Archive for June 2008
Anti smoking video game (advert)
My outlook on life is quite liberal. In general I am happy for people to do whatever they like, as long as it doesn’t affect others in a negative way.
However smoking is something I am very much against. To start with, the whole idea of smoking just doesn’t appeal to me. I have never smoked… and I never will. More importantly I have seen the effects of excessive smoking – about a year ago my Grandfather had one of his ...
Redesigning the WordPress admin Redesign
Ever since the first betas of WordPress 2.5 I have been making my own version of the admin panel. I like a lot of what they have done but there were some very basic things missing in the design, and I could see a number of ways to improve it. Every now and then I will add something new to tweak it a little bit more and then last week Eric Meyer released his own version of the admin redesign ...
Mystery on 5th Avenue
A fantastic house designed by an incredibly creative person. It all started because a rich bloke, Steven B. Klinsky, wanted his house redesigned and asked an architect, Eric Clough, to embed a poem in his childrens bedroom. A year goes by and suddenly a new house has been made, with a complex series of puzzles waiting for the occupants to unlock the secrets within.
But some of that furniture ...
Big Buck Bunny
Big Buck Bunny tells the story of a giant rabbit with a heart bigger than himself. When one sunny day three rodents rudely harass him, something snaps… and the rabbit ain’t no bunny anymore! In the typical cartoon tradition he prepares the nasty rodents a comical revenge.
Big Buck Bunny is an animation, created in Blender – an open source 3d art program. I tried Blender many moons ago and it was painful to use. I suspect that’s because I ...
Google hosted javascript libraries
Google have recently announced they are hosting popular open source javascript libraries for everyone to use in their projects.
My first thoughts were, “Awesome, they can suck up my bandwidth charges and I can have fast access to javascript libraries”, but now I’ve thought about it a bit more I’m even keener.
Before I get carried away I’ve read a few negatives, the biggest being “Google will be able to track your site”, and to that I say “I use Google ...
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