September 2010
21 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-29) →
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (55)
She & Him (40)
Johnny Cash (20)
KT Tunstall (19)
B.B. King (19)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
August 2010
26 posts
The Atlantic: 10 Reading Revolutions Before... →
A good read, especially on the iPad.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-22) →
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (120)
The Hush Sound (80)
Queens of the Stone Age (31)
Modest Mouse (30)
The Blue Van (26)
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“That’s the problem with Facebook. They are slowly destroying independent web...”
– Garrett Murray
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National Geographic: Vintage U.S. Parks Posters →
Tuesday morning eye candy.
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Frank Chimero's Advice to Design Students →
Not just for design students.
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Flickr Set: German matchbox labels →
Mostly modernist inspired.
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Digital Journal: Philadelphia wants fees, taxes... →
The problem is there are people out there making money and not having to pay business licenses. We can’t have that, now can we?
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Elements by SecondGear →
Elements is a “dropbox powered text editor for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch”—plain text documents are shared via Dropbox.
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Vimeo Releases Embeddable HTML5 Video Player →
They had already been using HTML5 players on their own site, now Vimeo is allowing you to embed them.
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Design Is History →
Learn your design history, it can only make you better.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-15) →
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (47)
Best Coast (39)
Muse (29)
Band of Skulls (19)
dredg (19)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Adobe joins Typekit →
The collection includes, Myriad, Minion, Chaparral and Garamond.
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Blue Heaven on Earth
The other day a friend of mine asked me a somewhat startling question—what is your favorite place on the planet. It was startling in the sense that the question come from the blue; completely out of nowhere. However startling the question, my answer (once I had regained composure and evaluated this somewhat unusual question) was easy: Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California.
I’ve been to...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-8) →
Bob Dylan (56)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (38)
She & Him (26)
Spoon (22)
Best Coast (19)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Cure for the Common Webfont, Part 1: Alternatives... →
Stephen Coles outlines some alternatives to the mundane.
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CSS Media Query for Mobile is Fool’s Gold →
There are definitely pitfalls with media queries that make them less than ideal for mobile websites. The New York Times is probably not going to want to use it as a major part of their mobile strategy. That said—and I wish Mr. Grigsby hadn’t spent an entire article trashing media queries before ceding this point at the very end—Responsive Web Design and media queries are ideal for designing...
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Foundation Six Web Design Studio →
Beautifully designed.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-1) →
Bob Dylan (107)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (75)
Eels (24)
Tsunami Bomb (23)
Every Time I Die (21)
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Jeff Croft: On the term “HTML5” →
Not that it really matters anymore, anyway. Once Steve Jobs starts using the term the cat has been let out of the bag.
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A Brand New Bash
After several design directions and even more scratched designs—some of which even made it as far as mark-up and css‐I’m pleased to reveal the latest incarnation of my little spot here on the web.
This has been quite a wild ride. Yesterday afternoon I launched the site and the response so far has been overwhelming. When I hit that upload button, I did not even imagine the response...
SimpleBits: Bye-Bye Redirect →
Ingenious solution, I’m putting this on the to-do list. The drag of Tumblr has been irking me for awhile. Now I’ll just need to figure out how to write those scripts…
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What The Fuck Is My Social Media Strategy? →
“Making it up so you don’t have to.”
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Es Bueno →
Fantastic re-design of Noah Stokes blog.