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Today’s offering is a link to a website I like to check out every so often during “rendering time”… Meet Mathew Inman. A nutty web nerd who makes great cartoons, comics, quizzes and silly shit that is really entertaining.

Why? Cuz even a workhorse designer needs some humor in his/her/its life occasionally, and this guy makes me laugh.

I only need to post one link as there is enough on his site to keep you entertained for some time. Providing you have a sense of humor of course…

www.theoatmeal.com

Some of the appropriate-to-me comics are included the following:

I realise i’ve been rather busy of late – pre-occupied with getting better and managing an ever growing To-Do-List (yes, i really do love my Lists ). So these posts are more a general collection of “stuff” I stumble across on the interwebs.

Oh well…something’s better than nothing, right? Here’s a short clip with a bunch of downhill skaters, each with neon Tetris shapes on their heads. The aerial view is kinda cool in a cheap thrills kinda way. But i like the idea.

Meet Shane Lee – budding musician, karaoke champion, Beatbox Master, video-blogger…you name it.

Some of his YouTube repertoire includes hits and classics such as “You Spin Me Right Round,” “500 Miles” and “I’m Too Sexy.” There are covers of what I think are supposed to be ZZ Top tunes. There are Tributes to Michael Jackson, and he does a fantastic job of mutilating such tunes as Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer”, and the Gunners’ “Sweet Child O’Mine”… Oh Lordy, without further ado, I introduce you to Shane Lee. Cue the canned applause. Thank you and take it away…

Meet Shane – Beatboxing Masterblaster:

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Today we have a video from comedian Charlie Booker.

It seems like he’s seen a lot of Sky News. On the money news coverage at your fingertips.

So Apple make the foray into the Tablet market with the release of the iPad. Looks more like a cross between an iPhone and a Kindle on steroids. Like seriously?

Also sounds like a Feminine Hygiene Product – I mean come on… Will it live up to the hype? The marketplace is so majorly full of laptops, netbooks, smartphones, homing pigeons with GPS capabilities…for fuck sake – when is it gonna end?

Apple's iPad. Bloody Hell...

Isn’t the fact that we are all on call 24/7 and expected to be constantly “on” enough already? What happened to reading a good old paperback? I don’t care if it makes similar noises when you turn the digital page, it still is never quite the same…

A major drawback for me already is that the device does not support Flash. Now come on Apple… so many sites use even Flash Lite to operate sites and aspects of sites, non-flash enabled devices in this day and age are about 6 balls behind the 8-ball. For a company so innovative in some respects, one can be so backward in others (ahem*cough* the cameras on iPhones still lag behind any other device with a 5+MP capability). Read the rest of this entry »

Well Happy New Year and all that jazz, but what the heck do we call the incoming decade?

I mean for the prior 10 years we labelled them the Noughties (or the Naughties as I think is more fitting). But we are at a standpoint where there is a whole nother bunch of years coming to the fore.

Happy New Year Kids!

We could call them the Tens – but that is so lame. The Teens has been suggested, but I mean come on…we aren’t all teenage girls who like cutesy terms of endearment. Blech! The Tweens would only apply for the next few years – in which case one could not define an entire decade in the summary of a single term as we could with the Sixties, Seventies, Eighties, Nineties and so forth…

I have thought about this and IMHO I believe that the best way to deal with this conundrum is to just label it The Pubic Years and be done with all the whining. If you got a better option, then by all means lemme know. But till then, deal with it. Running out of ideas here…!

So have yourselves a happy new year and may the Lords of Lightning spark it up with much prosperity for y’all. Here’s to more of what you DO want, and less of what you DON’T!

x tDA

If you’re anything like me, you probably be really glad to see the arse end 2009. To me personally, when one of those crazy up down years, where you get the good with the bad and lots of both. Thanks to unavoidable circumstances, all the things I set out to do in 2009 got pushed to the sidelines. Which means I personally have the pack to use into 2010.

So, I’ve had a mental advent calendar in my head for at least the past 3 months, just thinking of all the fantastic things I’m going to do in the next year – or do i mean

In aid of this dazzling new decade, I personally and officially declared next year to be:

2010 — the Year of Awesomeness! ^TM

I Heart the New Start

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Understandably there are many people in the world do not use Firefox, but if you’re still stuck on Internet Explorer then good luck with that.  This post isn’t really aimed at you, so you may wish to ignore it.

Firefox Add-ons

If you haven’t already guessed I’m a big Firefox fan and tend to use it over other browsers. Personally I try and avoid Internet Explorer, and generally only use Safari if I’m on another Mac. Firefox addicts have created a ton of add-ons and plug-ins to make your life easier and enhance your browsing.

So whilst this is not an exhaustive list, by any measure, I thought I’d share some of the handy web design / general design tools and plug-ins that I’ve come across for– take your pick. On no particular order. I may add to this list later…

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Ok so I would think that Security would be over you quick smart if you were flying around the airport (all puns intended) on one of these. However the concept is kind of novel. Made as a joint project with Samsonite and Micro Mobility, I think it could be further enhanced by adding a 2-stroke motor so you didn’t even have to push.

But that is just my personal opinion. It’s another one of those gadgets absolutely perfect for rich business types who don’t have time to walk places and are always missing their gate calls. You know, the ones they call for over the PA when the rest of the plane has boarded and the Captain is ready to taxi down the runway, but they cant cuz some wanker is MIA? Yeah…that

Check it out on CrunchGear

Samsonite Trolley Scooter

“Imma let you finish…but first I’m gonna interrupt your moment and imma put in mah two cents $600 dollars worth”

“Kanye West: An Ego the Size of Russia?” was my original post title but i thought up a better one IMHO.

Truly. If there was a Dick Measuring Competition this week, Kanye West would have won it! For being the biggest dick. Perhaps we should rename him RumpleForeskin?

Kanye West - not that you wouldn't have trouble recognising him after this weeks event...

By now if you haven’t seen train wreck that was Kanye West at the MTV VMA’s earlier this week, then you really have been living under a rock. Not that that is a bad thing.

However, long story short, Kanye – in some moment of blank headspace, impulsively decided to crash Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech for Best Female Video.

Hey I’m not exactly a Taylor Swift fan either, but who is tool enough to gatecrash and on-air awards speech FFS?! Oh yeah, Kanye. If you missed it get the goss here and here.

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I mean it’s not every day the President of the United States of America calls you “a jackass”… At least everyone knows who he is. Talk about one way to commit social suicide   Check out the footage…

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