Dude Undresses Chick With Heavy Machinery

This is a video of some guy undressing a chick with a mechanical digger. I'm petitioning to make it an Olympic sport. It was apparently on some Italian variety show and at first I thought they were using a mannequin. But they're definitely not, it's a real chick (hence the lifelike picture there). ...

The Ethics Of Auto Journalism In Action

Since it began, TTAC has called on all automotive publication to publish disclosure of all manufacturer-provided travel, lodging, food and gifts. The worst offenders: car sections of local newspapers. And no wonder; they remain one of the few profitable portions of many otherwise failing publications. ...

Five Axis Lexus IS-F

For the 2007 SEMA show Troy Sumitomo and his staff of auto artists at Five Axis were commissioned by Toyota to build three concept vehicles. The flagship build was this no-holds-barred reinterpretation of Lexus’ newly released IS-F. The new “F” series marks a huge landmark in the luxury carmakers ...

Tesla Death Watch 3: “Stay Away” from the IPO

Tesla Motors chairman Elon Musk plans to take the company public before the end of the year. Before you call your broker to get in on the ground floor, think twice. Blogging Stocks' Zac Bissonette advises prospective investors to "stay away!" He doesn't base this advice on any of Tesla's ...

legendary aircraft

Most of us have no business on the Legendary Aircraft site. The only airplanes we’ve repaired or restored were made of balsa wood or maybe styrofoam (if we were lucky). But the design of the Legendary Aircraft site is an instant reminder of just how much fun airplanes are and how amazing it would ...

Charmingwall

New Screencast: Designing a Unique Page for Twitter Updates

This week I take you through the creation of simple webpage to display your recent ‘Tweets’ from Twitter from start to finish. This covers the design in Photoshop, to including the javascript stuff provided by Twitter to the markup, to the CSS to style the page. Written tutorial here and ...

Subtle Delights

Many of you might’ve seen Coda’s new design in recent design galleries or inspiration posts (V6 was launched recently). I’m not really a fan of Damien’s homepage, but it is his blog that really shines (literally!). The little, subtle glowing-fading effects when hovering over elements ...

Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop

Ever wanted to make text out of grass? Well with Photoshop you can. In this tutorial we’ll create a rather cool looking grass-text effect using a photo of grass, the pen tool and a bit of patience. This is the first of a five part set of tutorials where we’ll use Photoshop to make text ...

How To Design and Create a PHP Powered Poll

Polls are fun! They can help engage the readers of your site and give both you and the poll-taker valuable information. Let’s walk through building a poll from scratch. All the way from the Photoshop design to the PHP / MySQL that powers it. Here is what we will build: VIEW DEMO 1. Design the ...

How To: Creating a YouTube Video Tabber

If you’ve ever had any interest in purchasing a news premium WordPress theme, you’re probably familiar with the works of Adii, who is the guy behind the Premium News themes.   Not only am I a fan of much of his work, but I also am a fan of his blog, where he is truly an open book and isn’t ...

5 important things that happened in the last 10 days

In no particular order, with little commentary, and limited accuracy on that whole “10 days” concept: Google Friend Connect: Just the tip of the iceberg. YouTube Citizen News: Aggregate, aggregate, aggregate. Disqus + Seesmic Video Comments: Say it, don’t spray it? MySpace and Facebook ...

YouTube launches Citizen News channel

YouTube has launched a Citizen News channel, to highlight some of the best news content on YouTube. … [visit site to read more]

Win a WordPress Developer’s Licenses!

Premium News Theme is known for their outstanding news and magazine themes resembling the front page of a newspaper complete with highlights, images, and featured articles. Today we are launching our first contest which is great because not only you get 2 for 1 theme but your Single License themes might ...

Put the category selector back to the sidebar before I kill ya!

Barus Unver has a WordPress plugin on his blog that puts the category selector back on the side of the new post screen. Gone with the advanced category selector and ‘Related’ area that ship with WordPress 2.5, and in with the good ol’ simple sidebar category selector. Download Barus’s ...

The Seen

10 Twitter Users You Should Follow

Twitter is awesome. It’s a great tool for quick communication and an even more awesome tool for social networking. If you’ve been following me on Twitter, you know I’m quite active and love to tweet (update my status) with funny and random things, but still talk about news on WordPress. Anyways, ...

Design Decisions vs. Audience Considerations

This week, we take a look at how to handle the conflict between what your users want, and what you want them to want. Robin Ragle-Davis considers how upfront audience profiling can reap customer relationship benefits down the line.

Really public health

I signed up for Google Health and immediately found it handy with news about each of my conditions. My wife wondered why anyone would use it and risk health data becoming public. But my life is already an open blog and I’ve already talked about most of my conditions — mainly atrial fibrilation ...

Mariah Carey sparks road rage incident

A man blaring a Mariah Carey song from his car stereo was arrested Saturday night after throwing a bottle at someone who didn't share his taste in music, according to deputies.