The J. Bradford Dillon Journal

If you happened to visit this site in the last couple of weeks you might have noticed some strange changes going on as I redesigned, then went on vacation, then came back and redesigned again. I’m still working on this, the 18th incarnation of my blog, but hopefully this design will last a little longer than it’s predecessors. This is not an article about my design, or about redesigning, or about the changes I’ve made or how I made them.

What The Duck is a webcomic about freelancing ducks. Think of it as XKCD… But with clients. Ok it’s not really anything like XKCD, but the flavor of the humor is similar. This particular comic made me laugh out loud, mostly because I spent several hours working in Photoshop tonight. It’s not hilarious, it’s just plain funny.

I’ve been using RSS feeds to keep track of various blogs and news sites for years now. I used Google Reader for a very long time, and swore by it. I couldn’t find an equal for it’s speed, ease of use, or organization abilities. It really is an awesome webapp. One day I was listening to The Talk Show one day and John got off on one of his standard diatribes that we all know and love. At any rate, he was talking about NetNewsWire, an RSS reader application for Mac (sorry PC users).

A graffiti artist, who I can only guess is going by the name Blu, recently posted a video of some of his art. It’s making the rounds on blogs here and there, and for good reason. This is over seven minutes of animated awesomeness, done entirely with black and white paint, entitled “Muto”. Enjoy.

This month saw the release of Dragonfly, Opera’s own developer toolset for their super-standards-friendly browser. As soon as I found out about the tool, I downloaded and installed it. I’ve been a huge fan of Firebug for Firefox for over a year now, so I thought I’d try Opera’s feature. This lead me to try out Safari’s development suite. I’m always looking to enhance my toolset. So here’s what I found.

Mister Cobb sent me this video today at work. It’s a girl freaking out at an old woman on our local transit system, the Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, AKA Marta. I never got anything this colorful in my three years of traveling to-and-fro from the University, though I was once accosted by a very talkative mute armed with a pen and paper who was in love with Cameron Diaz.

The concept is simple: You write an essay explaining why you deserve the house, and mail it along with the contest entry fee of $100.