Burbank Leader

link: BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: Aesthetician has skin sense

Cybil's Solyn Skin Fitness Studio was highlighted in this week's Burbank Leader.

Bucking Fuggy

link: Bucking Fuggy

Warning: totally crashed my browser the first time I tried to load the game, but man, totally worth it.

I've never seen interactive 3D graphics like this on the web.

Iconfinder

link: Iconfinder - The best icon search engine

Always good to have a starting point for a new icon. I usually use google image search to get me going, but the above specialized search engine could be useful as well.

via: Smashing Magazine, via: Jon Plummer

National Popular Vote

link: National Popular Vote — Electoral college reform by direct election of the President

The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee a majority of the Electoral College to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The bill would reform the Electoral College so that the electoral vote in the Electoral College reflects the choice of the nation’s voters for President of the United States.

Wouldn’t it be nice to ditch this electoral system that makes a few (stupid) states decide who wins? And not by splitting the electoral votes of California, that works in Maine which just has 2, but doesn’t work elsewhere unless you get all the other big states to do it.

via Slate.com: Deformed Reform

Mark Steven Ritter

link: Mark Steven Ritter

Not generally a fan of modern art, abhor flash websites (I can’t link you to what I want to dammit), but this guy’s use of color and shape to create motion is worth braving both. When it finally loads click on Recent Works or Runaway SuperModules.

Palette Generator

Link: Palette Generator: Automagically create a harmonious color palette from a photograph

I haven’t actually used this successfully yet to generate a color scheme, but I have found myself searching Google for it several times to try it, figure it’s easier to search my own site next time.

Test Driving COLOURlovers Palettes

With three domains still to go on my website consolidation project, I’ve been spending some time over at COLOURlovers gathering ideas. But the problem with looking at the palettes there is that they give nearly equal emphasis to each color, whereas my design does not. So I came up with this little thumbnail version of the layout for test-driving new skins for this site, here are the first two:

Lexan Dinnerware

I love how Cybil embraces crazy schemes, like having a ping pong table in our one bedroom apartment, flying my brother cross-country so that he and I can drive back across, and now, replacing all of our plates and bowls with polycarbonate resin thermoplastic (Lexan).

JSON for the masses

link: JSON for the masses

Time to get my JavaScript shit together and start bundling everything in appropriate objects. Aside from the obvious benefit of namespace collision prevention, how sexy is this template?

var obj = {
    a : Object,
    b : Array,
    c : false,
    d : null,
    init : function() {
       // set local object vars here
       this.run();
    },
    run : function() {
       // run bulk of behavior here
    }
}
function initializer() {
    obj.init();
    // other init() methods go here
}
addEvent(window,'load',initalizer);

Benito Martinez (I)

Benito Martinez (I)

Just got to the first episode in The Shield guest staring Gina Torres. Poking around on IMDb found another overlapping actor, Benito Martinez, who is actually in a whole bunch of my favorite stuff like Firefly, X-Files, and Next Generation. Pulled out Firefly, he's in Our Mrs. Reynolds playing the boss of the hijackers who have set a net to catch the ship.

YouTube - Offensive Coca Cola Ad

YouTube - Offensive Coca Cola Ad

few things as funny as poking fun at the impaired (disabled?) (differently abled?).

Flickr: Photos from RedandJonny

Flickr: Photos from RedandJonny

Canadians.

The Rollercoaster Ride Of Pride, Shame, And Morality: The 10 Page Geek Squad Confession - "Stealing Customers' Nudie Pics Was An Easter Egg Hunt" - Co

The Rollercoaster Ride Of Pride, Shame, And Morality: The 10 Page Geek Squad Confession - "Stealing Customers' Nudie Pics Was An Easter Egg Hunt" - Consumerist to paraphrase blowfish, "They’re in ur computerz, stealin ur nekkid girlfriend."

YSlow for Firebug

YSlow for Firebug

Yahoo taunted us with this tool when they did that presentation on front-end performance, and now it's finally available to the public.

Dust-Me Selectors

Dust-Me Selectors

coulda used this one for the last release of Advoy, plenty o' dust in that musty old thing.

FoldSpy Blog » FoldSpy bookmarklet

FoldSpy Blog » FoldSpy bookmarklet

Great new tool for looking at real world browser sizes, now in bookmarklet form! I'll agree with the troll in their comments to a point, the traditional "fold", the point at which users must scroll, is far less interesting to me (because users are perfectly willing to scroll) than the available width issue. Not that I don't always build my sites to be flexible, but when you start in Photoshop you have to choose a pixel width. Picking between 740px (for 800x600) and 960px (1024x768) is easier with some data behind the decision.

YouTube - Flight of the Conchords - Business Time

YouTube - Flight of the Conchords - Business Time

oh yeah

SmugBlog: Don MacAskill » Blog Archive » This is your Mac on drugs

SmugBlog: Don MacAskill » Blog Archive » This is your Mac on drugs

should i ever leave the dark side i'll have to remember to adjust my gamma settings.