Pretty cool tutorial / explanation on how to set your blog up to display a different CSS style / layout / background based on the time of day. I’ve done user selectable layouts and random images, but this is a creative idea and the related design fits perfectly with the idea.
Category: Web
How Old Are You?
According to the Ultra Sonic ring tones site, I’ve got the hearing of 20 year old. That’s pretty amazing to me since I’ve long passed 20 and when I was in my late teens I played bass in a rock band. I just knew I wouldn’t be able to hear very far up the scale.
I could barely make out 17.7kHz, but not well enough I could be doing something else and hear it. So, take the test and see how well you hear.
Toy Fair 2007
The annual Toy Fair Expo in New York was this past weekend, so expect a few posts as I see stuff come in over RSS that looks too cool.
First up is the Ultimate Collector's Millennium Falcon LEGO set. Priced at $499, I’m sure I’ll never own one, but at over 3 ft. and 5,195 pieces, it's the largest Star Wars LEGO set ever produced. Nice.
Next up, the Star Wars / Mr. Potato Head variants must have been successful, because this year we get . . . Spuder-Man. Not as cool as Darth Tater or the Spud Trooper. I think it’s because it can only be Spider-Man and not a regular Mr. Potato Head.
On the subject of Spider-Man, it looks like the official line of "Spider-Man 3" toys will feature more than figures from the upcoming film. That’s cool. One thing that always bugged be was having 20 different versions of Spider-Man and only 1 or 2 versions of a villain. The Spider-Man 3 lines looks like it will include previous villains Green Goblin and Dr. Ock (since the new line is 5" scale, as opposed to 6"). Check out the full gallery for "movie" versions of Scorpion, Rhino, the Lizard and more images of confirmed Spider-Man 3 villains Sandman and Venom.
Of course there was a ton of Star Wars stuff being shown. New Star Wars Transformers, vehicles and everything else. With the exception of a General Grevious figure for Ep. III, I can’t remember the last SW figure I bought. The 3 3/4" line is still growing with a mix of resculpted figures and 2-second screen time aliens. There are a few gems in there this years. View the gallery and be sure to pay close attention to the animated Boba Fett (from the Star Wars holiday special) and the 4-5 figures based on Ralph McQuarrie’s concept art.
That’s about all that really caught my eye on the first pass. There may be more later.
Best Firefox Tip Ever (reopen Tab)
For those of us who use Firefox (and if you’re not, you really should), I just saw what may be the best tip ever.
When you accidentally (or maybe not) close a tab, just use the following keyboard combination Ctrl-Shift-T (Cmd-Shift-T for Mac users) to reopen the last Tab you closed.
Awesome.
Periodic Table of Comic Books
Here’s a cool website that has a periodic table of the elements. When you click each element, a page is displayed showing where that element has been referenced in comics.
I haven’t checked all of them, but even Hafnium has an entry. So, start searching for that Curium reference in your back issues now.