deviantART v5: where ART meets application!

deviantART: where ART meets application!
Great news,.. I think. DeviantArt recently announced their v5 to be released on August 7th; it’ll be their 6th birthday.

It can only be an improvement I think.

First and foremost, the layout. It’s the first thing you see when you visit a site, it’s the first thing you really gauge your opinion of a website on. Combined with the colorscheme makes it just plain ugly.
Navigation is a mess, deviations are nested inside multiple categories. I’m no expert but I think it would be better to use tags instead of categories, like Flickr.
Ads, the homepage doesn’t have ads below the navigation, but every other page has a big block of google’s adsense crammed in between.
I can’t really flame on ads because everybody’s got to make a little money and they got their servers to pay too. Although, I bet they make enough money off of the custom prints they sell.
Aside from the website itself, it’s a great community of talented artists giving away their creations for free.
I go their about once a week to pick out a new dual screen desktop wallpaper(not bragging or anything :-)). I always end up satisfied and astonished.

Here are some of my favorite deviants.(deviants=users, deviations=creations)…
Continue reading

Danger Doom - Occult Hymn Free EP

Danger Doom - Occult Hymn Free EP

The Mouse, the Mask and, of course, Master Shake and the crew are back. Dangerdoom, the collaboration between Danger Mouse and MF Doom, released a free nine-track EP via adultswim.com. The duo released The Mouse And The Mask last year, which won “Best Hip Hop Album Of The Year” at the Plug Independent Music Awards.

The EP features special guests Madlib along with skits and sound clips from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Squidbillies and Minoriteam.
The EP will be available for limited time only, so get it fast.

A mint version of the Bellagio Fountains

You may know of the concept or seen a video online (like this or this) about dropping a mentos candy in a bottle of diet coke. It creates a chemical reaction of some sort where the coke spits out like a geyser.
Well.. here’s the extreme edition A mint version of the Bellagio Fountains
Here’s some science about it.

Can You Hack It? (2006)

Can You Hack It? (2006)
Apple computer co-founder Steve Wozniak, Technology broadcaster Leo Laporte and Kevin Spacey team up for a movie.
This film explores the origin of the true Hacker versus today’s computer criminals by following the adventures of Adrian Lamo. The movie is in post-production and also has archival footage of digg.com’s Kevin Rose.

YouTube - Valve’s Portal

Valve just released this first trailer of Portal, their very experimental first person puzzle game announced with the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Half Life 2/Team Fortress 2. Clearly Prey gave the Valve developers some very nice ideas about how use this cool technology.

This game looks awesome.
Sadly this game seems like it is being developed for the XBox 360 and the PS3. Lets hope it comes out for the PC…if so, I’m buying it :)
Check out the youtube trailer…
Continue reading

Dutch court lets paedophile party into election

Dutch court lets paedophile party contest country’s general election

The Netherlands cemented its reputation as Europe’s most socially liberal country today when a new political party formed by paedophiles was told it could contest this year’s general election.

A Dutch court rejected an attempt by anti-paedophile campaigners to ban the Brotherly Love, Freedom and Diversity party, which wants to cut the age of consent from 16 to 12 and to legalise child pornography. “The freedom of expression, the freedom of assembly and the freedom of association should be seen as the foundations of the democratic rule of law and the PNVD is also entitled to these freedoms,” the court in The Hague said in a statement.

Non Phixion Disbands

NONPHIXION.COM | The Official NON PHIXION Website

Unfortunately all good things come to an end. Within any group, team or unit each individual must pull their own weight for that unit to exist and prosper. After years of dealing with and concealing Goretex’s general unreliability and total lack of interest in touring, writing and recording music with Non Phixion, the rest of the group has reluctantly opted to bring it to a dignified end in order to maintain the group’s integrity. Continuing on without any one member of this group would be bullshit.

also read a speech from necro…

Been confirmed on unclehowie.com and nonphixion.com, they split because of being finally too sick of Goretex’s slackness of never turning up at the studio, rushing verses and having no drive to perform and in turn delaying the release of the Secret Society album and others, deep shit!

whether you’re a fan of them or not, these posts r pretty heavy stuff, necro kinda gettin caned for this cuz its childish that they been down for so long n as soon as its aired that they’ve split, he totally slates the fuck out of Goretex where as the rest of the crew tryna b civil bout it.

check the necro message boards for more..

Dvorak: The Problems With CSS Code

Interesting article about The Problems With CSS Code according to controversial technology critic John C Dvorak.
Apparently Dvorak is bugged by css, because creating a new blogdesign is harder than he thought. Nothing looks the same in every other browser.
Although he has some good points, I don’t trust anything he says about webdesign, just look at his blog.

Last.fm redesign and …greasemonkey

Last.fm added some more eyecandy, totally unnecessary, a new friends system and a new client. The client is pretty cool, it replaces the plugins for all the popular players. On the other hand, it’s another application running in the background.

Most greasemonkey scripts that I had installed for last.fm stopt working because of the html redesign. Just have to wait for updates.

These are the ones I use(ed):

• Last.fm play statistics! 1.2e
• Last.fm Chart Changes
• Last.fm - Highlight Same Artists

My User Page

btw I wrote a greasemonkey script myself, it automatically redirects any moviemeter page to its corresponding imdb page. Unfortunately I forgot my password of my userscripts.org profile, so I can’t edit this script anymore.
Have fun.