April 2008
95 posts
B3TA : FEATURES : PHALLIC LOGO AWARDS →
The game designers across the nation are playing is; can they design a logo and get it approved without the client realising it’s a big spurting penis? We asked our readers to send in the best cock logos from around the world for our team of experts to evaluate. Now we present to you the very cream of the cocks. I know, what am I, five?!
Dude Crashes Bike On Google Street View (PICS) | →
As the Googlemobile documents this area, on the footpath to the right, we see our unsuspecting hero is happily riding his bike.
“The very air of the room seemed charmingly alive with little floating dollar...”
– Dawn Powell
“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.”
– Emma Goldman
eXtreme Type Terminology | i love typography, the... →
Today we would be lost, or at least often confused, if we didn’t clarify our prose with this handy little dot. The period once had an even loftier role in world affairs: most nineteenth-century newspapers had a period at the end of their mastheads. The New York Times continued with the period until 1966, half a century after most other papers had dropped the dot. Perhaps the editors felt that the...
Home | Sprout Builder - Create living content. →
Sprout is the quick and easy way for anyone to build, publish, and manage widgets, mini-sites, mashups, banners and more. Include video, audio, images and newsfeeds and choose from dozens of pre-built components and web services.
“My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.”
– Jay London
Semolina Flour: Don't be Confused ~ Cupcake... →
Semolina from durum wheat or similar hard wheat is called semolina flour and is usually yellow in color. This is what you should use to make desserts containing semolina flour. It is a finer grain than Cream of Wheat, but it still produces a gritty dessert with almost a cornbread-like texture. Semolina and Couscous FYI - Couscous is also made from durum wheat semolina, but that’s a story...
Dopplr Blog » Blog Archive » In rainbows →
The Dopplr logo, (or ‘SparkLogo’* as we sometimes like to call it) is the clearest example of this perhaps. As you add trips to different destinations, Dopplr’s logo becomes your logo, reflecting what you’re doing - right the way through to the ‘favicon‘ that shows up in the address field of most browsers.
Frekfly - Practical info for flyers →
This site provides practical information for travelers that travel by air. Where’s the airport located? What currency do they have over there? What’s the weather? How do you get from the airport to the city center? If you have some time to kill, where should you eat? How many times have you decided “let’s go through security first” only to find out that the best...
twitter census – #surveys for the twittersphere →
Twitter Census offers simple surveys for the Twittersphere. A simple three step process makes it easy to get your poll out into the twitter world.
I am a Daffodil What Flower Are You?
Colin Walker » Let your Twitter followers know... →
Twit This is used in a couple of ways: * a bookmarklet on your browser toolbar to submit which ever page you are viewing * a link (either by button or text) added by the site author. There is also a WordPress plugin for those of you using that platform. As with the previous blog I have at the end of each post I have added a “Tweet This” link (let’s face it Twitter messages are...
“A recent police study found that you’re much more likely to get shot by a...”
– Dennis Miller
Kids’ Book on Plastic Surgery | Newsweek Health |... →
Acosta told Salzhauer that she wasn’t sure how to talk to her son about the procedures she was considering. That’s when he showed her the manuscript for his children’s picture book, “My Beautiful Mommy” (Big Tent Books), out this Mother’s Day. It features a perky mother explaining to her child why she’s having cosmetic surgery (a nose job and tummy tuck)....
WatchBBC NEWS | Entertainment | Bond car plunges into Lake Garda The driver was delivering the iconic Aston Martin DBS to the film scene in heavy rain when he lost control around one of the lake’s narrow curves. The driver was quickly rescued and taken to hospital with minor injuries. He’ll have more than minor injuries if I catch up with him! ;) An Aston Martin DBS trashed,...
Ironic Sans: Video Store Clerk Game: A Crowd... →
Jay and Andy have created a game called Video Store Clerk in which you play a video store clerk. You are told how a real customer has rated previous movie rentals, and then you are shown another movie title that the person also rented. Can you guess how the customer rated that movie? They are collecting all the user-generated data and comparing it to the real customers’ ratings. A computer has...
“The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human...”
– Alfred Hitchcock
eXtreme Type Terminology | i love typography, the... →
When creating a new typeface, type designers sometimes look at particularly revealing words to test the look of the letters in sequence. These are known as key words, trial words, test terms, and sometimes simply as proof. The word Slang, for instance, contains an uppercase letter, lowercase letters, an ascender, a descender, round letters and straight letters. The aforementioned Oboe is a key...
Face to Face - An Interview With Jos Buivenga| i... →
I have always loved this guy’s fonts. Puts many, many paid fonts to shame!
Stop New Nukes →
An education/advocacy project to make folks aware of the impact of nuclear weapons. Combines Google Maps with Flickr photos of various nuclear hazards.
Why Bembo Sucks | i love typography, the... →
…Why is this relevant? Well, in the rush to adapt to digital typesetting technology, type foundries digitised classic typefaces. The nature of digital fonts is to use one outline and scale as desired. Typefaces went from being cut in a multitude of sizes to a single, all-encompassing outline. A digital typeface can be optimised for a few sizes, but hardly for all. Bembo, for instance, is a...
“It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.”
– Anatole France
the Idea Shower » » Intwition →
Lookup a website on Intwition and you will see all of the tweets about the page. It provides the total number of tweets as well as the total ‘reach’ of a URL which is the number of users the link had the potential to reach. This is calculated by adding the number of followers of all those who posted the link. In addition to individual pages, Intwition provides a snapshot of all the tweets about...
Mozilla slams Safari updates | Bloggeraz →
Certainly been annoying the crap out of me when trying to update.
Color + Design Blog / Pantone Color: Product Guide... →
The Rather Difficult Font Game →
Embarassing how bad I am at this! ;)
the hamstu » wp-typogrify →
Typogrify is a collection of Django template filters that help prettify your web typography by preventing ugly quotes and widows and providing CSS hooks to style some special cases. For PHP and Wordpress
Adventures in Kerning Part II| Hoefler &... →
A kerning table, which makes special allowances for characters that don’t fit together naturally, can reveal a lot about the personality of its designer. Every font pays special attention to the pair Va, but the font that includes Vr suggests a familiarity with French (vraie) or Dutch (vrou). Pairs like Wn or Tx hint at an even broader perspective (Wnetrzne, Poland; Txipepovava, Angola), and the...
“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”
– Dale Carnegie 