A few months back I was looking online for costume ideas for this year’s Halloween and I ran into a few websites of people who are building full-on Star Wars costumes and props. These are not the cheap looking costumes usually found at the Party Store. These things will make you look like you’re in [...]
As you might know already, the new iMacs ship with a new application called Front Row that allows you to view all your Digital Life in full screen mode a la TiVo. The thing is, as of today it only comes with the new iMacs. It’s not available for purchase or with any other computer, [...]
Having fun with Photoshop at Worth 1000
It rained all day and all night yesterday. A rare thing here in L.A. Rainy days usually turn melancholic for me and yesterday was no exception. I felt so sad thinking of my Tata that I kept replaying in my head how everything went down the day she passed away. Early in the day I [...]
Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit is easily one of my favorite movies of the year. No kidding. I was introduced to Wallace & Gromit by my art school roommate Jonathan Richter, a stop animation genius himself who has made a fantastic marriage of traditional techniques with computer animation. If you are not familiar [...]
To my fellow web developers, last year Mark Wyner wrote a great article on A List Apart about how to work around designing html emails using CSS. The tutorial covers many issues that would have taken me an eternity to figure out, hats off to Mark for his determination. I was revisiting this article today [...]
Although the scroll wheel and the multi-button features of Mighty Mouse are very tempting, I am holding out for the Bluetooth version of it. It would be ideal if they release a smaller one for the road but let’s not torture ourselves here waiting for that one. In the meantime, how can we make the [...]
I’m finally running Shaun Inman’s Mint on the site I just finished, erwinmcmanus.com. Mint is one of the coolest little web apps I’ve come across. It’s all Ajax driven and it even has a Dashboard Widget that gives you the last month numbers. The design and functionality are both beautiful and elegant. It proves my [...]
boba fett art by themissy.com I am seriously getting addicted to Boba a.k.a. Pearl Milk Tea, Bubble Tea, Tapioca Tea and also Black Pearl Tea. Boba is made of sweetened iced tea, milk and some big gummy tapioca balls. The balls, sometimes called pearls or bubbles are so big this drink requires an extra thick [...]
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