Thank you J.R. and Dishwalla
I just wanted to give a big shout out to my good friends in Dishwalla for letting Studio3k work with you guys on your projects. All the goodies you sent are awesome and a great addition to my CD and DVD collection. I especially love the Dishwalla USB Keychain Drive and all my geek friends are jealous. See everyone soon and keep up the great work… you guys are the best!
Destroy The Web - Netdisaster.com
Simply brilliant! Choose your method of destruction on a website. Now you can have some personal fun by destroying any page you like with fire, poop and even a chainsaw. Enjoy!
What girl’s need to know about their geek boyfriend
Studio3k Featured on BoxedCSS.com
Thanks to the folks over at Boxxedcss.com for featuring Studio3k as part of their growing gallery of the best web designs. You can view our listing here.
International Delete Your MySpace Account Day
That’s it, I’ve had it. After months of only visiting my myspace profile in order to delete spam and friend requests from half-nude women, I’ve reached the end of the line.
The other day I received an email from Myspace announcing something semi-relevant: “One of your friends is having a birthday this week.” Intrigued for once, I actually opened the email to find out who was having a birthday, and was met with this:
Visit Myspace to find out who? No, I’m not going to visit Myspace to find out who, there’s absolutely no reason why I should have to visit the website, wait for it to load because of the excessive banner ads, and then log in just so I can find out who is having a birthday. If you’re going to take the time and energy to spam my inbox with the message, then you can tell me in the email itself whose birthday it is.
I’ve been thinking about deleting my Myspace account almost since the day I got it but always opted out of doing so because of the few friends I have who don’t have other social networking accounts. But by remaining on Myspace, I realize, I’m becoming an enabler. I’m giving those friends no reason to switch over from Myspace by giving them access to my Myspace profile.
But rather than deleting my account right away, I’m going to hold off until January 30th so that other people have time to join me. I’d love to see a large number of people delete their accounts all at once in order to send Myspace a message: your website sucks.
So, if you’re reading this and you’ve experienced any of the things on the list below, your account may be in need of deletion:
1. You rarely log in to Myspace except to delete spam and friend requests from nude webcam girls.
2. You spend five minutes writing a wall post only to hit an error message when you try to post it because of all the website glitches.
3. You’re a girl who constantly gets marriage proposals from random men in the middle east or internet stalkers who have nothing better to do.
4. You visit someone’s Myspace profile only to suddenly have music start blasting out of your speakers. Bonus points if it happens to you while you’re at work.
5. You have to make redundant clicks to perform simple tasks because Myspace keeps taking you to advertisement pages where you have to click on “return to myspace profile” in order to continue what you’re doing.
6. You visit someone’s profile only to have your eyes bleed because of terrible page layout with non-matching designs and font colors.
7. Your experience is hindered because of intrusive banner ads that either talk to you or try to reach out and block your view of what you’re trying to look at.
8. You read yet another news account about how some child predator using Myspace has abducted a little girl or that some hoax myspace account has caused a teenager to commit suicide.
9. You’re frustrated with the fact that Myspace doesn’t allow you to post your contact info, meaning to contact someone you can only use Myspace’s glitchy Instant Messenger, message/email system, or wall commenting.
10. You’re tired of seeing Tom stare out at you from millions of friends lists and just wish he would change his profile picture at least once.
Have any of these things happened to you? Well you’re the perfect candidate for Myspace deletion. Join me on Wednesday, January 30th by deleting your Myspace account. You won’t regret it!
Lane Splitting in Los Angeles
In some of the heavily congested areas of the world, motorcycle commuting has mutated to cope with obscenely high traffic levels. This perversion is known as lane splitting, which is legal in California thanks to CHP motorcops. Although developed from necessity and the desire to travel faster than 15 miles per hour on a four-lane highway, a few have developed the form into an art. Among the brave (or insane, depending on your view) are the couriers, thrillseekers, and motorcycling commuters of the world that split lanes on a regular basis. In order to survive, they have honed their bodies, minds and machines to razor’s edge sharpness, but mostly they’re just nuts.
Every time I am sitting in traffic in the Los Angeles area, I encounter some lunatic whipping by my car just barely missing my side mirrors. I love motorcycles and the wind in my hair, but rest assured, I will not be driving a motorcycle in Los Angeles anytime soon.
Studio3k Featured on Faveup.com
Thanks to everyone over at Faveup for having Studio3k as part of your selective gallery. To view our listing, click here.
Gotta Love the “Gotta Digg” Song
When I’m feeling lazy, at school or when I work
I sneak to my computer, and then I like to shirk
I don’t go online shopping, I don’t email with my mom
I open up my browser, and go to digg-dot-com
Chorus: Gotta digg, gotta digg, gotta digg
Gotta make this story big!
Did you hear that awful sound?
Another server’s down!
I always dig up Apple, and I bury Microsoft
But when I said I was a girl, all the diggers scoffed
And when I see those stories about Senator Ron Paul
I don’t even RTFA; I just digg them all!
Chorus: Gotta digg, gotta digg, gotta digg
Gotta make this story big!
Did you hear that awful sound?
Another server’s down!
The fanboys can be tiresome, they always are outspoken
And if you’re listening Kevin Rose, the comment system’s broken!
I know digg isn’t perfect, but be thankful for what we’ve got
It’s just like daddy always says: “At least it’s not Slashdot!!!”
Chorus: Gotta digg, gotta digg, gotta digg
Gotta make this story big!
Did you hear that awful sound?
Another server’s down!
Studio3k Receives Website Design Award
The Website Design Awards showcases and awards the very best and most progressive CSS and Flsh design on the web. Thanks to WDA for featuring Studio3k as part of their gallery and making it part of their Top 10 in December, 2007. Click here to visit WDA.
Here Comes Another Bubble
Sung to the tune of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” this music video by the San Francisco-based Richter Scales is pure genius. And so, as the song asks, we sure will blog about it. In fact, it’s an honor to, as these guys get the Web 2.0 mania better than pretty much everyone in Silicon Valley.
And a warning to all: The video was so hysterical, it apparently made Robert Scoble spew Diet Coke through his nose. That’s, of course, not such a funny image.