It hit me today that a site with nothing but lists, should include iTunes lists. Nothing too fancy - just the top 10 whatever I feel like from iTunes. I’ll try to do these regularly, mixed with the other lists, but it should make for an easy way to stay on top of what’s popular.

Cube is a singleplayer and multiplayer first person shooter that provides satisfying and fast oldskool gameplay. This opensource game is built on an entirely new and very unconventional engine. Cube is a landscape-style engine that pretends to be an indoor FPS engine, which combines very high precision dynamic occlusion culling with a form of geometric mipmapping on the whole world for dynamic LOD for configurable fps & graphic detail. Most of the engine design is targeted at reaching feature richness through simplicity of structure and brute force, rather than finely tuned complexity. 
 This iphone port is provided by fernLightning is a technology demo that supports all of the functionality of the desktop version including multiplayer, in-game editing, cooperative editing, demo recording, etc (though some of these are impractical on the iphone) - please visit the official Cube homepage http://www.cubeengine.com/ for more information. Furthermore we encourage people to check out the newest version of Cube - Cube 2: Sauerbraten - a far more powerful and modern version. fernLighting thanks Wouter van Oortmerssen of dot3labs for his permission to release this port.

Continue Reading

I really don’t have to explain what a Facebook staus update is, do I? Didn’t think so. One of my Facebook friends’ status today read, “Dropping the kids off at the pool.” If you’ve read this blog for any length of time, you probably know where my mind went, but it made me wonder if there was a place to find funny status updates that people could “borrow,” and it turns out, there is. The status updates in this post are all from a site called The Collection of Funny Facebook Status Updates. What follows are what I consider the 20 best status updates from that site…and they welcome you to use them.

Continue Reading

So last month, I had this idea of doing a weekly post featuring photos from Flickr using a popular keyword search. The result was Friday Flickr Tag Fun: 9 “Alaska” Photos. The post did better than I expected, but I forgot all about the idea by the next Friday. Tonight, it hit me like a brick, so I’m going to give it another shot. Here’s how it works - each week, I’ll check Google Trends for the most popular search, and I’ll put that/those keywords into Flickr (Creative Commons), and post the results.

Tonight’s most popular search term is Brad Pitt Tattoos. Umm….ok. From what I can gather, Brad Pitt was on Oprah today, and was uncomfortably confronted by a fan. If you want to find out more, just do the search. Here are the pics that came up in Flickr:

1. Brad and Shiloh Pitt

Continue Reading

There are many trends we see popping up in web design, but one that seems to really making a surge is a trend toward dark sites. I’m guessing it has something to do with everyone going “green” these days, and trying to do what they can to help the environment. I don’t know if dark sites save much energy, but the sites listed here are stunning! They use the dark to create drama. Adding color to a dark design creates a rich and tasty contrast, and one of the most common features of these sites is the saturated imagery. If you’re anything like me, you study amazing sites for inspiration, and hopefully, these won’t let you down.

1. Sawyer Hollenshead

Continue Reading

It’s hard not to notice everyone “Going Green” these days. What seems like over-hyped marketing tactics, helping the environment isn’t all about selling cars and laptops. There are small things we can each do to help out the environment, and they don’t take much effort. Below are five easy ways you can help the environment - starting today.

Continue Reading

From Cracked:

There are two kinds of people in this world. Some people will look at a construction crane and think “Oh, look, it’s a construction crane.” Others will look at that same crane and think, “Oh, hey, I’ve gotta go have sex on that construction crane, right this second.” This article’s about that second group.

See the list of 10 Worst Places to Get Caught Having Sex

From Mashable:

HD Video isn’t just coming to every television screen, it’s making its way online as well. From well known video sites like YouTube to unknown upstarts like Vuze, many online video services are embracing the new standard.

Here’s a list of 20 great sources where you can find High Definition videos. Making the switch is easy; the only thing that’s blurred is the line between online and offline entertainment.

See the List

From PSDTUTS:

Before you can create Photoshop masterworks, you need to learn the basics. Even the most complex digital artworks are built on a foundation of simple actions. These 50 tutorials are aimed at the clever beginner who wants to master Photoshop from the roots.

See the List

From Abduzeedo:

Since the very beginning of Abduzeedo, our team has been bringing cool photography inspiration for you. We’ve featured many awesome photographers, from the ones with innovative techniques to oldschool guys, and all that. And today we’ve made a list. We love lists.

See the List

From Sacrilicious Marketing:

Ever want to be famous? We all secretly harbor delusions of gandeur, but luckily, the Internet has provided even the least likely celebrity candidate the ability to blog, film, podcast, tweet, blip, digg their way to pseudo-stardom. So, if you want to be famous, take a page from one of the following totally ordinary people that are legends in your living room because of the big bad “inter-web.”

See the List