Category: Random

What makes great web design?

Speaking of which – if you get bored of your current job – why don’t you apply to be an Astronaut?

Beta Challenge: Colour in this lizard… My entry:

This has got to be my fetish of the moment – ever more pseudo-Apple product designs – some weird, some awful, some truly beautiful. The mistake that is made a lot – particularly in the renditions of the potential new design possibilities of a flat-screen iMac – is that the iMac has to be a friendly looking computer – a computer that has removed all the ‘computery’ bits that worry people. Some of the projected designs look like flash-backs to 1990, or earlier. Or they look like sleek designer products for people with very urban, stark sensibilities. Where’s the ‘cute’ appeal that the iMac has?

Wired is reporting that the new device from Apple is a portable music device called the iPod. This doesn’t sound that impressive – but we shall have to wait and see.

Lots of weird pseudo-Apple product designs, entertaining to look at… here.

Five links illustrating that even in the midst of calamity, the net remains full of variety, news and weirdness – in almost equal measure: The Smoking Gun has images of the envelopes that contained anthrax. Apple is to announce a breakthrough digital device – no one knows what it is, but it’s not a Mac. Derek’s going to be battling Heather – boyfriend versus girlfriend in photoshop tennis tomorrow. A Russian newspaper claims that all the evidence for Taliban involvement in terrorist attacks on the US is a farce. And a student teacher has swallowed her own toothbrush. You couldn’t make this stuff up.

Despite my vast daily consumption of Coca-Cola, I have to say that I’m weirdly drawn to the Save Harry campaign to keep Mr Potter off cans of fizzy sugar water…

Damn you, Simon, I don’t have time to play worm games all day. You wait til I get my hands on you, young man…

I love Gina Snowdoll.