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Share for Fun and Profit - Frivolous Friday is back!

It’s yet another Friday and it’s time for some more free stuff. If you are new to Frivolous Fridays, check out the previous two post (1) (2) for more.

The last times I was flogging promoting musical friends of mine. This time I’ll shamelessly hawk donate some unused and unpaid designs from my own hairy hands to the Creative Commons domain. Feel free to use the provided material any way you’d like within the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution Unported license. Make sure to attribute Vidar Andersen / blacktar.com and you can even make money from using my design - not that I’d know who’d actually pay for this ;).

First up we have a generic web site for some whatever corporation that I committed back in 2005. I was inspired from a vapor ware hardware site of the times. Kudos if you can tell me which. ;) And yes, the 3D image / illustration is also made by me (2002) and free for you to use.

Home page:
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Sub page:
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Download the Photoshop files if it tickles your fancy.

Then there’s another blast from my 2005 past:

Website:
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Poster:
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Business Card:
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Download these Photoshop files too if you’d like.

Caveat:
Materials provided AS IS as Photoshop PSD and JPG files. The designs use two not-so-free fonts: Heisei Maru Gothic Std and Helvetica Neue. Make sure that you buy them before you use them.

You have a great week end and be sure to leave a comment on how you love or hate my freebies!

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Frivolous mp3 Friday - The Sequel

This is the sequel to my Frivolous Friday Premiere post.

Do you remember the times before the daily hustle and barter for new invites to the next social killer site? The time before myspace and flicker? When AJAX still meant detergent? Before mashups and mixups? Before DRM? The early days of Napster and mp3.com?

Back then I used to host music from talented unsigned friends on my own server. I recently saw that the pages and the mp3s are still there beneath layers of dust and mold, so I thought I’d share the remains with you - as is.

Feel free to use the music as you like as long as it is not for commercial purposes and please remember proper attribution.

First up we have three tracks from Lover’s Lane, featuring Marius Asp from ex Bello Semen and Erik Andreas Røkland among others. The style is rather pop-ish and definitely catchy.

Then there’s 17 (!) tracks by John Ebinger from Sailauf and the dark Spessart forest in the south of Germany. This one guy act can probably be described as dark electronica. My favorite is probably the Blumfeld Mix and Computerliebe - just can’t get them out of my head.

Lastly there’s that guy TBG from my last post revisited! I discovered some additional mp3 files laying about and decided to upload them for your listening pleasure.

Enjoy the week-end and be sure to leave a comment on how you love or hate the artists!

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Plone Spotting Competition Winner

Playing it by the numbers (hey, him being 1 of 1 makes this rather easy!), Timothy McDonie won the Plone Spotting Competition for this funny contribution of copycatism:

Hamachi != Plone

Does the Hamachi logo looks eerily familiar? Thank you, Timothy! Please get back to me which size you are and where you’d like the tee delivered!

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Plone Spotting Competition

Yes, it’s Friday again folks! I thought I’d hold yet another unsuccessful amazing competition: Send me your snapshots (or link to an image in the comments) of anything vaguely Plone-like and you might win a quality tee in your size of choice with an image of the never before publicized Plone alpha interface! The winners and runners up will be published here by next Friday.

Plone in Trier

I try to spot Plone logos whenever I’m out and about. Have a look at my Plone set on flickr to see more examples.

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Image caption competition

I accidentally came across this sign one night in CGN. It made me giggle.

Image of a fence with a sign marked “betafence”.

Come up with a clever caption and enter it as a comment below. Maybe you’ll win something!