January 2009
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The Raven →
Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven was published in the New York Evening Mirror today (January 29) in 1845, four years prior to his death at the age of 40 from indeterminate causes.
From The Raven, 1845
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore;
Not the least obeisance made he; not an instant stopped or...
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Christopher Hewitt →
New site by Suprb for this freelance London director, designer and photographer. I quite like the jQuery effect that splits the horizontally listed portfolio items to reveal the block of selected content. (via Reform & Revolution)
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jQuery Date Picker →
Lightweight, stylable date picker with plenty of options.
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“Good design understands why every pixel is in the design. The designer knows how...”
– In a rebuttal article, Jared Spool questions the addition of breadcrumbs to websites by default, and suggests in many cases there may be better solutions. His reasoning is solid: most breadcrumb implementations don’t expose the sibling elements at each level of navigation, and often the...
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Okay, one more then I’m off to bed. This is...
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Fourtet remix Andrew Bird’s “Imitosis” from...
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WatchJob Interview, directed by and starring Ben Schwartz. I’m a sucker for Robocop and The Terminator references. A couple of his other shorts feature the acting talents of Sarah Burns, of Flight of the Conchords fame. (via Blake Whitman)
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Flip! for jQuery →
A jQuery plugin by Luca Manno to flip container elements using border animations. Works sweetly in Safari, but its Opera support isn’t so hot. (via Mat Wiseman)
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“Here Comes The Sun (Live)”, a Beatles cover by...
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Gazette for iPhone →
★★★★
Gazette is a native Google Reader app for iPhone by Matt Rajca. It syncs read/unread status with your Google account as a background task, maintains the same folder hierarchy as the web app and supports offline browsing of feed content (changes are pushed to your account once network access is restored).
The interface is simple and slick, offering a handful of options through the...
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“One significant addition to Whitehouse.gov reflects a campaign promise from the...”
– Macon Phillips, director of new media for the White House, talking about the comprehensive new site’s focus on user participation. (via Greg Storey)
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“I’m standing next to a Croatian-born American genius in a half-empty office in...”
– Paul Hochman writes for Fast Company about the coming revolution in wireless electricity, and the competing approaches of the various players. (via David Kaneda)
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“Leftbank 2”, composed by Wayne Hill...
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Tumblr Notes Plugin
There is a new version of this script that uses custom tags.
On Friday I posted about loading Tumblr’s reblog “notes” via AJAX into a custom theme. I’ve had enough interest via email to release it as a plugin of sorts. Here’s a brief run-through of how to install it:
While logged in to Tumblr, go to the Dashboard page that lists all your posts, view its source...
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“Pancakes are for people embarrassed to chug maple syrup out of the bottle.”
– Neven Mrgan on Twitter. Steven Frank’s reply is gold.
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The Impossible Project →
“We aim to re-start production of analog INTEGRAL FILM for vintage Polaroid cameras in 2010. We have acquired Polaroid’s old equipment, factory and seek your support.” Oh my, this is unexpected and awesome. (via Jason Santa Maria)
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“Ping Island/Lightning Strike Rescue...
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“First, fuck that guy from Charlie’s Angels, and second, what kind of...”
– Joseph McGinty Nichol dishes the self-deprecation on his 2009 redemption tour. He’s recently previewed scenes from Terminator: Salvation to a roomful of journalists, and the response seems largely positive: “The three segments we saw felt closer in spirit to a war film than any summer...
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Reblog notes
In light of the imminent release of Tumblr 5, this was probably a needless exercise, but after reading this post about linking to reblog notes from a custom Tumblr theme, I had to give it a try. Tumblr makes reblog notes available as a fragment of HTML containing just an ordered list. The fragment can be fetched using a URL containing the post’s numeric ID and the post owner’s unique...
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“This Hudson River water landing thing is just an elaborate promotion for the...”
– John Gruber on Twitter. Fuck Yeah Sharks has the black humour too.
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jQuery API Browser →
jQuery 1.3 is out, with some good improvements. One of the most useful is an overhauled API browser, also available as an Air app to run on your desktop, should you roll like that.
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MyFonts: Top 10 fonts of 2008 →
Compiled from the year’s sales figures.
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