30 Jul 2010

July Link Dump

The IT Crowd T-shirts: Season 4 Episode 3 “Something Happened”

Rob and I had no idea what would be in series 4 when we created The IT Crowd game, but Graham Linehan did suggest using Keyboard Cat for the game over sequence, making it match up nicely with one of Roy’s T shirts. See also

Animated URL text

One appropriate use for this comes to mind — for making an asterisk move backwards and forwards in the URLs of a Knight Rider fan site.

Fatal Deviation Trailer

An epic Irish martial arts movie.

South Korea: Super fast, and finally free

For over a decade, ecommerce users were forced to use Internet Explorer.

cows & cows & cows

More lovely work from cow-lover Cyriak.

I know who your name, where you work, and live (Safari v4 & v5)

A pretty nasty privacy hole with the default settings; I think they’ve just patched it.

SKID MK

Quite possibly the first polygon-based 3D Flash game that I’ve found to be smooth and playable.

Glyphish

Icons for iPhone/iPad apps. Further work on the set is being funded via Kickstarter.

Googlematch

A clever combination of Google autocomplete and Blankety Blank.

Old School Color Cycling with HTML5

Using canvas to resurrect palette-based animation.

It’s too late for MySpace

It was clear from early on that MySpace’s messy code, architecture and design would hamper its ability to adapt and attract a wider userbase, and that there was some messy thinking going on within the organisation.