I just got a nice, encouraging email from Richard Bram, who is a fantastic street photographer in London and is featured on In-Public. You should check out his portfolio. It’s great stuff with a wonderful sense of humor.

Yep, you can order a thin-crust medium pepperoni pizza from Domino’s by typing something like…. $ pizza_party -p medium thin It’s called Pizza Party

Apparently, our own Fullmo is kicking some ass today and clogging up the pipes at Fusionary. I’ve mirrored the site here for the time being.

Gotta see it! Odd, beautiful and funny. Watch it without the subtitles – you don’t need them. I don’t consider myself an excessively visual guy, but damn if the animation didn’t just make my eyes pop. It’s a great, seamless blend of CG and traditional animation, and a really great film.

Dave Shea put together a pretty nice Roadmap to Standards which is a wonderful introduction and starting point for folks looking to start designing using web standards, but feel a little lost.

If you’ve ever wondered why cars in movies always blow up after crashing, or perhaps why they really wouldn’t blow up, then check out Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics

Good experience: An article on customer experience research seems to echo my ealier statement about using simple methods to test and analyze the customer experience. The example given is that of Hallmark founder Joyce C. Hall conducting research in 1915, which was obviously successful. From the text… bq.. Here’s what Joyce didn’t do: Create tasks for customers. “You want to find a ‘Happy 20th Anniversary' card that isn’t too sentimental.

Jessica’s mom, who hasn’t paid a penny of child support for around 12 years, called today to let me know that she saw a nice car in the newspaper – in case I was planning on buying one for Jess. Hey, thanks for the tip.

There’s a long, but interesting thread discussing software development outsourcing on Joel Spolky’s site

My guess is that everyone’s already seen Drew Cope’s Drum Machine, but I hadn’t. Neato.

Eric Meyer thinks that Weblogs are broken, in that they show the most recent entries first, and of course that’s not how we read books, so we should switch things around to read “normally” Two thoughts on that, A. We don’t read weblogs the same way as anything else, so different is not by definition wrong. B. Even if it is wrong, changing it now is a bad idea. I was all confused reading his blog, then I realized that he actually had switched the order of his entries around.

I just now caught up on my RSS feeds after a brief vacation. And I’m confused, so I’m going to make a few random statements/observations that today feel absolutely right on – sort of. Talk to me again tomorrow and we’ll see where we are. As bad as web browsers are at being a usable application platform, we’ll be using them for quite a long time to come.