Anyone with kids knows: children + flat-screen TV = expensive disaster waiting to happen Yet manufacturers somehow put very soft screens on TV nowadays, instead of something more durable like glass. There are a few products out there for protecting your TV but I found them a little expensive. Instead of waiting for big toy-shaped [...]
Author Archives: tsooki
Tragic sans
July 22, 2010 – 1:30 am
If Comic Sans could talk …. You think I’m pedestrian and tacky? Guess the fuck what, Picasso. We don’t all have seventy-three weights of stick-up-my-ass Helvetica sitting on our seventeen-inch MacBook Pros. …. Sorry I’m standing in the way of your minimalist Bauhaus-esque fascist snoozefest. Maybe sometime you should take off your black turtleneck, stop [...]
New site: Kanjiroo.com
July 9, 2009 – 2:33 am
Just wanted to mention my latest personal project, www.kanjiroo.com, a Japanese Kanji dictionary (a complete listing of 2000+ characters) in blog format. Essentially, I used the WordPress publishing format to enable me to maniupate PHP to give me a unique web application.In other words, a dictionary-blog mashup. Unconventional? Perhaps. But give it a try. Students [...]
HTML 5: first impressions
July 8, 2009 – 6:42 pm
Is HTML 5.0 ready for primetime? Some first impressions…
Sandbox theme
June 28, 2009 – 8:24 pm
A quick note: I just changed my WordPress theme* to Sandbox, the extensible, semantic WP theme. It’s used on WordPress.com hosted blogs since people can’t edit PHP files. I can but wanted to try out Sandbox and see how much I can do with pure CSS. Right now I just pasted my tsooki css file [...]
Why attractive things work better
June 24, 2009 – 3:31 am
Over at the always-excellent A List Apart, an insightful piece on the debate between usability and aesthetics, with a bit of dabbling in psychology. Perhaps that is why this is so hard to read. Technically, it’s not. It’s just unpleasant enough that it feels hard to read.* * Hey, is any of that stuff peer-reviewed, [...]
