HelpMeGetAG5.com – HYSTERICAL

Date: September 9, 2005 Author: Sean Comments: Leave a reply

Ok – So this guy needs a G5 for work (he is a video editor) but he cant afford the 5k price tag. So he creates a site to get donations (if 20,000 people give him a quarter, he will get to the $5K number).

Please please please watch the video until the end where he discusses his friend Jace. Its worth it.

Considering whats going on with the Katrina Refugees, I think he has the worst timing in the world. Then again, he has gotten almost $1500 bucks.

I would considering giving him $10 bucks , but would rather see him give the G4 to MOUSE or another non-profit that could use it (he plans on blowing it up).

Click here to check out the site

Cool – Cardboard house from BoingBoing

Date: August 20, 2005 Author: Sean Comments: Leave a reply

Found the following on BoingBoing:

The Cardboard House — roofed with HDPE plastic — is recycled, recyclable, flat-pack, home-assembled, and comes with a composting toilet and condenses its own water, which doubles as an under-house ballast tank to keep it from blowing over.

Very cool. Link to BoingBoing article here.

Link to the Houses of the Future site here.

Instant Outlining!

Date: June 13, 2005 Author: Sean Comments: Leave a reply

The thing I am really looking forward to at Gnomedex is the density of demos at the event. Dave Winer’s debut of Instant Outliner. Adam Curry is bringing something new. Dean Hachamovitch is keynoting and presenting on Longhorn.

Check out John Robb’s comments on Dave Winer’s instant outlinerhere

It connects IM, weblog publishing (a weblog is essentially a published outline), RSS (if RSS items are brought into the outline), and outlining in a new way that radically improves team productivity.

I have been searching in vain for some groupware for the boutique ad agency I work for for about a year now. MS Project is too unwieldy and most of the open source apps dont fit the bill. Shrinkwrap? too expensive.

Cant wait to see what Dave & co. is cooking up.

Gaping Void Rocks

Date: June 12, 2005 Author: Sean Comments: Leave a reply

Hugh Macleod’s GapingVoid is a great site. The commentary is awesome and the cartoons are always great.

Above is hysterical. We have been having lots of discussions internally and with clients about the use (and overuse and flashturbatory use) of Flash in our projects and the web in general.

Don’t be that guy.