Monthly Archives: June 2008

(1) Download free art (2) ??? (3) Profit!

Pssst, want some stereo speakers free abstract index card art?:

Download full size
It’s drawing 5.21.08.A, totally free and public domain. Print it, paint on it, colorize it, redistribute it, reuse it, remix it, make a million bucks off it, whatever.
Fun project: download the full size version and run it through the Rasterbator to create free, large [...]

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“Bring out zee LeRoy Neiman paintings!”

What Google’s text ads keep losing in relevance they make up for in entertainment value.

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How to be a wildly successful incompetent blogger

1. Keep it real.
2. Stay at it.
It’s the most cliché advice ever, but it works. All the technical stuff that the SEO gurus want to sell you doesn’t matter.
Some of the most popular bloggers have ugly websites, bad typography, shocking SEO failures, and they often live in the TypePad domain ghetto.* No matter, the traffic [...]

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Virgin River rock formations shot with Canon PowerShot SD1100IS

These were taken through the windows of a shuttle van going about 80 m.p.h. through the Virgin River Gorge (terrain map) between Las Vegas and Saint George, Utah. The image stabilization did a good job, though you can see some artifacts at the outside edges. Considering the adverse shooting conditions (and the fact that I [...]

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Adventures in incomprehensible airport WiFi

Yesterday I was at the Burbank airport where AT&T and Tmobile wifi day passes are available. Take a look at these screenshots: (click to enlarge)

Every step maximizes friction:

Do I want Tmobile or AT&T?
There are so many offerings, which one do I need?
So, if I’m already with AT&T, do I have to pay, or do [...]

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Why the new Google favicon sucks*

 
Which one of these favicons could you pick out of a lineup? Whether they’re in your dock, taskbar, bookmark list, feed reader, or browser tab, the whole point of icons is to differentiate themselves. For sadistic bonus points, the new Google favicon is translucent, so in an unselected browser tab it’s even [...]

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