Tag: flash

Boston Panic

The discovery of suspicious objects on bridges, near a medical center, underneath an interstate, and in other crowded public places has ignited fears across Boston, snarling traffic and sending state and local police scrambling across the city.

this is what happens if headless chickens run the news.
2007-02-09: Do you have what it takes to save Boston from the Lite Bright menace?
2007-03-01:

if it’s not an american flag, it’s probably a bomb.

heh. i wonder what happens if someone wraps a bomb in a flag? will they declare a war on flags? that would actually be neat.
2013-03-31: reminds me of their war against things with LEDs from a few years back. among their bumbling peers, boston pd are the most incompetent. so funny.

Boston Punk Zombies Are Watching You! The Boston police go undercover on the Internet to stop the city’s most dreaded scourge: DIY indie-rock shows.

Economic globe

with colored bars indicating activity. we need more of that in earth 🙂 maybe overlay stock market data or forex trading?

Interactive Bionics Tour

Move your cursor over this patient to see some of the most futuristic bionics available now and some in clinical trials.

a shopping list, circa 2006

landing pages that aren’t

if you want to capture the attention of web innovators, you might want to start with an accessible site. when i see sites like this or this, i hit the back button. so does google.

looks like it’s not only clueless startups. bmw germany uses inaccessible javascript navigation, and in an effort to ‘fix’ their resulting crap google ranking, used doorway pages, which resulted in the google death penalty. right on.

RESTful flash

Jon Udell links to a sample that makes a flash application expose its state over the URL. This should become the default, and ideally brainwashed into flash developers minds in order to make flash a better web citizen. Like any self-respecting web surfer, I don’t have flash installed but I hear that flash can be a good tool in the quest for the universal canvas.