Archive for January, 2007

Good Wordpress design blog

January 10th, 2007 by schlemmsy
I find the cre8d design blog has some very useful examples of customising a wordpress blog.

iPhone

January 10th, 2007 by schlemmsy

Clever clever wordyness

January 9th, 2007 by schlemmsy

Found by: Shadi

Source: Men’s Health (one instance anyhow)

The Washington Post’s Mensa
Invitational once again asked

readers to take any word from the dictionary,
alter it by

adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a

new
definition.



are this year’s winners:



1. Intaxication:
Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your
money to start with.



2. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a
hillbilly



3. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that
stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer,

unfortunately, shows
little sign of breaking down in the near future.



4. Foreploy: Any
misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.



5.
Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject
financially impotent for an indefinite

period.



6. Giraffiti: Vandalism
spray-painted very, very high.



7. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author
of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it.



8. Inoculatte: To
take coffee intravenously when you are running late.



9. Hipatitis:
Terminal coolness.



10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one
got extra credit.)



11. Karmageddon: It’s like, when everybody is
sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the

Earth
explodes and it’s like, a serious bummer.



12. Decafalon (n.): The
grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good
for you.



13. Glibido: All talk and no action.



14. Dopeler effect:
The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you
rapidly.



15. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just
after you’ve accidentally walked through a spider web.



16. Beelzebug
(n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three
in the morning and cannot

be cast out.



17. Caterpallor (n.): The color
you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you’re eating.



18.
Ignoranus: A person who’s both stupid and an
@sshole.





The Washington Post has also
published the winning

submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers
are

asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. And

the winners
are:



1. coffee, n. the person upon whom one coughs.



2.
flabbergasted, adj. appalled by discovering how much weight one has
gained.



3. abdicate, v. to give up all hope of ever having a
flat stomach again.



4. esplanade, v. to attempt an explanation while
drunk.



5. willy-nilly, adj. impotent.



6. negligent, adj.
absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown.



7.
lymph, v. to walk with a lisp.



8. gargoyle, n. olive-flavored
mouthwash.



9 flatulence, n. emergency vehicle that picks up
someone who has been run over by a steamroller.



10. balderdash, n. a
rapidly receding hairline.



11. testicle, n. a humorous question on an
exam.



12. rectitude, n. the formal, dignified bearing adopted
by proctologists.



13. pokemon, n. a Rastafarian
proctologist.



14. oyster, n. a person who sprinkles his conversation
with Yiddishisms.



15. circumvent, n. an opening in the front of boxer
shorts worn by Jewish men.

Stats: Day in the life of a goldfish

January 9th, 2007 by schlemmsy


Say Blogosphere Again!

January 9th, 2007 by admin
Click to enlarge (from CoolTShop)



I just wish they had one for “mashup”

The BBC’s Fifteen Web Principles

January 8th, 2007 by schlemmsy

A periodic table of Visualization methods

January 8th, 2007 by hobart65

A gold mind for the strategy PowerPoint scribbler, I nearly always prefer these things when they are nonsense, but this one does seem to contain real content. How do they (a) come up with the categories and (b) position the methods within the table? Can anyone to tell me how the pop-up stuff works?

Klong

January 8th, 2007 by schlemmsy
Soft toy building on the Boyfriend Arm Pillow.

“On long or short car journeys by car, boat or plane, a Klong can multitask as a head cushion, scarf or comfort blanket.”