Extra Future

Hi, I’m Phil Nelson, a writer, developer, and audio-visual maker of stuff. I have been making stuff online for over 25 years. I run RetroStrange and Set Side B. Good to see you.

Blog Archives

Month: June 2011

  • Google Web Fonts 2.0

    [Newest in an avalanche of Google service redesigns.][link] Is 2011 the year Google gets serious about design? Sure seems like it.

    [link]: http://www.google.com/webfonts/v2 “Google Web Fonts”

  • Ambient Cigarette Tin

    My old friend Shawn Russell took his own life a few weeks ago. Back in 2004 we recorded a demo in my bedroom using the newly-released Garageband. This badass 80s-flavored jam is what came out of it. Shawn provided the guitar tracks and I laid down the percussion using the built-in tools. I named the track after an old tin his father had given me to hold my smokes, and a half an Ambien tablet that sat on the corner of my desk.

    [Ambient Cigarette Tin, MP3.][link]

    [link]: http://extrafuture.s3.amazonaws.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/01-Ambient-Cigarette-Tin.mp3 “Ambient Cigarette Tin”

  • CSS PANIC

    [A whack-a-mole game written entirely in CSS/HTML][link]. No Javascript. Chrome/Safari only.

    [link]: http://jsdo.it/GeckoTang/4rXg “CSS PANIC – jsdo.it – Share JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS”

  • Lettering.js

    [A very intriguing typography plugin for jQuery.][link] The example gallery is pretty damned impressive.

    [link]: http://letteringjs.com/ “Lettering.js – A jQuery plugin for radical web typography.”

  • Why “Why Windows 8 Is Not Fundamentally Flawed As A Response To The iPad” Is Fundamentally Flawed As a Response To “Why Windows 8 Is Fundamentally Flawed as a Response to the iPad”

    [It’s a rebuttal of a rebuttal][link], but it’s really worth reading. Jesper is one of the smartest people I know on the subject of modern computing, and this is a great example as to why. Not contrary to be contrary, not a Mac fanboy response, just some good sense.

    [link]: http://waffle.wootest.net/2011/06/12/why-w8-flawed-ipad-response/ “waffle → Why ‘Why Windows 8 Is Not Fundamentally Flawed As A Response To The iPad’ Is Fundamentally Flawed As a Response To ‘Why Windows 8 Is Fundamentally Flawed as a Response to the iPad’”

  • Gawker’s Coverage of Silk Road

    A Bitcoin-powered underground service for purchasing narcotics via the internet. Every politician with a hate-on for the internet and technology just simultaneously got aroused.