Monday, November 27, 2006
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
40ish Mutant Retired Ninjas...
Just in case you were wondering what Rainn Wilson is doing RIGHT THIS SECOND.
By the way, I had no idea until today that his dad is Robert Anton Wilson.
The World According To...
This is pretty cool. It's different maps of the world with various countries and/or continents sized according to statistics instead of landmass. Think of it as a global homunculus.
(author's note: the preceding link is rated PG)
(author's note: the preceding link is rated PG)
Just In Time For The Holidays...Web 3.0
Just what I wanted, another reason to make me feel out-of-touch. Stay tuned, because I will bet you a Wii station that the same people blogging right now about how over-hyped Web 3.0 is, will be the same ones running around in 3 months ranting about how cool it is and don't you have it yet? Loser has to watch "It's A Wonderful Life" 5 times in a row.
Girls Vs. Girls
Gene swap makes boy flies fight like girl flies. Makes girl flies fight with lots of crotch grabbing and screaming things like “C'mon! You want some of this!!?”
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Renovation Time
Now that I've downloaded my umpteenth Web 2.0/blog/cms/wordpress created site, I'm finally ready to drink the Kool Aid and try making a go at using Wordpress to give my sites a thorough re-design. N. Design's beautiful home page was the final feather, nail, pick your analogy.
So far, I've gotten as far as some pen sketches on a few post-it notes, a ton of downloaded instructions from Word Press's link-happy site and a "standby page" with a little orange-jellybellied spider icon that I created in about 20 minutes last night (see above). Unfortunately, it will cost slightly more to host a php-enabled version of a couple of sites on Doteasy, but hopefully I'll make it up in increased income.
I've decided that until jennmearswebdesign.com has its own blog activated, I'll try to give updates here. For today, my mission is to determine if it's possible to use an animated GIF as my template's background. I have a series of design steps on the site, in the PROCESS link, that I would like to animate together in one illustration and place in the header of the new design.
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Happy Election Day!
It's November 7th and finally time to hand in those ballots. Unfortunately, I have to sit this round of democracy in action out due to childcare/transportation/space time continuum logistics. It's funny how we all live in a society where you can go online to pay bills, order groceries, post photos, take surveys and a host of other things that would be nice to do privately and securely, but we can't seem to get out the vote online. Hmm. I guess all those nice old ladies who always seems to be the ones in charge at the polling stations need to feel needed. At any rate, I'm glad to live in a place where it's little old ladies with cookies when you go to vote instead of big guys in body armor with machine guns (see: Iraq).
If I could get a chance to vote today, I would vote Democrat down the line. Empirically, most of the people in my immediate vicinity seem to be slightly worse off now than they were under the Clinton Administration so I think it's time to try the other way for a change.
Link of the Day award goes to the Southern Poverty Law Center for their interactive map of hate groups currently operating in the US. Most embarrassing is the fact that South Carolina, my home state, reportedly has 46 hate groups, third behind Florida (50) and California (52). Vermont, Maine, Rhode Island, North Dakota and New Mexico all have 0 reported hate groups. This is starting to put Vermont in the running for state I would most likely emigrate to. I use the term emigrate, because with all of Vermont's dissatisfaction with Washington, I wouldn't be surprised if it cut its ties with the union altogether.
Click on this to view the MILOTD (Most Ironic Link Of The Day)
Monday, November 06, 2006
Swirling Plastic Vortex Menaces Marine Life
One of the few works of art that I can clearly recall from art school is an installation done by (rickrolled link! Damn you Weekly Dig!) Jef Taylor. He was living near Revere Beach then and at the time (late 80's) it was notorious for being so dirty that people were forbidden to swim in the ocean. Jef had spent months beachcombing the medical waste and other assorted junk that washed up on the beach every day and he had separated everything according to color and then arranged it in a long graceful spiral jetty along one alcove of the gallery. From a distance it was a beautiful vibrant spectrum stretched along the floor. Up close, however, one recognized the bright red of hazardous medical waste warnings, the yellow hues of condom wrappers and the subtle blues and purples of hypodermic needles. It was my favorite kind of art; playfully calling upon your senses only to turn the tables and shock you with its message.
And now in a horrible irony, it seems like life is imitating art. On a scale even Christo couldn't conceive of. And it probably is not as pretty as Jef's trash rainbow.
And now in a horrible irony, it seems like life is imitating art. On a scale even Christo couldn't conceive of. And it probably is not as pretty as Jef's trash rainbow.
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