A Life Most Ordinary

Remembering horrible footwear
Remember back when they advertised shoes like they were some new fantastic label. Check out some of these great ads from the days of old.

Yet another DS redesign at Nick

If this was ever produced it would definitely make me think twice about my PSP purchase.

How to create VISTA style toolbar with CSS

Awesome windows Vista toolbar... This should be good for the main navigation and to give sites that next generation layout.

99 Resources for Web 2.0 Design

Great Resources for developing new websites.

JohnTP.com How To Become A Semi-Successful Blogger
Put out this article describing converting your personal blog into a first tier website with a small core audience. Call it step one of my diabolical plan.

Crayon Physics Deluxe

So what's better than drawing pictures? Drawing pictures and making them come to life with the help of our friend the computer. There is a great demo on the website that shows wheels, fulcrums, and falling objects all reflecting truish physics.

For the Widows crowd there is an old concept prototype. I think that this is pretty stellar, but I think the future of this product probably lies more on the Nintendo DS or the Nintendo DS+Wii. Im sure Nintendo would love to get there hands on these ideas.

Check it out and enjoy what it would be like if all those drawings you made when you were a little kid were suddenly set in motion.

 

Link to Windows Live Writer Beta

I am posting from Microsofts LiveBlog

Testing

Strobist: How To: DIY $10 Macro Photo Studio

A great lightbox for shooting items. Great for Ebay. The site also provides good tips on lighting for photography.

Career Advice: Don’t Spend Half Your Work Day On Facebook And Then Brag About It

Now dont get me wrong I like Facebook and all but this may be a little too far.

Josiah Cole » 19 Things NOT To Do When Building a Website

Good advice when building a website.

CSS Cheat Sheet

Nice CSS Cheatsheet for quick reference.

If you think your Firefox experience is a little lacking, checkout Computer World's list of 20 must-have Firefox extensions.  All of which move you further and further away from ever using IE again. 

Link to 20 must-have Firefox extensions

A list of 8 pretty cool things to do with your cell phone.  I have had a great time checking out each one.  I am really happy to see google moving more things to mobile devices, makes it a lot easier to keep up with. 

Link to Alpha Geek: 10 cool cell phone tricks - Lifehacker

This is a great program that is making converting DVR-MS to Zune ready WMV easier than DVRMSTOOLBOX. If you have a Zune and a MCE computer with a TV Tuner card this is the way to go.

Installation was as easy as registering for the site and then downloading and installing.

After that the setup was as simple as pointing the watcher to your Recorded TV folder and then selecting a folder for your output. 

Getting the Zune setup was also easy as all that was required was making sure that the output folder was listed in the library folders in zune.

Link to ZuneTVWatcher beta to bridge Media Center gap - Engadget

WindowsDevCenter.com -- Run Mac OS X on a PC

A good way to run Mac OS X from a windows box.

Why is My Computer Freezing Up

Yahoo! Widget Gallery

Motorola Q Hacks - Everything Q

Everything Motorola Q - Is there a program that will allow me to watch DVD movies on my Motorola Q

How To Shower - Men & Women Video

7. For driving both drunk and nude, Lions assistant coach Joe Cullen was sentenced this week to attend two AA meetings a week as part of his punishment. The other part is to stay with the Lions.

8. Going, going, Gonzaga: The story of the Gonzaga basketball players is getting, well, more hallucinogenic every day. When police pulled over Josh Heytvelt and Theo Davis last week, they allegedly smelled a "strong odor of burnt marijuana" from Davis. That led them to search the car, where they found a baggie of dried mushrooms that's now in the drug lab. Of special note to me, though, is that according to the police report the officer also discovered "three foil-wrapped brownie muffins" that he contended contained hallucinogenic mushrooms. Huh? First of all, how could the officer know that the brownie muffins contained mushrooms, without knowing the recipe? Wouldn't the alleged mushrooms have been relatively concealed in the brownie muffins? That's some super sleuthing right there. More importantly, though, what the heck is a "brownie muffin"? I've heard of brownies, and I've heard of muffins, but never a brownie muffin. For instance, when I've made brownies from a mix, it often asks if one would prefer "cake-like brownies." (Personally, like most self-respecting chocoholics, I opt for "fudge-like".) But I've never seen a brownie box ask if I wanted "muffin-like brownies." Is a brownie muffin just a chocolate muffin that's relatively fudgy? Is it the result of brownie mix poured into a muffin tin rather than a 13x9x2 pan? Frankly, "brownie muffin" sounds like a concoction dreamed up by somebody very stoned.

9. NASCAR driver Michael Waltrip allegedly tried to use jet fuel in his car during Daytona 500 qualifying. Waltrip has been fined $100,000, docked 100 points and must forfeit all his frequent-flyer miles.

10. He shoots, he scores: Host Germany's World Cup dreams may have faded in the semifinals last summer, but the event will still leave a lasting impression on the German population. The nation's maternity wards are reporting that they will have to arrange extra beds for all the women expecting babies in April. We especially enjoyed the quote from a midwife calling the baby boom a "product of the euphoria from the tournament."

SI.com had a lot to work with this week in Pete McEntegart's 10 Spot

SI.com - Writers - The 10 Spot: Feb. 15, 2007 - Thursday February 15, 2007 10:21AM

Motorola Q software update. I will try anything to get the ridiculous amount of freezing my phone has been doing lately.
Motorola - Support - Software Update

Found this while reading through Blogger's Blog Roll on one of the sites. It seems like a valuable peace of code...at least until the spammers get a little smarter. Either way, I'll be adding it to my pages.
Anti-Spam - Fight Back Against Spammers | bulk unsolicited unwanted junk email

So Yahoo! has come out with something called Pipes. Pipes are promoted as a nerded down something or another. That said, I have no idea what the hell this thing does. What I took away from an hour of poking around was that this would allow you to extract data from one site/feed then use that data on another. The example below shows the Pipe to search You Tube for songs on the iTunes top songs feed.

See the following link for a guide to building a simple Pipe. Nick Bradbury: YouTunes: An Example Yahoo! Pipe

Brilliant Button Maker by LucaZappa.com

soft-blogger.blogspot.com: m3 player blogger.com

This should be useful to get mom able to use Google Talk
smash's world: I'm on Google Talk right now. _ the offical homepage of Ben Guild (smash)

Paralyzed Veterans of America: Thank You Veterans

Seems like a very cool site to support some people that have come underfire since America's turn on the "War" in Iraq.

Flixster

Visitor Map, MySpace Map, Frappr Map - The most social maps on the Web.

How Many of Me - Census Search

Well this represents the first blog from a new MS Live program