Archive for 2006

Get Naked!

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

In the interests of educating about web standards, I’m joining in with the First Annual CSS Naked Day, which is April 5th. It should be good. If you can’t wait till Naked Day, you can view any page on this site by tacking ?gonaked=1 on the end of any inner.geek.nz url, or view this page naked.

What Humans are Capable Of

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

From O’Reilly Radar (Ya, Reilly.)

Beau Vrolyk just sent me the following email: “Once in a while someone takes something really simple and makes it absolutely extraordinary. This is a video of someone doing exactly this…. simply amazing… You’ll find this well worth the four minutes of your life it will take to watch it.” Beau titled his email “A zen master???? Dancer??? You decide.”

I totally agree. Wow. As Tim O’Reilly said: “It makes you realize just how much more humans are capable of than most of us display.”. Heart touching stuff. An opus.

At the very least, this makes all those street performers look like noobs.

Update: Jason Garfield does a Chris Bliss diss. With 5.

Yeah, Garfield’s routine is definitely a more technically-impressive display. But as we know in the design industry: bells and whistles a well designed piece do not make. Bliss shows simplicity and imperfection in his routine, and it emotes better because of it.

That said, the last 5 seconds of the video (after the end of the song) is amazing.

My del.icio.us bookmarks this week

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
  • Oh, Canada! Ahh, sweet irony, confirming what we knew all along. But Canada was on our side all along. When will greedy americans stop sacrificing their precious ‘freedom’ for their own profit?
    (tagged: business copyright culture lol music news piracy research)
  • A really good list of web ‘design patterns’ or ‘descriptions of optimal solutions to common problems within a specific context’. Really valuable documentation for throwing at people who need a clue.
    (tagged: design designpatterns javascript patterns tools tutorial web web2.0 webdev webdevelopment work yahoo)
  • Another Prototype tutorial. I’m looking forward to $$()…
    (tagged: ajax howto javascript js programming prototype reference tutorial web web2.0 webdev webdevelopment work)
  • The Sims and SimCity creator, Will Wright, talks about the negative perceptions of gaming and how those-who-don’t-play-games don’t see the benefits of gaming such as Imagination, community, self-esteem, problem solving, and most importantly, exploring the
    (tagged: article creative creativity culture fun future games gaming interesting)

My del.icio.us bookmarks this week

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
  • Oh, Canada! Ahh, sweet irony, confirming what we knew all along. But Canada was on our side all along. When will greedy americans stop sacrificing their precious ‘freedom’ for their own profit?
    (tagged: business copyright culture lol music news piracy research)
  • A really good list of web ‘design patterns’ or ‘descriptions of optimal solutions to common problems within a specific context’. Really valuable documentation for throwing at people who need a clue.
    (tagged: design designpatterns javascript patterns tools tutorial web web2.0 webdev webdevelopment work yahoo)
  • Another Prototype tutorial. I’m looking forward to $$()…
    (tagged: ajax howto javascript js programming prototype reference tutorial web web2.0 webdev webdevelopment work)
  • The Sims and SimCity creator, Will Wright, talks about the negative perceptions of gaming and how those-who-don’t-play-games don’t see the benefits of gaming such as Imagination, community, self-esteem, problem solving, and most importantly, exploring the
    (tagged: article creative creativity culture fun future games gaming interesting)

My del.icio.us bookmarks this week

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006
  • Rapid prototyping by building the damn thing! Instead of communicating with never-read-again documents, try to build the thing by demonstrating the layout, interaction and visible information architecture, refactor as necessary, and when you’ve got approv
    (tagged: agile ajax design development documentation html interactive interface layout planning programming prototype standards web webdev webstandards work xhtml)
  • Does some pretty neat things. Must research more into this library.
    (tagged: ajax client code coding computer cool css design dev development dhtml dom free hacking howto html interesting javascript js kit library opensource programming prototype resources software source tal tech tools useful web web2.0 webdesign webdev webstandards work xhtml xml xmlhttprequest)
  • Attach this electronics kitset to your bicycle’s spokes and you can display a logo on your wheels visible from both sides. Considering I want a bike soon, this would be uber sweet.
    (tagged: animation awesome bicycle cool creative diy electronic electronics guide howto kit kitset led make set)
  • Wow, so many great t-shirts from my childhood. Love the Play School shirt.
    (tagged: awesome clothes merchandise retro tshirt tv)
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