User Experience Treasure Map. I love this visual. Most companies don’t want to follow a plan like this, but its so good to show what a development process takes with the user in mind. www.findability.org

I came across this article from Read Write Web and found it interesting and worth the read. Its pretty exciting to see the plans of what companies like Google are doing to make online computing more robust and accessible. Hopefully Google will get the kinks out of its issues with formatting though. It took Microsoft awhile to do that with Word and I still beat my head trying to get layout the way I want. So I will be patient. Having the abilities of Office online for free just cant be beat so keep it up Google. Take a look at the 2009 predictions here.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/2009_web_predictions.php

Being a complete dork and one that enjoys shooting people in the office as well I decided to fabricate a Steampunk inspired Nerf gun to make it even more fun for me. I know I am not the first to do this and I was definitely inspired by the many submissions online. Using old parts from my kids toys I was able to create some slight modifications to the already cool design of the Maverick Nerf gun. I did have some help from my son as well. This will be a fun modification to my hyjinks at work and hopefully this will inspire the creative geek in you as well to join the many who have tired.

Datamancer’s Steampunk Laptop is probably the coolest work of art I have seen in awhile. Its just amazing to look at and the details abundant. You can really tell that there was so much effort put into it.

Visit this wild creation here: http://www.datamancer.net/steampunklaptop/steampunklaptop.htm

It takes a social and economical degree to understand the electoral process. But this simple widget gives a tally to see who is actually wining the race.

270towin.com is an interactive Electoral College map for 2008 and a history of Presidential elections in the United States. Since electoral votes are generally allocated on an “all or none” basis by state, the election of a U.S President is about winning the popular vote in enough states to achieve 270 electoral votes, a majority of the 538 that are available. It is not about getting the most overall popular votes, as we saw in the 2000 election, when the electoral vote winner (Bush) and the popular vote winner (Gore) were different.

Well it turns out there are makers of laptops for the super ueber rich who create diamond encrusted million dollar laptops. Check out the really fancy company called LUVAGLIO. They should at at least show the public better visuals of what they are making. You cant see the value or case studies on the website and they don’t have any specifications making them very mysterious to take too seriously. I came across the company in this article here.

This is a great idea to get to the bottom of the what fonts are safe for using on the web. This site takes a survey of what you can see. In the end it gives the common result depending on what platform you are using. See here: www.codestyle.org

Whatever browser you choose there is a tool to help you with your coding. I like Klaus Komenda’s list to to help with sorting them out. Check it out here:

www.klauskomenda.com