Category Archives: Cool stuff

Morning Steve…

It’s Steves first day in charge of Microsoft…

Lego is full of WIN (Roo Reynolds)

Another speaker from Interesting2008 - you may have heard me rave about this guy already, now you can experience him for yourself.

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Radiohead remix by James Houston

I saw James present this remix of Radiohead song Nude at Interesting08 over the weekend. He’d just finished university where it was his final year project. It’s seriously impressive (stick with it, it’s worth it)

Big Ideas (don’t get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.

DIY 3D wizardry with the wii

Thanks to Ollie for sharing this video made by one of his friends. Levels of geekiness we can only dream of at White October…

PHP debugging with FireBug

We like Firebug the javascript/dom debugger for Firefox.
Now we can debug our PHP applications using Firebug thanks to the FirePHP library.

CDN for Javascript libraries..yes please

Google is great, it’s a fact.
Today they have launched an Ajax Library API. They are hosting the major Javascript Libraries (Jquery, dojo etc), and are providing a nice API to load them in, pick your version number etc.
They also serve it over a content delivery network, which means when a user requests the library file [...]

The Monkey is back…

Back in the day when the internet was full of geeks and Americans you could learn how to design “phat” websites using frames and tables, make animated gifs that inform your users that your site is under construction and even load in music to entertain your website visitors from a web site called Webmonkey.com.
It got [...]

Computer art action timelapsed

More timelapse goodness. This time, a chap who spent 40 hours creating some vector art in Illustrator timelapsed a screen capture of it.
http://www.vimeo.com/927062
Very cool. If we timelapsed a day of web development would it be at all interesting? Probably not.
You can buy a print of the work.
UPDATED: Here is a day of web development timelapsed [...]