Archive for the 'Design' Category

Not Just Any Yogurt…

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Joe never met an adjective he didn’t like.

Not Christ?

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Because there definitely wasn’t room to spell my whole name.

TODO: The Doorknob Door

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

I’ve decided to start cataloguing some things I want to do.

First installment: the Doorknob Door.

Step 1) Buy a house.

Step 2) Choose an appropriate door. The work room/study is the clear choice, but if you’re feeling eccentric you could go as bold as the front door.

Step 3) Install many doorknobs into the door. One [...]

The Best Video Game I’ve Seen This Year

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

Hint: it’s not on the Wii.
I played this as a kid, except all the motion was in my head:

Utterly cool.
(Really, I used to fill up sheets of paper with frozen-in-time contraptions that funneled a ball around the paper into a goal. But turning that into a video game? Stroke of genius.)

Lazy Programmers

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

From Microsoft Excel for Mac:

I sure love being told that the programmers knew exactly what I was trying to do, but decided they weren’t going to bother doing it for me.

Render Judgement

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

Apple released their Safari internet browser for Windows this week. It caused quite a kurfuffle. Because of the browsers speed? No. (Well, actually, a bit.) Because of the feature set? No. Because of, it turns out, the font rendering. A bunch of big gun blogs [...]

By Programmers, For Programmers

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

Another cross-platform development solution hit the geek news sites recently: Lina. According to their website,
With LINA, a single executable written and compiled for Linux can be run with native look and feel on Windows, Mac OS X, and UNIX operating systems.
Native look and feel, eh? Not likely. There’s a clue right [...]