Archive for 'Design'

Review: Dell Inspiron 6000

I took delivery of a brand-new Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop today, which I got a pretty good deal on using one of Dell’s common online coupons (never pay full price for Dell stuff!). Basic features are a 1.86GHz/2MB cache/533MHz FSB Pentium M 750 processor and 128MB DDR ATI Mobility Radeon X300 video. This is primarily [...]

Reinventing the Designer

Globalization is perhaps the most significant modern trend affecting the fundamental role of today’s designer. At the same time, the need for universal design is a major factor that must provide motivation for the contemporary designer to work in new ways. I believe that these two influences will combine in a mutually reinforcing way to [...]

Great review of cordless drills

I’m looking to replace an old cordless drill that no longer holds a charge and came across this pretty good article about current cordless drill products, options, and technology. It’s a shame that I’m having to replace my current drill, but unfortunately it was a bargain buy at the time and the company that made [...]

Salad Fingers

I came across this Flash animation series by a young artist named David Firth. Salad Fingers is a dark, sometimes comical but more often just plain disturbing look inside the mind of a lonely, childlike soul who enjoys nothing more than to stroke rusty metal surfaces with his long green fingers. I really enjoy the [...]