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World’s Most Kick Ass Insert Coin Animation With Real Coins
I remember playing the arcade games, especially the pinball machines, in the arcade halls when I was younger. Unfortunately, most of them were closed and shut down long ago. The magic of entering a hall full of 8-bit music and people cheering for each other is what I miss the most, and I have no i ...
Star Wars Typography: Darth Vader Created With His Quotes
They say all good things come in threes, and since we've featured two articles so far with Star Wars inspired typography, I thought I'd top it off today with a third. Although Richard's articles about the Boba Fett Typography and the Star Wars Ad Campaign Typography were awesome in their own right, ...
This Family Unplugged For 6 Months & Lived To Tell About it
Hmm... unplugging for six months? Are you kidding me? I can't even imagine unplugging for one week. I'm so connected to my online world that I sleep with my phone. I'm not the only one though, as it turns out, it's a habit that a lot of people have. Technology and our gadgets are no longer part of o ...
How Important Is Your Twitter Username?
I remember back in the 6th grade, Calvin Klein jeans were very popular. All the girls in "the club" wore them, and I begged my mother to take me shopping for a pair so I could be cool. Now that I'm an adult, I'm noticing that there are still things in life that can make us cool, but it's no longer a ...
Alertron: The Bluetooth Babysitter For Your Phone
It's interesting to me that as the number of gadgets we get grows, so do the number of products that help us keep up with them. We depend on our technology for almost everything these days, and it's only natural that we would lose our gadgets from time to time. Last week I wrote about a remote con ...
Design: City Maps Hand-Woven From Typography
Lately, I've seen a lot of people go back and forth online debating about what typography actually is. I guess since I'm not a designer, I am excused from not knowing how the traditionalists view it. To me, typography is text in different colors, fonts, shapes and sizes put together to create some ...
Help the Homeless & the Environment with Plastic Bags
We are very passionate about helping homeless men, women and children. It's hard to imagine what being homeless would be like unless we are put in that situation. Only because I spend so much time assisting people in that predicament, I have learned not to take the simple things in life for grante ...
8-Bit Photography: Game Characters Escape Once Again
Not too long ago, I wrote about the wonderful and creative image mashups of 8-bit game characters that had escaped to reality. I also wrote about the awkward job interviews with some of the most legendary game characters that we all may ever know. As expected, the interviews didn't work out that w ...
The Twitter Thesaurus: Gives You Shorter Synonyms
If you are a Twitter addict, or someone who wants to appear less intelligent than you really are, you may like this site. It is a "word-shortening thesaurus." Oh wait; using shorter words makes you look smarter, right? I don't know, all I know is that you'll fit more words into your tweets, and t ...
The Most Important Twitter Rule of 2011
Except for the eight days when I had a serious case of Social Media Burnout, I've been on Twitter every day since March of 2009. There are some very interesting observations I've made recently. If you have been on Twitter a long time too, I know you will relate to what I'm going to describe.
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8-Bit Interview: Game Characters Apply For Real Jobs…
Applying for a job can be quite scary if you know your skills are just below what is expected and required for the job. Still, some people polish their application and add things that are not completely true. Why do they do this? It seems it's more common than you would think, and it's a way for ...
Office Kitchen Politics: Does This Happen At Your Office?
The other day I wrote an article about laziness in the workplace. It was really funny to see how many people in Corporate America spend their time during the day. Since I don't work in a traditional office, the whole thing made me giggle. I think it's ridiculous that some people can't access Twit ...
Finally! A Remote Control That Finds Itself
How many times have you lost the remote control in your house? A lot, right? I see it on Twitter all the time. People send tweets that read something like, "If I were a remote control, where would I be?" Of course, it's always funny to read where they end up finding it. It's usually in a strang ...
HoloCube Is Seriously Going To Mess With Your Reality
Are you eager to try out a working hologram concept that will seriously mess with your sense of reality? It might be a while until that happens in real time, and until it seamlessly incorporates the viewable area in front of you without using screens or transparent sheets of glass. What I am talki ...
Science: He Wore Jeans For 15 Months Without Washing Them
I know you are probably wondering how this article can be about science, but trust me, wearing jeans for 15 months without washing them is as much a science experiment as anything else. Can you even imagine the bacteria that would be growing on those badboys? Gross. Well, at least that is what any ...