I went to an Italian deli today and bought this mustard with “unique” artwork on its package. There’s not really much you can say about it, except my husband pointed out that it’s a good thing that it’s not mayonnaise.
In case my loyal readers were wondering why I haven’t posted in ages, I have been busy setting up the new Tursa online shop (as well as recovering from the cold from all colds that has infected everyone in London). Ye Olde Tursa Shoppe has now gone live.
It’s running on Zen Cart, an open-source shopping cart. I’ve been very impressed with Zen Cart so far—the set-up has been relatively easy, the community is very friendly and helpful and the documentation is much better than some of the commercial options I looked into previously.
At the moment, the site design is based on the default template and using the default graphics. It’s table-based, not CSS-based, but it can be adapted to use less tables by experienced developers, and the next versions will allow switching to a standards-based design much more easily than the latest version. I’m working on redesigning the whole Tursa site, and when I do, I plan to move as much as I can away from tables for layout. In the meanwhile, the basic template provides a good starting point to develop a shop quickly.
John Lewis, a British department store, has a Hallowe’en display up, the first one I’ve seen this year in London. Hallowe’en isn’t a very big holiday in England, though it is growing in popularity. It’s one of the holidays I’ve missed since I moved to the UK, so I’m glad to see that it is growing in popularity over here. The item that stood out most to me in the display was this box of Hallowe’en crackers.
Although its origins are from the Celtic Samhain, Hallowe’en as we currently think of it being celebrated (trick-or-treat, free candy, costumes, etc.) is very American. Crackers, though, are very English and are normally for Christmas. For those who don’t know what you do with a cracker, you and another person pull on an end each, and it pops open with a small bang. Whoever is holding the larger section wins the exciting “prizes” found within. Also, there’s a paper crown inside, most often worn by drunk office workers at Christmas parties.
typoGenerator is a web-based generator of typo posters, posters that overlay text over a processed image that are designed to look good, not to make sense. The generator works by searching images from images.google based on the words entered, adds effects to the images, and then adds the text in a random font and layout.
The site is a student project of Katharina Nussbaumer, and generated images can be used on websites for non-commercial purposes. It’s a load of fun just to play around with, and surprisingly many of the results look good.
[Site discovered at Semiproductive Boredom.]
I’ve started a group on flickr, the online photosharing service, called I love my bird. It’s for people to share photos of their pet birds, and it’s free to sign up to flickr.
If you have a pet bird and have photos you want to share, please join us and share pics of your fids.
(The model in this picture is Vic, one of our two cockatiels.)
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