Test your reaction time

September 12, 2008 by madBADcat  
Filed under The Not-So-Daily Edition

Test your reaction timeCreative blocks suck.

Here’s something to take your mind off that ugly blank canvas and test your reaction time at the same time. The game involves clicking on the tranquilizer when a sheep tries to make a break for it.

Play Dart The Sheep.

I wonder who decided against shooting the sheep? Not that I am for hunting but it would seem a popular interative game choice.

My result? I am a bobbing bobcat.

 

Text Tricks

I Didn’t Write This….

September 9, 2008 by madBADcat  
Filed under Graphics, The Not-So-Daily Edition, Top Stories

the real credit for the content of this page is  Mandarin Design.
I copied and pasted all the example code onto this page.

 

Inline Pull Quotes
You don’t have to define the pullquotes in the style sheet. The code is short and doesn’t take the many keystrokes. It’s just another paragraph in CSS.

…it depends on what we are highlighting or lowlighting…

…this will look like some of the pullquotes and styles we seeina magazinelayout…

 

How Great Design Can Save Democracy & The NYTimes

How Great Design Can Save Democracy & The NYTimesFor the last 8 years, I have gathered my morning coffee and toast and read salon.com. Last year, Joan Walsh became the managing editor. More and more salon has become the "Joan Walsh Show" and the tone of salon.com, like MoveOn.org, no longer reflect my opinions or interests. During this process of losing interest, I found myself starting my day at NYTimes.com and falling in love with it a little more each day. »»

money always trumps common sense

Wall*E + Kleenex = Iron*E

August 21, 2008 by madBADcat  
Filed under The Not-So-Daily Edition

Greenpeace is not one of my favorite groups. Like PETA, some of their policies seem to contradict their philosophies. That’s my opinion. Shoot me.

BUT- sometimes we see eye-to-eye: money always trumps common sense. »»

A Wordpress Christmas In July

Brian Gardner’s Revolution Just Gets Better

July 8, 2008 by madBADcat  
Filed under The Not-So-Daily Edition

Serendipity must be in the air. »»

ThemeWeaver: A WYSIWYG Wordpress Editor

Can DreamWeaver love Wordpress?

June 26, 2008 by madBADcat  
Filed under The Not-So-Daily Edition

 

 Steve Carroll is trying to make me eat my words.

This developer has managed to make Dreamweaver relevant to my world by creating an extension called ThemeDreamer. This MXP turns Dreamweaver into WYSIWYG Wordpress Editor. »»

Standard Deviations.

Standard Issue Non-Conforming Web

June 19, 2008 by madBADcat  
Filed under The Not-So-Daily Edition

Taking risks is an artist’s stock in trade. As our colleague, Wendy Arnold pointed out, making mistakes is part of the learning process. Many of those mistakes are really happy accidents, adaptations  we should embrace because they work. »»

Are The Most Popular Sites Popular With Mac Users?

Alexa.com Finally Embraces Mac Users

June 18, 2008 by madBADcat  
Filed under The Not-So-Daily Edition

Digitalapplejuice.com is primarily geared toward Mac users. We are a resource to other artists using a MAC; this is our intent and not a slight to PC users.

So it has been somewhat disheartening to know that our Alexa traffic rank has been fluctuating according to the number of PC users visiting our website. »»

Left Brain - Right Brain

Left Brain - Right Brain

June 5, 2008 by madBADcat  
Filed under The Not-So-Daily Edition

Ever wonder which side of your brain is engaged when?

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Banned

Copulating Toys

June 4, 2008 by madBADcat  
Filed under The Not-So-Daily Edition

Who would have thought stuffed animals could offend? »»