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“Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Afghanistan.” — A. Whitney Brown (via Gary)
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Chess Machine
This is pretty cool. Play chess against a computer and watch as the computer visually shows you its thinking process. Try it out at Thinking Machine 4.
Say happy birthday
Leave a birthday note for Andrew! Today’s his birthday…
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“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffett
Weekend links
ZFTPServer Suite looks like a great FTP server application for Windows. Here’s a link to a dozen others. Rareline is stealing content from us: http://rareline.com/index.php?s=brainfuel Wireless light bulb! List of places to get free stock photos for your projects. Will Pixar be gobbled up by Disney? Photos of bullets cutting through cards. Neat charts.
dnL vs 7up
Does anybody care to elaborate on this? Apparently it’s a new version of 7up spelled upside down (look at it) and it’s got a fruity punch to it. However, the site says it’s different entirely and to be release January 2003, and that’s like months ago!!! Has anyone tried it and is this some sort…
What is the liquid in LCD
Did you ever wonder what exactly the liquid was inside your screen? I did. Turns out it is a cholesterol-like substance (cholesteryl benzoate to be exact). Read more in this multiple page article.
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“Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I’m halfway through my fish burger, and I realize, I could be eating a slow learner.” — Lynda Montgomery (via Gary)
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BrainFuel Link Parade
Big list of apps that make charts and graphs. Mission Possible: Ex-TV star sells new vitamin line (also one of our clients). The DNS Stuff Forums are great for fielding difficult dns issues. Shorty. Ryan Heshka Illustration. A short list of things accomplished before energy drinks. Smooth Paginator. ideAjax.com is a group of Ajax guys…
We have an answer from NASA
Well folks, do you remember the whole discussion about whether an airplane sitting on a conveyer belt runway would take off? It just so happens that someone from NASA posted a comment today at BrainFuel. The comment from a NASA engineer reflects the viewpoint I had about this topic. Here is his answer: This problem…
Uninsured motorists
Three or four years ago my car was totaled by the wreckless driving of a person without insurance. While my car was destroyed, the other guys truck was still drivable and he provided fake insurance information. All he got was a ticket. Now, “Gov. Janet Napolitano has signed a bill cracking down on uninsured motorists.”…
Wednesday: Ski trip
My ski trip is in jeopardy as I now have nobody to go with. A certain person can’t go anymore. Vote if I should go by myself or if you want to come along… just email me. When: March 2nd!! Time: Leave in the morning around 6 or 7 am and drive back after skiing…
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“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffett
It’s FRIDAY! HOORAY
I’m posting some interesting links and tidbits that weren’t good enough to justify a single post. So here goes… Here’s some interesting trivia for you. You know Hoss on Bonanza? Well, Dan Blocker who played Hoss started and owned the Bonanza steak house restaurant chain. Also known as Ponderosa Steak House. Betcha you didn’t know…
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“Those who don’t do anything are always the ones who try to put you down.” – Henry Rollins
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Quiznos I like how
Quiznos I like how obvious the primary navigation elements are on this site. It really works.
GE Imagination at Work
GE Imagination at Work Our ghostly hands reach out to you with a special message. This is fun!!
Maelstrom – Flash Player 8.0
So apparently some really hot new features are in development at Macromedia for the new version of Flash. You’ll have to check out the video clip. Click on “Sneak Peeks Video” at this site. You can also go here (in case the first one doesn’t work).
Where’s my jetpack?
It’s 2005 already! Where’s my personal jetpack? Why can’t I just fly to work every morning? Wouldn’t it be awesome to fly over the red rocks of Sedona or jump around town? Do you think they’ll have personal jet packs in our lifetimes?
Pharmacia I love how
Pharmacia I love how focused this web site is. The intuitive navigation panes and typography are especially nice.
BrainFuel Relaunch Coming Soon!
I am excited to announce that BrainFuel is being relaunched! We have been working on a redesign. The redesign will be launching next week! In addition to the new design, we are also launching a monthly column where we interview designers. This will be a monthly column. We’ve hired a Phoenix wordsmith named Joey Robert…
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I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. – Bill Cosby
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BrainFuel Through the Years
BrainFuel originally launched on January 25, 2001. To celebrate our 8+ years of posting here on BrainFuel we’ve decided to re-launch with a new design and more focus. Now, we’re going to focus exclusively on design and start a new column interviewing designers we respect in the industry. BrainFuel from July 15, 2005 through October…
Tom’s Weekend Links – September 30th
Video of a guy doing amazing impersonations: http://youtube.com/watch?v=kAMIlPudalQ Best 5 Radio Controlled aircraft you can fly straight out of the box for under $100: http://www.quazen.com/Recreation/Models/Top-5-RC-planes-under-$100.1912#q The best line rider animation I’ve seen so far: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c2zIz7rV5I
The Standard Apartments Check
The Standard Apartments Check out the slidshow for seeing these original Rockefeller apartments. Note how the navigation typeface, and the style of the site tells you it is a modern yet classically styled building (e.g., it isn’t this warehouse type concrete floor modern building, you still get the pleasure of real wood and fine furniture).
Thomas Chapin on Wal-Mart
“The day there is a Wal-Mart in Iraq is the day we’ve won the war on terror.” — Thomas Chapin
Fry, Inc. Superbly innovative
Fry, Inc. Superbly innovative design with a solid color pallet. I like the strong photography and the Featured Clients lineup has a good layout. Cool logo, too.
Alexa
I know a lot of people don’t put much weight into Alexa but I found it exciting that the BrainFuel site has a traffic ranking of 72,077. Alexa only keeps statistics if your site is in the top 100,000 sites and so they keep stats on BrainFuel. Pretty cool.
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“Don’t tell me you want a bridge, show me the canyon!” – Guiseppe Delena, Ford Motor Co.
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Bring on the Tables
ByJeff… Something that often seems to confuse people that are new to CSS-based layouts is the use of tables. I’ve seen plenty of cases where people interpret “avoid using tables for layout” as “don’t use tables at all”. It’s important to remember that tables are still perfectly fine to use – if used correctly. …A…
Fantasy Interfaces
BybensterFantasy Interfaces is a company site in the same vein as the recently mentioned Frosch Studio. Only this one actually has some content, not just eye candy. Here’s another mini-site they did with some tasty bitmap animation.
FoxTrot on The Ultimate Web Page
Why is the term “Web Page” still used? I have hated that term ever since it was invented. Anyways, here’s a fun FoxTrot.
Impersonation Challenge
Over at Viddler you can win a little prize for impersonating your favorite actor. Up to the challenge?
Channel Advisor An auction
Channel Advisor An auction software firm that provides auction software for eBay, Amazon, Yahoo Auctions, Ubid, among others. Talk about a monopoly. They also have a service for consumers.
love hurts
Bybenster… and there’s no better way to say it than with a floral arrangement called “Burning Sensation“! Or maybe she’d prefer “Flamy Desire“. For when the passion has cooled, there’s “Chilly Manner“. File this under “Engrish”. For pure chuckly goodness.
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Polarizing filter?
What is this thing behind the tv anchor woman? Is it a polarizing filter or just a fancy way to dim down the bright outdoors?
Sunday wrapup (links from the last week)
Here’s an interesting CMS that will be released later this summer. Symphony looks neat, too. Browse the Library of Congress archives online. Uptime looks interesting. I’ve used software for this purpose but this is a hosted service. Steve Jobs told Stanford University graduates Sunday that dropping out of college was one of the best decisions…
Time never stops, except for you it does!
Let’s hypothetically say you were a superhero and you could pause time for everyone except yourself. Would you use this power to: Rob banks and helpless victims blind Catch up on your projects and work Tour interesting yet innaccessible landmarks (for example, the Oval office in the middle of the day) Or something else? Leave…
A couple of links
Each of the following somehow interested me in the past week: 9 Bars… espresso and coffee culture in Phoenix. Some free icons for blogs. Ajax Blog. Proofreaders marks. Easy Ajax with Prototype Ajax & PHP without using the XmlHttpRequest Object Magic paint brush – a brush that combines video and LEDs to make an interesting…
Running Long Jump
Have you ever done the running long jump? How far can you jump? I’m interested in trying this out. I was talking with a guy yesterday and somehow this topic came up. He said he’s jumped 24 feet and I was amazed. I suppose the idea of trying that out never occured to me and…
March-ing on
Here are some fun links I’ve found over the last few weeks… A very good summary of how MSN, Yahoo, and Google analyze the web. If more people understood this sort of thing they would know why it is so difficult to get good ranking. Neat magic trick video (no sound). Another video, this one…
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*Warms hands in front of a freshly built fire*
“ahh… all this just because someone planted that tree a long time ago”