A great game as seen at The V Hive.

Design your own album cover by following these rules:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first article title on the page is the name of your band.

2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quotation is the title of your album.

3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4.Use your graphics programme of choice to throw them together.

Second try:

Try to come up with one yourself.

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.

24

I made this:

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

37

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.

No, not the current activity that many people on the Millmead Estate are doing. It’s a new film being shown on Channel Four tonight. I come from around there so I’m looking forward to seeing how they handle this in Margate:

“Pharaoh has found the perfect solution for the Promised Land. All the unwanted elements of society – asylum seekers and economic refugees, the long term unemployed, sexual deviants, substance abusers, petty criminals and ethnic minorities – are forced to live in Dreamland, a shanty town built on the site of a disused funfair.”

Not a work of fiction then.

I tried to get a job at Dreamland when I was 15 but had no luck, they weren’t that desperate. Luckily the Palace Pier had me when I came to Brighton so I could finally realise my ambition of being a true-to-life Carnie.

Today’s game is Dice Wars. It’s like a mini version of Risk where you have to roll higher than the territory you’re attacking. Good quick fun!

Today’s ‘everybody is stupid’ moment goes to the news that Camelot are withdrawing a scratch card game as it’s too confusing. Yes, it uses minus numbers to show cold temperatures and working out if you were colder or hotter proved a bit too much for some people.

Today’s bet was another of my crazy longshots. It’s a bet that Croatia don’t qualify from Euro 2008. They are currently top of the table with only two games to play but if Russia win both of their matches, Croatia lose against Macedonia and England beat Croatia next Wednesday then they don’t go through to the finals. It’s a long shot and it wasn’t even available at the normal betting sites. Therefore I took my first shot at using BetFair which is a totally different kind of betting site, called a betting exchange. Here you can place bets ‘against’ results as well and you can choose your odds from a selection. It’s not as complicated as it sounds. For a £25 stake (which was free with the offer I had) I stand to win over £600. Fingers crossed!

Today’s annoyance is Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, insisting that the War On Iraq has not increased the threat of terrorism. I feel so confident which such free thinkers in charge of the country.

Today’s mix tape comes from DJ Rocha with his Made Inn Radio Show mp3 mix - sorry about the RapidShare link. It’s a light deep tech-house mix with nothing too underground or experimental.

Today’s ha! comes from John Scalzi who reports back from the new Creation Museum somewhere in the US. “Every single thing on display in the Creation Museum is either caused by or a consequence of exactly three things: 1. The six-day creation; 2. Adam eating from the tree of life; 3. Noah’s flood.”

Yes, I’ve located some great new mixes for you to download.

First we have an eclectic Charles Webster set (72Mb download | tracklisting) which is part of BodyTonic’s monthly podcasts by deep house DJs.

Featuring tracks by Aphex Twin, Dusty Springfield, Prince, Joni Mitchell as well as Mr Webster himself. This truely is an eclectic mix ranging from soul, nu-gospel, space folk, nu-garage and many more names I could invent.

There’s also his Streetbeat 2007 (68Mb) mix now available for download. Another downtempo set featuring future beats and funked up deep house. Plus a live mix featuring more tech sounds is available for download too - Charles Webster - Live at DEMF Main Stage Mix 63Mb.

If you fancy something slightly different why not try the new mix by Oakland producer Aybee from the DeepBlak stable. There’s a few mixes available on the site but I’m really enjoying his latest offering entitled The Blakout #1 which features past, present and future soul. Simply sublime winter warming music.

Enjoy!

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.