Browsing articles from "February, 2009"
Feb
16
2009

New Simpsons opener for HD

It’s been almost 19 years but The Simpsons has never failed on staying fresh and entertaining. The one thing that has stayed the same, apart from the kids never growing up has been the opening sequence, till now. Here is the new opener which makes great use of the widescreen format (16:9) to highlight changes to the lives of the townsfolk of Springfield as well as expanding on lost screen realestate of familiar shots from [...]

Feb
15
2009

Gravatars. It’s you baby, it’s you.

What’s a Gravatar? A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from blog to blog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on blogs? I use one and you see it with my posts. Yes, that smiling face to the left. When you post a link or comment on a blogsite with Gravatars [...]

Feb
15
2009

Save the Words!

I am now the proud parent of an adopted word. “Icasm” means figurative expression, as in “The President’s address was full of icasm, which probably means he didn’t understand it either” (written when Bush was in office I guess). You too can adopt a word at savethewords.org. The website is a fully interactive flash site where you browse a wall full of words I bet you didn’t use in your last office presentation or family [...]

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