After failing to register sne.eu, I’d been on the hunt for an interesting domain hack, I eventually stumbled across uɥoɾ.com, which I snapped up immediately. In doing so, I learned a little about registering an IDN, which I thought might be of use to others.

If you are interested in registering an interesting domain name read the how-to written by John Sutherland.

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The magic of this film, though, happens as the inky black expands. Pulling farther and farther from Earth, you see the deep blue of the Pacific give way to night as the Sun comes into focus, the orbits of the solar system shrink smaller and smaller, the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpio stretch and distort, and, as the Milky Way receeds, the spidery structure of millions of other galaxies come into view. Then, you reach the limit of the observable universe, the afterglow of the Big Bang. This light has taken more than 13.7 billion years to reach our planet, and you return, back to Earth, to two lakes that are nestled between Mount Kailash and Mount Gurla Mandhata in the Himalayas.

More about the movie on amnh.org

Something worth watching in HD, full screen. Via David Airey

It’s always though seeing an old website you made go away or being butchered, but this one breaks my heart: http://www.tenforce.com/ #rip

http://twitter.com/maxvoltar/status/6440205714

Today I was browsing through the websites I worked on and noticed that one of them got so many elements added to the design that it no longer resembles to my original design. I am sure this happens a lot. Sometimes, as it is in my case, the original designer isn’t consulted when new elements are added to the website.

It’s good when there’s still a designer overseeing updates but what happens when developers do the design work too? In my case, my design looks like a christmas tree now: no logical hierarchy of the elements, poor use of typography and new colors that don’t blend with the design. Probably the client thought everything is equally important so every element screams for attention dressed in red and yellow. I kid you not

What do you do when this happens? Do you ever contact the client? Do you just let it go?

There’s also a gain in promoting the work of others. As Zeldman puts it:

But direct self-promotion is ineffective and will go unnoticed unless it is backed by a more indirect (and more valuable) form of marketing: namely, sharing information and promoting others.

Is your Twitter feed mostly about your own work, or do you mainly link to interesting work by others? Link blogs with occasional opinions (or occasional techniques, or both) get read. The more you find and promote other people’s good work, the more in-the-know and “expert” you are perceived to be—and the more you (or your brand, if you must) are liked.

Read Zeldman’s article about self promotion.

Fredo and Pid’jin is a romanian webcomic that I’ve been following for some time. They’re two evil pigeons planning to end the world. Awesome stuff!

A while ago we discovered that Costco was selling Mexican Coke. We first bought it because of the glass bottles – they look way cooler than cans. Then we discovered it was made with real sugar, not high fructose corn syrup.

That lasted until our last trip to costco when we found out that they discontinued all Coke products. What?
I guess that means no more Mexican coke for a while.

While writing this blog post today I found that there is a culture surrounding this Holy Grail of Coke. Here’s an article in the NY Times