Yesterday I was browsing the internet checking out an online furniture catalogue that shall remain nameless. *cough*cough*. Not least of the problem was that clicking on the link to get their opened it in a window that was sized to fill one of my 23″ screens. It then proceeded to have the absolute worse conceivable [...]

Categories: flash · rant

I found this little flash game and decided to check it out. It seems like it’d be fun, I can’t tell because Question #4 works once for me and then never again. I got up to #8 twice, once in safari and once in ff, but then #4 never lets me past again. Sigh. It’s [...]

Categories: flash · gaming

Monday and the Art.
Well… it’s official, the US economy is in the shitter. Greenspan says “The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the second world war.” All this triggered by JP Morgan buying Bear Sterns for $2/share - $236 million. [...]

Categories: art · breakfast links · finance · flash · gaming

The thing that’s dangerous about Microsoft these days is that they’re like the Energizer Bunny. Since nearly any market they get into requires expenditures that are teeny compared to their business of OS and Office Suite, they can lose as much money as they want without it really affecting their bottom line (see Zune). Because [...]

Categories: flash · microsoft · web2.0

If you like seeing old photos skarabej is for you. If you don’t like that, well… maybe you should reconsider your priorities in life, come on, those old photos you find in flea markets and garage sales? Cool! Skarabej is kinda like the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players just without the players and the snark… skarabej [...]

Categories: breakfast links · flash · gaming

First we have this strange story of a Ben Carpenter, a man in a wheelchair because of muscular distrophy. Well, he was trying to cross a highway and the traffic light changed before he was across and a semi plowed into him. I guess he must’ve been right in front of it because instead of [...]

Categories: breakfast links · flash · gaming

Well Boston finally gave up on trying to get Peter Berdovsky and Sean Stevens behind bars. The two who were charged with putting up “hoax” terrorist devices around Boston. Charges were dropped in exchange for community service and a public apology. The whole thing was ridiculous and while I can totally and completely understand the [...]

Categories: breakfast links · flash · gaming · travel

Just read that Sun is throwing it’s hat into the rich internet application ring with a Java FX offering. Trying to compete with Flash, AJAX and the soon to be Silverlight - it certainly is a crowded ring.
The article suggests that it’ll have a leg up on it’s competitors because there’s a lot of java [...]

Categories: flash · javascript

I recently stumbled across Phatterism, a homepage. It is a really cool flash app and I haven’t seen anything like it. The nav is really humanizing, I found it quite clever and well thought out. It makes you kind of want to click around to see what else happens.
But I think it demonstrates some of [...]

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