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Beautiful photo galleries powered by user submissions.
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Matt was profiled in the McMInnville paper. I snuck into the picture somehow.
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Images from around the Web. Looks like a fun way to browse, but I wish the images were a bit bigger.
Games for a Non-Gamer
I'm not much of a gamer, but I have been enjoying The Incident by Neven Mrgan and Matt Comi on my iPhone. Here's what it looks like:
Nothing too complicated. There's falling stuff that you tilt the phone to avoid, and a great 8-bit soundtrack. Seeing all of the pixelated junk they designed is half the fun.
I don't have an XBox, but this atmospheric game called Limbo looks like another fun design experience. It's the first console game I've seen in a while that I'd like to play:
(I found this last trailer via the consistently excellent video site Devour. Check it out if you haven't seen it. Looks great on an iPad.)
Nothing too complicated. There's falling stuff that you tilt the phone to avoid, and a great 8-bit soundtrack. Seeing all of the pixelated junk they designed is half the fun.
I don't have an XBox, but this atmospheric game called Limbo looks like another fun design experience. It's the first console game I've seen in a while that I'd like to play:
(I found this last trailer via the consistently excellent video site Devour. Check it out if you haven't seen it. Looks great on an iPad.)
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Turn terrible business jargon into plain English.
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I'm enjoying this book by Jeremy Keith. The book itself is nicely designed too.
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Nice list with concise summaries of some major features of HTML5. [via mathowie]
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Awesome intricate bamboo iPhone case. [via Hey Stuff]
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Glossy photo book of urban decay in Detroit.
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A simple way to set up a mod_evasive style defense with the more popular mod_security.
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"mod_evasive is an evasive maneuvers module for Apache to provide evasive action in the event of an HTTP DoS or DDoS attack or brute force attack." Filed for (hopefully) non-use.
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Nice list of board books for kids to revisit.
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"This demo is an implementation of a full 8-bit color cycling engine, rendered into an HTML5 Canvas in real-time." Nice look at the lost video game art of color cycling to show movement.
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Great list of design laws to keep in mind. Seems that users are waging a constant battle against Hick's Law. [via glass]
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"There is an error in most photography scaling algorithms." Wha? This is hard to believe.
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I think we're safely out of spoiler territory now so I can post this great analysis of Toy Story 3.
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Neven Mrgan has a great point: when a satire gets too close to the subject it's taking down is it still satire?
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Great 50's comic art.
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Frozen bananas in a food processor = ice cream? I need to try this!
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Great idea, I'd use them.
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Nice quick tutorial about CSS opacity in Safari/Firefox and workarounds for IE.
Reeder for iPad
A couple months ago I posted that I wanted an Image Reader for the iPad. I've found the next best thing that meets almost everything on my wish list: Reeder for iPad. It is the best $5 I've spent on the iPad so far. Here's a look:
As you can see: minimal interface with a few buttons along the side and top. You tap those arrows to go forward/back, and there's seamless integration with Google Reader for favoriting and sharing. I also use the iPhone version of Reeder and the iPad version is even better. There's less reporting on what Reeder is doing in the background, so I think more about what I'm reading and less about what I'm using to read.
I'd still like a way to strip away even text and interact with the images on their own at full screen, but this is so close to perfect that I won't complain.
As you can see: minimal interface with a few buttons along the side and top. You tap those arrows to go forward/back, and there's seamless integration with Google Reader for favoriting and sharing. I also use the iPhone version of Reeder and the iPad version is even better. There's less reporting on what Reeder is doing in the background, so I think more about what I'm reading and less about what I'm using to read.
I'd still like a way to strip away even text and interact with the images on their own at full screen, but this is so close to perfect that I won't complain.
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Images of the future I'm supposed to be living in! Manned space flight art by Chesley Bonestell in the 50's.
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Brazilian visual arts magazine. You can read them here in a Flash reader.
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Nice way of summarizing the stories of the World Cup teams by finding similar American sports stories/teams.