Archive for the 'Quirky' Category

Student suspended over the use of PHP

Monday, May 16th, 2005

A student was suspended for the use of PHP in Topeka, Kansas.
“A teacher overheard him say that he was using PHP, and as part of our Zero-Tolerance policy against drug use, he was immediately suspended. No questions asked,” said Principal Clyde Thurlow.

Don’t steal my Flash

Tuesday, May 10th, 2005

http://www.utapikes.com/ thought that the Nameless UK’s ‘page not found’ 404 error page was well cool, and so they just linked to the nice piece of Flash from their 404 page too.
–> Now clear your cache, otherwise you won’t see the funny
The Nameless UK found out. And pulled a prank. Check out their 404 page, which […]

PTR - get paid to read

Monday, May 2nd, 2005

I came across a “paid to read” (PTR) program today and seriously considered signing up. There are a load of these out there. The one I came across is called netbux.org. Every time you do an internet search from their homepage, they supposedly give you 2 dollarcents. They pay you out when you get over […]

If architects had to work like web designers

Friday, April 29th, 2005

A poignant analogy of what it would be like for an architect to work as we web designers often have to.

Everybody has to cross the river

Wednesday, April 27th, 2005

It took me a good 15 minutes.
Instructions: to start click on the big blue circle on the right, to move the people click on them. To move the raft click on the pole on the opposite side of the river.
Rules:

Only 2 persons on the raft at a time
The father can not stay with any of […]

Opera CEO swims from Norway to USA

Tuesday, April 26th, 2005

What a stunt! Opera’s CEO, Jon S. von Tetzchner, promised his team that he would swim from Norway to the USA if Opera 8 reached more than 1 million downloads in 4 days on it’s launch day.
The bastards at Opera communications took the challenge and made the bold statement public.
And he’s doing it! Of […]

Describe the picture

Monday, April 25th, 2005

I came across WordsEye the other day, well worth a look!