About Crackunit
Crackunit is Iain Tait's blog. It mainly bothers with the space between web and advertising, but it sometimes strays off into other self-indulgent nonsense too.
Twitterings- iaintait: Marginally better than the smoking 2 year old. But far far stronger: http://bit.ly/9Y9QSV 30/07/2010
- iaintait: Young man working on your laptop smoking a pipe in a non-ironic way. I'm glad you are comfortable with your life choices. But stop. 30/07/2010
- iaintait: I've pretty much been on conference calls since 6.30am. Yet I'm still happy. Most odd. 30/07/2010
- iaintait: @dropbuddha I'd say: this isn't some 'funniest tweet gets the copywriting job' kind of a place. And those bottles of energy WILL hurt you. 30/07/2010
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Monthly Archives: May 2008
The End of Busy Week
Calls for something special… Penguin wins, hands down.
ABC3D – The Most Brilliant Book Video Ever
Sorry if this is old hat, it’s been seen by quite a few people on YouTube. But it’s one of those things that even if you’ve seen it before, you’ll be happier after seeing it again…
How Many 5 Year Olds Could You Take In A Fight
22 I liked this promotion for a free online dating site. Not because I endorse fighting gangs of 5 year olds (although I’ve probably had more experience of that particular activity than most, but that’s another story…). I liked it … Continue reading
The Mysterious Adventure of the QR Code In The Toilet
I spotted this ‘QR Code’ stuck to the underside of a loo seat. And I thought to myself “what a peculiar, yet intriguing place to stick a QR code”. So I took a photo of it thinking that it might … Continue reading
Outsourcing In-Housing And All That Jazz
I’ve been having lots of bollocksy conversations with ‘industry types’ about whether doing production in-house or outsourcing it is the right thing to do. I’ve always been of the opinion that you need at least a good core of production … Continue reading
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Tagged development, digital, online advertising, outsourcing, production, web design, web sites
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Compfight.com
Andy our latest new Poke chap alerted me to the awesomeness of Compfight.com. It’s a Flickr search tool that allows you to find and view lots of Flickr images quickly with some key filters (like Creative Commons licensing). It’s a … Continue reading
Don’t Count Me (dot com)
Actually when it says pre-Alpha, I think it’s more like pre-vapourware, but this is an open call to all the inventors and brilliant people out there. Will someone please invent a web-hit-deleter. A few times recently (in fact twice today … Continue reading
Autechre On MySpace
If you were glitchy techoid producers of freaked out soundz. What would you do with your MySpace page? I guess make it completely fucked up and glitched out. Right? That’s what Autechre have done anyway. Totally unusable. But I can’t … Continue reading
Tweetwheel Good
This is nice. It shows which of your Twitter friends are friends with each other. Simple, but revealing and oddly engaging.
Light Graf Goes Mainstream
This lightwriting animation about The Very Angry Caterpillar was shown on BBC childrens’ TV show Blue Peter. More on it at Flickr. It’s nice.