Archive for 2006

LOL Geeking out at the rugby

Friday, May 5th, 2006


Cafénet is teh awesome!

My del.icio.us bookmarks this week

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006
  • The most important considerations when designing or creating a website.
    (tagged: business design dev howto internet management marketing planning project read tips usability web webdesign webdev webdevelopment work)
  • Could be on the up-and-up
    (tagged: code coding content css design dev hacks howto internet productivity programming reference resources tips web web2.0 webdesign webdev webdevelopment webstandards work xhtml)
  • Let your iPod stand alone from any computer without iTunes — still play music and list mp3s and stuff — Mac, Windows and Linux!
    (tagged: apple apps audio backup computer cool data download free freeware geek hacks hardware ipod linux mac macosx management media mp3 music opensource os osx plugin software sync tech tool tools useful utilities video windows xp)
  • How to take an existing photo and apply that fake model effect that everyone has been talking about recently.
    (tagged: art design diy flickr fun graphicdesign graphics howto interesting make model photo photography photos photoshop simulation tips tutorial tutorials web)

Exploding ducks interpolate out of my eyebrows

Monday, May 1st, 2006

This is some free writing I did in preperation for a theory session on brainstorming and creativity I am teaching tomorrow. I need some root ideas for people to ideate from. Enjoy, or not.

there was a guy walking down the street and he went to the bathroom. he did his business then left for the movies. he bought some popcorn and then he sat down to watch the movie. but there was no movie. it was taking the banana too feelings it had never assumed before. games exploded from the mouth of the ghananise gorilla, while the bassoon played on the piano. my fingernails melted into blobs of golden chocolate. i took my green pepper and used it for a device to prevent hemmeroids in siamese gulls. the squeeze gun then put on a jersey and danced the gigalo. the guy drank a tall glass of tar and profusely vomited onto the floor of the patisserie. the mona lisa took her glasses off and ate the bottle from the water cooler. the colour aqua and the colour red made out. my bananas never stopped. a tv show character never blew a green goal. my wallet was full of bmws. people congregated around an intray. i believe you have my exploding duck’s complete collection of 1930s architectural dives. my head melted into a million shards of atomic cafes. propaganda of the green manilla folder made me a grand total of eighty five cents. a bowel of fruit was collected from the masses and lo, there was no aubergines that were yellow. a matte stapler attacked a child while they were swimming in the jungle’s largest pool of custard-flavoured tar babies while the jello men were sunbathing in the moonlight. my pillow of keymashed kumara licked off it’s eyebrows which were coated in a yellow substance which would shatter under pressure from either david hasslehoff or that guy who does the joy of painting. a loud number coloured blue explained in morbose detail the mating rituals of an enlarged jumbovision with a blue orangutang. my nipples flew out of george costanza and they took out fps doug, boom forehead shot. lol roffle lol i take it back it was really chuck norris. then a pair of macrovision encrypted sunglasses dropped out of the treasure chest and were crushed by the planet golufulava. my parents took out the trash and used a machete to renovate the viper. a snake coaxed out of me my secret location to my snozberry m&ms. my headphones transformed into warren bady. a haircut took my power supply and used it to get a real job, whilst my exploding duck unexploded. it was viewtiful. joe made shortbread and laughed at it’s lack of blueberry muffins. cakes i like the most, except for daniel. moses exploded and left behind a collection of little puce ducks. the ducks were made of marzipan. i ran to the store to buy some icing and i freed morgan freeman from the narration of some 3d game, maybe half-life 2. then prince albert emerged from his tupperware and i mixed us up a storm with my thumbprints on a lp record made from fudge. we danced but it wasn’t the best. i decided that we should take the exploding munters and use them for table tennis. i later regretted that i used a passionfruit to scrape the kiwi birds from under my nostrils. my wrists were relaxed from all the grabbing of explainitory signage i discovered in my armpits. my brain frazzled and decided that was long enough.

MacZOT do it again…

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

There’s a BLOGZOT 2.0 on MacZOT.com for a great piece of software you might have heard of called SubEthaEdit from CodingMonkeys. If you want it for free, you’ll post about it on your blog too. If 600 people blog about this special in the 24 hour span this sale is on for, MacZOT and TheCodingMonkeys will award $105,000 in Mac software, total to the community! W00t!

SubEthaEdit is basically multiplayer notepad – it allows you to collaborate with others across a network, all editing the same file in different places.

I don’t know if I’d use it personally, but hey, commercial software for free is not something I’d balk at :)

My del.icio.us bookmarks this week

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
  • (tagged: article business management motivation tips work)
  • CRAP: Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, Proximity — The four principles of a good design
    (tagged: art article awesome bestpractices business cool creative creativity design development educational graphicdesign graphics howto layout learning marketing photoshop planning projects reference resources skill skills standards style templates thought tips tools tutorial tutorials useful web webdesign webdev work)