BenGilman

…blogs about design, branding and doing business.

Archive for the ‘Random’ category

28 Jan '09

Happy 2009

A belated welcome to the New Year with possibly empty resolutions of improvements to come.

11 Dec '08

Spam subject title of the week

“Make an impression of a lady from the highest circles”

Wordle-ing

Wordle is an excellent web-toy that generates word maps based on RSS feeds or Delicious accounts. It found the RSS for my blog slightly troublesome so here’s my Delicious bookmarks mapped out instead. Wordle discovered via SimpleBits.

2 Jul '08

Sprechen with the animals

Continuing evidence that About.com covers everything that falls through the Wikipedia cracks… I present to you a German-English animal sounds dictionary. [(CC) photo from Max XX] To put it simply, the German language (naturally) describes the sounds made by animals with different words. As the related article puts it: Have you ever heard a dog [...]

14 Jan '08

The monkey and the motor

Presenting, a very silly video I made for work a few months back. The topic was ‘If your money could talk, what would it say about you?’ Apologies for the shocking accent (and rather lame joke).