ben lowery

tags and text since 1994

Design

Painting with rainbows

Post author By Ben
Post date April 24, 2008

Crayons

Wow. All 120 colors of Crayola crayons, with hex codes. Awesome.

Tags color, design

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Making cmd.exe pretty

Post author By Ben
Post date April 23, 2008

Ah, finally. After years suffering with Lucida Console or that nasty raster font, there’s a way to switch to a decent monospaced font, Consolas, in the Windows cmd.exe windows.

Tags console, typography, windows

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Third

Post author By Ben
Post date April 23, 2008

$Portishead\'s Third$

Portishead is finally coming out with a new album, Third. Last.fm has the full album available for a test listen, and you can pre-order it over on Amazon. So far, I really like it, but I think I’m going to wait to see if it becomes available through the MP3 store before diving in.

(via Nelson)

Tags music

Food

Silvia hearts Wii

Post author By Ben
Post date April 21, 2008

Thanks to Chet for finding this awesome hack for the Rancilio Silvia. Mandy and I depend on ours nearly every morning to wake us up, and though I’ve hacked a PID into mine, I don’t think I’ll be going this far. Still, it’s pretty freaking awesome.