredible. Despite being mortally afraid of arachnids, I wish more than anything that I could be there ...
Globalive Pledges to Launch Canadian Cellular Service in Mid-2009 (2)
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The CBC ran a headline that's sure to please many Canadians - "New cellphone carrier launching in 2nd half of 2009". That new carrier is Globalive, who bought $442 millon of the Canadian wireless spectrum in the recent auction, covering every province except Québec. They aim to start next year in five cities: Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, and Ottawa. Of course, building out a national cellular network requires lots of money and IT World Canada ...
All your selves collide (1)
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There’s been a lot of writing here and there about social networks and privacy, but I especially like how this professor from (one of my alma-maters) UNCG puts it in this article from the Washington Post: “It’s the postmodern nightmare — to have all of your selves collide,” says Rebecca G. Adams, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro who edits Personal Relationships, the journal of the International Association for Relationship Research. ...
Epic Failure: How Not To Parachute (2)
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This is a video of basejumper Hans Lange vampire suiting around in Norway. Everything goes smoothly until his parachute fails to deploy properly and he ends up tumbling down the mountainside until he's stopped by a tree. He caught it all on film thanks to a helmet cam. Hans, you are one lucky mother -- an improperly deployed parachute is better than no deployment at all. Seriously, I went on one of those discount skydiving ...
Obama Force One By Jimm Lasser (2)
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Yesterday artist Jimm Lasser opened his exhibition in New York, with Obama being the theme of the exhibition. The Obama Force One is one of the most interesting pieces exhibited. The Air Force 1 got a make-over by the artist with graphics engraved into the outer sole. The left shoe reads "A Black Man Runs And A Nation Is Behing Him" and the right shoe features Barack Obama himself, who is also featured on the ...
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Brent the Closet Geek said:
This looks damn cool, I want Brent the Closet Geek Air Force Ones one day :)
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I want these shoes.
New Warhammer 40K Brawler Footage (1)
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Seems that THQ is looking to expand the genres that the Warhammer games cover, as we now have some demo footage of the new Warhammer 40K brawler, Space Marine. This is the first time in recent memory when we are getting some “boots ont he ground”, in the Warhammer 40K universe (oh how I missed you Space Hulk). The footage is a bit early, and rough around the edges, but overall, it looks like it ...
jQuery wizard plugin (1)
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25 Font Management Tools Reviewed | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine (26)
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By Sachin Dhall and Smashing Editorial team If you are one of those people who work with fonts on regular basis, then choosing, comparing and analyzing fonts is a serious business for you. Font management is not always as easy as a walk on the cake. Font management issues like installing and uninstalling fonts, handling missing fonts, taking care of font conflicts always keep graphic designers and typographers on their toes. Also hundreds or thousands ...
Best Practices in Web Development: Part 5 (1)
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Joe Dolson Accessible Web Design (2)
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Part 1 (Contracts, Site Requirements,Information Architecture) Part 2 (Hosting and Security) Part 3 (Navigation, Scent) Part 4 (Semantics, Structure vs. Design, Universal design) Part 5 (Interaction, Errors, and Administration) After all the labor you put into designing an elegant site which allows users to readily follow the scent of information, all the work dedicated to developing effective semantics and separating your structure from design, it’s easy for you to still end up with a royally ...
The Pizza Scale of Pow! (2)
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Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman's Blog About Surprise (3)
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Despite the fact that I vehemently disagree with his front-cover quote ("Guys don't wear orange or citron") and am living proof to the contrary, the Fortune Magazine story on fashion magnate and J. Crew CEO Mickey Drexler was notable for all of us here at Surprise Central due to this very astute quote, vindicating our oft-repeated call for a continually expanding the boundaries of delightful extremes: "Designer goods have become too available, either through their ...
Browse Web Typefaces and Download CSS with Typechart (6)
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Typechart lets you flip through, preview and compare web typography while retrieving the CSS. You can view different typefaces with different font sizes and emphases. One of the handy features is that you can compare Windows rendering with Apple font rendering. You can also download the CSS code for a specific typographic style, cach style corresponds with a style ID, which allows you to annotate prototypes and retrieve the css while coding as well. Requirements: ...
Don’t Shoot the Messenger (3)
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Social media may be the new shiny communications tool that’s all the rage with the cool cats now, but truthfully, very little about it is really new. view on flickr»" rel="lightbox">For example, the idea that a person can be a medium. No, not that kind of medium. Remember the axiom “Don’t shoot the messenger”? It exists as an old saying because before the web, before mobile phones, television, radio, the telephone, and the telegraph, the job of ...
Add File Sizes To Your Links Automatically (2)
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addSizes.js is a script which adds the file type & sizes of the files that a text is linked to automatically. To be more clear, if there is link like: "click to download this file", it is converted to "click to download this file (pdf 1.2 MB)". The script uses json-head, a Google App Engine application, to get the file info without downloading them. Script requires jQuery & it is a bit experimental due to ...
WTF!?: Crystal Embedded Contact Lenses (4)
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Ah yes, rocks and eyes. I mean, what a perfect match. Enter "Sparkle", a contact lens with tiny Swarovski crystals encrusted around the edge. I've got to admit, this has got to be the most brilliant eye-care product I've seen since pepper spray. Seriously, what could go wrong? Well, besides looking sexy. I'm gonna make myself a pair, I'll let you know how scandalously super-sexified I look. UPDATE: Okay, so I glued some glitter and ...
In Defense Of Naked Babies (1)
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We’re all for small children running around naked. Quite frankly, we’re all for people running around naked (it’s more comfortable!), but we understand that that can get a little complicated (what with the sex bits and all). But small children — pre-prepubescent children, who are naked on TV all the time — shouldn’t they, at the very least, be free to be a nudey? We’d like to think so, but as Ellen Friedrichs points out ...
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Jason Rohrer taps into a hot political issue with Crude Oil, a game about the power of that particular natural resource.Shared by Brent the Closet Geek (31)Contribute commentreddit.com: what's new online (589) permalink
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Two new draft documents relating to accessibility and the future of the web have been published in the past month the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C - http://www.w3.org/). The first, ‘Shared web experiences: barriers common to mobile device users and people with disabilities’, notes that many of the barriers faced by internet browsers on mobile devices are the same as those experienced by people with disabilities. The document provides examples of the barriers of access ...Shared by Brent the Closet Geek (31)Contribute commentDevSnippets (25) permalink
A jquery plugin that will emulate a step by step wizard like the windows wizard. DIRECT LINK »Shared by Brent the Closet Geek (31)Contribute commenti <3 halo 3 screenshots (7) permalink
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The above screenshot is from Nseries.com. I decided to take a look at the latest official marketing materials, drool over the new Nokia N96, and cry on the inside for the continued lack of US 3G version of the Nokia N82. In that site visit, I realized how heavily "mouseover" effects are used in navigation.This isn't the first time I've noticed growing extensive use of information that pops up on mouseover. A good number of ...Shared by Brent the Closet Geek (31)Contribute comment
