Choosing the right colour scheme can be such a pain.

I have to admit, choosing well balanced, web safe colours for projects is not my strong point.  Even for those who do it often will no doubt admit it can take time, time you would prefer to spend doing something else.  You can imagine my joy when I found resources on the net for assisting the colour choosing process. I have used a few sites [...]

a pixelart world…

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I have been looking at different types of art lately which caused me to read a post on the Media 1oh1 blog More Pixel Art – Pixelmuseum.com « Media 1oh1 about pixelart.  I have always been fascinated how so much detail can be included by just using blocks of colour.  I started looking into pixelart on the internet with [...]

Animals on the underground.com

The say art is all around us and in everything, you just have to look. Well I sure did not see this.  I have travelled the London tubes and never have I seen animals on the maps.

 
I wonder how long the artist stared at the underground maps before the animals were spotted.  The animal pictures are [...]

Mail Order Brides. What?

Reported on Sky news: http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1251530,00.html 
A 70 year old welsh pensioner has recently married a 43 woman from Southern China.  They made contact after he responded to an advert in a local paper for Chinese women looking for western husbands.
He doesn’t speak hardly a word of Mandarin and she doesn’t speak hardly a word of English, not exactly [...]

Mind the automatic bollards

In Manchester they have put automatic bollards around the city centre to prevent vehicles entering streets they shouldn’t.  The bollards are up by default and lower when either a bus or a post office vehicle approaches, there are some people who think they can follow buses sneak in behind them through the bollards.  I have one [...]

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KwikGames – Free flash games for your site

KwikGames are preparing for a major site makeover which will be released this Christmas. As a lead up to the changes every week they will be releasing a new game. This weeks game is Sudoku.
Not only can you play these games but you can download them and even put them up on your own website, [...]