Archive for January, 2008
Branes
Also deeply fond of spEak You’re bRanes, the zenith of user generated stupidity:
(Discussing a recent energy white paper) “The government have not said which type of power they are going to use, will it be the dirty fission reactors or the cleaner, more expensive fusion reactors.”
Hugh Pomells, London
(Discussing evolution) “One of the most basic laws [...]
FFFFound
Just to air my love of ffffound.com, a new image bookmarking site in private beta (as every new website is these days). Full of beautiful pictures like this:
At the moment I’m just taking the entire RSS feed, which will obviously become unmanageable once the userbase grows. No indication yet of whether there’ll be any easy [...]
Thing-A-Day
I do find that creativity is hard to sustain in these grim winter months. Those creative juices flow much more freely in autumn. So big whoops of mild interest for Thing-A-Day (via Iain Tait):
Which I’m going to do. The thing that’s swung it is the flexibility: any creative act counts, meaning there are days when [...]
Functional footers are the new black
Time to share a current geeky web design crush: big footers. Seems that quite a few sites are now getting rather bottom-heavy and, you know, I think I quite like it.
There doesn’t seem to be a name yet for this type of expanded area of functionality. Ho hum. I’m calling it a ‘functional footer’ until [...]
Old interfaces die hard
One thing bothers me about Bill Gates’s assertion that touch interfaces will be all the rage over the next few years. Namely that I’m convinced he’s wrong. Of course, it’s not hard to disagree with a lot of what Bill says, but I really can’t see this major shift on the horizon.
Let’s start at the [...]
New Year links
Australia plans web censorship, as seen in China, North Korea etc. For bonus points, they’re even using that truly idiotic “free speech = kiddie porn” argument. The web’s too important to be left to politicians.
Matt Webb’s 2007 braindump is fascinating reading, if rather heavy going.
Create unpleasant photographs by replacing people’s eyes with mouths.
Stop storyboarding now!
DRM [...]