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Thursday, July 29, 2010

100 million Facebook user pages end up on a torrent site – why no email addresses? Are those private by default? / “Problems existed from the beginning of drilling the well, Mr. Williams said. For months, the computer system had been locking up, producing what the crew deemed the “blue screen of death.” – How soon until systems like this automagically send real time error logs to the agencies governing them? In 140 character human readable form, of course. / Wikileaks – the world’s first stateless news organization. / Safari AutoFill Exploit Hands Out All Your Contact Info by Default / SKB Pens – I’m sold, just ordered my 15 pack, 3 each of red, green, blue and purple. / I’m really digging Jonathan Moore’s new Tumblr theme, Inspire Well. I put it to use on a new site for my daughter, to share pics and related stuffs in a format a little less stuffy than Flickr. / Speaking of iPhone sync stuff, keep iPhone notes in gmail. / Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943

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Friday, July 16, 2010

The oil stopped flowing from the well around 2:25 p.m. Thursday when the last of several valves was closed on a cap that the company installed at the top of the well last week, Mr. Wells said.

Can you believe the guy who said this, is named “Mr. Wells”?

Mississippi Public Broadcasting drops Fresh Air because of Terry Gross’ Louis CK interview / Boomerang – Javascript that can measure the performance of your website from your end user’s point of view / 1930s answer to GPS / Apps on iPhone are way better quality – This review of why iPhone beats Android is similar to my experience. Poor touch capabilities, apps that were just embarrassing, and who the hell uses these things to talk on anyway? / Appsfire.com / Luxottica makes the following brands of sunglasses

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Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Hulu Plus – It’s amazing how much people budget for TV/movies. One can only assume, Hulu Plus will actually be successful. / text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; / Web fonts at the Crossing / A jQuery based solution for customized checkboxes and radio buttons I’m using in a current project and am quite fond of. / artsy iPhone and iPad wallpapers / jQuery Fundamentals a large ‘must-read’. / Simple, multiple gmail from addresses on iPad / iPhone without setting up a bunch of email accounts. Just like your desktop based Gmail! / The 101 Best Sandwiches in New York / Bing Destination Map: Automatic Napkin Sketching of Maps = cute maps. / The Geotaggers’ World Atlas – cuz art is nice.

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Friday, April 16, 2010

I don’t see myself using the iPad on the subway. I know it’s price tag amounts to nearly the monthly wages of the guy sitting next to me. Surely he can better spend the money I’ve wasted on this thing. I will however, use it in the park. While I’m often mistaken for the Greenpoint neighborhood native, Polish, my hip ass outfits are a dead giveaway that I’m really part of the gentrification. Why not add an iPad? As long as we’re not on top of each other in a tin can under the ground, I’m OK with people knowing that I make more money than them.

After just about two weeks w/ my magically revolutionary iPad, I’ll say that just like the conclusions Salon.com arrived at, I’ve been reading, reading, reading. Not books. I am looking forward to giving that a try though, as reading is really quite enjoyable on this thing. If only the iBook store had costs similar to that of the public library. Instapaper Pro is the must have app. I’ve re-tagged many a ‘toread‘ as ‘read‘ with afternoon breaks in the park. I also find myself actually finishing the editors picks in the NY Times Editors’ Choice app and very much so, admiring the photography in The Guardian Eyewitness app. It’s rare to read past the headline or take a minute to absorb, when a screen is involved. This thing has brought the focus back.

Throw in a handful of other great uses, like email for Susan, our shared calendars (yay for caldav), and actually deriving some pleasure out of the hundreds of photos we take weekly, via the photo slideshow mode… and this thing has totally replaced that large footprint laptop on the kitchen table in our teeny tiny apartment. So far, it seems to be the internet-enabled appliance we’ve all been promised since the dawn of the web.

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Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Noah – Discover and document local wildlife / with the iPad comes the search for free .ePub books / One game, five platforms, all the same code / Aerial video with a Canon 7D / iPad GUI design template / Making the Future – Greg Knauss / A new look for Google Transit maps

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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Duh… eat real food and don’t drink soda: Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain. It’s pretty amazing though, to think that this stuff is in nearly every single thing that you buy. It really takes a conscious effort to avoid, which we all should be doing. / MapQuest Brings Free Voice Navigation to the iPhone / WPilot – A space journey in your browser – Proof of concept game built using HTML5 technologies. / Stay Focused – East coast skateboarding is the best in the world, naturally. Free video download. / Striking anti-war posters / Abstract City, Christoph Niemann art / http://www.jenniferdavisart.com / Facebook’s Plan To Automatically Share Your Data With Sites You Never Signed Up For / Twision, the first ever twitter television show makes a splash in Spain

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Friday, March 26, 2010

“The quality of his editing is exceptional for a public figure.” Popular shot of Obama’s edits to a health-care reform speech. The contrast to our previous president is staggering, this photo is a nice summary. / News Corp owned, UK news site Times and Sunday Times will begin charging a small subscription fee to access their content. / My argument w/ God – Ricky Gervais / I like the use of the word ‘aboutness’ to describe the importance of semantics on the web. Death to ‘Read More’! / I thoroughly enjoy reading about new elements in HTML 5, if only to provide me with some relevant, semantic class names for use in current work.

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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Find the best pint of Guinness / Run IE7 inside of IE8 via Developer Tools / Interlopers on the Skyline / Search free icons / LastHistory Graphically Visualizes your Last.fm History Through Time / NetBalancer Prioritizes Network Traffic by Application / Google Is Working On Letting Users Link Their Gmail And Google Apps Accounts / Recently, I’ve found that using CalDav on your mac and iPhone is the best way to keep your calendars in sync across your devices/apps/web. / NYC Restaurants Required to Post Cleanliness Grades / Hands down, the best way to validate forms with jQuery/Javascript. I’ve been using this for quite some time and fall more in love with each implementation. / Hex is sooo PRE2K, Working With RGBA Colour

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Friday, March 19, 2010

jQTouch — jQuery plugin for mobile web development / Internet Explorer 9: Platform Demos / Opera Logo with CSS · David DeSandro / Mozilla Online Identity Concept Series – a set on Flickr / French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment – Telegraph / The Story of Cap and Trade / Daring Fireball: Attention Is the Real Resource / chrome-type-ahead / iPhone CSS—tips for building iPhone websites / Real Wedding – The Beauty and the Foodie

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Font Squirrel appears to be a great font generator that will create the various formats needed for the cross-browser use of @font-face. Some colleagues and I have recently been waxing poetically on the legality of using purchased fonts using this CSS2 based method of font embedding. Especially when deployed for clients, in a commercial environment. While @font-face is a bit overdue to go mainstream (A List Apart was touting it as the next big thing in 2007), now that the browsers are coming of age, the tipping point is near. It will dominate other options that are currently bridging the gap, like http://typekit.com. However, we have come to the conclusion that now is the time to pay more attention to a fonts use policy. Some will explicitly forbid the designer/developer from exposing the font file online. Some will encourage it, and I assume,many more will not mention it. This means web shops should start gathering and using libraries filled with the fonts that encourage the use of @font-face. Here’s where I’m starting. As linked in the previous ALA article: Dieter Steffmann offers up a slew of freely usable fonts and I’m sure several more lists like this, @font-face and 15 Free Fonts You Can Use Today, exist.

Here’s a great explanation of the licensing issue we’re facing with @font-face:

…foundries don’t actually claim copyright in the typefaces themselves. Instead they claim copyright on the .ttf file (or whatever) as a piece of software. Then, when you buy the right to use the software, they make you click “Agree” to an EULA which prohibits you from uploading the file to your website. If you want your users to see your font over the web, then you need to send them that file, and the EULA says you can’t.

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