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Yahoo! Mail Beta

As many of you may know Yahoo! has just launched their Yahoo! Mail Beta service, and invites are pretty hard to come by, unless, of course, you know a way around it. First of I'd like to thank my good friend Edward for introducing me to this method through AIM, thanks a lot Edward. Getting [...]


Categorized as Design, Media, Technology

Digg is Corrupted

Well, the past few days have been extremely interesting to me. I'm slowly seeing the downfall of Digg.com, a social networking website where users choose the stories they want to see, or so we all thought. In the recent weeks situations have occured where multiple stories appeared on the front page of Digg.com. The odd [...]


Categorized as Blog, Miscellany, Technology

Question: Is April Fools still cool?

Is it just me, or has April Fool's Day lost its attraction? Years ago I remember plotting for months at a time ways to pull pranks on my family, but it all seems worthless now. With the popularity of the internet almost every website seems to feel they need to pull a prank. Slashdot released [...]


Categorized as Blog, Design, Media, Technology

Another Quark Logo Redesign

Well, Quark has once again redesigned their logo, and again, it reminds me of another logo. For some reason the subtle bevel and drop shadows remind me of the Ubisoft logo. Maybe all of that gaming is going to my head, or maybe there really is a similarity. 
From Digg.com: In September 2005, trumpets blared and [...]


Categorized as Design, Technology

Halo 3 aka Project Forerunner

Wow, just read this huge comment over at Digg.com by hectorhector. A link popped up at Game Informer discussing Halo 3 and how it has been dubbed “Forerunner”. Many think this is an April Fool’s Joke, but I’ll let you decide. Take a look at this comment and let me know what you think. Note [...]


Categorized as Media, Technology