Have you heard of Crystal? In short, it’s a web app that attempts to analyze and summarize your personality through your web presence. Its main objective is to help improve communication — you can look up anyone you wish and their Crystal profile will tell you how best to communicate with them. Some have found […]
Squidix Web Hosting Review… And a Giveaway! [Win One of SIX Hosting Plans!]
In all my years of blogging, I have probably hosted my site, addition to clients’ sites, on over 10 different web hosts. And any idiot can tell you that not all web hosts are built the same. You may remember my troubles with HostGator a couple of years ago. Due to HostGator’s slow speeds, horrible […]
CSS Sans: A Typeface Made Purely of CSS
Yusuke Sugomori, who describes himself as a “creative technologist,” has created a project called CSS Sans — a font collection that is created purely from CSS. A cool feature of the webpage is that as you mouse over a particular CSS class, the portion of the font for which it is responsible gets highlighted: Are there […]
5 Things I Found on the Internet This Week
1. Do you want to code a snowflake? Disney Interactive and Code.org has teamed up to inspire future computer programmers — especially girls — to learn some basic coding skills in a fun, visual way. Head on over to the Frozen Hour of Code to help Anna and Elsa create shapes and patterns on ice using simplified blocks […]
I Am Vincent van Beethoven
I’ve already shared this on Facebook and Twitter, but I found it so fascinating that I need to blog about it too! Map Your Mind is an online quiz created by GE neuroscientists and BrainMic which tells you which famous people’s brains are most like your own. I know all personality tests — especially online […]
Mr. Men, Millennials Edition
I have featured a mashup of the Mr. Men book covers before, and these are too amusing to resist! I especially love Little Miss Danger Selfie in light of CA’s recent pleas to not take selfies with bears. You may also like: The Baby-Sitters Club, 2014 Edition Once Upon an Internet Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine! 13 […]
3 Things I Found on the Internet Today
Happy Halloween! My last two posts have been Halloween-related, but I unfortunately have nothing to add to the holiday today. Instead, I wanted to share with you…wait for it…3 things I found on the internet today! (As if you couldn’t tell from the title! 😛 ) 1. Left or right? Making choices in Snowpiercer I […]
Boo!
Look at me! Did that scare you? 😉 Because it’s pretty freaky, if I may say so myself. As much as I would like to take credit for this zombie effect, I didn’t have to do any work to achieve the ghoulish look (unless you call clicking on some buttons “work”). So no, there will be […]
Two Fascinating, Potentially NSFW Charts
I’m not sure exactly why I find these charts — depicting the various subjects and categories that turn people on and how they differ between men and women — so interesting. Well, duh it’s related to sex so it’s naturally intriguing. But I think for me, the science and research behind human attraction has always been captivating […]
Thoroughly Depressing Comics About Our Relationship to Facebook
FACEBOOK TO BEGIN CHARGING USERS $2.99/MO STARTING NOVEMBER 1ST, the headline read. A friend — who is very active on Facebook with over 1,000 friends and numerous subscribers — had shared the article to her timeline. The response was swift and immediate. Grief. Denial. Rage. Threats to move to other social networks. Only then did an astute […]