Category: Random

Working with Cal is a strange and occasionally unsettling experience. But it has its rewards. Like watching him suddenly get obsessed with pixel fonts on a Tuesday morning, and produce four or five of them by the end of work [Pixel Six, Cubic Five and Square Dance]. And knowing that he’s got so excited about it that he has done at least two or three others – including italics. And knowing that he’ll probably not use them for anything. At all. I miss that kind of random passion. The ‘I must do this now‘ feeling. It’s been a while since any project was anything other than a mental battle against the urge to stuff chocolate into my face and watch bad TV.

Feeling horny? This will get you off. Mmmm. iBook.

A useful tool for designers looking for colour harmonies and contrasts: EasyRGB.

Now of course all the Americans with any sense whatsoever will have watched the Buffy musical episode. And no doubt they adored it. And no doubt they’ll continue to be smug about it for the many months it may be before those of us abroad who exist without satellite or cable television get to see it. Bastards. But in the meantime, the rest of us can experience the glorious thrill and be tantalised by the trailer.

Today’s submitted logos come from Grant Cook.

You know what I need? I need a logo. More to the point, I need two – two iconic logos – MTV adaptability and BBC2 style simplicity for both plasticbag.org and Barbelith. Send me some logos that you’ve made and I’ll stick em on the site for all of our drunken pleasures…

You’ve no doubt seen the bloody irritating ‘pop-under’ ads for this webcam. According to an article at the BBC the adverts were so intrusive and annoying that they had to set up a page to deal with queries about them. The most interesting part of the page? If you click here you won’t see those bloody adverts for another thirty days.

Saturday night in a nutshell: Funny days Saturdays. The last year’s been kind of difficult, so it was a delight to rediscover that I’m able to go outside and have an angst-free evening with people I really like. I went into town to buy a birthday present for a friend – wandered around the shops and met up with Davo before wandering down to meet Dan at the Retro Bar for the Big Gay Blogmeet (2). Many poofs were in attendence – I won’t go into too much detail about who could and couldn’t come. Everyone seemed nice and fun and up for a good time. Dan was a particular delight – a lovely, charming gentleman full of interesting conversation. If you can only choose one gay weblogger for your Christmas hamper, I would thoroughly recommend him.

Since I left that meet at around nine, I found myself very late for my cross-town birthday party. And I have to be honest – I was kind of dreading it. I’m not always the most sociable of people, and over the last few months I’ve got very used to, and comfortable with, my own company. But the whole party was a delight. Two of my old flatmates were there – neither of whom I was expecting to see. Plus Kate from my current flat. The Kitsch Bitch herself made an appearance. And Josh and Leon – two old school-friends of my host – were also present.

At this point I should probably mention that I’m extraordinarily washed out and am writing badly. If you want glamour and sex, you should probably go read NotSoSoft.

Anyway – as evenings go this one would be hard to top – there were balloons to blow up and assemble, large amounts of wine and vodka, occasionally more potent substances, really nice company and a lot of opportunities to catch up with some of my nearest and dearest. Thank god for friends. Here’s to you, Nick!

An interesting article that told me things I already knew only in a sexier way.

Omigod. I’m Britney.