LMAO

i'm writing a functional spec doc for a new website, as part of my geek duties. i'm trying to keep in mind the idea of knowledge share and developing some ways in which we can template the process so that other ARIs can spec up a new site without having a geek on hand.

why? well, i don't know if you know, but most people running an ARI are >< this close to burnout, so any time spared or shared is a wonderful thing. a bit like the way in which we share plinths, lights, projectors, etc.

in the process, i've discovered joel and his excellent blog on developing/program managing/site building. it's all kinda dry, but this gem amongst a sample spec for a web-based time site was the perfect start to a monday morning:

splash screen
An annoying, gratuitous Shockwave animation that plays stupid music and drives everyone crazy.

lmao. seriously.

in other news, turns out that blogging and reading ender's game has been good preparation for this task: writing in plain english and building consensus. oh yeah.

i am not my swedish furniture

thanks to my creative catalyst pal, stan, i've discovered yet another reason why i love the internet:

the dila swedish furniture name generator. i love a good visual meme.


here's me as an item of swedish furniture







what's your name? go here.

"it would be impossible to go through life without enjoying swearing."

regular readers may well already know these two things about me:
i swear. a lot.
i think stephen fry is a god of sorts.

you may not know that i also think clem bastow (from 3RRR, Dawn Chorus, Dancing About Architecture) is another god of sorts and that she's team captain of a new blog: boy howdy. it's an extension of my other new favourite blog: nerdboyfriend, but way more camp.

so i was delighted to find this over there.



he pretty much sums it up.

fucking lunatics.

apple and peas

i had my first apple store experience the other day. clearly i didn't take advantage...



thanks angus

i'm so postmodern

whilst fucking around on blip.fm the other day, playing songs about art students, i remembered this song... i love it. but then again, i probably wrote it.

Brawl Neuron

Ol' Urban Wren
A Blow Runner
An Owl Burner
Learn, Bow, Run
Nu Low Barren


nominitive determinism.... that's where it's at, i tell ya.

thanks to dell and adam for the wordsmith

a little bit of humour goes a long way #2

i've previously posted about humour in architecture on this blog - now it's all about humour in a help section (like a hero in a half-shell).

i'm trying to work out if you can have a multi-user del.icio.us account - i wanna set one up for our public art course [although i think it'll have to be a full wiki instead, bugger]. while checking out the FAQs, i noticed a nice bit of humour, right at the bottom of the page, after you've had all the frustration of not finding what you're looking for:





cute, huh.

how to work better

A much needed reminder at the moment.



original work by Fischli/Weiss. image from rytc on flickr

my cv as a wordle

ok, so none of you may have found my del.icio.us wordle very exciting, but you're gonna love this one, i just know it.

this is my CV as a wordle thingy. i call it a shoe, 'cos it kinda looks like a shoe. although technically it's probably a cloud. it's so much fun!!





and whoever said i wasn't management material...

i like rice...

"rice is great when you're hungry and you want 2000 of something."

-mitch hedberg