June 2008
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Jun 29th
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Stop-motion spot for Luft Logistics by Brazilian collective Monsta explains loss of very expensive space probe. (via Motionographer)
Jun 29th
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Jun 29th
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Jun 29th
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Gone in Sixty Seconds →
Phil Patton’s history of the Polaroid for the AIGA.
Jun 28th
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Jun 28th
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Jun 28th
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Jun 28th
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Jun 27th
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Jun 27th
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Animated ident for French children’s network Tiji, directed by Mathieu Elkaim and Pierrette Diaz for DDB Paris. (via Veerle Pieters)
Jun 27th
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Webkit nightlies support CSS Variables →
Apple developer Dave Hyatt alluded to this a couple of months back, and now the nightly builds of Webkit have support for it using the @-webkit-variable construct (see tests here).
Jun 27th
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Jun 27th
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The RZA's Muxtape →
Yes, that RZA. Quite a mixed bag it is too. (via Justin Ouellette)
Jun 27th
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Jun 26th
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Jun 26th
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Better CSS Font Stacks →
Some good advice and examples here. (via Lee Majors)
Jun 26th
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Jun 26th
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Jun 26th
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“UMG has claimed some or all audio content in your video “Apparition”...”
– From an email sent to Stuart Page by YouTube following his use of Johnny Cash’s “Personal Jesus” as the soundtrack to a video he uploaded. As part of YouTube’s “content identification” programme, UMG will be sent stats on number of views of the video, and users...
Jun 26th
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Jun 26th
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OS X-style search box →
Uses browser-specific JavaScript to deliver a lookalike Mac search box to non-Safari browsers. Check the comments for a version that uses a form complete with label and submit button, validates as XHTML strict and uses unobtrusive JavaScript. (via Danny Garcia)
Jun 26th
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If you’ve visited David Karp’s Tumblr page recently you’ll see he’s privy to two new features that I’m guessing will be made available to the rest of us in due course. Firstly, as alluded to in May, David’s (and Marco’s) URLs have dropped the post/ portion and now contain just the domain name, post ID and optional summary text or “slug”. To...
Jun 25th
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Jun 25th
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80/20 Studio →
Ex-Apple and Adobe designers with a new studio and an impressive portfolio of UI design work. Is that a tiny thumbnail of Flash CS4? (via Naz Hamid)
Jun 25th
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“So they told me that using the download page to download something was not...”
– From an epic email rant by Bill Gates in 2003. You just can’t make this stuff up. (via Electric Gecko)
Jun 24th
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Jun 24th
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Jun 24th
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A visualisation of SVN commits to the Vimeo codebase since February 2007. The site recently hit a milestone of a million plays in a 24 hour period. (via Jakob Lodwick)
Jun 23rd
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Jun 23rd
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“Within its vivid spaces, Leo can be a citizen in a way that may never fully be...”
– Russell Brown’s final column for The Listener on the internet and the human condition.
Jun 22nd
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“Oh, sure, somebody will labor mightily to produce a skin that looks just like...”
– Greg Knauss from April 2000 in “Skin Cancer”, a rant about Mozilla’s fake UI chrome. (via John Gruber)
Jun 22nd
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Electric Gecko
Electric Gecko: I just added a little fly-out menu to my sidebar that lists the tumblelogs I follow. Some of them are close friends, others feature a beautiful design or keep flooding the world with great content. So if you care, have a look and follow some of them yourself. Lots of great stuff out there! Malte Müller’s is one of the smartest-looking tumblelogs I’ve seen, and the...
Jun 22nd
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ListenParty Ben’s “Galvanize the...
Jun 22nd
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“My ISP insists they don’t have an incompetence department and can’t...”
– Richard Dunlop-Walters with the funny on Twitter.
Jun 22nd
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Jun 22nd
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“We were in active pre-production, and this significant financier defaulted just...”
– Producer Richard Fletcher is reassessing funding options after British backer Capitol Films pulled 40% of the funding for Redhead Films’ adaptation of Maurice Gee’s 1979 novel Under the Mountain. Richard’s an old school friend of mine and this being a real old Kiwi classic, I very...
Jun 21st
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Jun 21st
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Jun 21st
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Jun 21st
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Jun 21st
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Kerning, Opentype features in Firefox 3 →
This is one of the few areas where Safari trails Firefox, however on Mac OS at least, Firefox still has issues.
Jun 21st
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A Curious Case of Serial Typesetting →
Jonathan McNicol: I’d love to read the short story in anticipation (six months’ worth of anticipation, I might add) of Fincher’s film, but I don’t want to read it in crappy, typo-riddled HTML on the UVA site. And I bet I’m not the only one who doesn’t, either. The first two chapters of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s are available now, with more to come. (via John Gruber)
Jun 21st
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Jun 21st
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Jun 20th
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Matthew Buchanan →
Richard Dunlop-Walters: Matthew Buchanan has an excellent Tumblr theme (and a pretty good tumblelog to go with it). The quote posts are particularly great. Couldn’t resist reblogging this, thanks for the mention Richard. In other news, thanks Aja and the Tumblr editors for more good press. Love you guys.
Jun 20th
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Jun 19th
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The Longest Last Time →
My friend David writes, beautifully, about the funeral of a nine-year-old family friend. Heartbreaking.
Jun 18th
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Jun 18th
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button →
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story upon which David Fincher’s new film is based. (via Dan Benjamin)
Jun 18th
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