Brendan Mitchell blog

Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • The Bark Side

    Chewbacca’s my favourite   http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6ntDYjS0Y3w

  • Fotoshop by Adobé

    This is a genius piece of self promotion by Jesse Rosten “pro-pixel intensifying fauxtanical hydro-jargon micro bead extract infused with nutrive volumizing technology will leave your face virtually unrecognisable… My skin feels like plastic!” thanks to Unionversity for posting this first

  • Got a Minute?

  • Makes You Think Doesn’t It?

    So switch off your computer, go outside and do something!

  • Apple’s Flashy iPod Touch Ad

    There’s a iPod Touch advert on Wired’s homepage that’s very smart. Anyone not in the digital media industry, will likely look at the advert and not be overly impressed, but technically, this ad is very impressive, as it extends beyond what you assume is it’s frame, the iPod covers the menu bar above (which remains…

  • Facebook Timeline Photoshop Template

    Facebook timelines have now gone mainstream, as you can see from the screen grab of mine below, you can play around with the top image however you please. This top graphic is 849 x 312 pixels, with the small square being 180×180 (although this gets scaled down to 125 x 125. But rather than you…

  • The Next Train Will Arrive in the Vegetable Aisle

    Hate grocery shopping? Hate waiting for public transport? Then why not combine them and make them twice as bad? ah, but elementary maths tells us that adding two negatives creates a positive! This is a really simple, yet very effective way to get customers to try out Tesco’s online retail store. Perfect for South Korea,…

  • The Web Icon

    A couple of years ago I needed a blog icon, realising there wasn’t a universally accepted one in existence, I created one to use for myself and threw it out into the world for anyone to use… it became far more popular than I ever expected, averaging 45,000 downloads a year! A couple of months…

  • There Can Be Only One!

    aha, I got a few responses/questions to my post last week about the death of email, so thought I’d explain it a little clearer. Email may be being used less and less but we need email addresses, as they’re the most widely used open standard that we can use to uniquely identify ourselves on the…

  • Email Est Mort, Vive Le Email

    I’ve been pondering the longevity of email for the past few years, wondering whether it’s time was numbered due to the ease and rise of messaging and social networks. And I’m certainly not the only one that’s considered this, there’s been plenty of opinions and debates about this online. Mark Zuckerberg said email was dead…

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