Anything and Everything that is cool, hot, fresh and classic.
If you’re doing any kind of ‘for print’ creative work, it’s important to calibrate your monitor so that what you see on screen is what you see on paper.
Calibrize is a new freeware app that’s designed to help you “calibrate the colors of your monitor in three simple steps. Just download the software and follow the procedure to generate a reliable color ‘profile’ and adjust the colors of your monitor automatically.”
Are you ready to Calibrize?
[Via: The Red Ferret Journal]
Which do you choose?
If you’re trying to save the world, then your answer should be neither, as both come with downsides that negatively (and drastically) affect the environment.
To see exactly what each choice is doing to the environment, check out the The Washington Post’s comparison; because small changes are needed if we want to make a big difference.
Is there a difference between Facebook and MySpace users?
Danah Boyd seems to think so, and has written an entire paper about the socioeconomic divide that separates the MySpacers from the Facebookers. Which side are you on?
[Viewing American Class Divisions Through Facebook And MySpace]
This Ecto 1 is impressive not for its attention to detail, but because it’s made entirely out of paper! Part of Paper Inside, a paper model blog, the Ecto 1 model is just one of the extremely intricate paper models that are featured. Other notable models include the Back to the Future DeLorean, the General Lee, the Mach-5, and the Mad Max Interceptor. Each one comes with finalized photos to give you an idea of the end result, and pdf printouts if you want to try it yourself. Small hand and large patience are definitely required for assembly.
[Via: Autoblog]
Today is one of the Internet’s favorite holidays. Though I’m not going to try and trick any of the DYH readers (I promise), I am going to be covering the hoaxes and pranks that appear around the net. Here are some of the better ones:
Google announced Gmail Paper, a permanent archive service that prints your emails for free onto paper that is supported by giant ads that are printed on the back. It handles attachments, is good for the environment, and there is no limit on the number of times you can use it.
Google announced TiSP, a free in-home wireless broadband service that taps into your toilet. The service is supported by the use of “information gathered by discreet DNA sequencing of your personal bodily output to display online ads that are contextually relevant to your culinary preferences, current health status and likelihood of developing particular medical conditions going forward”.
Woot sold a $1,000,001 bag of crap. When users clicked on the picture of the bag, they were given a coupon code that knocked the cost down to $1.
Tech Crunch, a site that focuses on Web 2.0 startups, announced that it had acquired Fucked Company, a site that focuses on Web 2.0 shutdowns.
ThinkGeek announced “stuff for smart asses”, including a WiiHelm(et), an 8-bit tie, inhalable caffeine stix, and a lonely guy dream vacation digital photo frame. (They also announced that the iPhone was now shipping, but that’s just cruel.)
CollegeHumor made it look as if their domain had expired and was now for sale through GoDaddy.
Technorati switched around their letters and renamed their site haterTonic.
World Of Warcraft introduced a new item called the Tinfoil Hat. “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you”.
CrunchGear gave their entire site a 1999 redesign, complete with flashy gifs, a horrible background, and a no structure (though it still reminds me of a lot of current MySpace profile pages).
Peter Callesen can do more with a piece of A4 paper and some imagination than I could ever hope to do with unlimited supplies and some art school. Using only a little bit of glue, he creates work that literally pops off the paper.
