I didn't get a chance to do a post on Friday so this will be my late Friday Fun Link. I thought it was somewhat appropriate after a weekend of explaining to relatives why we would ever name a child “Pace”. (Okay, it wasn't that bad but one relative did continually refer to him as […]
I've previously written about the 2.0-esque campaign that Barack Obama has run this year – embracing cutting-edge technology, bottom-up organizing, social networking, the wisdom of crowds and all that good stuff.Here is a smaller scale example – a young IT professional in Kansas, partly inspired by Barack Obama, decides to run for State Legislature. He […]
There are a number of resources online for lovers of fonts and typography.FontStruct is a site that allows you to design a font directly on their web site for free.There are also detailed step-by-step guides to the tools and steps needed to create a font locally on your own computer. Finally, if do-it-yourself sounds too […]
Some humour for a rainy Friday…
A pretty revealing list comparing word counts for various topics on Wikipedia:Call of Duty WWII Video Game (13 069 words) vs. World War II (11 884 words) Pokemon (5 721) vs. Poker (1 857 words) Superman (10 641) vs. Human (10 385)…and wait until you see the final result – God vs. Knuckles (of Sonic […]
I think I first heard about “The Last Lecture” via a book request we got at the library. The Amazon page for the book has more info including a couple video clips explaining the background and significance of this particular Last Lecture. A bit more searching revealed that the full video of the original Last […]
Continuing last week's theme of Jason finding extremely exciting, anything that presents typical linear information in a cool, revolving circular format, I present to you: Tag Galaxy (via Reddit)
Spectra is a new visual news reader from MSNBC. I haven't played around with it much but it looks cool, mostly because the news spins in a circle instead of the old-fashioned columnar approach. Whoo-hooo! On a much broader scale, I've recently come across a couple lists predicting of technologies that will change the world […]
“For all the creativity and innovation that goes into making (some) Hollywood films, there are also a lot of ideas that get recycled time and time again. I’m not referring to stock characters or the sequalitis that hits multiplexes every summer. I’m talking about the basic building blocks of storytelling that are ingrained in the […]
TimeTube is a site that creates a timeline of YouTube videos based on any keyword you enter and sorted based on the date they were added. You can also view the results in a couple other modes – “list view”, “flipbook” and “map view” for videos that have been tagged with a location. They have […]
