Monthly Archives: January 2010

Visitor Distribution for Willshouse.com

It looks like the willshouse.com is a bit more popular, especially internationally, than I had anticipated. Here’s a map of the last 500 visitors as of today.

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Google gets crazy with Newton’s Apples

Google is celebrating Newton’s Birthday today with a poppy javasript falling apple. Google recently added javascript to their homepage with the fade in /  fade out of the text around the edges. Google usually adds cool graphics for holiday’s like … Continue reading

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Awesome RSS Icon Source

I just learned about Feed Icons – “The Home of the Standard Web Feed Icon”

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Vatican City / 3D Tours

Just found this great site which offers 360 views of St Peter’s and Vatican City. http://www.panoramicearth.com/65/Rome/St_Peter’s_Basilica Nice integration of google maps, too.

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Wikipedia Icons

Here are a few icons from Wikipedia’s collection. I wan to document them all and talk about the visual meaning. I will try to continue to add more. Feel free to send more along or post links to the other … Continue reading

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Rainier Wolfcastle in “Mein Bratwurst..”

According to various Simpsons episodes, Wolfcastle began his acting career as a child in Austria, appearing on painfully long television commercials advertising bratwurst. F-R-I-T-Z S-C-H-N-A-C-K-E-N-P-F-E-F-F-E-R-H-A-U-S-E-N Looks like Youtube has removed the video – let me know if you find it … Continue reading

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Nicholas Felton’s Graphic Design and Typography Work

I’m a fan. Check out his annual reports and blog. He does a nice job with typography as well as visual representations of data.

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The Very Hungry PDF Reader

There is something familiar about Adobe Acrobat 9′s logo . . . Oh yeah! That’s it! Comparison of Adobe Acrobat 9 artwork and The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

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My Modem is Broken

Below are two posts recently spotted on the Winston-Salem craigslist. I used to hear people calling their computers “modems” back in the early 00′s, but now it’s 2010 and this is too funny. Re: Dell Computer Parts (Anywhere) Back to … Continue reading

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Subnet Mask Calculator Tool

I love this subnet mask calculator The IP Subnet Mask Calculator enables subnet network calculations using network class, IP address, subnet mask, subnet bits, mask bits, maximum required IP subnets and maximum required hosts per subnet.

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