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Runnin' with the Songsmith
When you pipe the vocal track of Running with the Devil into MIcrosoft's Soundsmith, magic is made
brilliant  funny  music  via:mathowie  tumbl 
january 2009 by jimray
Alright.
Dean Allen's Textism is back. Usually, when a feed goes dormant for a time, I tend to delete it, but Textism is one that I've held on to, hoping that it would some day return.
writing  writers  brilliant  tumbl 
april 2008 by jimray
Lazy Load Plugin for jQuery
Delay the loading of images until they are visible in the user's viewport for faster initial page loading. Smart.
webdev  jquery  brilliant 
march 2008 by jimray
Greg Storey has a great bit on The Blog Council
"'A professional community of top global brands dedicated to promoting best practices in corporate blogging' ... Of course, these are the companies that should know right? I mean they've been using Trapper Keepers and Daytimers all their lives, so blogs a
brilliant  weblogs  bloggers  media  tumbl 
december 2007 by jimray
How to make your own bacon
My own personal version of the internet is now complete
awesome  brilliant  food  tumbl 
december 2007 by jimray
Foodpairing
From apple to artichoke, what goes with what
brilliant  food  via:waxy  tumblr 
november 2007 by jimray
Make My Logo Bigger Cream
Act now and get White Space Eliminator spray!
brilliant  funny  design  tumbl 
october 2007 by jimray
140 character recipes!
Kinda sad that I didn't think of this.
brilliant  food  twitter  tumbl 
october 2007 by jimray
The warped music of Mad Men
Adam has a really great breakdown on the authentic design of Mad Men, specifically regarding distortion from 60's-era recording and film techniques
tumbl  television  audio  brilliant 
october 2007 by jimray
The Buy n Large corporate website is brilliant satire
Buy n Large being the makers of Wall E, in Pixar's next yet-to-be released. Be sure to click on the ads on this one, they're spot on.
brilliant  satire  funny  movies  media  pixar  disney  via:kottke 
october 2007 by jimray
CRAIG: Convey Republicans Away to Iran's Gay-lessness
"In this country we have some people--they're called Republicans--who want to prevent gay marriage and stop gay people from getting equal protection under the law. And now we know there's a country without gay people to which the Republicans can move, thu
brilliant  funny  politics  homosexuality  tumbl 
september 2007 by jimray
Hip hop pop-ups
You get an ad every time Kanye name checks his favorite brands. Clever, that.
advertising  music  brilliant  art  design  via:revgeorge  visualization  tumbl 
september 2007 by jimray
Blueprint: A CSS Framework
Where the hell was this three months ago?!
webdev  brilliant  css  tumbl 
august 2007 by jimray
Bacon salt
"Everything should taste like bacon" Oh dear god yes!
awesome  food  bacon  tumbl  brilliant 
july 2007 by jimray
Apple will now send you a prepaid envelope to send them your busted iPod or mobile phone for recycling
I sort of love that they're recycling any old mobile phone, a rather brilliant bit of iPhone marketing and some good will, to boot.
environment  recycling  apple  hardware  tumbl  brilliant  marketing 
july 2007 by jimray
Fake Steve puts the smackdown on "spokesblogging"
"[Arrington' ends up sounding like a gal who's trying to convince you that she's not a 'prostitute,' she's an 'escort.'" I friggin love Fake Steve.
awesome  brilliant  bloggers  weblogs  media  ethics  tumbl 
june 2007 by jimray
Everything I know about design I learned from The Sopranos
"You don't think. You disrespect this place. That's the reason why you were passed the fuck over."
brilliant  design  culture  funny  via:10ch  tumbl 
june 2007 by jimray
E-mail is not a platform for design
"E-mail was invented so people could quickly exchange text messages over fast or slow or really slow connections, using simple, non-processor-intensive applications on any computing platform, or using phones, or hand-held devices, or almost anything else
brilliant  email  design  awesome  via:daringfireball  webdev  tumbl 
june 2007 by jimray
Dawdler - a longnow version of Twitter, with postcards
"A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: what are you doing, you know, more generally?"
brilliant  art  twitter  tumbl 
may 2007 by jimray
How to completely enclose a floated element in CSS2
I swear I'm going to tattoo this on my left fore-arm
css  webdev  brilliant 
may 2007 by jimray
Helpful distortion
Design is knowing what not to include as much as what to include. In the case of subway maps, is it more important to know how the tracks actually bend - or to know how to get from one place to another.
design  maps  brilliant  travel  usability  tumbl 
april 2007 by jimray
What does Marsellus Wallace look like?
Brilliant typographic treatment of an iconic Pulp Fiction scene
brilliant  typography  movies  via:daringfireball 
february 2007 by jimray
More Multitouch from Jeff Han
I want one of those screens in a newsroom to do photo edits
design  ui  brilliant 
february 2007 by jimray
Video: Flea Market Montgomery
"It's just like a mini mall" Oh dear god yes.
funny  video  advertising  brilliant 
january 2007 by jimray
Fully licensed
"I hope you can wipe the screen off!"
brilliant  funny  video  apple  mobile 
january 2007 by jimray
.Howl by Mark Cohen
"who chained themselves to highways for the endless ride from PARC to holy Redmond on Big Gulp cola until the Windows of possibility clicked shut" [sigh]
via:colin  poetry  technology  culture  brilliant 
january 2007 by jimray
Sony BRAVIA - The Advert
Possibly the best commercial ever. Best part? No CGI was used - Jonathan Glazer spent 10 days with 600 explosive devices and 1,700 detonators linked by 35 miles of copper wire to vaporize 18,000 gallons of paint.
advertising  brilliant  video 
november 2006 by jimray
The Dirt on The Heap // ShaunInman.com/post
Shaun Inman explains his wicked cool fading color thing. Love it.
design  weblogs  brilliant 
november 2006 by jimray
Spanning Sync is now 1.0
Bi-directional sync between gCal and iCal
brilliant  sync  calendar  mac  software  google 
november 2006 by jimray
The Nietzsche Family Circus
Random Family Circus cartoon, meet random Nietzsche quote. Brilliant.
brilliant  funny  cartoons  philosophy 
october 2006 by jimray
Foleybot
It was only a matter of time before someone coded up a Turing/Foley test
aim  brilliant  funny  foo 
october 2006 by jimray
Wicked cool effects reel from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
I like the sound of the editors whirling in the background - this is really well done
brilliant  design  film  video  via:daringfireball 
october 2006 by jimray
Bjork, live, onstage with Rahzel and an Inuit throat singer
Medula was one of my favorite albums from last year, amazing that she can pull off these live performances
music  video  awesome  brilliant 
october 2006 by jimray
Miles Davis and John Coltrane playing "So What" in 1958
Why do i not have these DVD's?(hat tip to Cameron Moll for this one)
via:cameronmoll  music  jazz  video  awesome  brilliant 
september 2006 by jimray
Pirated jazz records recorded on X-Ray films
"The method became so widespread in Hungary that not only amateurs, but the Hungarian Radio made sound recordings on such recycled X-ray films."
via:waxy  music  art  brilliant 
september 2006 by jimray
Look Around You - 2 - Water
Brilliant parody of educational children videos. So. Good. (Thants, Tom!)
funny  video  via:tomharpel  science  brilliant 
august 2006 by jimray
New Gnarls Barkley video, Smiley Faces
Featuring (part of) the cast of Blue Velvet! Also, this is brilliant.
video  music  brilliant  foo 
august 2006 by jimray
Texas Penguin Truck Accident
"Man, we were just one nuclear-waste truck shy of a radioactive octopenguin."
brilliant  funny 
august 2006 by jimray
Microsoft Live Labs: Photosynth
Really cool photo visualization and community app. Imagine this applied to the photos in Flickr's database.
design  brilliant  photography  microsoft  research  software  visualization 
august 2006 by jimray
Pug Bowling
If ever there has been a reason to put a can of Pledge, hardwood floors and a laser pointer to good use, this is it
brilliant  video  funny 
july 2006 by jimray
PlayPumps
This is really pretty brilliant
via:kidethnic  community  design  brilliant  africa 
july 2006 by jimray
If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft
"Now comes the part of the interview where we ask a question to test your creative thinking ability. Don’t think too hard about it, just apply everyday common sense, and describe your reasoning process."
brilliant  microsoft  satire 
july 2006 by jimray
The Online Photographer: Great Photographers on the Internet
"Bonjour Henri, assuming you are French, or at least understand it." Brilliant
satire  photography  brilliant 
june 2006 by jimray
Kevin Smith has recorded commentary for Clerks II, available on iTunes
Brilliant - go see it in the theaters again, this time with director commentary
brilliant  via:waxy  movies 
june 2006 by jimray
iPodDisk » About
This is rad - view your iPod as a collection of music, do whatever you want with the tracks. And it's free (beer, speech) to boot!
mac  software  ipod  brilliant  via:khoivinh 
june 2006 by jimray
YouTube - 2006 MTV Movie Awards - Gnarls Barkley
This is the best thing ever. Cee-lo is Vader! Danger Mouse is Obi Wan! My god these guys are awesome.
brilliant  awesome  music  starwars 
june 2006 by jimray
Leica M lenses coding for digital
This is an example of absolutely brilliant design to me. An incredibly simple, elegant solution -- I would expect nothing less from Leica.
photography  design  hardware  brilliant 
june 2006 by jimray
ldopa.net » archive » cory doctorow visits a radio shack
"I certainly hope that doorbell isn’t keeping private records of who enters and exits the store." Oh dear god it's brilliant
brilliant  funny  geek 
june 2006 by jimray
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