Archive for November, 2009
URL ABC
This afternoon Mr. Tim Van Damme tweeted a link to his latest blog post entitled “URL ABC” upon clicking that link I read the instructions to a very simple game.
A simple game: Go to the address bar in your favorite browser, and type one letter. Start with “a”, end with “z”.
- A: Aka Mike
- B: Build Conference
- C: Colly
- D: Dustin Curtis
- E: Elliot Jay Stocks
- F: Flickr
- G: Gregory Wood
- H: HTML5 Doctor
- I: Paddy Donnelly
- J: Jason Santa Maria
- K: Kyle Gray
- L: Ligature Loop and Stem
- M: Meyerweb
- N: Nocturnal Monkey
- O: Osborne
- P: Pixel Matrix Design
- Q: Quirks Mode
- R: Rockers Delight
- S: Simplebits
- T: Twitter
- U: UI Candy
- V: Vitor Lourenco
- W: Wilson Miner
- X: X Factor (please forgive me)
- Y: Youtube
- Z: Zeldman
It really is that easy, give it a shot yourself and see what you get. If you feel like checking out a few of the other people who have decided to take part then look no further than:
James Dyson
I made 5,127 prototypes of my vacuum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. That’s how I came up with a solution. So I don’t mind failure. I’ve always thought that schoolchildren should be marked by the number of failures they’ve had. The child who tries strange things and experiences lots of failures to get there is probably more creative.