Oddities & Diversions: July 2005

July 28, 2005

Guitar Shred

Guitar Shred Show - Mr. Fastfinger, this rocks so hard! I guess I didn’t need to get anything done today… (via Rob)

New Shelf Life

New Shelf Life, potato chip-maker, Madhouse Munchies, goes from $500k to $10 million in annual sales thanks to good design. Looky looky, design does work! (via SVN)

July 26, 2005

Picnic Mtn. Book 1 On Sale Now

Picnic Mtn. Book 1 On Sale Now, Sutter sells some of his funniest comics… to YOU!

Born Mag: Summer 2005

It’s Summer at Born Magazine!

Blinksale

Blinksale goes live! The easiest way to send invoices online.

July 22, 2005

Sugar Crash

Sugar Crash, surreal Breakout-style Flash game for a Friday.

July 21, 2005

Harry Potter and the Compendium of Utterly Useless Trivia

If all the published copies, hardback and paperback, in all translations, of the six Harry Potter books were laid flat, edge to edge, they would entirely cover Brazil. Find more with Harry Potter and the Compendium of Utterly Useless Trivia

July 20, 2005

Green all over

Absenter: Green all over. Beautiful.

Unobtrusive Flash Objects

Unobtrusive Flash Objects (UFO) v1.0, UFO is a DOM script that detects and embeds Flash objects. It contains several features and best practice techniques that other scripts currently don’t have. Wonderful! (via DM)

July 19, 2005

patchoforange

patchoforange is the home of Robin Joseph’s spectacular sketchblog. Damn, he’s only 20. Talented bastard :D

July 16, 2005

Five simple steps to designing grid systems - Part 2

Mark Boulton’s Five simple steps to designing grid systems - Part 2

July 13, 2005

Mapping Doomsday

Eric uses Google Maps to help Map Doomsday to give us HYDESim (or High-Yield Detonation Effects Simulator). Fascinating!

July 11, 2005

iGATE clarity

iGATE could use some clarity. Or at least a decoder ring for their site so that I might understand what it is they do besides confuse people.

July 7, 2005

It Aint Broke, But I'll Fix It

Conceived of while watching “Wheel of Fortune�? and is endorsed by Miss Singapore Universe, it’s the ABkey! A steaming (ill-conceived) pile of shit.

July 6, 2005

Five simple steps to designing grid systems - Part 1

Mark Boulton’s Five simple steps to designing grid systems - Part 1

Sutter Photos

More lovely pictures from Sutter and Niff’s Wild West vacation. This time Sutter’s: Cody, WY and Yellowstone.

July 5, 2005

Longhorn Preview

The Longhorn Preview at PCWorld.com looks just as wretched as the quick peek from a few months ago. I really hope that thing works better than it looks.

Five simple steps to designing grid systems

Preface to Mark Boulton’s new series, Five simple steps to designing grid systems.