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Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label design. Show all posts

24 February 2007

perrine pods

I very much think the modular modern home is a great idea.

Enter perrine architecture with their perrine pod (available Mar 1) Not only is this cool on one story, but they are stackable to 30 stories and the expandable to your hearts content. Think life size lego home on steroids with a great look. Anyway if you spend some time and poke around their site, they have already thought of some cool ideas.

From the architect:

Picture a design so sophisticated and fabulous that it seems futuristic, yet so simple and uncomplicated that you wonder why no one has thought of it before.

"My design is about appreciating the beauty of simple, uncluttered space." The perrinepod is very functional, very sexy, very simple, with the form of the spaces inside following the function, there's no pretense, just simple, beautiful designs. It's a really cool thing to have no falseness - for example, the bathrooms are simply designed as a place to wash, backed up by quality materials.

Living spaces have become as transient and irrelevant as clothes. It's no longer a look for a generation, the look of 'now' only lasts for a three to four year period.

That approach is not sustainable and people are putting themselves under a lot of unnecessary pressure trying to keep up. The Perrine Pod is the antithesis of all of that - simple design, beautiful materials that will remain classic. It's not a 'look at me' statement, but a home that is comfortable, stylish and above all, functional."

- Jean-mic Perrine

Anyway, I'm a fan....I wish the price point wasn't outrageous, but hopefully this will come down over time, or someone will blatently rip-off the idea and provide it more affordably.

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07 February 2007

Reasons to remodel

This gigged out john by Roto-Rooter is perfect. Xbox, Laptop, Kegerator, printer, iPod

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27 January 2007

Top 10 truly useful Firefox Extensions and 5 more for Web Developers

Actually this took some time, there were some tough ties.
Here they are:


1. Platypus combined with Greasemonkey

I just love this, the platypus UI makes it easy to select your page eliminations, and then facilitates easy install of the script for use by Greasemonkey. For me nothing comes close to this combo.
2. Morning Coffee
If you are like me and fire open a couple of pages immediately upon opening your browser, or know that you have a few sites that you will use for guaranteed reference through out the day then this is a great extension.
3. NoScript
I hate anything executing without my permission, this extension solves that problem.
4. Paste and Go 2
Pretty self explanatory, but useful.
5. IEView
This is great, if you work for a company that drinks the Microsoft Kool-Aid then this script is for. Invariably there are a ton of web pages that only work on or are optimized for IE....this lets you click into them or have domains auto-open in IE. Great and useful extension.
6. DownThemAll
Excellent multi-threaded background download manager, allows for Reg-Ex filtering, etc.
7. Fasterfox
Definitely speeds up the experience, minimally lets you see page load.
8. ForecastFox
Every once in a while you need to leave the cool luminous glow of your PC and go outside...this extension helps.
9. MouseGestures
I thought I would totally get addicted to Gestures, that didn't happen, but I still have four or five that I use constantly! Great flexible extension.
10. Map+
Nothing revolutionary, but it lets you highlight an address and map to it from some pre configured starting points....useful.
and 5 for WebDevelopers
1. WebDeveloper
2. MeasureIt
3. Colorzilla
4. CSS Viewer
5. View Source Chart

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27 December 2006

Interesting Fork Art

Fork Art. This really is a must see. I genuinely like when people turn the ordinary into the extraordinary, just like Matthew Bartik does here.













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28 November 2006

Willard Wigan

I have talked about this guy ( Willard Wigan ) before. I love his stuff, a must see if you missed on my last round of posting. Some background:

Willard Wigan was born in Birmingham, England in 1957 and is the creator of the smallest works of art on earth. From being a traumatised and unrecognised dyslexic child, he is now emerging as the most globally celebrated micro-miniaturist of all time and is literally capable of turning a spec of dust into a vision of true beauty.

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protopage

I might be able to be won over. I have been exploring protopage a little bit more lately. As you all know I am a big fan of netvibes and have been using the tool since its inception. I am going to experiment with a protopage vs. netvibes comparison this month. I will replicate my netvibes pages in protopage and alternate days of usage for 30 days, I'll report back my findings. If you think there is another reasonable contender in this space let me know and I will add them to the test. speed, efficiency, functionality, bugginess are probably the key test areas I will explore.

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27 November 2006

Very cool taxonomy visualization

Interactive Tree Of Life is an online tool for the display and manipulation of phylogenetic trees.

There are several pre-computed trees available for display, including the main Tree Of Life, described in Ciccarelli, et al., 2006. In addition to the precomputed trees, you can upload and display your own trees and data, using the 'Data upload' page.

Use the tabs on the top of the page to navigate or click the trees below to proceed to the interactive pages. Extensive help pages, which provide detailed explanation of iTOL's interface and functions, are available. For further questions, comments or suggestions, please contact us.

If you find iTOL useful in your work, you can cite Letunic and Bork, 2006.

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18 November 2006

FlickrFont

This is pretty cool.
Static or Dynamic text using a FlickrPool and this wizard from Greg Hill.

WONDERFUNK

comes with it's own very truthful warning:

Warning: This is not recommended from a usability, design, engineering or aesthetic point of view. In fact, it is so gimmicky with such garish results that I refuse to use it myself. Please think hard before inflicting this on your readers.

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14 September 2006

Handy Cheat Sheets and Essentials for Web Development

The quintessential list and probably all you need is right here.

Others:


Comment away if you have more to share.

What I am listening to: nothing right now, installing iTunes 7

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12 September 2006

Completely Random List


Chronicling and online scrapbooking over at: Our Story


Make it happen weight loss and social networking motivation...nice tracker: Traineo



Random but useful: 50 Useful Web Design resources

One of my all time favorites, makes you understand the traineo link a bit better: Cooking for Engineers

Who could resist: Robert DeNiro and Elmo....can you tell my son loves sesame street?

Way cool color changing tile....remember those winter gloves and tee shirts when 20 years ago....well now for your bathroom

What I am listening to: Matisyahu - Live at Stubbs

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08 September 2006

Surlygreetings shout out

I can't believe I have been blogging this long without giving a shout over to my friends at surlygreetings.com honestly I think these guys have great tees. Not afraid to push the edge a little and always funny. Enjoy here are a couple of my favorites:


What I am listening to: ALO - Girl I Wanna Lay You Down - Fly Between Falls

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29 August 2006

Onkyo Guitar Speakers


Ok no doubt high end and more money than I would ever pay, but you have to admire the styling. If acoustic electrics are your thing, I have to imagine this "lights the lamp"

Onkyo D-TK10

What I am listening to: Jay-Z - Can't Knock The Hustle - Unplugged

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Villain Chair


Clearly the chair I have always wanted. I can't imagine a better piece of furniture, if you can then comment and let me know what it is.

What I am listening to: REM - King of Birds - Document

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27 August 2006

Whistle Stopwatch

This is a fantastic idea and design concept from the folks over at inventables. The stopwatch starts and stops by blowing into the whistle. excellent stuff.

What I am listening to: Led Zeppelin - Your Time Is Gonna Come - I

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25 August 2006

Knock Knock - excellent and cool pads, wheels, stickies, and stationary

This company is just too cool. I love the stuff there and it needs to be seen. I am most fond of the "Yes you are probably dying" wheel and the "Citizen Citation", "Don't Kill the Kids", and "Shitlist" pads, not too mention the "Dating Kit" is classic.

What I am listening to: Audiobook - Rich Dad, Poor Dad What the Rich Teach their kids about money



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23 August 2006

Starbucks and McDonalds world domination

Starbucks and McDonalds have already successfully taken over the world. Here is a map demonstrating their domination

Another infographic demonstrating Global Arms Trade

All of these cool infographics were created by the International Networks Archive.

What I am listening to: Jack Johnson - 3 R's - Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies

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06 August 2006

A bunch of stuff...weekend wrap






This is pretty cool. Softwall is a flexible room divider. Worth taking a look..


Williard Wigan man of tiny sculptures, say what you will but this is pretty wild. I would last about 10 secs at this hobby.



Great tutorial site. Helping others learn a great thing about the web.



Sidewalk chalk art....by Julian Beever....same category as the sculpture guy for me....this is great.


What I am listening to: Jerry Garcia - Shining Star - early 90's bootleg

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31 July 2006

A couple quick ones.....


WikiHow has a great how-to on throwing a playing card with your thumb.....anyone who knows me is aware of my affinity for leisure sports / parlor tricks, right up my alley.







Cool web 2.0 snack shack....Snacksby...this should get better with age, love the search mechanisms.



One of my favorite web based sketchbooks....primarily for the ui...Bearskinrug

What I am listening to: Bennie Maupin - The Jewel in the Lotus, also Penumbra

A little more on Bennie if you are interested: Bennie Maupin is best known for his atmospheric bass clarinet playing on Miles Davis classic "Bitches Brew" album, as well as other Miles Davis recordings such as, "Big Fun" "Jack Johnson," and "On the Corner." He was a founding member of Herbie Hancocks seminal band The Headhunters, as well as a performer and composer in Hancocks influential Mwandishi band.

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