Simian Design

These are my delicious links for January 4th:

• Optimizing HTML – Great writeup on why you should optimize your HTML.
• UsabilityPost Forum – Good usability resource.
• Nic Cage as Everyone – heh. Who knew his talents were so vast?
• 10 Sci-Fi Weapons That Actually Exist – These are amazing. But I don't understand why there isn't a jetpack… A Jetpack would be an awesome weapon.

These are my delicious links for November 1st:

• Night Battle – Photos from a recent Russian Army War Games.
• Top Reverse Photo Bombs – A photo bomb is "Any time the background of a picture hijacks the original focus."
• Crown of the Wire – The purpose of this blog is to do the impossible: determine the "best" character on the Wire. We have set up an NCAA tournament-style bracket (found here) with 65 Wire characters divided into 2 regions: the Law and the Street. It _should_ end up with the finals being McNulty vs. Omar.

These are my delicious links for April 27th:

• A crossbow to end all crossbows. – You want a crossbow that you can mount a grenade launcher too? One that will scare the person you aim it at so badly they'll pee themselves then die of fright? Want to pretend you're Snake-Eyes? (Because this is TOTALLY the crossbow he'd use. ) This is the one for you.
• First Deep Blue, now Watson. – I, for one, welcome our A.I. Overlords.
• ExpanDrive: Ridiculously simple SFTP and FTP drive access on your Mac – Mount your drives like a USB drive. Going to have to check it out.
• A total bad-ass Epitah. – I wish my Epitah could be one tenth as cool as Robert Allisons.
• Tim Dowling on how to tell an Iranian sniper from a Wookiee – Over the weekend Iranian snipers marched in the annual Army Day parade in Tehran in full camouflage, looking less like crack combatants and more like Wookiee extras from a forgotten Star Wars spin-off.
• Magnets are cool. – What happens when you drop a magnet super-slowly through a copper tube? Cool shit happens is what.

These are my delicious links for January 7th through January 8th:

• Book Cover Archive – For the appreciation and categorization of excellence in book cover design
• Worlds undersea cables. – Nice chart showing how the world's wired up.
• 10 Killer WordPress Hacks – Nice collection of hacks and examples for WordPress.
• Lego Star Wars. – brickplumber's photostream is a fantastic collection of lego Star Wars figures and creations. Fun fun fun.
• Andy Griffith theme/Beyonce mashup – This is so incredibly captivating, just brought a wide smile to my face. Party Ben's Single Ladies (In Mayberry) (Beyoncé vs. "The Andy Griffith Show" Theme) is just the thing to start your day with.
• 100 (Really) Beautiful iPhone Wallpapers | Graphics | Smashing Magazine – Great collection of images to spruce up your iPhone.
• Air Force Releases 'Counter-Blog' Marching Orders – Bloggers: If you suddenly find Air Force officers leaving barbed comments after one of your posts, don't be surprised. They're just following the service's new "counter-blogging" flow chart. In a twelve-point plan, put together by the emerging technology division of the Air Force's public affairs arm, airmen are given guidance on how to handle "trolls," "ragers" — and even well-informed online writers, too. It's all part of an Air Force push to "counter the people out there in the blogosphere who have negative opinions about the U.S. government and the Air Force," Captain David Faggard says.
• Vertoramas – Ralph Cooksey-Talbott is a landscape photographer who studied under Ansel Adams in Yosemite in the 1970's. Cooksey is currently doing vertical panoramic photography that is reminiscent in composition to monumental Asian landscape ink-on-silk paintings. He calls them Vertoramas and I think they are exceptionally beautiful. Besides selling prints, Cooksey provides many of his images as free desktop pictures.