Archive for the ‘Links’ Category
An underwater Office
Three Rings Design are a game development company in San Francisco, they make the very popular games Puzzle Pirates and Bang Howdy.
The company is run by a rather eccentric Englishman called Daniel James (see a photo of him here... he likes to wear this stuff). At work we run both Puzzle Pirates and Bang Howdy on Miniclip, and I had the pleasure of meeting Daniel a couple of years ago when Puzzle Pirates was still ...
WPZipper.com relaunch
WPZipper.com is in the process of going through a relaunch. The site is a method for getting a download of the latest version of WordPress along with plugin and themes all wrapped up in a nice zip file.
The service looks quite cool but I have a few suggestions for future improvements.
Firstly I would work out what the most popular combinations are eg WordPress, a couple of themes (Regulus naturally ), and important ...
Custom Paper Toys
More creative goodness today. This time paper toys - custom ones.
By day Matt Hawkins is a cartoonist at night, he turns into a paper toy designer, designing and creating custom paper toys, and I think they're great.
The toys ave a twisted Ren and Stimpy style look to them, with lots of pimples and warts, and deformed stylings. They also have the full plans available so that you can ...
Wicked Crispy – Star Wars cuteness
There are some wonderfully cute Star Wars images over on Wicked Crispy.
I was going to link to my favourite ones, but they're just so damn cute that I had to link the lot...
Droids for sale Jango Fett Weak Minded Fool Under the Tusken Sun (Tusken Raider) Jabba Likes what he sees Luke X-Wing Yoda Vs. Palpatine Mace Windu Chewbacca Yoda Han Solo... Luke[via]
Eee pc – small, light, I want one!
Asus have recently announced the Eee pc. I'm really liking the look of this one. I recently bought a laptop computer but it's quite large big and carrying it around isn't too fun so something smaller, that I can use anywhere in the house and when I go on holiday/ travelling, would be absolutely great.
It only has a 7 inch screen, and the disk drives start at 4 gig (very small) but considering the price this isn't an issue for ...
Making Wii friendly pages
An interesting article about the Opera browser for the Nintendo Wii has been posted over at Opera.com. It talks about how the browser works and a few fixes/ solutions for Wii compatibility for your own site.
This interests me at the moment as I am considering adding a Wii mode to Binary Moon
Check it out at the Opera Developer center.
WordPress Sandbox Designs competition
There is a new WordPress theming competition for all you css gurus and it sounds quite interesting. I am certainly interested in giving it a go myself.
The current prizes are...
1st prize: US$500 2nd prize: US$300 3rd prize: US$200These prizes may increase based upon how much interest there is in prize sponsorship. There are also other prizes such as books and web hosting that are being donated by various bloggers around the interweb. You can read the full details on the ...
A Nintendo Wii Review
I mentioned before that I would write a review of my Nintendo Wii... that it took me nearly 6 months to purchase. Well - a month later - I have finally written my review. Nothing earth shattering but if you're interested you can read about it over on Binary Joy.