Saturday, August 28, 2010

The Papergeist Dream Story

Back in March 2008, I dreamt about a mischievous spirit in an old attic that physically manifested as a tiny tornado of blowing, whirling papers.  One part poltergeist + one part paper = "papergeist."  I wrote the wordplay and trivial story bit in my stagnating writing log, but never got around to doing anything with it.

Fortunately, someone else had the same wordplay idea and followed through with it.  As it turns out, there is a papergeist website.  They take old book covers and recycle them into unique works of art that are functional as sketchbooks, journals, etc.  Although I like the journals best, I think the undated appointment books are clever.  The store portion of the website is built in Coldfusion.

So basically, I can honestly say I found this website because of a dream I had.  How neat is that?

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Unicorn

An interesting announcement came out from the World Wide Web Consortium while I was away at CFUnited:
"W3C is pleased to announce the release of Unicorn, a one-stop tool to help people improve the quality of their Web pages."