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A chilly place to live

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Frozen Truck

According to the post on Digg, this is a Swiss town after an ice storm. Although living there day to day would probably be a huge hassle, I do think it would be awesome to be there and experience something like this.

I’d probably do all kinds of experiments on the frozen cars with hot water and a chisel. I bet some cool artwork can come from this. Beside the cool artwork nature already created.

Check it out. Globalne ocieplenie zaatakowało

Update: The linked page here was apparently on a site with limited bandwidth that has now gone down. Luckily Digg mirrors popular sites. So you can see the images after all.

In Love with Thickbox

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We come across many cool tricks as we search for solutions in web design. At my work, we are constantly trying out new things and seeing how we can enhance the user experience on the web. In the last year or so, Javascript has emerged from the dust of 1999 to make a graceful comeback into web design. This isn’t the Javascript of old. No rollover images, flying icons and fullscreen popups. This is slick, accessible code written for nice effects and a more user-friendly experience.

One such example is ThickBox. Thickbox is a Javascript tool that allows images and HTML content to be displayed in a virtual “lightbox” right in the current browser window without refreshing the page, sending the user to a different page, or popping up a new page. The effect is so sweet, it’ll rock your boots.

We’ve been itching to use this on several of our clients’ sites. But, as with all tools, it is best to use things for the right purpose and not simply because they are cool. This being my personal site, I’m free to use gratuitous displays of Javascript coolness with reckless abandon.

Try it out.

Bridge School on iTunes

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Many, hell, most of my finest, most poignant memories of live music come from performances I witnessed at one of the 20 (I’ve been to 7) Bridge School Benefit Concerts put on every October in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Bridge School helps kids with disabilities excel in life and academia, and the concerts benefit the school. Although, anyone who has ever been to one of these shows will tell you the glow of life, love and creativity that surrounds this event benefits everyone.

Thankfully, a sizable chunk of those great moments have made their way to the iTunes Music Store. The Bridge School Concerts (iTunes link) is an 80-song collection of tunes from the 20 years of “Bridge”. It has many of my personal favorites (Pearl Jam’s reworked Corduroy from 1996, Thom Yorke doing Street Spirit sans accompaniment, and Rebel Yell from the year when Bridge was “knocked the fuck out” by Billy Idol). I can think of several more tunes I’d like to see added down the line. Pete Townshend showed up in 1996 and was amazing. Sheryl Crow needs to be in there as well. But that’s a small knock on what is otherwise an iTunes addition that makes my day.

The beauty of the deal is that, like all things Bridge, proceeds from the sale of the tracks go to The Bridge School.

Buy up and enjoy.

Olbermann swings a truth mace.

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Over the past few weeks Keith Olbermann has made it a point to question the ethics of the Bush administration. In several eloquent commentaries featured at the end of his Countdown news program on MSNBC, Olbermann has made minced meat of the policies of fear the administration has implemented since 9/11 and called many administration officials out on their ergregious lies.

These are excellent commentaries coming at a time when America needs to hear them. This president � in his primetime speeches � preaches tolerance of political foes and differing opinions. Then he goes to rooms full of party donors and savagely attacks democrats as unpatriotic terrorist sympathizers. Statements such as that need to be answered with nothing short of Olbermann’s primetime indictments.

Take a look at Olbermann’s commentary from Friday on YouTube (part 1, part 2)