Someone linked me to these awesome prints earlier today, and it inspired me to make a desktop.
Create something new? Check.
Please do not copy? Erm… yeah
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This just popped through the door.
I guess if anyone’s going to use lolcats in an advertising campaign then the RSPCA is a natural choice.
Today I have been mostly reading serious works that other people have written. In the spirit of creative-Saturday I present my latest opus:
I helped Helen dye her hair yesterday. It was pretty fun, but hair dye smells awful.
Anyway, I’m dating a redhead right now, which is a particular weakness of mine. Personally, I blame the media.
It wasn’t a one-step process though, since Helen’s naturally a pretty dark brown. So we had to make her blonde first! Or, as it turned out, a kind of washed-out ginger.
Now while I’m sure before and after photos will be easy to acquire from Helen herself, I doubt she’ll be too keen to see the “during” spread about.
Eeeeeyes right~
Also: while the management feel I perhaps have more useful things to do with my time, a Core 2 Duo machine doesn’t fucking break a sweat running those animations. It uses about 4% of one core, according to the activity monitor. God dammit I want a new mac!
things scratched into the table of trendy coffee shops must be true
So, this came to me while walking about, bear with me.
You see, web 2.0 is all about communities and shit, and that’s great. It’s also all about web-browsers, and making them do things they weren’t designed to do, which is also great (if you can do it right).
However, web-browsers are pretty clumsy tools, and you often end up scanning a pretty packed page for one little bit of information… for a dozen different pages. As such, my idea was this: what if you had an app that checked all your social networking sites, all your forums, all your email, and presented it in one unified interface?
I’m picturing a clean interface which immediately presents the user with a summary of what has happened on the interweb since they last looked. New photos of Britney’s third baby on her flickr, Brad’s snide comments on Emmy’s latest LJ entry, a PM from l33tcl0ud on the gentoo forums asking where you found those drivers, a friend request on facebook from some kid you sat next to at lunch once: all of it sat in one place, waiting your eager young eyes.
Of course, it’d be a complete bastard to set up, mostly because APIs for such websites are few and far between. Which is pretty fair, really – if your sole source of revenue was from pairing eyeballs with adverts, would you make it easy for someone to suck just the information they wanted off your server into a program?
OK, I would too, but that’s because I’m a beautiful young idealist whose startup would flop quicker than a penis on a British nudist beach.
These things were at semi-regular intervals down the whole street, I think they form a complete poem? I am not sure; it was really surreal.
So, I went to Manchester yesterday. I parked illegally in Derby near the station and availed myself of a train. I have not been punished and I feel this sets a bad example to the children.
In Manchester I got to talk to a judge (no, not a judge, sadly), I bought an overpriced cheesecake, watched someone watch people, read poems laid into the pavement, played amongst children in the science museum, stroked my chin in the art gallery and drunk a beer in the Hard Rock Cafe. It was a day of experiences, for sure.
In the evening, on the way back to the station, I espied a comic shop, still open at 8pm. Inside the shelves had all been pushed back and tables filled the floor: at these, nerds were playing games with some kind of collectible cards. At first I ignored these strange people, indulging in such an alien past-time, and merrily scoured the new comics for those which I follow. It soon became apparent, however, that these were very much my kin. On one table a man argued vehemently with his fellow the necessity of sharpening wolverine’s claws, on another a small conclave pondered the true identity of Supernova, one young man quoted a Penny Arcade strip to the room in general.
Speaking of nerdiness, I did it again. Only, now that your trust has been earned I stuck some less… accessible stuff in this one. Sure, they might not open as strong as the last batch, but if you stick with it then the truth of the word will become clear.
Now that’s what I call Aaaaaughibbrgubugbugrguburgle – volume two
Patient notes: I’m upping the dosage of AAC in this one. You responded well to the last treatment, you should be proud.