Simian Design, by Tony Stephens

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    • Label Placement on Forms

      When creating a web form, one of the many choices you must make is how you are going to align your labels with your inputs. This is not a trivial decision, as this placement affects the readability/usability of your form, completion rates, speed of completion, and ultimately the satisfaction level of the users trying to get through your form.

      August 5 at 12:44 pm
    • A Scenic Night in Binbrook

      July 5, 2008 I had the pleasure of observing and photographing the stars at a local conservation area and dark sky site in Binbrook, Ontario, Canada. I imaged this scene with an unmodified Canon 40D, Sigma 17-70mm lens (17mm @f2.8) and standard camera tripod with no tracking. This is a stack of 15x20sec exposures @ ISO 800 on the Milkyway down to the tree line, and another single 20sec exposure on the rest of the landscape below to create a two frame composite. Stacking was done in Deep Sky Stacker and processing was done in PS with layers. I was really lucky that the the water was beautiful and still enough so that the stars casted a nice reflection in the water. In this shot you can also see Jupiter, various nebulas in the MilkyWay, Rho Ophiuchus and the light dome from a distant town. Published: NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day SkyNews Photo of the week #349

      August 5 at 12:35 pm
    • Concept Ships

      A great site with a collection of space ship designs, art and concepts. Great for the inner geek in you.

      August 5 at 12:26 pm

Pun Stores

The 50 Best Pun Stores is a great collection of seriously brilliantly named stores.  If I saw a store named “The Merchant of Tennis” I’d pretty much go in.  Even though I don’t really play tennis.

The Merchant of Tennis

Sunset on Mars

Thank you NASA, for making this possible.

Sunset on Mars

All 120 Crayon Names, Color Codes and Fun Facts

Crayola crayons currently come in 120 colors including 23 reds, 20 greens, 19 blues, 16 purples, 14 oranges, 11 browns, 8 yellows, 2 grays, 2 coppers, 2 blacks, 1 white, 1 gold and 1 silver.

Aaron at ColorSchemer.com created a fun list of all 120 Crayon Colors with their hex codes and RGB values.  COLOURlovers reproduced this list along with several fun facts.

“the scent of Crayola crayons is among the 20 most recognizable to American adults. Coffee and peanut butter are 1 and 2.”

“Crayola crayon colour names rarely change. However, there are exceptions. In 1958, Prussian blue was changed to midnight blue in response to teacher recommendations that children could no longer relate to Prussian history. In 1962, the colour flesh was changed to peach recognizing that not everyone’s flesh is the same shade.”

But the real gem of this article is the color and hex listing.  Midnight blue (formerly Prussian blue) is the hex code of: #1A4876.   Peach (formerly flesh) is #FFCFAB.

What a great list.

Monowheel, or something somebody can make me and give to me immediately.

Monowheel by Ben Wilson.  This is a totally dead-sexy piece of construction and a tribute to the do-it-yourselfer.

I’m pretty serious about somebody making me one and getting it out to me pronto.

Monowheel

Enjoy the Everyday

Volkswagen: Enjoy the Everyday.  This is another commercial (can’t embed directly) that is totally worth watching.

I Love the World

Brilliant commercial. Just brilliant.

Discovery Channel: I Love the World

Incredible on Vimeo

Incredible. Thank you Kanye West. Yes, from Kanye Wests Vivemo account. It’s a very fun video.


Incredible! from kwest on Vimeo.

Futurama in Lego.

Futurama in Lego

All about the comic books.

John Seavey is undertaking a pretty massive project.  He’s been reading through Marvel’s Essentials and DC’s Showcase Presents reprints, and find the underlying story and themes in each title, what he’s calling the storytelling engine.

Each series has these elements, and each series evolves over time as different writers take a hand at the character.  What type of elements?  Starring character, recurring cast, supporting cast, locations, settings, antagonists, tone and others.

Really, it’s a fun read through some of your favorite comic books.  The idea of tracking the meta-elements of what basically started as cheap pulp fiction is a pretty neat idea.  Very meta. Below is a list of links I just shamelessly ripped off of this mefi post.

Adam Strange
Ant-Man
Aquaman
Batman
Brave and the Bold
Captain America
Challengers of the Unknown
Classic X-Men
Conan
Daredevil
Dazzler
Doctor Strange
Flash
Ghost Rider
Godzilla
Green Arrow
Green Lantern
Hawkman
House of Mystery
Howard the Duck
Hulk
Iron Man
Jonah Hex
Killraven
Man-Thing
Martian Manhunter
Marvel Horror
Marvel Saga
Marvel Super Villain Team-Up
Marvel Team-Up
Marvel Two In One
Ms. Marvel
Nova
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe
Phantom Stranger
Power Man and Iron Fist
Punisher
Savage Dragon
She-Hulk
Silver Surfer
Spider-Man (Part One) (Part Two) (Part Three)
Spider-Woman
Supergirl
Superman Family
Superman
Teen Titans
The Atom
The Avengers
The Defenders
The Elongated Man
The Fantastic Four
The Haunted Tank
Thor
Tomb of Dracula
Uncanny X-Men (Part One) (Part Two)
Werewolf By Night
Wolverine
Wonder Woman
World’s Finest
X-Factor