Blog for August 2013

Womp Womp Womp

When its useful to have a sad trombone handy...

Fractal Machine

Neat little JavaScript/canvas fractal generator.

Thor: The Dark World, trailer

Winnipeg Parking Fail

Designed to publicly shame and embarrass fellow Winnipegers for some less than stellar parking attempts. Better take a quick look to see if your own car is featured :)

Salvattore

A jQuery Masonry alternative with CSS-driven configuration.

NoFlo Development Environment

An interesting approach to visually crafting apps: "Software begins as boxes & arrows on a whiteboard, let’s keep it that way! Imagine, a platform that eliminates spaghetti code..."

Muppets Most Wanted, teaser trailer

Skeuocard

Skeuocard progressively enhances credit card inputs to provide a skeuomorphic interface.

Creative Link Effects

A collection of subtle and modern effects for links or menu items

Bezos Buys Post For $250 million

Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and the world's 19th-richest man, has acquired TheWashington Post for $250 million in cash.

Kickstarter is coming to Canada

"Beginning today (like, right now!), people in Canada can start building their projects by clicking on the "Start a new project" button on the Start page. Starting Monday September 9, people in Canada will be able to launch their projects. We'll send an email that day letting everyone know when they can click the launch button."

TimelineJS

An embeddable dyanamic timeline, backed by a Google docs spreadsheet.

Animated line drawing in SVG

Animated SVG path buy using dashed strokes technique. We were exploring this ideas recently for our Lab splash screen http://www.thelizardlab.net

Augmented Reality IKEA Catalog

Now That It's in the Broadband Game=2C Google Flip-Flops on Network Neutrality

"When it was just a set of online services, Google happened to fall on the side of citizens and used to advocate against broadband companies controlling the pipes. Now that it’s an ISP itself, Google is becoming a net neutrality hypocrite."

Paper Plane Animation

Ha! Now that's a slick way to submit a contact form :D

Slow Swordfighting

Cennydd Bowles writes a great piece about spending a day at the World Chess Championship Candidates Tournament.