Creepy female robot

by Luke Rodgers on July 31, 2008

I had to put this one in “robots doing good” and “robots doing evil” because she’s helping sell sunscreen, which is good, but she’s really disturbing, which is bad.

Del’s “nutty device”

by Luke Rodgers on July 31, 2008

Incorporating web standards into your design brief or RFP

by Luke Rodgers on July 31, 2008

Working on a design brief for a radical makeover of the website at work, and have been doing a bit of digging around into how people specify web standards in their project specs. Came across this post from quite a (…)

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The Nautilus

by Luke Rodgers on July 31, 2008

Some amazing footage of a Nautilus from a nighttime dive by paleontologist Peter Ward.

The Survey for People Who Make Websites

by Luke Rodgers on July 31, 2008

A List Apart, the online “magazine for people who make websites,” has announced another round of surveying for its “survey for people who make websites.” Last year, almost 33,000 people took the survey.

Annoyance from Ticketmaster

by Luke Rodgers on July 30, 2008

So, I was all looking forward to redeeming my “iTunes songs, compliments of Ticketmaster” that I got from a ticket purchase…

But when I go to actually redeem them, I get this:

I purchased the tickets on March 25th and the offer (…)

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More cakePHP tips

by Luke Rodgers on July 25, 2008

Continuing from my last post on choosing a php web development framework, here are some more tips on cakePHP that you may not otherwise come across as quickly

if you change your database (as configured in app/config/database.php) make sure to delete (…)

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The magic of the free market explained

by Luke Rodgers on July 25, 2008

Great comic from Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling.