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A railroad in the palm of your hand

Monday, September 4th, 2006

While I was visiting with my dad yesterday, he showed me this web site detailing one of the most miniscule, working model railroad layouts ever made. The layout measures 4′ by 8′ in N scale. In real life scale, that means you can hold the whole thing between your fingers.

What effort and patience it must have taken to create this. I would probably have gone insane trying to work with things that small.

Tags: Eye candy
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Amazingly good CSS

Thursday, February 24th, 2005

A little Thursday afternoon fun for ya. Check out this great little maze built entirely from CSS — no Javascript, Flash or other whatnots to be found. Link courtesy of good friend Christian.

This is a great example of just how far CSS can be pushed to help make interactive sites. Now just imagine if all browsers supported more advanced CSS rendering. Hell, I’d be happy if the browsers would just agree in their rendering — sure would make my job easier.

Tags: Fun and Games
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Hot and cold running topics

Wednesday, December 15th, 2004

From the serious to the sublime….

Remember that grand missile defense shield that the Bush administration was so high on creating? Well, it still doesn’t work. It was supposed to be up and running by the end of this year. In my opinion, the money used to build this boondoggle would have been better spent on border protection, airport security and inspecting our ports — especially post 9/11.
Consolidation in the cell phone market continues. Yesterday Verizon made a secret bid for Sprint, which just anounced a merger with Nextel. At this rate we could be down to just 2 major cellphone companies by this time next year.
A great write up on five mistakes band and label web sites make. While a lot of this should be common sense, I’ve seen far too many sites that have all five of these issues. The net is primarily a tool to get or publish information, and that should be kept at the core of any design desicions. Eye candy comes later.
Mr. Barrett describes his run in with a subway Jesus freak. I’ve never had to deal with such an aggressive pontificator before, and sure hope I won’t have to in the future.
This editorial in USA Today asks if we should rethink our nation’s overreliance on standardized exams.
Did you ever wonder where those little orange XML icons came from? I’m sure some of you out there are wondering what they’re for in the first place. It’s all part of the joy that is web syndication — you should look into it.
Hollywood once again is going after the file sharers in the courts. This time it’s the MPAA going after BitTorrent. Good luck shutting down that one — BitTorrent right now accounts for around half of all internet traffic.

And finally…

With the owners and the players association further apart than ever, it looks as if this NHL season is lost. Sadly, I’m not even sure there will be a season next year at the rate negotiations are going.

Tags: Media and Entertainment, National, New York City, Sports
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Checklist for the creative process

Thursday, August 19th, 2004

19 steps on how to be creative.

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Fish viewing in a new form factor

Wednesday, July 14th, 2004

I have to admit, this is one sweet looking fish tank. I wonder if you can only put really small or really flat fish in there because of the form factor.

Bad joke I know, but I’m trying to knock off the writer’s rust. So sue me.