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Archive for April, 2006

Free debate evidence

In THE category, debate on April 27, 2006 at 5:02 pm

I am finally done debating. It's been fun but I'm glad to be done. For all those still debating or going to nats here is my debate evidence. Enjoy!

A zip file of all the evidence (60Kb)

Or individually:

Loser Pays Neg (24.5Kb)

Myths of MML (26.5Kb)

Health Courts Neg (70.0Kb)

Informed Consent Neg (73.0Kb)

NPDB Neg (56.0Kb)

SQ is Good (20.5Kb)

Icon Buffet

In Graphics, Web Design, web 2.0 on April 19, 2006 at 5:45 pm

I have the following icon buffet deliverys I can send you.

  • Mallow Buzz 1 (10 Web 2.0 fluffy confections) — 5 deliveries remaining
  • Tower Grove Wedding (8 icons all dressed in white) — 5 deliveries remaining
  • Shanghai Tech (Get it? 15 icons…) — 5 deliveries remaining

Just post a comment if you want any.

Orange Dark Template

In Graphics, Web Design, Web Templates on April 15, 2006 at 8:47 pm

 Dark Orange

I came up with this website template. Please feel free to download and use it. The only thing I ask is that you leave the link to my site on the bottom. If you want me to customize it for you, please just email me at "mw5300@gmail.com" and we can work out a deal.

Please note that I still need to revise the code on this template. There are some problems with it.

Text that works on any background

In Graphics, Web Design on April 13, 2006 at 7:14 pm

While developing a flash animation for a client I ran into the problem of creating text that works on any background. I was creating a flash animation that had some pictures fading in and out with the text "before" and "after" on them. I wanted to be able to read the text yet still have it looks consistent across the pictures. What I did was create some white text with a slight black shadow and set to 80% alpha. It looks pretty good and is easy to read on any background, excluding pure white. While it does not work well on pure white, it does work if the images are only slightly white. Here is an example of how it looks on some random images:

Text on Background Test 3

Text on Background Test 2

Text on Background Test 1

So you can see, it usually works on a few different kinds of backgrounds.