Archive for 2006

Giant Scottish Robot

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

My workmates and their students created this short 3D animated film called Amiganaut, and got me to star in it. I’m the giant scottish mech suit guy, dubbed the HGU — Heavy Ginger Unit. Awesome eh?

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Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
  • A great reference for the stuff your parents probably don’t know about bicycles
    (tagged: bicycle engineering howto readme nature reference repair resources tips useful bikes cycling bike)
  • How to make your own graffiti style stencils… Photoshop, is there anything you can’t do… (oh yeah, make editable rectangles and such as easily as Fireworks does!)
    (tagged: crafts design diy graffiti graphics howto make photography photoshop stencils tutorial stencil)
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  • A little firefox extension that tells you how many unread feed items you have in your Google Reader. Awesome extension for an awesome service!
    (tagged: extension extensions firefox google plugin rss software reader feeds notify)

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Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
  • Share your small sets of colour swatches with the world, or use other’s swatches in your own design! Woot!
    (tagged: archive art awesome colour css database design dev flash free gallery graphics image inspiration interesting interactive interface photoshop reference resources service set share sharing social tech templates themes tool tools webdesign webdev work webmaster adobe kuler)

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Tuesday, November 21st, 2006
  • For when you need life to be like counter strike!
    (tagged: 3d amusing art bored clothes cool dev fun funny hacks geek gaming games humor humour interesting make media origami paper stupid video glasses fps diy)
  • Why should it be? Because the web is 95% text! Stop stealing sheep and find out how type works.
    (tagged: article beauty business commentary content creative design font fonts graphics guide important inspiration interesting interface layout presentation print read reading reference research resources technology text tips type typography usability useful web web2.0 webdesign webdev webmaster website work xhtml)

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Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
  • A really intuitive throughput test. Various locations to test between… I like it!
    (tagged: web web2.0 visualization tool tools test speedtest bandwidth speed broadband internet networking network online statistics tech technology testing service interface hardware geek free flash cool)

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