Wordle is a great service which will take an RSS feed from your site (or anybody else’s site) and convert it to an image. Larger words are found more often, smaller words are found less.
Here are a couple of examples.
From our very own blog (http://www.merrellgroup.com/blog/feed/):
And from my personal site (http://www.joshuarcraig.net/feed/):
Go try it out for yourself!
A group of us just took a farm tour of Indiana, Minnesota and Upstate New York on behalf of our client, BASF Plant Science, to see NutriDense out in the field. Literally. Nutridense is a trait that, among other things, gives corn (for grain and silage) a nutritional boost. You can learn all about it at nutridense.com. We learned a ton. Met some amazing grain growers and dairymen. And yes, got our hands a little dirty. There’s no better way to learn. See a few pics from the trip here:
Q: Who likes high speed photography?
A: Everyone.
You could look it up, or just take my word for it.
I took a few hours to dabble in the high speed arts.
And I think that we can agree that the results are pretty stunning.
Using a $15 fish tank and some elbow grease I got some amazing results.
Check out more on Flickr or just watch this space, I’m sure there’s more high speed photos to come.
Fruit is the obvious object of choice, but I’m looking for something different.
Anyone have any ideas?
Anyone?
Bueller?
Smashing Magazine has posted a bunch of free icon sets and images for you to use in your designs including the e-commerce icons pictured above. Go get ‘em right now!
Jeff Atwood, a programmer and experienced blogger, recently wrote about Predictably Irrational, a book that attempts to uncover the truths behind why we make the decisions we make. The article is rather long, but worth reading if you’re interested in learning about how marketing-folk do what they do to get you to make the choice they want you to make.
Here’s an excerpt from the book that simply tickled my fancy:
Ariely and Shin conducted an experiment on MIT students. They devised a computer game which offered players three doors: Red, Blue, and Green. You started with 100 clicks. You clicked to enter a room. Once in a room, each click netted you between 1-10 cents. You could also switch rooms (at the cost of a click). The rooms were programmed to provide different levels of rewards (there was variation within each room’s payoffs, but it was pretty easy to tell which one provided the best payout).
For those of you that worked on this campaign with me you should be very excited to know that the visual of the ice beard hiker that was shot for the Cordura brand campaign is in this month’s issue of Archive as an Advertisement for Tim Tadder, the photographer.
I’m very proud he decided to represent himself with this photo in such a prestigious magazine.
We are going to be entering those ads by May 13 and hope they get in as well.
Zach Gold has some amazing action shots on his site. I encourage you to check it out.
Grant Skinner of gskinner.com has a nice collection of flash experiments from 2005/2006. Many of them let you interact with the site via web cam and all of them are pretty cool. And if they’re cool today, think of how cutting edge they were in 2006.
Here’s a quick diversion from whatever you’re supposed to be doing: twitter magnets. The idea is that you make magnetic poetry on your computer and then you can post it to your (or the service’s) twitter account.
Ahh, the quest for just the right piece of original music is always a bit challenging. And original music doesn’t get any more disturbingly original than Jonathan Mann’s music. Every day, he posts a new song to his site rockcookiebottom.com. He’s up to #82 with sure to never be hits like “Penguins Having a Party,” “Zombie Rights” and “I Love Battlestar Galactica.” Check it out.
