I have no idea where this picture came from - I found it on an SD card that was in my Eee back last year as an extra drive - but before I use the SD card for something else I wanted to share it with the wirble-wirble-world.

It’s awesome.

Another day, another fantastic vintage nuclear attack poster… via BoingBoing et al.

Awesome.

from mappeal, via Make and Geekologie and OhGizmo and BookOfJoe (phew!)

Two things involving Javascript that I didn’t know about this time last week:

Node

Node is a standalone Javascript engine for running on servers. Lets you deal with things on a socket level, interact with the file system and so on. This means you can write all your code for both a client and a server in the same language; something you can do with haXe as well, but without the compiling down to Neko bytecode step, and in a somewhat more commonly used language.

Gordon

Gordon is a (currently very simple) SWF player written in pure Javascript, which gets the file running using SVG and HTML5. The only way to get Flash to run on an iPhone, at the moment - an impressive feat! Being clean Javascript, the sourcecode is all there for the taking, but that’s okay - it’s licensed under an MIT open source license!

I love me a bit of chilled out noise, and this video is full of the most wonderfully bizarre sources for such things. Found on the Make blog a while ago, and finally experienced properly today…

What did you do with your lunchtime today? I made a Christmas shitty ditty out of samples from Freesound.org and a loop appropriated from Radiohead’s National Anthem.

Samples:

• Sleigh bells
• The Winstons’ Amen Brother break beat (history)
• Jingle Bells musical box
• Sabian crash cymbal
• The National Anthem

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

via @Nermal: catsforgold.com

Titles in Gill Sans? Yes, we’ve got them now, thanks to the utterly awesome typeface.js

In other news, Ruth Jones out of that Gavin and Stacey programme is recording her Christmas special for BBC Wales in the studio here. Michael Ball in da house, Max Boyce in da house, etc. How very festive.

The use of a scan of flock wallpaper and big thick black lines was too much. I decided to use my standard background (used pretty much everywhere - generated within Aviary.com’s Peacock), a white background for the main bit and some tinkering with the CSS in features that I’ve not used yet.

Still got my Sinclair-inspired logo though =)

Seriously, if you’re on Tumblr and want to create a theme of your own, you can’t go far wrong hacking a theme as well crafted and documented as FieldNotes.

I’ve successfully mangled some CSS to make this blog:

1. unique
2. as ugly as hell

Yay me!