Comrades, I present to you the unheralded but noble sport of "anvil launching" in which a brave athlete puts a crapload of black powder between two anvils, lights a fuse and runs like the devil, then watches as the topmost...
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You'll get crazy Americans that say their middle-endian date order makes more sense because, as they claim, "That's the way you say it - October 21st, 2009"... But is it? They have that most American of all American holidays, the...
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Apple have finally acknowledged that the Xserve is rather overkill for a lot of environments where Apple computers are used. It's hard to see a 5-person design studio dropping the coin on an Xserve plus all the other associated bits...
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Extreme sports photographer and Nikon Ambassador Mark Watson tells of the photographic adventure of a lifetime - capturing the spectacular Morning Glory cloud. Using a Nikon D300S + 10.5mm fisheye ... via YouTube - Mark Watson takes on the Red...
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And I, for one, welcome our new sub-millimetre precision robot overlords... Make: Online : Industrial robots showing off.
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Creative briefs from a client do not get any better than this... The Ad Contrarian: The Perfect Client Brief.
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Wow. A software developer with a strong preference for open-source tries and prefers commercial alternatives over open-source for page layout. There are some well reasoned choices made in the article justifying why a commercial font and commercial software was much...
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Check this out: 10/GUI. The video gives a great overview of the concepts of 10/GUI - a new mutitouch GUI idea from R. Clayton Miller. He argues that multitouch displays for desktop computers are definitely not the way forwards, and I...
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Helvetica really does look quite a bit better than Arial, it's a smoother and cleaner design that is more pleasing to the eye. I scored 19/20 - the Mattel logo had me, there's not a lot of difference there, just...
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CSIRO, having invented and patented some of the key technologies for high-speed wi-fi networking, has had their case held up in court and is on the receiving end of $200M worth of outstanding royalty payments. CSIRO earns $200m Wi-Fi windfall.
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