week 6 and week 7 lecs and tutes

So we are going through some of Jason's websites that are posted on the NCT 09 blog. The first interesting site i have been exploring is lifehacker (http://www.lifehacker.com.au/design/). This website seems to contain a lot of useless info but some interesting stuff i found is about the

Top 10 Food Hacks, 2009 Edition.

This article talks about all these weird and wonderful ways of using food eg spreading butter on expensive cheeses as a way of preserving it. Another idea is to crush garlic with a rock/ stone instead of a garlic crusher. but my favourite idea of all is to melt down those gummy animals eg the natural confectionery company dinosaurs (which are my fave) and put them into holders in the shape of a shot glass and then you have some super yummy gummy shot glasses! COOL!

The second website i visited is the generator blog- http://generatorblog.blogspot.com/I found this website had some pretty funny stuff on it, including generators for almost anything. the one i loved the most is making whatever words you like into the font of twitter! here is my try!

Pretty awesome stuff. this may sound stupid but i have never really used the internet for anything other than the normal mundane study, facebook etc but this exercise is actually pretty cool! and as the lecture taught me, you have to use the internet and not let it use you.