no-www.org





I have recently learned that our old friend “www.” has deprecated. You may notice that the Where we play url no longer contains www dot. Use of the www subdomain is redundant and time consuming to communicate. The internet, media, and society are all better off without it.




Where we play is now ‘Class B’. This means that all of the traffic to http://www.whereweplay.com is politely and silently redirected to http://whereweplay.com. This is currently the preferred no-www classification as it assert the deprecated nature of the www subdomain.




The process of making your domain a Class B is simple. All you need to do is create or modify a file called .htaccess located in the root directory of your site and add the following lines, changing the word “domain” to match your domain.




RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain\.com$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]





To learn more go to no-www.org

Published on Nov 10, 2007 at 6:54 pm.
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T-Mobile - Reclaim magenta!

T-Mobile claims to own the rights for the use of magenta, or I guess it is now Magenta™. They claim to have the rights registered at OAMI. COLOURlovers.com has done detailed research on this matter I think it is worth checking out.

Published on Nov 08, 2007 at 1:29 pm.
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Sounds of Saturn

I am going to have to rank this as one of the most amazing things the internet has enabled me to experience. NASA has released some amazing recordings of sounds from the moons of Saturn. The strangest part is that these sounds are remarkably similar to the alien movies of the 50’s and 60’s. Thanks NASA!

Published on Nov 07, 2007 at 1:10 am.
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Huge Star Wars Collection

I think that I have located the real 40 year old virgin. This guy has a huge collection of Star Wars figurines. In comparison to this I have a rather small collection of Hot Wheels. If I can remember I will take a shot of my collection.




If you are a collector send in some pictures of your life’s work for us to post. garus@whereweplay

Published on Nov 05, 2007 at 7:48 am.
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Typeorganism

This is a great web based typographic experiment stemming from the belief that “Type is on Organism”.

Published on Oct 28, 2007 at 10:20 am.
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Jared Tarbell

Jared Tarbell is a programmer writing computer programs to create mind blowing art.

Published on Oct 27, 2007 at 5:00 am.
Filled under: Art, Illustration, Nerdy stuff, Play | No Comments

Apple: Mac OS X Leopard

Mac lovers OS X Leopard is yours.

Published on Oct 26, 2007 at 3:56 pm.
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Heely’s Hack: Energy Harvesting

The Energy Harvesting Dérive by Christian Croft and Kate Hartman combines new modes of pedestrian movement with alternative energy research goals. The project hacks the recently popular Heelys roller sneaker to transform it into a platform for generating electricity from human motion.

Video of the shoe can be found here

Published on Oct 25, 2007 at 11:08 am.
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TED: Hans Rosling

Hans will blow your mind with his display of statistics. Incredible.

Published on Oct 25, 2007 at 9:00 am.
Filled under: Animation, Education, Graphic Design, History, Inspiration, Nerdy stuff | 1 Comment

Processing


Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. Processing is developed by artists and designers as an alternative to proprietary software tools in the same domain. Processing was used by Universal Everything’s Matt Pyke when creating the Lovebytes 2007 cards.

Published on Oct 24, 2007 at 2:15 am.
Filled under: Art, Graphic Design, Nerdy stuff | 1 Comment