Hi. I'm Paul Nixon, a designer living in Mountain View California. My days (and some nights) are spent designing websites for a little company in Cupertino. The rest of my time is spent with my beautiful wife and friends, road cycing and reading your blogs.
Thursday, May 29, 2003 10: 15 AM
No-Contact Jacket : "A new anti-assault device for women wards off potential assailants with an 80,000-volt electric shock." --- Wired Article. My only fear is that my wife may start wearing this around the house to keep me from bugging her. Could also be used in other unintended ways: Imagine a hundred or so peace protestors doing a sit-in, all wearing these. How do the cops handle that scenario?
Wednesday, May 28, 2003 06: 51 PM
PSX : "Sony will release a new hardware platform dubbed the "PSX." The PSX will feature both DVD and HDD recording functions; the former supporting both DVD+/-R and DVD-R and the latter offering a HDD capacity of 120 GB. The unit will feature an installed TV/BS tuner and an Internet adapter, and will also support USB2.0. Memory sticks will also be supported by the unit." Oh...and it will play PS2 games of course. Yikes. I may have to sit this one next to my XBOX. U.S. release sometime next year. Additional PSX link.
Thursday, May 22, 2003 12: 31 PM
Fonticate : Small little app for viewing all the fonts on your system. You can type in text and see how it looks in each font. It's fast and saves bucco amounts of time when searching for just the right font for that one special project that you're never going to get done anyways.
Thursday, May 22, 2003 11: 55 AM
blingmethod : "How a geek gets their bling bling". AStep-by-step tutorials for adding some bling bling to your crappy looking computer stuff. (Oh, free time, where have you gone? "How can you ever have time if you don't make it?")
Thursday, May 22, 2003 10: 24 AM
Prometheus Spawning Grounds (PSG) : So, what did I do with my youth? Certainly A. Niklas Jansson spent his developing some serious talent. There is some incredible work here. Mechs. Robots. Manga. Aliens. You name it, he's drawn it. Some simple, interesting tutorials as well. Plus he provides a ton of links to other sites of similiar interest. (via the immutable k10k)
Wednesday, May 21, 2003 05: 48 PM
Epitaph Records : Lot of stuff going on here, but I just like this site. Be sure and check out the band Motion City Soundtrack. Saw them a few weeks ago in Tempe...talented group of fellas. First album in June.
Wednesday, May 21, 2003 05: 27 PM
fuse.tv : formerly Much Music TV. It's now Fuse TV throwin da funk down on da web baby.
Wednesday, May 21, 2003 09: 47 AM
Sonic Boom : Interactive agency from Canada. Love the transitions.
Tuesday, May 20, 2003 06: 36 PM
Embryonic LifeLog Program - DARPA : Proposed project to record every experience of a human's life. (via Wired)