Tweet: Watching Alien Trespass on #XBMC (more at Twitter)

Lime, Wild Strawberry, Cerulean and Dusty Grey are the colors of oddend. Name that Color is a simple tool by Chirag Mehta that translates your hex color codes to the closest named color. I was pleasantly surprised by ‘Wild Strawberry’ which is an awesome name for that color. It’s not that useful, but it somehow feels good to know the name of the colors you’re using.

The Perry Bible Fellowship is the home of tons of incredibly funny cartoons by Nicholas Gurewitch. I love the various styles and dry humor. Warning, lots of wasting time and snickering ahead. Don’t go there if you’ve got work to do.

I just watched Garden State (thanks for the tip Sandrijn!) and although I rather liked it, I must say I prefer the quite similar Lost in Translation. The numbness in Garden State just didn’t catch me as much as the dreamy, intimate feeling I got from Lost in Translation. Plus, I guess I’m a bigger Bill Murray fan than I thought.

I know it’s a bit late, but you’ve got to love Florentijn Hofman’s Rubber Duckie. This giant 20 meter high rubber duckie floats the river Loire in France during the contemporary-art exhibition Loire Estuary 2007. Thanks Wooster

I’ve been wanting to see Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind for a while, but kind of forgot that I wanted to…how fitting. I’ve just seen it and it really is a great movie with a spectacular atmosphere. I highly recommend watching it.

The Darkness Game

Yeah, so I viewed the gameplay footage, saw it get hyped, read the review and bought it for the XBOX 360. Although The Darkness is pretty cool and I finished it in two non-stop 6 hour sessions, there’s a lot going on (or rather not going on) that makes me refrain from being too positive [...]

When your house is scheduled to be demolished, what else can you do but build a giant warp tunnel of wood straight through your old home?

The Sword of the New World MMORPG is now in public beta. It’s a bit unconventional but—at first glance—seems to bring hardly anything new to the table. If you’re tempted to check it out, prepare for a multiple GB download and remember it’s still very much in beta. There are a few US servers and one UK/German server.

I enjoyed reading John Maeda’s laws of simplicity. He also touches on some interesting subjects in his weekly blog entries.

I just came across Gaia Online. A social network with many MMORPG influences. The avatar customization and virtual environments are done really well, as is the ‘gold coins for activity’ system.

The Face Research experiments are very intriguing. It’s fun to merge various faces and weird how the result very often turns out to be an attractive face. Go play.

I can’t wait to see more of Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed, let alone play it. If they deliver, this game has everything that makes a true next gen game. Let’s hope they do. It’s set to release this November.

Lomography and Wet Floor Actions

Although I do not use Photoshop actions very often, they are very convenient for simple tasks you perform often and complicated tasks you often get wrong. The two actions I am making available will perform the rather extensive steps of creating a digital lomography effect and the few simple steps to give images a wet [...]

I just installed Chris Iufer’s Relay to make the downloads I store on my server more manageable and accessible. Although it’s still in beta it seems pretty solid and the installation went alright. If you’re looking for a nice directory manager, give Relay a go.

Those of you who’ve read about vertical rhythm and gave it a shot probably quickly ran into issues with line height for the paragraphs set in smaller fonts. Mark introduces a CSS solution to fine-tune the vertical rhythm.

My name is Martin Kool. Here in the Netherlands that's pronounced Cole and translates as...Cabbage.

At this place I write about the various things that grab my attention while I work and play with the web.

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Create, organize, search and sync notes with Evernote. Free for windows, OSX and iPhone.

GanttProject is a good, free tool if you don’t need the maze of features that Microsoft Project is drenched in.

In addition to the web developer toolbar, Firebug is a must have Firefox add-on for developers.

Dark Room is a nice, full screen, distraction free writing environment. For OSX get Write Room.

Zooming and picking color anywhere with Color Cop. Exactly enough features to make me very happy.

@icon sushi for favicons and icon libraries.

Feedreader helps me read my feeds.

TextPad 4 for the XHTML and CSS magic with the power where you need it.

I’ve been watching The Mentalist, Burn Notice, Grey’s Anatomy, Life and Two and a Half Men. I’ve seen the first episode of Dollhouse, but I’m not hugely impressed yet.

F.E.A.R.2 is an awesome shooter, the enemy AI is amazing. Farcry 2 is pretty cool but I lost interest a little bit. Resident Evil 5 is nice, but hard. I’m ashamed to say that I’m playing it on amateur difficulty.

Slumdog Millionaire was okay, I enjoyed the first half of the movie the most. Body of Lies and Taken I both loved. Max Payne was very disappointing.

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