Archive for the 'Sites of interest' Category

Posted in Sites of interest, Design Talk

I believe in Harvey Dent too

Date May 20th, 2007 Comment 9 Comments

This is the cleverest piece of viral marketing I’ve seen in a while. A few weeks back, Warner Brothers released a one-page teaser website for upcoming Batman film The Dark Knight, titled “I Believe in Harvey Dent”, and featuring a fake election poster for new character Harvey Dent, a district attorney who fellow nerds know […]

Posted in General Banter, Sites of interest, Snurzlisation

Nevermind North Korea, Smiker’s got the A-bomb

Date January 15th, 2007 Comment 9 Comments

So it turns out that the a-bomb has arrived in Belfast, but fear not Captain Planet and the Planeteers are hear to save us from the terror and hopefully those dodgy accents as well.

Check it out
By the way sorry I have to take you to the awful Bebo for this link - if anyone knows […]

Posted in Sites of interest, Tech Talk

Apple iPhone Touchscreen

Date January 9th, 2007 Comment 5 Comments

So now we’ve seen how Apple intend to throw mobile phones on their head with the spectacular iPhone maybe we should pay a little visit back to Dave’s post last August when he highlighted some of the really cool multi-touch screen technology which apple have put into the iPhone.
Multi-touch screen technology
Technorati Tags: iPhone, […]

Posted in Sites of interest, Design Talk

Font Junky

Date January 6th, 2007 Comment No Comments

I’ve just discovered an excellent site for fonts, available to download free of charge for non-commercial use (we wouldnt have it any other way here at the ‘hog). Maybe I’m behind the times and you know about it already but just in case check it - dafont.com. I was looking for one font in particular […]

Posted in Sites of interest, Design Talk, belfast webdesign

Should had a cup of tea before you started.

Date January 1st, 2007 Comment No Comments

I love tea and must confess to being a Nambarrie man through and through. Earlier though I read at BusinessEye that Nambarrie’s great tea rival Punjana had launched a new site with Belfast company StreamOn. I went along to check it out after reading that the site had won the recent Belfast Business Awards, Best […]

Posted in Sites of interest, Tech Talk

Page Views are Dead

Date September 3rd, 2006 Comment No Comments

I remember reading a while back about the Lisa Dorrian website and the attention it had attracted. I first read about it on Slugger O’Toole and everyone seemed very impressed by their headline grabbing “5 million hits in a month”. The news was everywhere but as I pointed out on Slugger at the time, the […]

Posted in Sites of interest

Return of the Wedgie

Date August 24th, 2006 Comment 1 Comment

Think Grand Theft Auto was controversial? Wait ’til the Daily Mail hear about this.

Posted in Sites of interest

Everybody needs good neighbours

Date August 14th, 2006 Comment 2 Comments

Holly Valances move to the big screen.
Boys, its worth a look. Stellar acting Holly, quite fantastic.
View clip

Posted in Sites of interest

Captain Copyright©

Date June 2nd, 2006 Comment 1 Comment

Those readers who have kids and are waiting with tredipation for the day when their offspring ask the question every parent dreads will be relieved to know they can now direct inquisitive minds to a Canadian website guaranteed to take the embarrassment out of that most sensitive of subjects.
So, when little Jonny finally […]

Posted in Sites of interest, Tech Talk, Design Talk

Smack-a-Mac

Date May 30th, 2006 Comment 1 Comment

Myself and Mr. Jordan were talking about this the other day, and I thought I’d share it with the rest of you.
Recent versions (2005-onwards I think) of Apple’s PowerBooks and iBooks come with with “Sudden Motion Sensor” technology, which helps to prevent disk failures if the computer is dropped. When dropped, the computor will instantly […]

Posted in Sites of interest

The Wizard

Date May 24th, 2006 Comment 4 Comments

I cant believe this is returning. The powerglove and the first glimpse of Mario 3.
August 29th of this year it will be available on digital versitile disc format.
This is what childhood dreams are made of….

Videos of the powerglove and more!

Posted in Sites of interest

Light on Dark

Date May 8th, 2006 Comment 1 Comment

I’m not a fan of light on dark, but here’s a showcase of some well designed & coded web sites that don’t fry your retinas too much.

Posted in Sites of interest

Who Was the Mysterious Picasso Bidder?

Date May 5th, 2006 Comment No Comments

There is an interesting story on ABC news today about a bidder at auction who bid over $95 Million for the 1941 portrait of Dora Marr by Picasso which depicts the artist’s lover, who influenced much of his work throughout the 1930s and ’40s. The bidder then refused to give his details.
What’s also interesting is […]

Posted in Sites of interest, Design Talk

Aisle of Averages

Date May 5th, 2006 Comment No Comments

“Perspective shots of grocery store aisles are distorted back out of perspective so that the shelf forms a rectangle in the picture plane instead of trapezoid. Then four passes of motion blur at 999 to arrive at a kind of loose average or wash of the shelf’s chromatic contents.”
Beautiful

Posted in Sites of interest

Get Mac

Date May 4th, 2006 Comment 1 Comment

New Apple advertising campaign started today, quite funny and worth a look.
But isnt it a little strange that they are slapping MSoft after embracing them on the hardware front….
Visit Site

Posted in Sites of interest

Karat-ta-ta-ta-tae

Date April 26th, 2006 Comment No Comments

Moustache Lip…Tender Kiss

Posted in Sites of interest

The Design Encyclopedia

Date April 26th, 2006 Comment No Comments

“A growing, collaborative resource that describes, tracks and explains culture, commerce, politics, media, sports, brands – everything possible, really – through design.”
right here

Posted in Sites of interest, Snurzlisation

Famous Rapper or Dead Author?

Date April 24th, 2006 Comment 1 Comment

Surprisingly hard. I managed 17/20 fo’shizzle.
Click Here