New Design

So, I just rebuilt my website ( as you can probably tell, assuming you're reading this blog at http://www.andrewparnell.com ) but unfortunately, where I currently am, I have no practical way of doing more cross browser/platform testing than just Safari and Firefox 3. It seems to work perfectly in both of those, but if you're on something else, or something just seems wrong for that matter, please let me know. Thanks!

Opto-Isolator

I came across this piece shortly after I made my eye, and I absolutely love it. I really wish I could figure out how to do eye tracking, there are so many great possibilities.

Also: opto-isolators happen to be my favorite electronic part. Just saying.

I Am Clean

Came across another cool piece of device art today:

iamclean.org lets you know every time the proprietor has put on deodorant since December 2007.

Personally I think it should be hooked up to a twitter feed.

(Side note, since I'm having a slow day at work: if you look at their code for going from the device to xml, their use of MySQL is totally extraneous. You can actually use PHP to directly write/maintain XML databases. Just use the DOM structures. DOM for php 5+ DOM XML for php 4.)