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Welcome, Balloon Racers! Need a boost?
The race is on now and I’m happy to see all of you fellow racers coming by.
Feeling a bit tired? Here’s a cool refreshing beverage:
Beaded Game Characters [Updated]
Some make game characters more realistic by “untooning” them, I do the opposite by “beading” them… Here’s a truncated repost of a few game characters I did way back using beads as a medium. Sort of pixel art you could say.
I might just have to steal Pixeloo’s idea though and try this out for myself as well, perhaps both “untooned” and “beaded” — call it an unofficial collaboration if you will :)
Gallery back, again
This is what I get for brutally tearing down my site, having to rebuild an entire gallery. A pleasant surprise this time around however was the new gallery function introduced with WordPress 2.5
The gallery is currently 100% plugin-independent which is always a good thing. I also have a lot more control over it now since it’s all built manually with pages.
But I couldn’t find any guides on how to do it so I’m thinking maybe I should write a little guide on how I did it in case anyone would like to try it out for themselves(?)
Spore Creature Creator - Scrab, others
Another Oddworld habitant, this time the Scrab. But that’s not all folks, I’ve been having some fun creating other various creatures too, and I’m betting you might recognize the squiggly tentacles in this group of what I’ve created so far:
8 Million+ Firefox 3 downloads in 24hrs
And P.S.
I’m loving FF3, it just feels so much smoother, faster and finally it integrates well with the Mac theme natively, all compared to FF2.
Awesome work - we’re almost there!
Personalized Firefox 3 Download Day certificate
Via Lifehacker
Spore Creature Creator - Munch
So I got the Spore Creature Creator (Demo) for Mac yesterday. And, yeah, I know I’m late but I’ve been putting off updating to OS X 10.5.3 for some time now. Anyways, I’m a big fan of Oddworld and thought this game fits the theme perfectly, thus here’s my attempt at Munch, or a Munch-like creature at least. The demo is pretty limited so this is as close as I could, using some dirty tricks to get the eyes and mouth half-assed done.
Firefox 3.0 Today
Today is the big day we’ve all been waiting for! Firefox 3.0 is right around the corner but not only that, in case you haven’t heard, they are gonna try to set a world record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours.
Pledge to download and get a reminder the second it’s available!
WordPress 2.5
It just had to come to this, I’m afraid. My old 2.3 installation was way past it’s date and beyond the ability to update because of all my customizations to the core (not to mention incredibly hacker friendly due to newly discovered security holes)
This time around I’ll try to take a non-intrusive approach to customizing it, like plug-in-based-only and hopefully upgrading to 2.*-3.0 won’t be so painful in the future.
Now all I have to do is find a good theme, a bunch of plug-ins and start manually importing one and one post to get this site back on it’s feet.
Thanks for you patience in the mean time, and if there’s anything you’re looking for, any links or whatever, just leave a comment in this post and I’ll see what I can do.
The Kissing Lincolns Penny
Back in the days my grandfather worked as a machinist on a big freighter. He would travel all over the world and whenever he was on shore leave he’d collect lots of coins as souvenirs. Last year he handed over his entire collection to me — I just took a quick look through the collection and stored it away as coin collecting ain’t exactly my favorite hobby.
So, this Sunday I’m watching The Simpsons where Homer and Bart was collecting coins and discovers a page in the collection book with a reserved slot for a misprint coin, “The Kissing Lincolns Penny” and I’m thinking “Wow, there’s more of these?” That’s because I remember seeing a similar coin in my grandfathers collection, but didn’t really give it any more notice.
Anyways, I looked through the big bag o’ coins today and managed to find it again, scanned it for your viewing pleasure, and as you can see, it sure is one of the “Kissing Lincolns” coins, if not the only one? :O
P.S. Notice what category this is filed under.
Kotaku Jetto Pepakurafuto
My submission to a contest over at www.kotaku.com which involved making a paper airplane.