These three little critters are available to download now. You too can have the Tiger, Panda, Polar Bear or all three, waving their banners of environmentalism on your desktop. Giving you a gentle reminder to think global, save energy and switch off your monitor/lamp/oscilloscope at the end of the day…
I like Paper Craft. I like Psychology. If only there was some way of combining the two… Wait! What’s this! Martin Pyka has produced this awesome model of the brain, with all the different regions labeled up. His site’s written in German, but the model itself is printed with the…
A discussion has popped up on Nice Paper Toys about the relative merits of selling paper toys. Ben the Illustrator kicked things off asking for opinions on the issue, and any success stories from designers. The topic was picked up on TOYS R EVIL, which is where I gave my…
Earlier this month was the 50th anniversary for Blue Peter. I loved the show as a child, mainly for the makes. To mark the occasion The Times devoted an entire supplement to some of the best makes from the show, including the famed Tracy Island make. There’s also an interview…
For a while now I’ve been looking for an X server for Windows, so that I can start X applications from within a secure shell. Up until now Hummingbird has a been a fair solution, but I’ve never been too impressed with it. I’d never been able to get it…
Just found this funky little beaut, Wordle.net. And to Quote form the site… “Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.” Here’s one I’ve just knocked up from some documentation I’ve been writing. Documentation = boring Wordlised Documentation = Rock the Kasbah!
I’ve just installed Google Chrome, their new web browser, and it’s pretty damn good. It’s got the usual array of innovative features, you’d expect from a Google product. They’ve clearly given some thought towards how the web is used these days. I love that you can drag tabs in and out of windows, it’s…