Archive for November, 2004
Bruno Bozzetto - Champion animator
Saturday, November 27th, 2004
This is Bozzetto’s hilarious take on how the Italians differ from the rest of Europe. I particularly like the cafe scene where you hear how many ways you can order your coffee. They know no shame in being fussy - on the contrary, it’s a sign of fine culture and good taste.
Un cappucco scuro senza […]
Saturday, November 27th, 2004
Tried posting an animated gif w/o success. This one gets the message across anyway. I feel I have to confess: I bought some tomato soup, two baguettes, one Asahi beer, two bottles of Chilean wine and one of Beaujolais nouveau (heeyyyy it’s the weekend fer chrissakes!), four yoghurts, gluten-free pasta and bread rolls and that’s […]
Sweet IE shortcut
Thursday, November 25th, 2004
ALT+DSelects the text in the Address bar
CTRL+ENTER (this is the sweet one)Adds “www.” to the beginning and “.com” to the end of the text typed in the Address bar.
I know, I know, autocomplete is better but I just flushed my caches this morning. My office mate had to spend five hours watching the helpdesk guy […]
Keyboard-controlled art
Monday, November 22nd, 2004
I see this won a Macromedia award in 2001, well worth it when you see the way the interactivity works so fluidly with Shockwave.
This piece is by Nicolas Clauss, an immensely talented artist whose pieces are some of the best work I’ve seen on the Web. The clips are at once disturbing, moving and amusing; […]
