BrainFuel

Here’s a collection of interesting links, articles, and tidbits I’ve been collecting over the past few weeks:

AIGA Austin has a nice site design.

Internet Archives has tons of free movies you can download. I got some Three Stooges.

Macromedia has apparently moved their main SF office and it looks pretty neat. Check out the pictures.

There’s a company in MA that builds robots for both consumer and government uses. They’ve been on the news lately and I thought there web site was pretty cool. They showcase a bunch of the different robots they’ve built. Check out iRobot.

Hormel appears to be milking their SPAM product for all it’s worth. Who wants to go visiti the SPAM Museum! Oh how exciting that would be.

Tornado is currently on page #11 on Google search for Tornado. I want to be #1 for “Tornado” – maybe someday!

Ballofdirt.com looks interesting (although the site is very slow).

Enkode your email address with the Enkoder so you don’t get spam (hopefully).

I’m not sure why I never noticed bbPress before. It’s built by the same folks who bring us WordPress. Then there’s miniBB (which looks like a nice buletin board).

And can tin foil save the worlds glaciers? We’ll have that and more after the break.

Now you can customize the buttons on Yahoo. I like how the buttons default to the Yahoo services you use most (it shows them if you are logged in).

This John Deere ‘mechanism’ would sure be cool to take down the road. If only it moved faster.

I’ve worked with so many people that need to learn this lesson.

T-Rex found in Montana eating green plants and chasing people. Oh, wait, they only found some bones but the bones had soft tissue inside and that’s a very interesting thing. (Pictures here) Read this: Dr. Carl Wieland weighs in on the issue.

There’s a WordPress 1.5 theme design contest going on and the entries number over 100. Some are very good. Contest ends soon. Go here to view the themes.

I like the left hand navbar on the PSP site. It’s simple yet effective and the entire site has a nice clean feel to it.

Let’s have a photo contest. But this one will be different.

You have 1-week to get a photo of a pile of dirt. Whoever can find the biggest pile of dirt and takes a photo and shares it wins the contest. Entries must be in by Friday, April 1.

Mountains don’t count and neither do landfills. Must be a NEW photo. You cannot use your old photos. Submit your entrie(s) to cmt at tornadodesign dot com. Thanks folks!!

Airstream has a new motorhome with a roof that opens automatically into a huge patio for you and 15 others to enjoy a nice barbeque. I didn’t even know the company still existed, but they do! The site has a nice retro-duotone look.

Now if only that could be combined with the amphibious TerraWind RV – it would be the ultimate luxury yacht slash motorhome ever! Sometimes I wish I had just a million or so in disposable income

The header contest bombed horrendously, so we’re back to our normal caption contest!

Post a caption of the photo in the comments. Keep it clean, as usual.

Simpson Strong-Tie has an interesting site. It’s not great, but it has some nice qualities to it including a clean and simple navigation scheme with plenty of white space. I think the Strong-Tie logo is pretty cool.

This is an interesting web site. It asks you a bunch of questions and guesses the actor you have in mind. It’s surprisingly accurate. It also works for dictators. Why I have no idea. Incidentially, after trying it a few times I tried to answer the questions as if I were the person and it thought I was George Bush.

This might be a fun little trick to do with my flat screen at home… Take a picture of the wall behind my screen, and set it as my desktop wallpaper. Ah, the pointlessness of it all.

Maybe I’m just behind the times but since when did “Beam My Ad Into Outer Space” become a free upsell on classified listing web sites? I mean really, usually I hope somebody on earth will care about my junk just enough to buy it. Can you go wrong with the biggest market of humans on earth? Is 6 billion people not enough? Now we have to look to the sky?

Craigslist offered me this option. Silly if you ask me. Here’s the scoop.