Archive for December, 2006



How Do Lasers Work?

Lasers have been shown in Science Fiction movies for a long time. Just like many inventions, they were first theorized and then made quite a while ago (the first working examples were in the 50’s!). Since then, lasers have been added to nearly every invention, revolutionizing entire industries (music, medical, etc.). Have [...]

Cingular UR GR8…

I received this text message on my phone earlier:
Cingular Free Msg: Your phone can now make international calls from the US & when ur traveling overseas. Stnd intl rates apply visit Cingular.com/international.
They spelled “your” and “international” fully the first time, but then, for the next time, they relied on the “I don’t know how to [...]

When you combine the thought of “porn” and the thought of “music” in your head at the same time, you probably don’t create an analogy but rather you come up with some cheap, 70’s porn music (”bow chicka bow wow”). The truth is that porn collections and music collections are very similar and all [...]

I have been developing a Firefox extension for work in order to make some web development tasks really quick and easy. It’s one of those many-hour projects that saves several minutes here and there. It will have been worth it by the time I graduate… in theory. Though I have only been [...]

Design Basics: CRAP

There are a huge number of ways that people tend to break up the different elements of design, and most are overly complicated. This leaves people to believe that some people are born with a “designer’s eye” and others aren’t. Fortunately, it takes just a little bit of training to start to understand [...]