November 2008
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PolaPremium →
Created by Unverkaeuflich Handels Gmbh in cooperation with and supported by Polaroid Corporation, to provide Polaroid tools (film, cameras, accessories and more) to a worldwide market. I’m coveting a reconditioned SX-70 right now. (via Jason Santa Maria)
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Helvetireader →
Sweet user stylesheet for Google Reader created by Jon Hicks. You’ll need a couple of plugins to use it with Webkit-based browsers.
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Questionable Characters →
An instant classic. Facebook designer Ben Barry and illustrator Frank Chimero answer reader questions in whatever order they want. Beautiful design too. (via Jason Santa Maria)
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My First Website →
Jason Santa Maria has resurrected his first website from 2000 and encouraged the industry to archive ours too. My first personal site was a short-lived, magazine-style playground, presented here courtesy of the Wayback Machine circa 1996 — yes, the source files are long gone.
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WatchSony’s motion poster for Terminator Salvation. (via Slashfilm)
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“You will twitter: SYNC FUCKING OVERWROTE MY CHANGES, when all sync was doing was...”
– Michael Lopp muses on the inherent dangers of file sync and the magic of Dropbox. I use it daily to sync a variety of files for both personal and work projects, and it’s never let me down. Can’t recommend it highly enough as a set-and-forget solution.
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Tack Sharp →
New photography podcast from Dan Benjamin and James Duncan Davidson. First episode out now.
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“The dissemination of what’s important to the world is too significant a task to...”
– Jason Kottke on Twitter.
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“At a staff meeting in the summer of 2006, [CEO Reed] Hastings suggested a...”
– The New York Times’s Clive Thompson has a fascinating write-up on the US$1 million prize offered by Netflix to any programmer that can improve its recommendations engine by 10%, and the Napolean Dynamite problem that’s making it hard work. (via Patrick Wang)
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The “O” in Obama →
Steven Heller interviews Sol Sender, designer of the Obama ’08 campaign logo. (via Matt McInerney)
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jQuery Twitter plugin →
A jQuery plugin for easily importing Twitter posts, by Damien du Toit. (via Danny Garcia)
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“It’s a twisty, fantastical story about a woman named Margaret who is...”
– The Decemberists’ forthcoming album, Hazards of Love, may or may not be a rock opera. (via Darren Wood)
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DxO Labs →
A free resource dedicated to RAW-based camera image quality. Includes a useful comparison tool that ranks 50 current model digital cameras using metrics for colour depth, dynamic range and low-light ISO. (via Dan Benjamin)
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The Designers Review of Books →
A promising new resource for design-related materials. (via Jason Santa Maria)
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“Del Ray”, the new single from Sola...
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Hyph-n →
Online hyphenation engine that uses soft hyphens and zero-space characters to improve browser handling. There’s a WordPress plugin available, but I’d love to see a version that works with the JavaScript frameworks, so other CMS tools can benefit. (via Shaun Inman)
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jQuery Corners →
Uses native implementation in supported browsers, or its own algorithm. (via CSS Beauty)
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“In the end, it isn’t supposed to be a design trick, or worse, a hindrance to...”
– Jason Santa Maria reviews his new site five months on.
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Public Address Radio’s Damian Christie...
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Issuu →
Publish and share documents, and then embed them to other sites. Slick-looking solution with some nice Flash widgetry. I’m generally not a fan of large pageflip interfaces, but the tiny ones used by FontFeed give a really nice glimpse of the physical product.
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Andrew Bird’s “Darkmatter”.
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“After years of wondering why browsers defaulted to 16pt text sizes I’m starting...”
– Wilson Miner makes the case for larger type on the web given the extra distance between user and screen compared with that of reading a magazine. Go big.
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Vertigo theme update
Version 1.1 of my Vertigo theme for Tumblr is now available. The main additions are support for search and an upgrade to the sIFR font replacement technology that fixes (finally) the inability to click links in replaced text. More details here.
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Farbtastic →
jQuery colour picker, just 23KB. (via Script & Style)
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“You might say that S-Video and Composite are old formats and worthy of...”
– Scott Hansen bemoans the lack of analogue output on the new MacBook Pros. Hopefully, given the graphics chipsets’ support for analogue, adapters will be forthcoming from Apple.
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EventBox →
Mac desktop app that unifies Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, RSS feeds and more. Now in beta. (via Cameron Hunt)
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“I anticipate that big-game hunters will pay large sums to bag an unpopular...”
– In the wake of New Zealand’s general election on Saturday, David Haywood dishes up some good satire. Overseas folk please move along quietly. 