shamurai, David Shamma's personal website and portfolio, harks back to the days of mainframe computing, monochrome monitors, and the good old DOS operating system. Interface of the week :)

Especially for geeks who dream of code while they sleep... or fall asleep at their computers, a cushion embroidered with DOS code, by Vasily Dubovoy and Art. Lebedev Studio. Via Freshome.

DOS ain't so bad after all. An interesting argument in favour of not replacing or updating DOS interfaces with Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) merely for the sake of doing so. There's a lingering temptation among those of us in the industry to replace all so-called "antiquated" means of doing things with newfangled web interfaces. And rightly so, given the many benefits the web provides. Yet, I cringe when ... Read full entry

Apologies to all (and there's been quite a few of you) who have been trying to access disassociated.com for the last twelve hours. A couple of things happened. First a recent post made the front page of digg! w00t! My first time! Then my web host of ten years advised me that disassociated was the subject of a DOS attack, and they were taking the site off ... Read full entry