Apr
01
You have to see this fantastic ad campaign. “It’s easy to miss something you’re not looking for”, excellent message applicable to life, design, and the web. via: badassideas
Mar
31
A letter addressed to the Editor of The Engineer magazine, published on March 22, 1968. If anyone has the April issue, puh-leeze let us know how did the Editor resolved Mr. Buck’s life-long mystery. Thank you.
Found over at Mearso’s Flickr Page
Mar
30
Well, I bet you’ve all heard about Google going black yesterday. The reason? The Earth Hour. Apparently, there’s enough evidence supporting the fact that White on Black websites consume less power on displays.
As noted, an all white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts, the shift to a black background will save a total of 15 (74-59) watts. That turns into a global savings of 8.3 Megawatt-hours per day, or about 3000 Megawatt-hours a year.
Then again, on the same Google’s Earth Hour Page they explain that the real reason behind the decision on going black is actually more of a publicity stunt than an actual conservation measure.
As to why we don’t do this permanently - it saves no energy; modern displays use the same amount of power.
Wheew, Thank God somebody came in and made everything crystal clear. No, wait, now I’m even more confused :/
Mar
27
Now this is a Birthday Party I’m glad I wasn’t invited to… Yet? That’s right! On a day like this, 10 Years Ago, the US Food and Drug Administration approved Viagra, which in case you didn’t know, was a drug originally conceived as a Cardiovascular aid for its ability to lower blood pressure. Instead, the scientists at Pfizer Laboratories accidentally developed… well you know the rest history. Yeah tiger, you keep looking away like you don’t know what’s going on.
Mar
26
You might think I’m a horrible human being after this, but I just couldn’t help myself and I had to share with y’all this pic I found over at Luke’s flickr page. Check out The Reverse double-flip!.
I know, I’m going straight to hell now, but It’s not that bad though, I might even get to shake Jacob Nielsen’s hand.
Mar
22
Three Car ads that caught my eyes the last few days. I always find interesting to see what will Agencies come up with next.
Mar
17
Persistence isn’t using the same tactics over and over.
That’s just annoying.
Persistence is having the same goal over and over.
- Seth Godin
Mar
14
Jajajajajaja… Randall’s so funny.
Mar
04
This new Ford Ad by Young & Rubicam. Don’t say I didn’t warned you.
Mar
03
Microsoft just announced that contrary to everything they’ve done so far, they are now working on making IE8 as web standard as they can. Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager of Internet Explorer (and secret user of Firefox when Bill isn’t watching) just said:
We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we’ve posted previously.
Wait. “IE8” and “standards” on the same sentence? Exaaactly.
In other news, Cheshire the Cat just announced that as of today he will no longer use the famous magenta stripes as his default color scheme. He now plans on switching to a blue color scheme to reflect his endorsement to the Obama campaign.
