I’m not usually one to enjoy bizarre nonsensical comedy, but the Axe Cop series is freaking hilarious.
The story is written by the 5 year old brother of the 29 year-old artist, Ethan Nicolle. Their collaboration is pure win and is only rivaled the series of reader submitted questions answered by Malachai in “Ask Axe Cop“!
Oh, and I totally want a shirt that says:
CHOP!
PUNT!
PSHEW!
Microsofts Courier digital journal: exclusive pictures and details
Gruber:
It’s a demo of a concept. I’d wager money that we’ll never see an actual product from Microsoft that works like this.
I think the Courier demo is really, really neat. Watching that video makes me want one, now. Unfortunately it will never be as cool as what we’re seeing in these videos.
That’s a big difference between Apple and other tech companies. They demo a product a few months before it ships, in it’s near final form. Microsoft announces products years beforehand and by the time it arrives it’s behind the curve.
After reading about a program called Mousepaths on Scott Hansen’s ISO50 blog I thought I’d give it a try myself.
Mousepaths (now called IOGraph) tracks your mouse movement in the background. When your mouse is inactive it builds a black dot, that grows as more time passes. Clicks appear as white dots.
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It’s interesting to see after 7 hours of work where my mouse spends most of it’s time. Apparently I rarely use my secondary monitor, mainly to move something back and forth. I also would like to state that the two big black dots are lunch and a meeting. Most definitely not me slacking off.
You can download IOGraph from Anatoly Zenkov’s site. It’s cross-platform and a fun passive activity while you toil away.
