Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians. Does as it says on the tin.

Check out the latest celebrity armpit flaps at flappits.com. You must be pretty deranged to think of that one.

An interview with Ken Buckle, mobile disc jockey in Enfield. His words of wisdom include, “You can have women asking for Abba week after week, then next time you think, ‘There’s a load of women here, I’ll give it the old “Dancing Queen”,’ but nothing happens. There’s no guarantee in this game. It’s like fishing.”

Interview with Chris Rock, from The Guardian. On Hillary Clinton:
“I think America is ready for a woman president. But does it have to be that one?”

And originally from the geniuses at Poisoned Mind, here is how I spend most of my day:

As I can’t see a resource anywhere online here is a list for the conversion of pixels into ems for the font-size property:

9px = 0.5625em
10px = 0.625em
11px = 0.6875em
12px = 0.75em
13px = 0.8125em
14px = 0.875em
15px = 0.9375em
16px = 1.00em
18px = 1.125em
20px = 1.25em
24px = 1.50em
28px = 1.75em
32px = 2.00em

I would apply a font size of 100.01% to the body element at the begining of your css stylesheet to make the above values work, like so:

body {
font-size:100.01%;
}

The reasons for this strange value is due to IE’s extreme font resizing bug. More explanation can be found here. The default font size would then be 16px.

It’s a waste of css to apply a font-size to every element on your webpage so try to apply font sizes only when necessary. For example, this webpage has only two sizes of fonts and it’s all in the arial font. You could achieve this with only a minimal amount of CSS:

body {
font-size: 100.01%;
font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #333333;
line-height: 1.5em;
}

a {
color: blue;
}

a:hover {
color: red;
}

h2 {
font-size: 1.75em;
font-weight: normal;
}

p {
font-size: 0.6875em;
}

That could be all the CSS you need for the whole site.

For those that use HTML in their life, why not test your memory:

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Oh, and take a look at this amazing Depth Of Field site, all done with Flash.

Long interview with Adam Curtis about the future of UK TV.

God, so much work and other stuff going on in my life. Here’s a round of some bits and peices.

The ecommerce project I have been working on all summer has finally launched. Baby Star are a New Zealand company that have two shops selling baby clothing and accessories. My partner on this project, designer James Morse, and me have been turning the ugly OSCommerce product into something that’s actually quite lovely. And we’ve stripped out the tables and made it all with CSS positioning. No mean feat when it’s your first experience with ecommerce.

I’ve also been working on a much smaller website for Waters Hair Stylists in Brighton, a local hair salon. I created a simple, clean design, creating a professional and relaxing feel. Also we have plans to add many more pages, such as products and tanning solutions, so I have built this flexibility into the site. Using CSS for all styles and positioning speeds up any future site development.

Also:

Charlie Brooker feels the same as me about spiders. I’m glad they’ve nearly all gone now.

The last day of shootong on The Wire. This is a spoiler free article from The Washington Post about feelings during the final day’s shoot on ‘the best TV series ever’.

The 20 most bizarre experiments of all time.

John Cusack interviews Naomi Klein. Video discussing her new book, The Shock Doctrine.

Hexiom. The game. I’m stuck on level 28.

My new Uniqlock Casio watch arrived today and very lovely and red it is too. By the end of the Uniqlock campaign there will probably be over 20,000 people enter this competition and I’m the fifth winner (out of 60), woo!!

You can check all the worldwide competition stats at a special section of their website.

Just seeing if this works:

From Uniqlock

I’ve finally finished my South African News aggregator website. It’s a website that collates news items from various news sources from South Africa and puts them on one page. You click through to the actual news story website if you want to read more than just the short excerpt.

Why South Africa and why do this?, I hear you ask. Well firstly I thought the domain name was funny so I bought it on a whim. I overheard a South African talking about his country in a pub and it did sound like Ifrica, but maybe Efrica is more accurate?

Then I was left with what I wanted to achieve with the actual site. Greedily I just wanted to earn money from advertising and get as high up certain online search facilities for the phrase “South Africa”. I suppose thats what every other commercial site wants. South Africa is hosting the 2010 World Cup so that gives me three years to climb those rankings and get a piece of that action. The World Cup will be a huge boost for the country and it could be possible to sell the domain name for a very nice profit.

Now I had to work out what to actually do with the site (I’m sure I’ve thought about this the wrong way round). I was toying around with RSS feeds and I suddenly thought of making one place where all the news from South Africa could be screened on just one page. Add some local bloggers and we have a site! Thats what’s up there now.

Over 2007 I’ll keep tabs on its search rankings, the amount of bandwidth the special Magpie RSS aggregator engine uses and the visitor statistics. If it does well then I’ll probably work on stage two of the site which would have the ability for people to select their local cities, choose sports and businesses, nominate their favourite blogs etc.. A little more interaction. We’ll see.

Oh, and if you know any South Africans please send them the site URL and ask them to forward it to their friends, thanks!

Fluffy kitten playing with a laptop, on Google Video.

Found this at the bottom of an old bag I haven’t opened in over fifteen years. Very prophetic.

Moon War, funny online game.

Extremely creepy Monoface person generator. This is great fun and very clever, if a little too high definition occasionally.

Play the 5 Minutes To Kill Yourself game.

Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip ‘Thou Shalt Always Kill’ - Superb music video.

And finally, make your own long lost cassette tapes using this online cassette generator.

A Brighton man who runs a message in a bottle service has been asked to “investigate some of the many other ways to send messages overseas.” I just don’t think email is as romantic as that.

Gah! My eyes! I hope I’m nvere asked to make a website as cutesy as this Japanese website I discovered. Here’s Pet Salon Angela.

Science. An article about Superconductors at BBC Science. I remember watching Tomorrow’s World when I was young, seeing the levitating sheets of metal and thinking there would be skateboards like that one day. Seems like there’s still going to be a bit of a wait.

PDF Mags. A brilliant collection of downloadable design magazines from across the world. I’m hoping I get some inspiration from these.

A good video about the future of Net Neutrality.

My latest site. Simple one-page website for a new female plumbing business in Brighton. Introducing Girlz On Tap.

Colorstrology. A really good looking Flash website which will tell you the colours associated with your day of birth. I may start using this for clients!

Seminars about Long Term Thinking. It’s always good to have an idea of what the future holds. This site has a collection of audio seminar mp3s to listen to all based around what the future holds.

Life has consisted of mainly Zelda, The Wire and work this year. No time to find any funny links.

So here’s a clip from The Wire I’ve just uploaded to YouTube. In a rare montage-to-music scene drug dealers Avon Barksdale, Stringer Bell and Stinkum enter the Lowrises to see D’Angelo and check that their product is being sold correctly. The Wire is all filmed on location using no sets whatsoever giving it a real air of authenticity.

The music supervisor of The Wire has his own blog at www.tenthousand.org and wrote a small article about the scene above. There’s some great music downloads and mix tapes at his site too so please go and check it out.

As for The Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess on the Nintendo Wii I think I’m about half way through. The video below shows the last boss I finished off a day ago. It’s not me doing the spinning but it’s a good example of the current level of escapism going on at King Mansions. This may act as a small spoiler for those only a short way through the game, and I’m sure I had this baddie down in under 7 minutes:

And as for work well I’m sure I can show you a little of what I’ve been working on here: http://www.audemos.co.uk/redesign/

Ok, here’s some good links:

Ingenious way to kill bees.

The new Burn My Face Off Elmo on YouTube.