Daily Dish of Dominey Design

Enjoying Links for January 2004

Disecting Howard Dean's Implosion

Flash Platform Engine Demo (amazingly fast platform engine currently under development)

James Brown 'Smoking Gun' icon

Hotel Magritte (surrealist screensaver for OS X)

Digiquaria (new Shockwave site inspired by water life)

How I PC'd a G5 (turns out to be a hoax)

Please Ralph, Don't Run

Unison (brand new usenet client from the Panic crew)

President Bush wants some ribs (ridiculous transcript of his rib shack visit.)

Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry (not sure about the textual content, but there are a handful of great historical photos)

Hey Ya, Charlie Brown! (via boingboing)

Bizarre Love Triangle (nice animation. via the surgeon)

Wonkette (new D.C. gossip and political buzz page from the Gawker empire)

iTunes Music Store RSS Feed Generator (Very, very cool. Includes artwork too. via MacMinute)

Atlanta beltline (6mb QuickTime promo film for a proposed light rail system in downtown. Via Kevin Byrd).

Four's a crowd (How do the members of a string quartet play together and tour together year in, year out, without killing each other?) [via randomfoo]

Best Wrapping Paper Ever (and it uses my script!)

Mail.appetizer (nice mail notification app)

Not Fooling Anybody (poor conversions of storefronts)

Old Bird Still Hates the Nazis

Dean Loses It (in more ways than one)

General Wesley Clark's Argyle Sweater is on eBay

Michele D'auria (interesting Flash music video)

Amazing sidewalk art (you've never seen sidewalk-chalk art like this. scroll to bottom for best stuff. link via coudal)

MovableType 2.66 is Out (provides extra comment spam protection)

Disney Selling 'Celebration' Suburban Community (the utopia crumbles)

Mind Wide Open (Steven Johnson's latest book is out)

Donkey Konga (fun for the whole family!)

Lord of the Rings in OS X (fun easter egg)

How to wrap your friend's apartment in tin foil: a love story (Warhol chuckles)

Champaign Chair Contest Finalists (DWR posts gallery of winners)

G5 Skateboard (put that beast on wheels)

Splat! (the worst films of 2003)

Kong (unbelievable set of King Kong related icons)

360-degree QTVR of Mars (created from rover panorama released today)

Subaru Scumbags (Subaru modifies sedan design to avoid fuel economy / air pollution standards)

Howard Dean bumper-sticker may get you killed

100 Most Often Misspelled Words (guilty, as charged)

Medium Footware (check out 'Collections' - had no idea Eric Meyer designed shoes)

Milk (the "Black Milk" version of this OS X theme is fantastic)

Saddam's an Outkast

Doug Engelbart (Engelbart reflects on his groundbreaking achievements)

Preview of the next MSN

Playlist to DVD (creates a DVD from an iTunes playlist with on-screen album art and nav. One caveat: requires iDVD 4, which isn't out yet)

PXL Vision (recreate the look of the 80's Fisher-Price PXL toy camcorder in iMovie)

The Making of the Money Shot (how Howard Dean appeared as tall as Bill Bradley)

A Big Garage (Gruber nails why GarageBand exemplifies the differences between Apple and Microsoft)

Web Developer Toolbar for Mozilla / Firebird (Very handy suite of tools right in your toolbar. Visit the page in either Moz/Firebird to install. Relaunch browser. Presto.)

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (just looks amazing)

Retrolounge (collection of links to designs of bygone eras)

First Aqua, then brushed metal, now wood grain and powder-black steel? (Apple monkeys with the OS X interface once again)

Reality Sucks. Films Are Cool. (via Coudal)

What You Can't Say (via Veen)

Kinky Breakout (not workplace safe in some areas)

Director MX Preview (of note: it now supports JavaScript, so there's no Lingo learning curve. But...why not ActionScript?)

George W. Bush's Mac Desktop

PodQuest (sweet little app for copying MapQuest driving directions to your iPod)

2003 Web Design Trends in Review

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