kurt hills archives

My first Spore creature took about fifteen minutes of writer-not-designer fun to create, and Spore uploaded it to youtube as a personal favor. Go here to get your own free copy of the Spore Creature Creator (trial version). Warn your loved ones that you may be away for some time.

posted by kurt on Monday, Jun 23, 2008

This isn’t a real interface, but if it were, what would it do? And where’s the wasabi dispenser?

posted by kurt on Tuesday, Jun 10, 2008

This New York Times article translates common phrases from book reviews. The article leaves out my favorite review word, interesting. Don’t skip the comments; they are most intriguing.

posted by kurt on Wednesday, Apr 09, 2008

Ah, St. Patrick’s Day! These three vocalists will bring tears to a glass eye, indeed.

posted by kurt on Monday, Mar 17, 2008

Do you speak Swedish? This beatboxing dog does. The interface is easier if you speak a little svensk, but you’ll figure it out.

posted by kurt on Tuesday, Feb 19, 2008

Banished Words List

Lake Superior State University publishes an awesome er, a really neat list of words they consider overused and abused. Some of them are dear to me, such as “sweet” when it means “awesome”.

posted by kurt on Tuesday, Jan 01, 2008

First post w00t! I promise to keep it classy, and never to use the blink tag.

posted by kurt on Thursday, Dec 20, 2007