Monthly Archives: July 2008

No Twitter Sex For You

July 31, 2008 – 04:41

“No Twitter sex for you” by ChipX86.

By Jeff Waugh | Posted in Asides | Tagged alex graveley, chipx86, christian hammond, orph, sex, Twitter | Comments (5)

The World’s Most Famous McDonald’s Sign: Yass, Australia

July 30, 2008 – 21:35

Yass’ most famous export (other than Pipka!) appeared in FailBlog today. Hooray for Yass! Hooray for FailBlog! … and hooray for annoying my entire adopted family.

see more pwn and owned pictures

By Jeff Waugh | Posted in General | Tagged Australia, fail, failblog, mcdonald's, yass | Comments (3)

I forgot to mention one WordPress plugin I enjoy using in my previous post, because I wasn’t sure if it was still being maintained. Turns out the maintainer, Joe Tan, just did a release today, bringing it up to speed with WordPress 2.6…
Flickr Photo Album makes it easy to use Flickr images in your blog, […]

By Jeff Waugh | Posted in General | Tagged flickr, photo album, plugin, WordPress | Comments (0)

What if fonts were people?

July 27, 2008 – 18:52

Hilarious video for Font Fascists (such as myself), via André Pang:
Font Conference from College Humor

By Jeff Waugh | Posted in General | Tagged comic sans, fonts, typography | Comments (7)

Projects that make my WordPress rock!

July 26, 2008 – 15:53

Here are some of the projects that I enjoy using with WordPress… Perhaps you’ll find them as useful as I have.

WordPress and WordPress MU (multi-user)
It’s hard to make recommendations related to WordPress without mentioning the project itself, and its twisted sister, WordPress MU. Both are improving in leaps and bounds, and it’s a pleasure finding […]

By Jeff Waugh | Posted in General | Tagged akismet, bad behavior, OpenID, opensearch, plugins, sandbox, tango, Twitter, typography, WordPress, WordPress MU, WPMU | Comments (10)

Power Boards

July 25, 2008 – 13:51

You could probably power a small island with all of these. Oh wait, we are! A rather large number of our favourite iconic green laptops will be charging on these surge-protected power boards very soon.
Pia will land in Niue next week, as one member of an elite team tasked with kickstarting the world’s […]

By Jeff Waugh | Posted in General | Tagged education, niue, olpc, power | Comments (4)

inbox zero status: ZERO

July 23, 2008 – 07:26

After declaring inbox bankruptcy, changing the way I collect and manage my email, and tweeting a few times about my attempt to embrace the zen of Inbox Zero, I decided to automate the process, removing any potential editorialising between email client and reporting of the project status. I’ve set it up to post […]

By Jeff Waugh | Posted in General | Tagged email, identi.ca, inbox zero, laconi.ca, script, Twitter, wget | Comments (2)

Fail We Can Believe In

July 22, 2008 – 13:15

By Jeff Waugh | Posted in Asides | Tagged Barack Obama, change, fail, fail whale, Obama, Twitter | Comments (10)

Egg Pants

July 10, 2008 – 00:56

The surprisingly web-mysterious Alice recently found a lovely present for me during her visit to MoMA in New York (swoon!). She discovered this delightful combination of two of my favourite things: Trousers and novelty crockery. Thank you, Alice!