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Monthly Archive for October, 2008

Halloween Themed Logos

Chris
Posted by Chris October 31, 2008
Categories: Design, Featured

You can always rely on Google to change its logotype for Halloween (or any other less than ordinary day). Along with Google’s redesigned logo I found a couple of others that I actually liked.

Vimeo at Halloween

Smashing Magazine

Google at Halloween 2008

My favourite is Vimeo a simple alteration to the regular logo. Some blogs (such as Thou Shall Blog have decided to make an apt alteration to their design — a nice touch.

However, as you may have noted I have not made any effort to adorn blog24 with such decor. The reason is simple. While Halloween is as popular as ever in the United Kingdom I am not a great fan.

Note: The link to vimeo actually links to a short film of my puppy playing, he deserves a little fame.

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links for 2008-10-30

Chris
Posted by Chris October 30, 2008
Categories: Links

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Erroneous Test Design

Chris
Posted by Chris October 21, 2008
Categories: Amusement

 

This test is from the Oregon Unemployment assessment may be easy but when did printer ports look like that? 

Spotted by Michelle Minor who mentioned it on her blog.

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Apple Special Event (The Brick?)

Chris
Posted by Chris October 14, 2008
Categories: Apple
Steve Jobs giving Keynote address.

Watch Steve Jobs (Apple’s CEO) present the latest ‘Special Event’. How many times does he refer to the ‘Apple Brick’?

Note once! However, one brick rumor rumour was actually true and that is that the new Macbooks and Macbook Pro chassis are formed from a solid block of aluminum.

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Water Jet Cutting In Action

Chris
Posted by Chris October 07, 2008
Categories: Gallery
Water jet cutter in action
A Water Jet in action, originally uploaded by IanMatthewSoper.

 

With reference to the latest Mac Brick rumour here’s a picture of the water jet cutting in action. Although the picture shows rubber being cut this method can be used to cut steel up to 10cm (3.9 inches).

You could say that this is indeed ‘cutting edge technology’.

More information about water jet cutting

Wikipedia — Water Jet Cutter

Manufacture Link — Cutting Processes (Water Jet Cutting)

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