If you haven’t yet heard of Susan Boyle then check her out on YouTube. Not much else to say… the video speaks for itself.

Wasn’t there some quote about a books and book covers?

Wanna save a buck but still go out to eat? Check out restaurant.com, a website that lets you buy gift certificate at a fraction of their value. For example, I could buy a gift certificate for the Hungry Horse Grill for $10 that has a redemption of $25. I haven’t used the site myself as there aren’t any restaurants listed that I regularly attend; but if you try it and it works well, please let me know!

For all you facebook users out there, you might care about their new Terms of Service where you sign over all rights to everything but your dog (but you probably don’t).

For more pictures and less text, check out Trick Photography with Books & Magazines, which I have come to find out is also commonly referred to as sleevefacing.

Or maybe you’d rather check out these cars (and a house) with a weight problem.

And if pictures still aren’t good enough, here’s a clever little video I saw today:

You can check out some of the other videos by “sheepfilms” at their YouTube channel.

Some posts are nothing more than a testament to just how geeky I can be. This is one of them…

Among the many, many geeky things I like, fonts are one of them. My typography collection is pretty extensive. I think making attractive fonts is quite the art form. Fonts are just pretty cool to me.

Two weeks ago I found a link to a site that provides you with a PDF to print out. On it is a grid with a every single letter, number and a bunch of symbols each apportioned a spot. You fill in the grid by hand and then scan it in. Next you upload the scan to the site which then uses it to create true type font file that’s based on your handwriting!

If you too find the idea of being able to convert (or write) an entire document using a font that looks just your handwriting immensely cool, then go check out YourFonts.com yourself. The entire process is quick, easy, and free! What more can you ask for?

Over the last few days I’ve been creating accounts on several different sites and I keep running into the same annoyance. When asked for a username I type in “kane” and more often than not I’m told that kane is already taken. This annoys the hell out of me.

Why does it matter how many people named “kane” are on your site? Kane’s not even a common name, I can’t imagine ever being able to use my name if it was Dave, or Steve, or Jim. You know what is unique to every person sitting behind a computer? Email addresses. While I have seen a few sites move away from simplistic usernames; instead using email addresses as login names, they’re still too few and far between.

So here’s my request to anyone who codes up websites: Please allow me to register with my email address. Let me use whatever “username” I want, allow username duplicates. Everyone knows you can never have enough kanes. Using email registration leaves the possibility that a site could have tens if not hundreds of kanes, and how great would that be?!?!

Here’s a couple of links for you. Check out Urban knitting for an interesting take on “graffiti”.

For some more ninja shit, check out urban camouflage by artist Desiree Palmen. You can even take it a step further and go camo without the clothes. Check out camo body painting (possibly NSFW).