May 2008
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WatchJason Zimdars of Element Fusion used the Timelapse CSS script to create this video of the new Icebrrg site being constructed.
It is not a literal timeline of my actual process or the order in which I applied styling, but it has been optimized to show a reasonable facsimile of the process and to be as interesting as possible. Even as the designer behind this website, I find this movie...
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“Walking through Auckland’s central city recently I was astonished at what...”
– David MacGregor opines the woeful state of Auckland’s downtown precinct, in particular access to the harbour in the wake of the failed waterfront stadium bid.
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“Adobe seems to be moving in a direction with most of their apps where they’re...”
– John Gruber on the new user interface in Fireworks CS4 beta. While the single-window interface is an improvement, they’ve made a right mess of the chrome and typography. Would have been a much better idea to adopt the “pro” style of Apple’s high-end apps, but perhaps the APIs...
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“Rhythm is usually associated with music. This is because it is much easier to...”
– From Adrian Lebar’s article Fundamentals of design: Rhythm. (via Darren Wood)
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IETester →
A free browser for Windows that allows you to have the rendering and JavaScript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7, IE6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE version. (via Rey Bango)
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Rocked The Nation (2008), Episode 3
Voiceover: Even though the personalities featured in the song were billed as “All Of Us”, some of our greatest musicians weren't involved.
Neil Finn: What was “Sailing Away”?
Interviewer: All Of Us, were you involved in that?
Neil Finn: What was that?
Interviewer: Yachting... 1986...
Neil Finn: I hope I wasn't.
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WatchCare of the Documentary Channel, “Dance All Around The World”, the 1972 hit by Blerta (the Bruno Lawrence Electric Revelation and Travelling Apparition). And you thought he was just an actor.
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WatchAction Figure, super slo-mo by Stig Nordas. (via Jarred Bishop)
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“Twitter’s strategy of revising their Terms of Service rather than living up to...”
– Pownce community manager Ariel Waldman documents Twitter’s response to her requests to have harassing users banned.
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“I’m not driven by making a cultural impact. That’s just a...”
– Apple’s industrial design chief Jonathan Ive in an interview with The Independent’s Claire Beale, following the addition of two more Black Pencils to Ive’s career tally which now stands at six.
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Haiku–Tue: All Haiku, All Tuesday →
Darren Wood:
Sneak has created a very awesome twitter meme: Haiku-Tue:
Is it Tuesday?
If so, write your Twitter posts in Haiku format.
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“I personally welcome the entry of cyborgs into our athletic contests.”
– Adam, in response to this. (via Heather Rivers)
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“This situation arises all the time in real-world web design. Say you’ve got a...”
– Kevin Yank on Firefox 3’s support for soft hyphens and inline blocks. (via Todd Dominey)
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“When Twitter is down, it still puts food on my table and fur on my woman.”
– Single-serving goodness for when the Twitter machine is broken. (via Justine Sanderson)
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“We’ve just made a few changes to make your tumblelogs a bit more accessible and...”
– Tumblr adds plain-English post summaries to its URLs (but hey, where’s the edit function?), and I note that tags are now fully supported for output onto custom templates. I’ve fastidiously tagged all my posts since starting this thing, should prove useful.
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An Unexpected Party →
Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro are hosting an online chat on Sunday at 8am (NZST). Register to participate using the above link.
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Bale Signed for all Three Terminator Films →
Christian Bale is on board for the new Terminator trilogy as the post-apocalyptic John Conner. But don’t get too excited, the godawful McG is directing the first film. (via Fake John Conner)
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“The ground was just thick with folk in hipster glasses and...”
– Morgan Nichol recounts his short filmmaking weekend.
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“George Lucas knows a thing or two about disappointing fans when resurrecting...”
– James Berardinelli reviews the fourth and final Indiana Jones film.
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“And sometimes I get my world rocked with random, psychic, off-the-cuff,...”
– Michael Lopp on the value of Twitter.
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“Where O’Connell is wide screen baroque, Taylor is a minimalist whose equally...”
– Local lad and former Public Address blogger Chad Taylor is tipped by The Guardian’s Maxim Jakubowski as an author deserving of more mainstream recognition. (via Russell Brown)
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“Paramount, like most Hollywood studios, did not create a preservation program —...”
– From Stephanie Argy’s detailed, technical feature on the recent restoration of Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather trilogy by Robert A. Harris, Joanne Lawson and the team at Motion Picture Imaging. The original negative elements were in such disarray that it took a full 12 months to...
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Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination →
John Gruber’s photoset of costumes and props on display at the Franklin Institute.
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Processing in JavaScript →
And speaking of John Resig, he’s ported the Processing visualization language to JavaScript, using the Canvas element. Yeah.
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“With parent selectors it becomes extremely easy to accidentally cause a...”
– Dave Hyatt gets all technical in Shaun Inman’s fascinating thread on parent/qualified selectors in CSS. For jQuery users, this is already implemented.
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Keynote for Print →
Khoi Vinh uses Apple’s presentation software to design a print document and finds it more than up to the task.
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