Dave Raggett's Introduction to CSS
A short CSS/Style Sheet intro. Should be able to use this to set my blog to indent the first line of paragraphs. Saved here for reference.
I absolutely love this artwork from Cecile Eyan (apologies for not putting the correct accents on her name). Her wolf stuff is mesmerizing. I would love to have a large print of this picture of Papa wolf and his pup.
All kinds of interesting glass tchotches. Cufflinks, coasters, nightlights, pendants. Worth a browse.
Amazing blog with links to all kinds of intricate paper models. The Disney stuff is especially attractive to me. See also paper plate folding and a paper version of the Game of Life. Sweet!
Stay Free! Daily: Hiking through Manhattan
This site has a blog entry regarding walking the High Line abandoned rail line in Manhattan. There is also a link to a flickr gallery of pictures from the trip.
The last time I was in NYC I was riding in a car with my friend in the same area and I remarked how I would like to do exactly what these folks had done before the tracks went away. Nothing like finding some wilderness in the middle of NYC.
A site that uses fans to help identify all of the pop culture references in the Family Guy episodes. Lots of other cool Family Guys stuff too.
These guys built a website decribing how to build various "guns" from simple office supplies. Goofy.
This entry shows how to setup a thumb drive with a bootable os and a suite of applications. I really need to do this with mine.
Cute little website devoted to making paper airplanes out of sticky notes. Very early. Could become big.
Author Peter Watts has put two of his novels online under Creative Commons licenses for unlimited non-commercial distribution. Check him out. You might want to buy one of this other books.
I've seen photos of this stuff before. It's amazing from the correct angle. Make sure to scroll down to the one that shows what it looks like from the wrong angle. Supa cool!
"Julian Beever is an English artist who is famous for his art on the pavements of England, France, Germany, USA, Australia and Belgium."
Photos from a really cool car show some friends of mine went to last weekend. Some really sweet rides. Especialy note the tiki-bar in the trunk of a car near the bottom. There is also a nice Tiki god and a sexy gear shift. Sweet!
The blog of a Master Jeweller showcasing a lot of his creations and showing construction tips.
Hmm. Gonna be one of those days. Multiple things from one site. Anyway the link above takes you to the LaserPod. Sort of a modern day lava lamp. It uses lasers and leds and mirrors and diffusers to either act as an ambient light source or your own personal laser light show. Put the diffuser on and you get the lava lamp effect. Take it off and it's a slow day at the planatarium's "Laser Rock" show. I'm sure the video doesn't do it justice.
Oh, and just to save space, here's a link to the light sabres they offer. Normally I wouldn't care as there seems to be a ton of stuff like this out there but if you watch the video you can see that they have the LEDs lighting in sequence with the sound effect so that it really gives the impression that you are turning a light sabre on or off. Very well executed. Neat.
Crazy UK gadget site Firebox.com has these cool windup toys that each make a different musical noise. There's a clapper, a hulahoop, the original which seems to be drum like, some chims and a guitar. Both kitschy and cute I could see getting them for home. I'm sure they would probably be too annoying at work. I really want to hear what it sounds like if you have them all going at once. Did they plan ahead enough to make them really work together to make somethng that sounds beautiful?
Update: OK. I downloaded all the videos of them working and watched them. They are most certainly more annoying than I realized. They don't run that long and most of the sounds are more clicks and dings than anything actually pleasing. I could still see setting a bunch of them up to run together though. I'm just disappointed that they didn't work harder towards making the sounds pleasing. It would be neat to have someone come up with some toys like this that had musicbox-like qualities that would complement each other as you put them together. Hmmm. Stash that away in the idea file.
Maybe you should just check out the CUBees instead. This is more like what I had in mind. All together now, 'Do, re, moo, fa, so, la, ti, oink!'
Paige Pooler has a blog where she is posting some of her art and a link to her online illustration portfolio. I love her style. I'd love to see what her interpretation of tiki culture would be like. Of course it would be cute but how cute?
Electra Wow! Deidre Hall in '70s superhero tights!
This is a site devoted to the 1976 Kroft series Electra Woman and Dyna Girl. The show just oozed cheesy goodness back in a time when kids shows and cartoons were mostly only on Saturday morning. Of course it was also the show that resulted in the first pubescent stirrings for thousands of boys.
I remember when Saturday Morning TV was so kid-devoted that they would have an evening special at the beginning of the season to show all the new shows. Ah, nostalgia.
Great site that documents all this guy's projects in building a home foundry and all the assorted tool to make and machine things. Neat foam prototype tools and a homebrew Hot Air Pencil.
This site has instructions for how to fold several of the patterns you see used on cloth napkins in formal settings. It's a neat reference for your next dinner party.
OMG this is funny.
It starts with an entry about getting stuck in traffic after making a "I can wait until I get home" judgement call and goes horribly wrong. Some of the best stories are in the comments. Keep scrolling down looking for the big entries.
a How-To for a mosiac made from Post-Its
This person made a wall mosaic out of Post-It notes as a creative office project. The site has a how-to explaining the method. This would be a neat project for things like comic or sci-fi conventions. You could make a giant piece of artwork that would be extremely ephemeral. Very cool. May be a good bit to save for a story, too.
A site for the cooking show for the Gen Y person with a limited budget. I take this to mean that they're only left with a small amount of money after paying for their broadband internet and their iTunes addiction.
Make a life poster, automation style
This link shows you how to make a giant poster out of 96 of your existing photos. It uses iPhoto and the macro automation built into the Tiger OS for Mac. Very cool. Need to show this to Dad.
The supporting website for both a book and the PBS shows based on it. Interesting point of view.
Halloween haunted houses, notecards, scary images, haunted house pictures, haunted hotels
Lewis Barrett Lehrman paints incredibly awesomely creepy paintings. Sort of like Kinkade gone goth. I like it.
What a cool idea. I love FIMO clay and any excuse to play with it is welcome. Wheeee!
Sunglasses, goggles, and reading glasses that have a split bridge that closes with super strong magnets to wear them. The goggles make sense to me but I'm not sure what the advantage of the sunglasses and readers is other than novelty.
This is a great blog by someone who is apparently an editor on a major magazine. He tells great stories that are genuinely funny. Especially check out the "My Many Head Wounds" and "My Dog The Hero". The dog story especially is a real emotional rollercoaster.
I usually don't link to personal blogs but this one did lead me to the "Turn Your Hamster Into A Fighting Machine" comic from Kabolo.com which is fricken' hilarious.
A great blog with scientific info and recipes written by and for engineer types. I especially liked this one about making butter from heavy cream.
Audiocubes.com is a cool source for all gadgets Japanese. You can find all kinds of crazy tech here.
For an example look up the iDog. It's a speaker system for iPods that looks like a little electronic dog and wiggles it's ears and such when you use it with your iPod. It's almost part tamagotchi as it has moods it expresses with it's leds and ear positions.
Other cool things are the very Retro May-Wa Denki TV Remote Control and the Tomy LUMI PAD-20 20 inch Glowing Message Board (also comes in 14 and 10 inch models) a kind of glowing whiteboard.
Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town
Cory Doctorow's latest book. It's been out for a month but I forgot to post about it. As usual he is posting it online for free. He's using the new Developing Nations CC license. This guy is my hero.
Here's a link directly to the html version so I can read it on my phone.