Hello people of the Internet! Smile big and get your clicking finger ready cause it’s my shameless plug of MadeBig.com - a collision of Social Networking and Casual Gaming - more fun then you can shake a FaceSpace at.

Do you remember where you were when you first heard about Ipod, GPS or the Gutenberg press? Well this is just like that, you will never forget the day you checked out MadeBig and played some games or uploaded pictures of your cat.
The thing I like about MadeBig is that it is not full of clutter and crazy profile junk.

There are cool groups, the MarketExchange, you can share videos or even write a blog. You do need to be a member to access most of the site, but games are open for anyone so check ‘em out and have some fun, no pressure no hype - bet you can’t beat my skeet shoot high score (only one person has).

If you do sign up send me a friend request. Peace out!

I think that it is time I shared some good resources that I use and enjoy when it comes to web and graphic design. In no particular order, here they are.

1. Lorem Ipsum. This is a simple, simple site but so very useful. If you don’t know what Lorem Ipsum is here is a quote from their site: “Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.”
2. ColorBlender A great resource when creating a color scheme for your website. You can download PSD and AI files. It is nice because you can look at and/or borrow other peoples palettes.
3. www.thinkvitamin.com/ “Vitamin is a resource for web designers, developers and entrepreneurs” cool AJAX, design, CSS and tons of cool articles, tools and tricks.
4. layoutgala a great CSS layout gallery, 40 of them i think, quick and easy to use and change.
5. factoryjoe This dude has been all around the net capturing screen shots of everything a UI designer would want to see. Examples of Interfaces, applications, menus and the like.
6. www.1001freefonts.com/ as the name implies there is more fonts than you can throw a stick at, or whatever.
7. http://www.totaltraining.com/ has a bunch of really good videos for any product in the Adobe Creative suite, You can watch quite a few for free and they are done well.
8. The Painter Canvas Newsletter is more inspiration for me than a pure resource, but it’s fun and occasionally I will try a trick or tutorial. Follow the link and you will find the subscribe off to the right.
9. masterfile. Every designer needs some creative photos, I like this resource even though it is pricey, often i just get ideas for simple photos I can take myself. Note the photo of money falling from the sky in my one million in a year post, this is a photo i took myself and created the effect of money dropping, the idea came from masterfile. I might do a how-to on this in the near future.
10. http://alistapart.com/ Another great resource similar to thinkVitamin. The goods in these articles go way back, clean and simple to use, I really love the consistency of this site on a pure design level.

Well there you have it. I hope that you too can find some good information here and if you have a resource you use a lot share it with me, thanks.

So blogger is kind of a piece of crap. im not going to get into all the reasons why cause that’ll just piss me off more that i all ready am. But I had this old blog, nostink, and it was like too old or something so I upgraded to this new account, nostinkn and its exactly the same crap. lameness! I had some col Mountain Biking Stats from when i used to ride all the time.

I have to say all the flexibility of WordPress is amazing and i’m liking it.