February 2010
61 posts
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Rivet →
Rivet streams your media to Xbox 360 and PS3 console systems.
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Making the Grade: A Primer on Linear Gradients →
CSS gradients in practice.
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NY Times: Olympic Pictograms Through the Ages →
Steven Heller reviews the history of Olympic pictograms.
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New Type York →
A showcase of Type found in New York City.
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Palm Disaster Shows That Apple Is Screwed Without... →
Hey, what was that company that Steve Jobs left? What was it called? Pixie or something?
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Zeldman: You cannot copyright a Tweet →
Also of note is Brock Shinen’s Twitterlogical: The Misunderstandings of Ownership — a more detailed way of saying pretty much what Zeldman says.
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Web FontFonts →
FontShop announces licensing for Web Fonts along with a hosting deal with TypeKit (although using TypeKit is not a necessity). This page uses TypeKit and I’ve been very pleased with their service.
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The Loop: Apple’s sex app purge claims UK swimsuit... →
It is, indeed, quite a slippery slope.
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WatchMimeo and the Kleptopus King by Shaun Inman. This is going to be awesome.
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FSF: Open letter to Google: free VP8, and use it... →
It seems more and more like we are fast approaching the death of Flash as the de-facto standard for playing video on the web.
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“New Flash content designed just for touchscreens can be done, but people want...”
– Daniel Eran Dilger on why the iPad can’t use Flash.
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WSJ: The Art of Selling an Expensive Watch →
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Peter Kalfka: Subscription Model Likely for Apple... →
I don’t see myself paying for Hulu in its current form just for the pleasure of having it on my iPad.
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“So I say, be rad at other things as well – as it can most likely only help your...”
– Jenn Lukas in Jack of All Trades…Master of Development?
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idsg: A new look for Tonight →
The new mark for Leno’s show is exactly what you’d expect in a short timeline: uninspiring, plain, and clumsily executed.
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“Unlike previous racist dictatorships, the North Korean one has actually...”
– Christopher Hitchens, A Nation of Racist Dwarfs.
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5 Good Reasons Why Designers Should Code →
An age old question of the web designers world.
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Font Aid IV →
A font of over 400 glyphs—entirely ampersands. Sales will go to Doctors Without Borders to help with Haiti relief efforts.
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BusinessWeek: RIM Unveils WebKit Internet Browser... →
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Windows Phone 7 Series →
I actually like the interface design for the most part. This is a worthy effort to get Microsoft’s declining relevancy in mobile back on track. The name has gotta change, though.
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The Oscars of Type
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Happy Cog’aoke 2 →
Last year Cog’aoke was hands down the best party at SXSW. It’s looking like it’ll be even better this year. You can compete or just come down for drinks and a good time!
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Lift. →
Those in the Southern California area, a few of us from Happy Cog West will be hanging out “in the shadows of the airship hangers.” JT Schmids is the place, in the District at Tustin. Come by and say hello.
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I'll Take Both, Please
Eric Meyer brings up an interesting philosophical conundrum in his post Rounding Off about font-size rounding and the computed values web inspectors report to developers.
Go ahead and read the whole thing and come back, I’ll wait.
So, first of all, Eric’s brilliance for even presenting this issue is undisputed. However, he poses a question at the end of his post:
What do you think?...
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Simplenote Chrome Extension
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Glitch →
An in-browser massively-multiplayer game due late 2010.
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BashFlash →
BashFlash monitors how many processor cycles Flash is using and allows you to kill the Flash plug-in if necessary.
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TWITCH →
An interesting minimal game using only mouse clicks. The website warns that it was created to work “exclusively” with Google Chrome but I suspect that means Webkit as it worked just fine in Safari.
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Jason, Pluto is not a planet. →
Get over it.
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“Vegas also stands for stupid gambling like that. Vegas is gambling in the broad...”
– Penn Jillette in Obama’s ‘stupid’ jab at Vegas
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iPad UI Conventions →
Via Jeffrey Veen.
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Check In for Haiti on Gowalla →
Check in at the Emeryville Peet’s today between 11:30 and 1:30 and $50 is donated to Haiti.
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“If your app uses location-based information primarily to enable mobile...”
– Apple Developer Connection on location based serves for the iPhone. Via Daring Fireball.
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Heinz Ketchup Packets Get Redesign →
This would be better if Ketchup tasted good. Just saying. Via Yesenia Perez-Cruz.
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Arrivals →
Cultured Code’s “Arrivals” page—a status report on Things—is stunning. Via Wilson Miner.
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AIGA Design Archives →
I honestly had not been here before but apparently it has been re-designed and is a huge improvement. It is a lovely design, to be sure.
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Ahem →
Zeldman clarifies his position on Flash, HTML5. Just in case you didn’t get it the first time around.
This is the title of a typical incendiary blog... →
A template for generating ad-revenue.
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SublimeVideo HTML5 Video Player →
It sure has Flash beat, that’s for sure. Safari only for now.
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Free Speech for People →
The website that inspired the previous post.
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“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or...”
– — The First Amendment to the United States Constitution
Where does it say in that amendment that freedom of speech is restricted to “people”? Speech should be free regardless of the entity it comes from. The recent arguments over if corporations are people or not (I think they are...