11.10.09
Burj Dubai’s Fountain Dance
Looks like the Bellagio has some competition…
11.05.09
Your Tax Money at Work
Here’s a nice picture of everyone in Congress playing solitaire…
From Casey’s Daily Dispatch:
Here we see House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk (standing on far right) speaking while colleagues Rep. Barbara Lambert, D-Milford, and Rep. Jack F. Hennessy, D-Bridgeport, play Solitaire as the House convenes to vote on a new budget.
Also, you’ll notice the guy sitting in front of these two to the right is on Facebook and the guy behind Hennessy is checking out the baseball scores.
10.22.09
Deep Fried Everything!
Ahh… the North Carolina State Fair Cuisine in its highest form…
Highlights include deep fried PB&J, deep fried cheese burger, deep fried mac and cheese, and a variety of deep fried desserts such as oreos, candy bars, and pecan pie.
Your heart surgeon thanks you for your future business.
Pictures are from my friend Liz M.
10.19.09
Click Here
Why have I recently started to use “Click Here” in websites?
From Dustin Curtis:
There has been a lot of discussion about labeling links with literal callouts for the action or word to click. The appendages for “here” and “click here” are contextually messy and visually ugly, but if they improve usability, it might be a worthy tradeoff. For this test, I was curious about how it would affect the raw clickthrough rate.
This result surprised me. Simply adding “here” as the link at the end of the phrase increased the clickthrough rate by 27% to 12.81%.
10.18.09
Ukraine’s Got Talent
Kseniya Simonova is a Ukrainian artist who just won Ukraine’s version of “America’s Got Talent.” She uses a giant light box, dramatic music, imagination and “sand painting” skills to interpret Germany’s invasion and occupation of Ukraine during WWII.
Video is 8 minutes.
10.04.09
Word Processor
The last time somebody said, ‘I find I can write much better with a word processor.’, I replied, ‘They used to say the same thing about drugs.’
-Roy Bount Jr.
09.30.09
Wormwood
Saw this in the store, was quite surprised – Absente. “The first absinthe style drink to be sold in the US since 1912.” Apparently the US Govt finally lifted the ban on wormwood?
09.25.09
Time Life Photos
Photos from Life Magazine from the 1860s to the 1970s are now available on Google Image Search…
