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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I’m very interested in the various aspects of design. Because of this, I’ve gathered a rather impressive collection of wallpapers that I think are absolutely stunning. In this post I’m going to share some of the wallpapers that I think are the very best, and explain what I think makes them so special.

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