I saw the cover of the latest issue of wired, and had to pick it up. Turns out there’s a very interesting article on the emergence of synthetic diamonds— that is, diamonds that are grown in a lab, but are physically and chemically indistinguishable from diamonds that are mined. This is not your father’s cubic…
Author: Mark Boszko
Mark is easily distracted and seems not to require sleep. However, this is an illusion. He is mortal, like you. Perhaps doubly so. He makes videos and a little bit of art and design. He also watches way too many movies and jokes around on Twitter.
Meatspace
Found two cool ways of linking your website to others in “meatspace”: GeoURL will instuct you on how to add meta tags to your web page to place it geographically. If you click on this button: [geourl.org is offline —Ed. 2015-08-22], you can see websites that have registered near me. D.C. Metro Blog Map is…
Station in the Metro Returns
That’s right. The domain name I dropped last December is being resurrected. Why? Well, for the same reasons it was created in the first place. Now that Boszko.com really needs to become dedicated to the family history project that I’m working on (and yes, I am working on it), I need a place for my…
moreCrayons
moreCrayons is an excellent site about color use on the web, proposing a new “web-smart” 4,096 color pallette, and providing links to other resources for smart color usage on the web.
The Geek Test
I just scored 41.22288% on The Geek Test, which qualifies me as a “Major Geek.” I always knew I was special. If you visit and take the test, let me know how you do by adding a comment to this article.
Cube
Another cool link today: while reading an article in Wired, I found a link to this site dedicated to owners of the discontinued, yet highly prized G4 Cube.
Illegal Art and Threadgill (and Shag)
While perusing a site about the Illegal Art exhibition (think a Mickey Mouse gas mask, an alphabet made from corporate logo letters, and a “Corporate Whore” parody of the Starbucks logo), I discovered one of the contributing artists, Threadgill, who creates some incredible artwork… very clean and clever, and reminds me in a way of…