Purrcast is a soothing little podcast that consists solely of the sound of cats purring. The website includes biographical information on each feline purr-former. Link.
Image ganked from Lazy Lightning’s Flickr stream. (Thanks, beezers)
Business card inspiration
Flash-based slideshow widgets for your online stuff using your images or images from flickr
A flash site with very interesting navigation that simulates depth. THe only thing is that somethings that appear clickable are really not.
As Christmas approaches us, there are lots of things that designers are required for; Christmas Cards, E-Cards, Wrapping Paper - why not make your own for that custom Christmas feel. Today lets take a look at some tutorials to help you with photoshop …
Adobe Tutorialz -In this very detailed tutorial see how to make a Merry Christmas greeting card with photoshop
Slick Tutorials - Create a 3d-looking snow globe with a snow scene using only photoshop
Pstut - Cartoon…
Leave it to Canada to have a cryptozoological beatie like a sasquatch as its Olympic mascot. Earlier today Vancouver 2010 unveiled their Olympic and Paralympic mascots: Quatchi the Sasquatch, Miga the Sea Bear, and Sumi the Thunderbird.
The mythical (and adorable) creatures are the work of Vancouver-based Vicki Wong and Michael Murphy of Meomi Design, who should be no strangers to the readers of Drawn!. These could be the most stylish Olympic mascots yet, and I’m sure will be a big…
Verizon opens up, will support any device, any app on its network - “Any application can run on any device from any developer and will have full access to Verizon spectrum, so long as it can properly connect to the network.”
Splenda marketing in Second Life
Falling Water in Second Life at slurl.com/secondlife/Schwanson%20Schlegel/165/232/47/
Demonstrated at the League for Innovation Conference, this sim created at Tacoma Community college provides “live patient simulations and role played while RN student teams use the NESIM simulator to apply critical thinking skills and interventions.
Sculptie Earth features a topographic Earth model with cloud layer that displays real time weather patterns streamed from satellite data. Stills are taken 3 hours apart and 2 days of data is visible in the animation.
Custom Paper Toys posted a photo:
Here is a sneak peak at my Mechanical Man Paper Toy. This is a two color Letterpress print on a metallic silver paper (kinda hard to tell in this photo). These prints will go on sale this weekend from my site www.custompapertoys.com. More soon…
The company that got first dibs at implementing OpenSocial gadgets has seen its service grow more than tenfold in the 3 weeks since roll out. Plaxo Pulse, the service that lets you receive live updates on activity going on across your social networks based on the contacts you have in Plaxo, was quick to jump on the OpenSocial train; and that has turned into a gravy train since then.
The spike in new connections says a lot about Plaxo and a lot about OpenSocial, but this…
firexbrat posted a photo:
Found this in Mr. Meers collection. He let me have it. Couldn’t find anymore, so I am going to use this for something special. Beautiful imagery on the box. Cranes is probably the gold standard in American made paper.
Constance Garnett translated and published 13 volumes of Chekhov stories in the years 1916-1922. Unfortunately, the order of the stories is almost random, and in the last volume Mrs. Garnett stated: “I regret that it is impossible to obtain the necessary
Mashable’s collection of ebooks available for download
A surreal environment that focuses on time as its theme. This is a Second Life sim that serves as part of the promotion found at http://crazy-genius.com
Someone did a lot of legwork and pulled together a heap of Monty Python videos on YouTube. The list includes one famous segment called “Dead Parrot,” which is notable partly because it’s funny, and partly because it forms the basis of a secondary joke.
To make a long story short, there are some folks out there called “scambaiters” who take revenge against 419 scammers — you know, the people who generate those emails that begin something like this: “I have picked-up the trust and courage to…
Someone did a lot of legwork and pulled together a heap of Monty Python videos on YouTube. The list includes one famous segment called “Dead Parrot,” which is notable partly because it’s funny, and partly because it forms the basis of a secondary joke.
To make a long story short, there are some folks out there called “scambaiters” who take revenge against 419 scammers — you know, the people who generate those emails that begin something like this: “I have picked-up the trust and courage to…
A Wordpress plugin that adds a bit of typesetting control to the system.
A demonstration space in Second Life for the Health for London effort lead by Sir Ara Darzi to meet the health needs of Londoners over the next 5 to 10 years
When trying to conceive ways in which space could be saved on a web page Andy Sellick decided a sliding menu would work well as shown in the images below. He decided to use mootools due to the smoothness of their effects, however, this could just as easily be developed in script.aculo.us or other JavaScript libraries.
You can easily customise the look of the sliding menu by CSS. However there may be some CSS issues in Safari but as yet he haven’t had the time to fully test and fix…
Convert raster images to vector with this webap (free)
Another lipsum generator. This one has a few nice randomization options
An example of html with highlighted areas exemplifying what makes the code clean
Web app icons free for download
Art Noeveau design elements
Brilliant design of common home objects
Jay-Z as an economic indicator? - In his video for “Blue Magic,” Jay flashes stacks of Euros instead of the lowly dollar… [via]
