Archive for March, 2008
One of my favorite movies… Watch the online right now “K-PAX”
Thanks to Hulu.com (NBC, Fox and other studios finally doing the right thing) you can watch full length movies online - for free (legally).
CREEPY Flash Head! STOP LOOKING AT ME
I like amazing Flash programming as the next guy. But there is just something creepy about this incredible example of what you can do with flash. Brought to us by the Asian company MotionPortrait.
Go ahead, touch her nose…
My Work Experience - by Brandon Corbin 2008
Interesting in seeing what I have been up-to over the last 12 years? Check out my working resume here.
60 Brilliant Typefaces For Corporate Design | Fonts | Smashing Magazine
Typography is more than being legible and looking good. Among other things, effective typography manages to achieve two important objectives: a) to create an appropriate atmosphere and enable users to develop trust toward the site and b) to make sure visitors get the main message of the site and (if possible) become interested in the [...]
ESA Portal - Hubble finds first organic molecule on extrasolar planet
Hubble finds first organic molecule on extrasolar planet HD 189733b transiting its parent star 19 March 2008The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. This breakthrough is an important step in eventually identifying signs of life on a planet [...]
Fawnt - Free fonts - 2.0 style
Fawnt is a font resource for designers, developers, and anyone that appreciates the web’s highest quality fonts.
Fawnt - Top free fonts | Font - Archive | Blog Design and Webdesign
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Have you appreciated a beautiful font lately?
I often find it relaxing to slow down for a moment and truly appreciate a beautiful font. Qlassik being one of my current favorites - check out some other free fonts from this Smashing Magazine post… 40+ Excellent Freefonts For Professional Design | Fonts | Smashing Magazine
GE Announces Printable OLED Breakthrough | EcoGeek
Imagine a world where your wall glows at a brightness determined by ambient lighting and personal preference. Lamps might soon be obsolete, and the whole discussion about swtiching light bulbs completely moot.
GE Announces Printable OLED Breakthrough | EcoGeek
Jonathan Ive Interview (Apple Designer)
All Hail Jonathan Ive! His designs are revolutionary, beautiful and insanely usable.
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Surely this isn’t a good idea - building an exact model of the brain using microchips
In the basement of a university in Lausanne, Switzerland sit four black boxes, each about the size of a refrigerator, and filled with 2,000 IBM microchips stacked in repeating rows. Together they form the processing core of a machine that can handle 22.8 trillion operations per second. It contains no moving parts and is eerily [...]
The many faces of Van Gogh [Video]
Tags: art
Dan Dunn, props to an amazing artist.
I have a special place in my heart for performance art, Dan Dunn not only performs for his audience, his final art product is nothing short of amazing. DanDunn.com
AppleInsider | Steve Jobs pans Flash on the iPhone
AppleInsider | Steve Jobs pans Flash on the iPhoneThis is really really annoying. I almost can not believe that Apple is still using the excuse of “power consumption” as a reason for not having a Flash Plugin on the iPhone. Steve is really good at making us look the other way from the facts - [...]
SocialQ.org - Know what the collective thinks.
I REALLY needed a break from my 2 year DynoCard,Recruital,Personage coding blitz. So today I decided to build another site experiment. Socialq.org . Simply a question that anyone can answer. It is built using virtually no server side code (tiny php) and various web 2.0 micro-services (js-kit, addthis,formspring.com, etc.). Development Time: 5 [...]
