Brad Knabel
06-27-2005, 12:17 PM
I occasionally look at Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools website
http://www.kk.org. They describe and review a "cool tool" once a day or so. It can be anything from a book about building houseboats to a weed torch to precious metal clay. Not everything is directly useful to me, but there are a lot of fairly interesting ideas.
One of the recent tools was a link to a technical communications company that has an online "safety sign generator." http://www.stclaire.com/go/industrial_signage/sb2/html You just type in the text that you want to appear and pick an appropriate ANSI pictogram and you get a PDF containing the completed sign. They have similar generators for HAZMAT NFPA compliant signs and OSHA compatible lockout tags.
You do have to sign in, but the service is free. The resulting signs are generated in PDF and can easily be printed directly from your browser.
I don't know if this is really useful or if it just appeals to me as a software engineer. But I thought some folks here might find a use for this.
http://www.kk.org. They describe and review a "cool tool" once a day or so. It can be anything from a book about building houseboats to a weed torch to precious metal clay. Not everything is directly useful to me, but there are a lot of fairly interesting ideas.
One of the recent tools was a link to a technical communications company that has an online "safety sign generator." http://www.stclaire.com/go/industrial_signage/sb2/html You just type in the text that you want to appear and pick an appropriate ANSI pictogram and you get a PDF containing the completed sign. They have similar generators for HAZMAT NFPA compliant signs and OSHA compatible lockout tags.
You do have to sign in, but the service is free. The resulting signs are generated in PDF and can easily be printed directly from your browser.
I don't know if this is really useful or if it just appeals to me as a software engineer. But I thought some folks here might find a use for this.