- Friday 30
- September 2005
- Posted at
- 08:02 AM ( Mac )
55 Tiger secrets declassified. Nice. (via) #
Document Icons by Bartleme. They're great. Smart. Good looking. #
35mm Photo Viewer. A Browser-based DHTML image display app that is pretty slick. Check out the demo. Even the code seems pretty straightforward. I do like this. #
Cool OSX Apps has a nice collection of, well, OS X Apps that are, umm, cool. #
Cool OSX Apps has a nice collection of, well, OS X Apps that are, umm, cool. #
Erik Larsen, the author/artist of The Savage Dragon, has a great article questioning "Should Comic Book Characters Age?" Very nice. (via) #
I, for One, Welcome Our Deep Sea Giant Squid Overlords. (via) #
Dragon beats Devil, Devil Beats Gun, Gun beats Tree (???), Tree beats Paper (???!!!). Super-Ultra Rock-Paper-Scissors with 15 variations. #
Hurricane Katrina Clouds. Scary clouds, amazing photos. #
Amazing Underwater Photos. I mean, just stunning shots. Wow. (via) #
delineate is an interesting looking stat-tracking package. Sure, it's not Mint, but it's still somewhat interesting. #
I like shaunandrews.com. I love the front page with the giant headlines. Hate the colors, hate the comments. Love the rest. #
Design Shack is another showcase site. #
Artistic Interpretations of Literary Figures. I LOVE THIS SITE. Mike Hawthorne does Ernest Hemingway, Jim Rugg does Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Yeates does Edgar Rice Burroughs and much more. So much fun. (via) #
Liquid Sculpture is gorgeous photographs of water droplets. Fantastic stuff. #
Singin' In The Rain is quite the nice dancing video. Not the Gene Kelly commercial, but very nice. #
The Study Guide for William Gibson: Neuromancer (1984) is fantastic. Defintely worth checking out. #
This is an worthwhile tutorial on how to fix up/beautify your photos. A seven-step process that covers levels, sharpening, cloning, color-correction, touch ups and more. Be sure to check out the before and after photos. #
If you knew to an absolute moral certainty that you could capture and consume a live infant without being caught, how many do you suppose you could eat in a weekend? #
The Six-Year List of Names for Atlantic Storms. 2006, if they get the the T's is when we'll see Storm Tony. I'm thinking it'll be pretty much the coolest storm ever. #
Super Mario World, written fully in JavaScript. (via) #
The Million Dollar Homepage. This is brilliant. You can buy a pixel for a dollar. Buy as many pixels as you want, put a banner, a link, whatever you want. (via) #
10 Reasons Clients Don't Care About Accessibility. Most excellent article by Christian Heilmann. (via) #
Adrian Leskiw really likes maps. What a fantastically odd hobby. I really like the end results. #
An Egyptian dynasty - the new Guardian font is a good read on the birth of a font. #
The Last 40 images posted to LiveJournal. Not always Safe For Work. #
Simply stunning watercolors from Korea. The quality of the work is amazing. You must check these out. (via) #
Poker Terminology I Feel I Could Get Away With Saying If I Ever Played a Tournament. (via) #
Gas is a widget that will find the cheapest gas in your area. #
Japanese Castle Browser. Wow. So many good photos of gorgeous castles. #
The Fall of the Mongol Hordes, a naval disaster that changed the world. #
Deutschland 1929 looks like a wonderland. Why can't we live in places like that today? So much better than suburbia. (via) #
WW II from the air. Photos tucked in a book on sale at a library. Nice stuff. (via) #
OurType is a great font site. I really like the browsing mechanism. Check out their bonus (free) font available as well. Very nice. (via) #
I really would like a Mr Suicide Bathtub Plug. (via) #
Positive Ape Index is the blog by Coop. It's Paintblogging. #
Vogue's Alice in Coutureland. Gorgeous. (via) #
Apple - iPod nano. Very tiny. Very pretty. #
Kevin Sprouls, stipple artist. Very nice. #
Gangsta Chimp by Matt Cioffi is fantastic. Be sure to check out the rest of the site as well. #
Caravaggio, a biography and listing of works. (via) #
The Vincent van Gogh Gallery isn't going to win any style awards, but the content is solid. (via) #
The Grand Cordless Phone will blend right into your classic decor. I'm digging the retro feel of it. #
As the great biologist J B S Haldane growled, when asked what might disprove evolution: "Fossil rabbits in the pre-Cambrian." Evolution, like all good theories, makes itself vulnerable to disproof. Needless to say, it has always come through with flying colours. From Richard Dawkins and Jerry Coyne, about Intelligent Design and Evolution. (via) #
Howard Pyle Illustrations. Arrrgg. Here Be Pictures of Pirates Lad! #
Ashley Wood. I love her artwork. See more over at bambaland. She has the mad art skillz. #
What a handy list of Web 2.0 API's. #
Bicycle Commuting to Work. Some brilliant ideas in here. Like Baby WIpes for when your work doesn't have a shower. #
Flickr: Uploading Tools. Looks like they updated the OS X uploader. #
A 'perfect' iTunes equalizer setting. Interesting. I must try this out. #
The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus. Talk about your amazing scientific discoveries.... #
Incredible Hand Paintings. I really like the Eagle and the Elephant, but they all rock pretty hard. (via) #
IBM model M keyboards, the best keyboards ever made. #
Top 100 Quotes from IRC. Some great stuff in here. Can't stop laughing.
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Old School vs. New School Marketing. Whata most excellent comparison. #
Yahoo!'s search results are in part determined by a brown bear. #
The IE5/Mac Band Pass Filter is useful when you want to pass CSS only to Mac IE. But what I really like is how informative the diagrams are of WHAT is going on in this filter. Very slick. #