Archive for September 2007
Star Wars – Reverse References
A collection of references, some obvious, others less so on the influences of Star Wars. A rather interesting read.
Concentrating on influences or references utilized in films based solely on the Star Wars saga doesn’t paint a whole reference picture. Some people may be surprised that Lucas borrowed so many elements from the past. But, anyone who watches films or reads books, all genres and generations, realizes that there is nothing new in the world. We repeat ...
Top 10 Tips for driving traffic AWAY from your website
Gone are the days of marquees, animated gifs and embedded midi files (thank God) but there are still things that people do that drive others crazy.
Since I am (still) working on my “redesign” for Binary Moon I thought I would look into what stops people from reading blogs. More specifically I was looking for reasons people would stop visiting a site, or worse, close it as soon as it loads.
The TipsThese tips are ranked in ...
JazJaz : Site Review
JazJaz.net was the winner of my links competition and his main prize was a permanent review on my site, so I thought it was about time I pulled my finger out and wrote the thing.
The SiteFirst some background. JazJaz.net is a blog consisting of a multitude of short, pop culture inspired, articles. Many are geeky, many are daft, but all are interesting (to me at least). The reason I picked JazJaz as ...
LeechBlock – Firefox productivity extension
Just been pointed to a rather nice little Firefox addons called Leechblock by a post over on Blog Clout.
LeechBlock is a simple productivity tool designed to block those time-wasting sites that can suck the life out of your working day. All you need to do is specify which sites to block and when to block them.
The idea of the extension is that you can block groups of sites for specified periods of time – either an amount of ...
Real 3d Holographics
An Italian friend of mine showed this to me recently – some 3d visualisation technology (or whatever you call it). Unfortunately I don’t speak the language so my friend did the translation for me so, in the likely event that you don’t speak Italian, I have added the transcript below.
Look at this thing. It’s really cool. It’s like Star Wars… only real!!!
Watch the video and be amazed – I’m looking forward to seeing future versions of it.
The Simpsons Movie
I saw the Simpsons movie recently and I must say – I enjoyed it. A lot.
Going in to it I was concerned that it would be like watching three episodes back to back, and I had seen some reviews on tv where they said it was just that, but once the credits started to roll I felt I had watched a fully fledged movie – and an enjoyable one at that.
The basic ...
Get $25 for free with Auction Ads
I have finally decided to give Auction Ads a go. At first I was sceptical as I couldn’t see that many people would actually spend any money following ebay links. To tell the truth I’m still sceptical but the recent offer to give people $25 just for signing up prompted me into action.
Apparently Auction Ads work best when they are on niche/ focused sites, so Binary Joy having an audience of gamers, should be ideal… I hope. Initially ...
Homebrew Space photography
Ever fancied taking photographs from space? One of my friends was recently telling me about how he was going to take photos with a camera suspended from a kite… but this takes things to a whole other level.
The basic recipe is:
1 x small helium weather balloon 1 x digital camera with interval shots 1 x small parachute, and a GPS trackerAnd what do you get (after a whole bunch of attempts)? Something like this…
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