- Halo 3 Commercial Screen Grab
Oh. Hell. Yes.
Tags: video, games, microsoft, xbox, 360, bungie, halo, commercial - IE6 and IE7 Running on a Single Machine
The IE Team makes good on their promise to provide virtualPC images of XP with IE6 for free.
Tags: ie6, ie7, browsers, microsoft, explorer, virtualization, virtualpc - Always Use Protection - Get Firefox
Hilarious ad.
Tags: poster, ads, advertising, firefox, condom, protection - How to Drill a Square Hole
Awesome. I guess they’ve actually made drill bits like this - one of my coworkers is trying to get one.
Tags: math, geometry, tools, drills, square, hole - This Is What Happens When You Let Developers Create UI
"Deep down inside every software developer, there’s a budding graphic designer waiting to get out. And if you let that happen, you’re in trouble. Or at least your users will be, anyway."
Tags: design, usability, ui, developers, designers, software, development - Picture Day
"Before, upon observing an inattentive child walk headlong into a fence post, I would gasp in alarm and rush to his aid; now I’ll roar with laughter and take a mental snapshot of the scene, something to chuckle over for months to come."
Tags: children, parenting, humor, photography - Three Wise Men
Monkeys!
Tags: monkeys, photography, wisemen - busy airport
Great photomontage (via Kottke)
Tags: photography, photoshop, montage, airplanes, airports, travel - Copyright Primer for Designers
Very well-written, easy-to-understand guide to copyright law.
Tags: copyright, legal, primer - Choices = Headaches
"The fact that you have to choose between nine different ways of turning off your computer every time just on the start menu …produces just a little bit of unhappiness every time. …iPods don’t even have an on/off switch."
Tags: joelonsoftware, choices, headaches, design, usability, ui, microsoft, windows, vista, shutdown, switch - CSS-Based Forms: Modern Solutions
Nice roundup post of various modern standards-compliant approaches to building forms.
Tags: css, forms, accessability, usability, html - Video: Textmate Screencasts
Unbelievably informative video tutorials for TextMate from its creator. I highly recommend the "Inserting HTML Tags" video - it’s what convinced me to buy the program.
Tags: textmate, screencasts, tutorials, video, software, apple, macintosh, osx - Video: The Brick Gulch Chronicles
The first few minutes of Red vs. Blue recreated with legos. Pointless, but fun.
Tags: video, games, parody, legos, halo, redvsblue, xbox - Video: 40-Man All-Druid WoW Army
An all-druid 40-man army runs rampant over a server. I’ve got a soft spot for Druids, since I was playing a Tauren druid myself.
Tags: wow, warcraft, druids, army, video, games - Video: Mars and Beyond!
"It is impressive how easily these Tomorrowland features entertain audiences of all ages. Of course, some of the details are wrong, but the wonder is not, and the final segment–a most poetic survey about what life might be like on Mars–illustrates Disne
Tags: waltdisney, disney, mars, astronomy, rockets, space, aliens, exobiology, cartoons - Video: I Want You To Watch Me Play Madden
MadTV sketch about guys playing video games for their girlfriends. I love the part where he slaps her hand when she reaches for the second controller, because he doesn’t want her to mess up his profile.
Tags: madtv, madden, halo, video, games, xbox, 360, playstation







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