Tony Stephens / Simian Design

These are my delicious links for November 18th:

• prettyGallery - by Stephane Caron - A nice image gallery script written in jQuery.

These are my delicious links for November 12th:

• 18 Rules the Best Web Developers Follow - A nice collection of base rules Web Developers follow, or at least should follow. The only one I might disagree with is the one about IE 6. Determine your own baseline from your logs, you can see what the overwhelming browser is. Sometimes it might be IE6, other times not.
• neuron-galaxy.jpg (image) - AMAZING photo comparing a mouses brain cell to the universe. Freakily similar.
• Are You Making These 10 CSS Mistakes? - NETTUTS - A nice listing of Ten Common CSS Mistakes.

These are my delicious links for October 14th:

• Galleriffic - A jQuery plugin for rendering fast-performing photo galleries - Nice image gallery script, fast.
• CSS simple fluid drop shadows - Stu Nichols provides an easy CSS example of creating fluid solid drop-shadows.
• jQuery & CSS Example - An extremely basic, yet extremely powerful, technique for adding dropdown menus using jQuery and CSS.

These are my delicious links for October 4th:

• How To Write An Effective Design Brief and Get The Design You Want! -

These are my delicious links for October 3rd:

• How To Whistle Loudly -

These are my delicious links for October 1st:

• How to bypass Windows Security -
• Microfly Tiny R/C Hovering UFO - This is by far the smallest flying R/C device we've ever seen and it's damn impressive in the air.

These are my links for September 18th from 18:02 to 18:23:

• 50 Greatest Charles Barkley Quotes - ROBERT LITTAL PRESENTS THE … - "Hey Stanley, you could be a great player if you learned just two words: I'm full."– Barkley yelling to 300-plus-pound Houston Rockets teammate Stanley Roberts
• Don't tile your floor, draw on it. - Brilliant solution using cheap vinyl contact paper to liven up a kitchen.

Create your own simple homemade Van de Graaff generator.

This project will show you how to build a device that can generate 12,000 volts from an empty soda can and a rubber band. This is capable of drawing 1/2 inch sparks from the soda can to my finger. The spark is harmless, and similar to the jolt you get from a doorknob after scuffing your feet on the carpet.

To build the toy, you need:

* An empty soda can
* A small nail
* A rubber band, 1/4 inch by 3 or 4 inches
* A 5×20 millimeter GMA-Type electrical fuse (such as Radio Shack #270-1062)
* A small DC motor (such as Radio Shack #273-223)
* A battery clip (Radio Shack #270-324)
* A battery holder (Radio Shack #270-382)
* A styrofoam cup (a paper cup will also work)
* A hot glue gun (or regular glue if you don’t mind waiting)
* Two 6 inch long stranded electrical wires (such as from an extension cord)
* Two pieces of 3/4 inch PVC plumbing pipe, each about 2 or 3 inches long
* One 3/4 inch PVC coupler
* One 3/4 inch PVC T connector
* Some electrical tape
* A block of wood