November 2009
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Improving the YouTube Player
Note: an updated version of this function with support for widescreen aspect ratios is detailed in this post.
Inky alerted me to a few extra customisation options for YouTube’s video player:
YouTube’s interface lets you choose one of nine colour schemes, adding two parameters to the embed code: color1 and color2. Once you select a theme, you can edit these parameters to use any colours...
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WatchLong-time Tim Burton collaborators Mackinnon and Saunders created this 30-second promo for his MOMA exhibition, running November 22 through April 26. (via Matt Downey)
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WatchChop Cup by weareom, a simple magic trick with an unexpected reveal. A 48-hour timelapse video of the setup and filming shows the huge effort that went into its creation. (via Jeff Hamada)
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Arcade Fire covers The Yeah Yeah Yeahs’...
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“Why do we Tumbl? In the end, we use Tumblr not because it’s a great way to...”
– Newsweek on why they use Tumblr. (via Meaghan O’Connell)
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jQSlickWrap →
A clever jQuery plugin by Jason Feinstein that co-opts the <canvas> element to provide true text wrapping around irregularly-shaped images. (via CSS Beauty)
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♪.tumblr.com →
Jarred Bishop’s new project is a song-a-day Tumblr utilising recent support for extracting album art from uploaded tracks. Simply brilliant, from the jewel case design to the single-character unicode URL.
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urlimg.com →
An image processing and storage service with a URL-based API for creating thumbnails and other image transformations such as squaring, cropping, resizing and rotating. The service creates and hosts transformed versions of images from originals located anywhere online, using a URL structure like this:
http://urlimg.com/resize/300x400/example.com/image.jpg
A user account is required, with the...
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“Delete unimportant things. Even if you love them. If it isn’t spectacular, it...”
– From Frank Chimero’s 10 Principles That May Make Your Work Better Or May Make It Worse, originally published on AisleOne.
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Pocketball for iPhone →
Neven Mrgan:
My good friend Matt has a new iPhone app out. It’s called Pocketball and it’s a physics puzzle in the style of The Incredible Machine and Enigmo. Like every good puzzle, it starts off easy and keeps getting more challenging. The rules are always clear, but you gotta get cleverer with each level to keep going. At a criminal $1.99, with no nickel-and-diming, and in this economy, you...
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“I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of...”
– Cormac McCarthy during a lengthy interview with The Wall Street Journal’s John Jurgensen. (via John Gruber)
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Bonnie “Prince” Billy covers Chris...
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20 Years of FontShop →
Lovely infographic by Nicholas Felton revealing the foundry’s secrets.
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Going to NYC. BRB.
You guys will all quit filling up my Dashboard while I’m away, right? And any further suggestions for things to do would be welcome (please reply here, as the answers facility on that post appears to have stopped working). Unrelated coincidence: it’s exactly two years since I made my first posts on Tumblr.
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“I don’t believe in robots. Why would anyone build something with so many parts...”
– Jason Fried. (via Friedisms)
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Typography on Twitter →
Jon Phillips of Spyre Studios has compiled a list of more than 80 Twitter accounts related to typography in its many forms. My thanks to him for including my Nice Type account! Here’s the ready-to-follow version using Twitter’s new Lists feature.
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October 2009
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The Talk Show (Episode 30)
Dan Benjamin: So let's set expectations here for people. I have a commitment from you now — and this is going to go out, this is going to be public — I have a commitment from you now, that you will record a Talk Show with me once a week, every week, going forward.
John Gruber: No.
Dan Benjamin: You won't come out and say that, you won't make that commitment?
John Gruber: I won't commit to anything. Thanks.
Dan Benjamin: So, to clear this up, the reason that we don't record, it's because you don't want to commit to record — a recording schedule.
John Gruber: That's correct.
Dan Benjamin: It's not because I don't want to, or I'm not available.
John Gruber: That's right. Leave 'em wanting more.
Dan Benjamin: Yeah, you can leave 'em wanting more by only recording once a week.
John Gruber: We'll see.
Dan Benjamin: So you're going to commit to once a week?
John Gruber: Yeah. Once a day, every day.
Dan Benjamin: [Laughs.]
John Gruber: Every day.
Dan Benjamin: That'd be great.
John Gruber: Every single day. I'll have a sandwich, cup of coffee, and we'll talk for six hours.
Dan Benjamin: If it was up to me I would record all the time.
John Gruber: Ah well, me too. That's why I said I would do it every day.
Dan Benjamin: You won't do it every day!
John Gruber: I will take your once a week and I will raise you to once a day. Every day at 10am.
Dan Benjamin: Really. Can we live-stream it?
John Gruber: More or less. Sure. Whatever that— I don't even know what that means.
Dan Benjamin: That means you and me talk, and people can listen live, they can ask questions, they can interact with us. We'll talk about news and issues.
John Gruber: Ahh… no.
Dan Benjamin: No. Just us talking.
John Gruber: Right.
Dan Benjamin: Alright, well then I'll see you tomorrow at 10.
John Gruber: Alright. See you then.
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