Some Random Dude

Especially good links this week of all sorts of shapes and sizes. I still am slightly unsure how it occurred, but I got caught up with bad parking vendettas - yeah, I know, weird…

I want to thank those who have begun to post links in the comments (I am looking at you Kellie). The weekly links of the week feature is starting to get pretty impressive.

Enjoy the links.

Current Events

Federal Way schools restrict Gore film

From the article - "The Bible says that in the end times everything will burn up, but that perspective isn't in the DVD." - The inmates are running the asylum.

Senator asks Bush to explain signing statement that gives President authority to open mail without warrant

At least someone is asking.

Geraldo wants to whoop up on Olbermann

Geraldo Rivera, intellectual flyweight.

NASA Finally Goes Metric

About. Friggin'. Time.

ABC/Disney Shuts Down Blog Exercising Fair Use

Not like you didn't know already, but Mickey Mouse sure is a prick.

Design

Hydropolis Underwater Hotel

Holy crap, this is out of control. I would be very willing to fly to Dubai to stay in that hotel.

Design Life Now: National Design Triennial 2006

An exhibition on how design impacts society. Very exciting.

Web

Magic Framerate

For those of you curious why 31 fps is the 'magic' number in Flash.

Panorama experiment with Papervision3D

Very nice little panorama app.

Reflektions miniml > 3D cube v2

This is one of just many nice experiments being pumped out over at this blog. A nice collection of work.

swfmill swf2xml and xml2swf

Generate swf asset libraries for use in Eclipse. Very helpful.

Powerflasher Eclipse Plugin for Flash and ActionScript

A great Actionscript development tool.

CASA Framework

An awesome Actionscript 2.0 library full of all sorts of goodness. Free to download as well.

Whitespace

I can see my typography professor seething at the fact that the author titled this article 'Whitespace' as opposed to 'Negative Space'.

CSS-Based Footers: Modern Solutions

About as many footers as you'd ever like to see.

Markup as a Craft

I couldn't agree more with this author's premise.

Photography

watchful_eyes.jpg

Holy crap. This is actually for real.

Burbank, CA, 2004

Simple. Beautiful.

Nerdery & Tech

A Closer Look At The iPhone

More iPhone info. Prepare for the insanity to continue. For my money, the visual voicemail is the best feature on this device.

Second Life as Open Source

This could make things very interesting…

Noteworthy Articles

Funny Car Note

Beauty beyond words.

Got It

Bruce Campbell still has it.

Green lobby must be treated as a religion

Free loads of crap for all!

Second Life Avatars Consume As Much Electricity As Brazilians

Jeez, even our virtual selves are horrible consumers of energy. As hilarious as it is sad.

Highlights from the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association

Historian arrested for jaywalking after asking police for ID. Nice to see our police taking care of important things…

Noteworthy Sites

I Park Like An Idiot - You suck at parking! Let the world know it!

More "parking justice" resources.

youparklikeanasshole

This is so absolutely brilliant. A wonderful service to say the least.

myGreenElectronics

Find where you can recycle your old electronics and keep heavy metals out of our environment.

Plant a Tree For Me

Dell seems to have started working with The Conservation Fund and Carbonfund.org to help with lowering carbon emissions. Very cool.

Flash Element TD

Frighteningly addictive. Honestly, just try it out.