Valhalla Island

I made a small set of vector animal icons. They’re mostly African with a few random animals like a Pelican and a Polar Bear. They might come in handy for someone.

↓ Download the EPS file full of all the icons

Update: See my comment on licensing.

The first thing you probably notice on LG’s Voyager phone is that it’s a blatant rip of the iPhone home screen. Menu bar, dock and everything in between is ridiculously similar and I always wonder how companies get away with this. Or how it’s even started — I can imagine a manager telling the UI designer “don’t inovate, make it look like the iPhone”. Continue reading →

Google’s new open API, mobile platform Android comes with a beautiful font family named Droid. It includes serif, sans serif and monospace variations. My favourite is the italised serif.

If you head to this page and download the system tarball you can grab the font files from the fonts directory.

Originally via DF

Disclaimer: I am a Calgary Flames fan.

Last night the Calgary Flames beat the Edmonton Oilers 3-1 in Edmonton. That puts the Flames 2 games to 1 over the Oilers this season. My floor in residence is full of extremely passionate Oiler fans. So when the Flames beat the Oilers I really give it to them — as I have the right to do. In rebuttal I’m faced with the most ridiculous argument. Continue reading →

Quick summary:

• Some TV writers are on strike because they want to be paid for use of their writing online.
• TV executives tell them no and give them the finger because “it’s too soon to put a dollar value on internet content”.
• Meanwhile, TV executives sue YouTube for 1 billion dollars for putting their content online.
• So, is online content worth nothing or 1 billion dollars?

Watch this video from the Daily Show writers, very funny.

I’ve mentioned before that I love The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs but this this post is writing perfection:

My goodness. Every time I turn around there’s some new frigtard bitching about his Leopard upgrade. People, look. Leopard is the most advanced, most amazing, most perfect piece of software that has ever been invented. It is perfect. No, strike that. It is beyond perfect. If you’re having problems it’s because you’ve done something profoundly wrong to your machine. And before you do any more bitching, go look at Vista and then get back to me. What’s that? Yeah, I thought so. Peace out, losers.

Like most of my ideas this one came in IRC when a few of us wanted to share our feed subscriptions, looking for something new we might like. Just about every feed reader uses OPML files to import and export feed lists. The problem is that you have to import every feed into your reader or read the file’s XML, which by definition is a human readable format but it’s still not pleasant. This is where I come in. Continue reading →

I have a phone answering policy that I think more should adopt. I’ve been using it in practice for a few years now but haven’t ever stopped to think about exactly what I’m doing. When trying to work out what unspoken rules I follow it comes down to just one simple rule:

If I’m not expecting a call, I don’t answer the phone. Continue reading →

It’s been almost two weeks since I performed a clean Leopard install on my Macintosh computer. I’ve never looked forward to software like I looked forward to Leopard. As a Mac user that’s never been through a major OS update until now, it was a special experience. Continue reading →

If you didn’t know — when a bee stings something it loses its stinger and it dies. What kind of animal commits suicide just to cause someone a small amount of physical pain? A bee, the biggest asshole in the animal kingdom.

This post is dedicated to Emma, Jess and my great new friend Sarina.