Doodlebrain’s Pen Brushes for PS
Martin of DoodleBrain.DK has publicly made available his highly Photoshop pen brushes designed specifically to emulate real lead pencils and drawing pencils. [via]
Scalable CSS arrows
Mathew Pennell writes up Anton Peck's technique for Scalable CSS arrows. Another gem found on Oxton's mailing list.
Prehistoric Big Bird
The popular image of Tyrannosaurus rex and other predatory dinosaurs may have to be changed as a scientific consensus emerges that many were covered with feathers…
Gareth Dyke, a palaeontologist of University College Dublin, will tell the BA Festival of Science being held in the city that most such creatures were coated with delicate feathery plumage that could even have been multi-coloured. Fossil evidence that such dinosaurs were feathered is now "irrefutable".
Somehow, a T-Rex is just that bit less terrifying when it looks like Big Bird… [via]
Linotype FontExplorer X
Font Explorer X, a free alternative to Fontbook, applies the iTunes design model to typography. [via]
Microsoft Gadgets - Creative Innovation
Have you ever wondered how new technologies get developed in Microsoft? Wonder how a cool idea goes from incubation to release? Well, we’re excited to announce that we’ve started a blog designed to bring you closer to the process with the Gadgets blog and we’re kicking it off at the PDC.
Microsoft Gadgets
Microsoft innovates again by developing Konfabulator Widgets Dashboard Widgets Windows Gadgets. They've received quite a pasting in their blog post announcement.
Times iPod Nano article
There's a Time's feature talking about how Apple created the iPod Nano. They even have a few words with Jonathan Ive in there as well. [via]
Pixel2life
Pixel2life is a search engine specifically designed for searching development tutorials. Functions more as a directory listing with search capabilities at the moment but could be handy for some.
Cost of New Orleans
The bill to resurrect New Orleans is now estimated at $200 billion. If $200 billion were distributed to all New Orleans residents, that’s $413,000 per person. For a family of six on welfare, that’s $2.4 million
And all this assumes the bill stays at $200 billion. Many think the real number will be well north of this. $300 billion or more.
An interesting discussion on the cost of rebuilding New Orleans at MikeIndustries.
Wiki reference of the day: Go Board Game
Wiki reference of the day: Go Board Game
Colour Perception examples
Our perception of colour is heavily influenced by the surrounding colours. Some interesting examples illustrating factors governing our perception of colours [via Matthew Oliphant]