Designer's Toolbox

This is an interesting site with some good reference stuff for designers - or anyone who's interested to know what the standard size of envelopes are or how to convert fractions to decimals.

Designer's Toolbox

White bald guys CAN dance....

Here's proof. Long video but it's funny!

Evolution of Dance

Answer to one of the 20 questions

Someone asked me who the heck Christine Collister was - she was one of those I listed as a favourite singer in my answers to the 20 Questions.

Here's a link to her website. Check out the audio files.

And before you ask, here's a link to Julia Fordham's site...

Keelaghan? He's a local guy. His site's here.

And finally, Drew Womack.

Webby Award winners announced

In an earlier Weekly Orange post, I gave you a link to the list of finalists for the Webby Awards. Well - they've picked the winners. See if you agree with the judges!

Urban legends - Gotta love 'em

Or not. If you ever get sent something and you find yourself pondering "I wonder if that could be true", check out Snopes.com first. They document all the common Internet urban legends and hoaxes. Here's the Top 25 list. Any of these look familiar?

Word of the week - May 8

Kerri wins last week's word of the week because she's the only one to post a guess! I think it's time to move on to a new game...

I'll let you know when I've come up with something.

In the meantime, last week's word was "fustian" and it means:

fustian \FUHS-chuhn\, noun:
1. A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.
2. An inflated style of writing or speech; pompous or pretentious language.

adjective:
1. Made of fustian.
2. Pompous; ridiculously inflated; bombastic.

Too bad really...I had a good word for this week...

Summer Mix

If you're looking for some summer time music mixes, Veer has just the thing. You can also suggest your own summer mix. I think I like the "Best Night of Our Lives" mix the best. Pretty much it's the soundtrack from my highschool days...

The Saddest Thing I Own

Get your kleenex ready. This site is devoted to people posting messages about the saddest things they own. Not to be read while depressed or while it's raining.

Word of the week - May 1

So - no action on the Word of the Week for last week, aside from Kristina who broke the rules by looking "brummagen" up in the dictionary. I think I stumped you! That or you're already bored by the exercise in which case you need to visit I am Bored - see post below - for some inspiration.

For the record, brummagen means:

Cheap and showy, tawdry; also, spurious, counterfeit.

This week's word - and I expect lots of activity on this one - is fustian. It can be either a noun or an adjective.

Good luck!