The music from Chocolate Bunny Kill is called Palindrones and it can be downloaded here. Don’t worry, it is being released freely by the musician, Nathan Larson.

Enjoy*

It’s a candy store for adults, It’s an amazing thing, all those fireworks in one place. But luckily after a quick phone call I talked my friend into talking me out of it. Sometimes I need some sense talked into me otherwise I’m prone to drive 10 hours in one day just to buy fireworks. hehe. No really, this is all true I promise.

Long day, time to sleep.

Today’s Featured Font is Archer. It isn’t a free font but it’s certainly a great addition for your arsenal.

Archer, the colorful slab serif.

Sweet but not saccharine, earnest but not grave, Archer is designed to hit just the right notes of forthrightness, credibility, and charm.

You can read more about Archer here.

Daily Typography: Coolvetica. Everyday we’ll feature one a great, new font. The font in our feature graphic above is “Coolvetica” and it just so happens to be the font that we’re featuring today to kick things off.

Coolvetica obviously plays off of Helvetica’s popularity and wide acceptance among designers. But still, it’s a decent font if you’re looking for something just a little bit more quirkier than Helvetica. Coolvetica can be downloaded here, for both MAC & PC.

Side note: Make sure to check out the Typography Room on FriendFeed for daily discussions and inspiration. Say “hello” to me while you’re at it.

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Charlie White’s photography requires you to take a closer look at what exactly is happening. Take a look at the picture above, looks interesting right? He’s holding a gun and looking at the floor. Did he just kill someone? Or is he just distressed and about to do something with that gun?

There’s a lot going on in this image and only 2 people seem to be paying attention to something out of this world. Do you see it?

You can see more of Charlie White’s work, here.

The movement of the ball controls the flow and the temperature — moving away from the center increases flow and moving around the circles controls the temperature. LEDs under the ripple surface are lit with intensity and color according to the flow and water temperature to provide the user with additional visual feedback. Under the ripple surface there is an array of sensors and electromagnets that provide tactile feedback to the user as she moves the ball to discrete points on the surface.

[via Touch360]

I love FriendFeed and I’ve been spending a lot more time on it recently so I’ve decided to create a Dark Theme for it.

STEP #1–In order for the Dark Theme to work you will need either the Greasemonkey or Stylish Extension installed. If you have either one of these already, please skip to the next step.

Greasemonkey: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748
Stylish: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108

STEP #2–Visit the link to the script below and scroll to the very bottom of the page. You will see two options in the Install Section, one is for Greasemonkey and the other is for Stylish. Simply choose the appropriate option based on the extension you installed.

http://userstyles.org/styles/8368

Official Updates: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/friendfeed-dark

SCREENSHOTS

CUSTOMIZE:

If you don’t like the original blue link colors you can change them by editing this portion of the script:

/*EDIT BELOW FOR LINK COLORS*/
.feed .entry .link a:visited {
color:#1030cc !important;
}
a, a:visited, a.n, a.n:visited {
color:#1030cc !important;
}
/*EDIT ABOVE FOR LINK COLORS*/

Thanks for checking out the FriendFeed Dark Theme. You can find me on FriendFeed here.

Hopefully I’ll see you on FriendFeed soon

What would you call this sort of post, self-realization? Perhaps, but then again some of you may be turned away by its lack of enriched fabrication. We could spend our whole lives rehashing stories told by others with our own little twists and fancy dangl[ies] — but why neglect our own thoughts? There’s so much to learn from everyone and I think now it’s time to share. Don’t be alarmed though, the rehashing of news deemed absolutely important will continue — or rather, begin again.

I need constant distraction, so much so that it seems impossible to stay on top of everything. But that’s just me, that’s what I need to keep going and stay creative. Without that you’ll see what seems to be a self-reciprocating lull, not something that we want to see anymore.

We should just be happy and have fun at the same time… that’s important.

With that being said what we now need is some warm chocolate cookies and an endless supply of cold cocoa (of which I’m determined to buy plenty of).

Thanks for sticking around for the Apple WWDC Coverage on Geek Condition. If you enjoyed this coverage please subscribe to our feed for daily geek related coverage. Thanks again : )

[12:25] - Twitter down from stress

[11:59] - Official Apple iPhone 3G Product Page.

[11:58] - Apple Store down due to stress… no you can’t pre-order the iPhone… not that we know of yet.

[11:50] - The end… no wait…

[11:48] - Confirmed…All iPhone 3G models will be available July 11th 2008.

[11:48] - wow i was totally kidding about the whole safe thing earlier but apparently that’s happening. lol. (in the new advertisement)

[11:46] - Confirmed iPhone 3G 8GB = $199… iPhone 3G 16GB = $299. Available in black and white.

[11:44] - They’re taking the iPhone global, including service for scientists in Antarctica… the ones that live in those little white tents.

[11:42] - iPhone 3G cost still unknown… Scoble reporting that a line is forming outside of his apple store. No confirmation on inventories yet.

[11:40] - iPhone 3G will have 300 hours standby battery life.

[11:36] - Comparing speeds, edge vs. 3G. The new iPhone 3G downloads a web page in 21 seconds compared to edge @ 59 seconds.

[11:35] - The Leaked photos are now looking just like the real thing.

[11:34] - Confirmed … iPhone 3G

[11:31] - Everything in Seth’s post “The clowd” is coming true… eerie. So soon.

[11:28] - The safe is causing too much of an interruption now and they’ve just decided to open it. — It won’t open…

[11:26] - That little safe must be a special prop because it’s rumbling during the presentation.

[11:19] - Using a hand truck they just brought a medium-sized safe on stage. When the safe was opened… glitter and mist emanated briefly revealing another small safe that is now the focus of everyone’s attention. The safe is just sitting there on the podium. gah

[11:12] - New Apps for the iPhone will be available in July. No cost for iPhone users, only 10 dollars for touch users.

— Geek Break Candy —

[11:01] - Getting to the good stuff now. More stage effects occurring, the stage must be pneumatic.

[10:53] - They’re demoing new apps, one is called Caramel Apple. It’s a privacy feature for the iPhone that shows a cascade of gooey caramel covering up the contents of the screen. If you touch the screen with your finger the caramel reacts just as if you put your finger in a small stream of running water.

[10:50] - That old lady in the walker … is still standing there. No one wants to give up their seat for her.

[10:34] - Apparently it may now be possible to purchase sodas in the US with the iPhone very soon. There is application in iTunes that illustrates a specific vending machine’s inventory. You can flip through the sodas and snacks just as you would album artwork. Nutritional information is provided on demand as well.

[10:29] - Lots of disruption near one of the side doors during this presentation. This guy is walking around with a bucket on a stick over his shoulder… and he’s dressed in rags? Who is that supposed to be.. Security is handling it now and the whole crowd is laughing.

[10:27] - They are discussing location-based applications for the iPhone. Nothing new really. Some people are sighing as the presentation moves a long to yet another boring topic.

[10:19] - They’re going over SDK stuff.. more fluff. Here please trick your friends and possibly a massive group of people since there are so many of you following this page right now… trick them into thinking it’s real on twitter of course.

[10:13] - We knew there would be a lot of boring fluff so we brought snacks… dunkaroos. In the meantime please tell everyone on Twitter that you’re watching the coverage here… we’ll send you stickers (promise): Spread the word.

[10:09] - There is some dude on stage right now making small talk… We don’t care about whether or not this was the biggest venue, obviously you could afford something bigger and better.

[10:04] - Lots of special effects this year, mist coming from the base of the stage, purple lighting and glitter?

[10:00] - Zero Hour… nothing happening yet.

[9:43] - There is this really old lady in a walker behind us… I’m typing furiously pretending I don’t see her so I don’t have to give up my seat.

[9:35] - Everyone just started cheering really loudly… I wish I could tell you what it was about but we’re too interested in the holes right now. om nom nom.

[9:31] - They’re playing Mr. Sandman by the Barbershop Quartet and running a reel on the main screen in memory of the Back to the Future set that was damaged last week.

[9:30] - They passed around a box of donut holes, some people held onto the box longer than they should have. By the time we got the box there were no napkins.

[9:25] - It’s really cold in here they have the air conditioner on full blast. A lot of people are shivering and complaining.

Early last month Kayla wrote an article introducing RC1 and its key strengths over other browsers. If you are new to the world of Release Candidates you should check out her article here.

Although RC2 may come off as a setback, Mike Beltzner from Mozilla said, “we don’t expect that this will significantly impact our shipping date, and still estimate a mid-June release date.” You can see the fully-threaded statement here.

RC2 will be tested for the next 24 hours ending sometime tomorrow. Because RC2 is only being privately released at this time you will not see it when visiting the Mozilla Download page. For your convenience we’ve linked to the direct downloads for the following platforms:

English (US) [click to download]
MAC OS X - 3.0rc2
WINDOWS - 3.0rc2
LINUX - 3.0rc2

One of the main features of Google Health is the ability to important your medical records from different hospitals, treatment centers and pharmacies. And if you’d just like to enter your data by hand you can do so. After data is imported or entered by hand Google specifies whether you or a professional trusted site has entered the data. Google Health will also let you know which of your medications might interact with each other.

If you take a lot of pills Google Health can help you organize that aspect of your life as well with a user friendly reminder and checklist service. Want to know if you’re at risk for a heart attack? Probably not but Google has created a special section for tools just like that to help you get healthy. This tools section will probably be expanded to include tools from third-party application developers.

Find out more about Google Health.

Firefox 3, previously code named as Gran Paradiso, is now available in its nearly final form.

Mozilla Corporation on Friday released Firefox 3 RC1, more or less the final form of this iteration of the popular open-source Web browser. RC stands for Release Candidate and represents a stage in which the browser’s features are complete and the code is stable enough for public testing. Barring any serious bugs, RC1 will become the official release version of Firefox 3, which is planned for June.

Mozilla VP of engineering Mike Schroepfer claims that Firefox 3 is 9.3x faster than Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and 2.7x faster than Firefox 2 in terms of JavaScript performance. In terms of Gmail message load time, he claims Firefox 3 is 6.8x faster than IE7 and 3.8x faster than Firefox 2. And he says Firefox 3 beats Apple’s Safari, which is also faster than Firefox 2.

With over 15,000 new improvements ranging from squashed bugs to sealed leaks, Firefox is winning over our browsing hearts yet again. You can go ahead and give the newest version of Firefox a try before it’s officially released as stable.

Here at Geek Condition, the improvement we are most excited about would be the memory usage fixes! We all know that Firefox quickly gobbles up our computing power, more so than any other program that’s usually open at the same time. Mozilla has stated they have greatly improved this:

Several new technologies work together to reduce the amount of memory used by Firefox 3 over a web browsing session. Memory cycles are broken and collected by an automated cycle collector, a new memory allocator reduces fragmentation, hundreds of leaks have been fixed, and caching strategies have been tuned.

As a warning though, some of your extensions may not work with Firefox 3 yet.