Sean Rice

Lead Designer

Sean Rice Sean has been involved in graphic design for just about forever. He's accomplished at Photoshop, Illustrator and the fine art of sketching user interfaces, as if from nowhere. He's also an accomplished bass guitarist.

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Ridiculous CAPTCHA Is Ridiculous, Requires Character Map

So we've all seen our fair share of ridiculous CAPTCHAs. I've seen ones that require you to only enter the letters with the cats on them, or I've seen near undiscernable ones. And if you've ever listened to the audio CAPTCHA provided by Google, it's like the disembodied voice of Satan himself beckoning you to discern exactly which numbers need entering, if only you'll denounce your Lord. Spoken backwards. It's ridiculous.

So imagine my shock when Ticketmaster provided me with the following:



That's right. A "vulgar fraction: seven eights." Not wanting to

Posted on December 4, 2008 by Chris CardinalRead More »

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Loves Threadless Fan Blog Website

Loves Threadless Fan Blog

Loves Threadless is a pet project of Synapse Studios owner Chris Cardinal as a fan blog for popular online t-shirt site Threadless.com. The site covers news and reviews community-submitted shirt designs. It features a simple design concept built on a popular (heavily modified) WordPress theme. The background changes dynamically each time the page is loaded with a new Threadless shirt design. Further, an iGoogle homepage gadget was created that highlights the current "Thiftee" $10 t-shirt deal. It also served as a base of operations for the Loves Threadless Threadcakes Cake Competition.

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