Worlds tallest buildings.

Cool site that shows the worlds tallest buildings, including proposed, currently standing, and destroyed structures all over the globe.

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Amazing HDR Image of Chicago Nightscape

This is what happens with $4000 camera, the Chicago skyline at night, and an HDR lens. Unlike the Tokyo version this looks just as stunning full size.

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Amazing Folding Couch! Unbelievable Video!

The sofa appears to be made out of hundreds of thin, flat chair-shaped silhouettes, joined together by some kind of membrane in an accordion that can collapse down into a dictionary-think chunk or be spread out for feet on end, as a divan, chair or sofa. (via BoingBoing)

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Color matching sphere (Great for people that need color schemes)

It matches colors that fit well together. This is really helpful when designing anything. You can pick a color that you want to use, then it will give you colors that go good with it.

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Photos of people pulling a Matrix

Gravity is a law and is meant to be broken.

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Black Google Would Save 3,000 Megawatts a Year

An all white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts. See what happens when you do the math on Google's home page. Astounding.

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Flickr's Desktop Wallpaper Pool

Over 1,800 Flickr users have posted their favorite wallpaper photos. Minimum 1024x768 resolution.

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PICTURE: Geeky Girlfriend Makes A World Of Warcraft Themed B-Day Cake

"My a good friend makes kick-ass cakes as a hobby. Last year she started dating my old roomate who plays World of Warcraft a fair amount around his job; for christmas she aquired a "WoW stole my boyfriend" t-shirt. She is good-natured about his love of Warcraft, however, as shown by the birthday cake she made him three weeks ago"

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Clean CSS

CSS Formatter and Optimiser (based on csstidy 1.1)

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View Any Page In Grayscale With GrayBit

GrayBit is an online accessibility testing tool designed to visually convert any full-color web page into a grayscale rendition for the purpose of visually testing the page’s perceived contrast.

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Web-Sites of the Month: The Best of January 2007

We continue to collect the best web-development-related sites, articles, references, tutorials and freebies released or published online over the last month. Below you’ll find a list of useful resources you shouldn’t have missed in January 2007. You really shouldn't.

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Photograph of a lightbulb burning out

To create the shot, my friend Harley and I removed the glass enclosure of a standard household lightbulb (while leaving the innards intact) and powered it up in a pitch black room. The result was an immediate burn-out, which we were all to ready to photograph.

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Building a Car, Open Source-Style

Inspired by Linux, the OScar project is assembling volunteers to apply their collective talents to the task of designing a new breed of car.

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Weirdest search engine EVER!

This site is just too funny. Try the guided search. "By searching with a Guide your query is sent to a real person who is skilled at finding information on the internet and knowledgable on the subject at hand so that you get the few exact results you want, not the millions of results you don't."

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StyleMap: HTML Visual Sitemap Tool

StyleMap uses valid HTML, CSS and a touch of DOM scripting to produce a visual sitemap out of an embedded definition list. The result is a functional, scalable, and above-all rapid way to produce a tree-style map for the planning stages of your project.

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pi in colors

each of the 10 possible decimals of the number pi is displayed by a distinct colored pixel.

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Are you measuring the wrong thing just because it is easy to measure?

Technorati ranks, Diggs, calories burned on the treadmill. We measure stuff because we can get high resolution, not because it's relevant.

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Focal Length and Aperture Explained for the Photography Novice

The focal length of a lens determines its angle of view, and also how much the subject will be magnified for a given photographic position. The aperture range of a lens refers to the amount of light that the diaphragm can let inside the camera to reach the sensor. Here are some pictures explaining this functions very clear.

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Create a realistic vector self portrait in 2 minutes using Illustrator

After seeing several tutorials on “how to create a self vector portrait using illustrator," that take several hours, here is the 2 minute version.

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Amazing Folding Couch! Unbelievable Video!

The sofa appears to be made out of hundreds of thin, flat chair-shaped silhouettes, joined together by some kind of membrane in an accordion that can collapse down into a dictionary-think chunk or be spread out for feet on end, as a divan, chair or sofa. (via BoingBoing)

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PICTURE: Geeky Girlfriend Makes A World Of Warcraft Themed B-Day Cake

"My a good friend makes kick-ass cakes as a hobby. Last year she started dating my old roomate who plays World of Warcraft a fair amount around his job; for christmas she aquired a "WoW stole my boyfriend" t-shirt. She is good-natured about his love of Warcraft, however, as shown by the birthday cake she made him three weeks ago"

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Google's obscure literary reference for Valentine's Day?

Did anybody notice today's "Google" logo? Doesn't it look like "Googe"? I did some very brief digging and found an obscure literary reference for Valentine's Day!

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Why are people fascinated by photographs of crowds?

This blog provides commentary and analysis on images of crowds, looking at why our eyes are drawn to certain kinds of crowd formations. Why do some crowds seem disturbing, and others natural? How does composition affect our responses?

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Better approach to building CSS layouts

Learn how to use ems instead of pixels to build scalable and accessible CSS design. Em Calculator helps you in this process, converting pixel values to em - unit which depends on text size and showing results in convenient tree updated on the fly.

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Amazing HDR Image of Tokyo Nightscape

Flickr user /ltus's amazing HDR image Tokyo Nightscape "taken atop the Roppongi Hills Mori Building in Tokyo, Japan." Be sure to go to the 3008 x 2000 full-size image for the full effect.

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Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface

"The ubiquity of frustrating, unhelpful software interfaces has motivated decades of research into “Human-Computer Interaction.” In this paper, I suggest that the long-standing focus on “interaction” may be misguided. For a majority subset of software, called “information software,..."

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LA Times Uses 22 Different Fonts on Front Page

Just scroll down a lil and you'll see the front page and the disasterous, Ransom-note mix of fonts, all itemized....

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Redoable 1.0 Theme for Wordpess

This new theme for Wordpress is based upon the great K2 theme it supports sidebar widgets, has built in support for more than a dozen popular plugins. It comes with an easy to use admin interface to help configure it suit your needs, and to help setup some of the plugins. Also available are two plugins, Ultimate Category Cloud and Rechuked Buttons.

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CSS-Based Forms, Modern Solutions

Good examples of beautiful functional Web 2.0 forms. I know I'll be including some variation of these in my next website.

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Why do all resumes for designers suck? (And what you can do about it.)

If designers are supposed to be able to communicate ideas through graphic treatment, what does it mean that nearly all designer's resumes look like they're for accountants? Here's an article with examples, advice, and thoughts on why it's important to actually think about what you're doing as a designer.

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