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- Cooler Business Cards
  Been thinking about my own cards, and Inspiredology has the best collection of original, well-designed cards I've seen anywhere. And their name's pretty cool, too.
- Tiled Backgrounds Designer
  As you can see from my site, I love wallpapery tiled backgrounds. Here's a tool to help design them.
- Type is Art
  Build something beautiful out of pieces of typography. I could play for hours with this thing. Also a nice type education.
- Dr. Horrible
  Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy, is sick of the writer's strike and has taken matters into his own hands. Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is a musical super-villain mini-series epic, released free on the interwebz and for $1.99 an episode on iTunes.
- "Gorilla" Usability Testing
  Silverback, Clearleft's user testing app, has entered beta and Garrett Dimon gives us a comprehensive review of it.

Posts about ‘net life’

Buy My Friends Dot Com

Apr. 14, 2008 in net life, web too oh!

Now I know for certain that I’m just too old (or old-fashioned) for this social-networky friendy microbloggy stuff. Andrew Baron, Rocketboom founder, is selling his Twitter account, and his more than 1,600 followers on ebay (where else?). If we take this seriously,…

They Love it Live

Apr. 10, 2008 in ideas, music, net life

Early last year I lost a few extremely creative and intelligent colleagues, which was sad. What wasn’t sad at all was why they left—to work on a project which inspired and excited them all to the point that they’ve rarely…

Shameless

Mar. 6, 2008 in business, design, net life

While having a smoke this morning, colleague Gregory Jacob reminded me of the subject of design “theft”, which I wrote about back in 2006. Back then, the discussion showed that there are many varying opinions of where inspiration stops and theft starts.…

Linkbag of Constant Noise

Nov. 29, 2007 in linkage, net life, tools

Although Noam Cohen doesn’t seem to understand how Tumblr and Twitter differ, he’s written an interesting article for the New York Times about the social effects of being constantly, but lightly, in touch with hundreds. And he quotes all—round smart Aussie…

Bye Newshutch!

Nov. 2, 2007 in net life, tools

I started using Newshutch as my feed reader when it launched back at the start of 2006 because I was sick of how ugly and clumsy Bloglines was (and still is). Other than a few early days problems with slowness,…

Link Bag of Suck

Oct. 5, 2007 in linkage, music, net life

Brad Sucks — a somewhat Beck-like musician we used to play on our now defunct podcast and who does in fact not suck at all — is going full Web 2.0 with his new album. You (yes you!) can send…

The Web’s Soul?

Sep. 29, 2007 in net life

Yeah sure, it’s been around for quite a while, it’s not news (keeping up with new web stuff is a full-time job, and I’ve already got one). So when my boss raved at me today about how cool Google Trends is,…

Understand Your Own Tools

Jun. 5, 2007 in identity, net life

We’re visible everywhere all the time, unless we turn our tools off. This isn’t rocket science, it’s a fact that most of us take for granted these days.

So how dumb do you have to be to lie to someone who…