While hanging around Soup2Nuts (the most excellent animation studio behind Home Movies and Dr. Katz) this summer, I saw the desperate need for a redesign of their website, which at the time consisted solely of their reels and contact information. As somebody at the company said, “It looks like we’re out of business.”
Since they have plans for a larger site in the future, my version still bears an “Under Construction” banner, but I think the site has a nice clean aesthetic and is mostly standards adherant (it could have been more so, but I didn’t feel like going back to fix a couple things).
Feel free to check out the trailer for Soup2Nuts’ upcoming PBS Kids series WordGirl while you’re there - the show’s great, and features, among others, the voice talents of Patton Oswalt, Jeffrey Tambor, and a hilarious turn by Chris Parnell as the show’s narrator.
More pics after the jump.
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GigaOM reports that voice controlled telephone services company TellMe has been purchased, by Microsoft no less, for north of $800 million. Good for them! I’ve been using their flagship product for years. It’s always worked extremely well, and even allowed me to set up a dial-in pirate radio station of sorts 5 or so years ago. By using VoiceXML (I believe it was called) and their developers center, I could dial 1-800-555-TELL, say “Developers”, say my unique ID (94556), and then I’d get a menu offering me any of three different, horribly compressed rap songs. Fun times! Little Jeffy using code!
Though as good as TellMe’s recognition has been, it always faltered in one place for me. I have spent more time trying to get the service to take me to the stock quote for PALM than I care to dwell on. Terrible.
Found tumblr thanks to Lifehacker (just when I was about to ditch your RSS feed, you go and make yourself useful). I’ve been looking for a good, easy way to set up a tumblelog for a while, and there we go. Mine’s located at jeffgreco.tumblr.com, though you can find it at tumble.jeffgreco.com as well.
It’s a cool site - twitterish in its simplicity and flexibility. I also finally found a use for Yahoo’s much ballyhooed feed remixer Pipes in my tumblelog: I wanted to integrate my Digg and del.icio.us feeds into the tumblr, but I wanted them labeled as such. A little Piping around, and voila, it worked. Cool stuff.
I envision using the Tumblelog in a way that I never got the Around the Net section to really work in the last incarnation of this site - random thoughts and tidbits here and there. Not to mention stupid insightful comments by my pal Patrick McCarthy.
