Remember those snazzy badges I made some time ago? Well, after having been featured on OMG! Ubuntu! I felt like getting back on the proverbial horse and make some more badges. So I did. I’m not crazy about the font situation, but Arch’s official font seems to be Liberation Sans - so that’s what I’m going with.

As usual, there is one color and one monochrome flavors, both with low-opacity versions. Sticking them on your website is super easy. For more information on that, go check out the Made on Linux page.

If you want me to make badges like these for your favorite distribution, simply shoot me an email (my email is available on the contact page). There are some distributions that I can’t make badges for because of copyright reasons, but I promise I’ll do my best.

About ten days ago, I released a couple of “Made on Ubuntu” badges to put on websites made in Ubuntu. Now I have decided to make some general “Made on Linux” buttons, and I’ve decided to rename the project “Made on Linux” - as that includes Ubuntu as well.

So far, these are the changes I have made:

• Added four more badges featuring Tux.
• Added some nice JavaScript effects to show and hide the sample code.
• Changed the text to reflect that this is now not only for Ubuntu.
• Changed the URL to blastfromthepast.se/linuxbadges
• Added a redirect so that people who visit the old URL get sent to the new one.

Things still to do:

• Add more badges for various distributions.
• Make it easier for people to just copy’n'paste a little code into their website and have the badges be displayed.

Be sure to visit the site now, and please email me if you’re planning on using any of the badges!

“Made on Linux”

In the Mac iLife suite there’s a web page builder application that many Mac users seem to be using to create their personal websites. Being that this is an evil Apple application, the program automatically slaps a badge saying “Made on a Mac” on the footer, as to advertise to the world that any moron can create a website with a Mac.

A member at Ubuntu forums had noticed this, and put forth the idea that Ubuntu users should get a similar badge to display on their websites - that is, if they made it on Ubuntu. I kind of liked the idea, even though it might be seen as slightly unfair to Linux users who are using other distributions -  but on the other hand, the only people who would click on such a badge are people who don’t already know what Ubuntu is. In other words, Mac or Windows users.

So I sat down and created some badges…

Fast forward a few hours, and not only had I made 4 awesome looking badges, but I had also created a pretty neat website to hold them all!

If you have created a website on Ubuntu, go get one of the badges!

We’re halfway into June, and it’s about time for another update on our progress with Project Subterranean. As usual, I have included a short demo video, which is available further down this post (it’s my way of tricking you into reading the whole thing).

This week we haven’t really been working on any major features, but we have made some minor improvements, and gotten started on some character outlines and even started writing the script.

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Wordle.net is a free web service that creates word clouds from text that you input. Just like with the oh-so-trendy tag clouds, the size of the individual words change depending on the frequency of the word in the inputted text. There are also multiple configuration options for the alignment of the words, the font to use, and what color scheme to apply.

With the help of that service, I’ve created a Blast from the past themed wallpaper that I figured I’d share here in case anyone is interested. It’s made using a combination of Wordle, Gimp and Photoshop. It’s completely free, and it’s under the Creative Commons license, so you can do pretty much whatever you want with it.

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