There Is No Rex Davis, But He Does Want Your Money
We recently received an automated message in our voicemail from someone identifying themselves as Rex Davis. The voice said:This is Rex Davis this is not a sales call, have a "responsible"...
Email Spam Imitates Fake Life With ASCII Art
Straight off the heels of Pam's Dwight Shrute's ASCII portrait (from The Office in case you're too good to watch TV), comes ASCII spam. I'm not suggesting that email spam has never used ASCII, but...
How To Protect Your Lunch
This sandwich looks pretty disgusting doesn't it? Who in there right mind would eat a sandwich with blotches of green mold? Not me, for sure.But alas, this is just a visual trick. I'm not sure how...
Hooray! No Black Holes! Go Science!
CERN flipped on the Large Hadron Collider today and we're all still alive (yay!). Neatorama is helping everyone celebrate with their clever t-shirt idea. Their t-shirt says:Hooray! No Black Holes...
Google Street View Cars Forced to Paint Road Lines While Driving the Streets of Nashville
By now, most people are familiar with Google Maps Street View feature. Street View shows you a 360 degree view of any address you enter. Google accomplishes this amazing task by using an army of...
Free Beer at PubCon = Free Access to Raven SEO Tools
Scott and I soon will be on our way to PubCon Las Vegas 2007. We are simple men with a simple need — to obtain cold beer at little-to-no cost. In return for cold beer, we will give the beer provider...
Is This Apple's Internal Lorem Ipsum?
Apple announced the release date for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) this morning. I was browsing through the technology overview page and came across this strange description for Bonjour: "Holisticly...
Blog Like a Pirate Day
Thanks t' this handy Pirate Translator 'tis easier than ever t' celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day. In th' spirit o' th' day, we be sharin' some o' our fav'rit piratey diversions. Pirate.app fer th...
What Kind of Blogger Are You?
After years of extensive research and months of statistical analysis, I was able to develop the quintessential list of blogger archetypes. This list contains every conceivable type of blogger in...
Under Public Pressure, Sitening to Change Name to iTard
Ever since we tricked Fake Steve Jobs (FSJ) into revealing his obscure, but geographically revealing IP address, some high profile Apple enthusiast sites have taken the story to new heights and fluffy...
Live From the iPhone Launch in Nashville
I'm updating this post with photos and more below... Four hours to go and I'm here at Green Hills Mall waiting patiently in line for an iPhone. I'm camped out on the floor next to Sharper Image...
Perpetual Beta
Here's a quick code snippet that I thought some of the Web 2.0 startups out there might find useful. For maximum effect, place it prominently on your home page. function perpetual_beta...
Table-Based Layouts = Pure Evil
My friend Dmitry from Sydney posted a shot of me during my WebDU presentation. He took the picture during one of my favorite slides.
Husband and Wife Traffic Building Smackdown
A fellow web designer has recently started a public battle with his wife on the Internet. It's not what you think though — they're battling to see who can have the most popular blog within the...
New Ruby Gem Paves Way For Future of Web Development
Today I was scanning my del.icio.us links and came across an amazing new gem for Ruby on Rails called Hobo. It promises to be an "open-source extension to Ruby on Rails which helps you build full...
