March 2009
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“The Kaufman film has always been about the terror of being oneself, of being in...”
– Philip Matthews with a few good words on Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York.
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WatchJohn Ballinger has been tinkering all weekend and here’s the result: a great wee promo video for his upcoming Web09 conference in Auckland on April 17-18. I’m super excited to hear Steve Smith and Dan Rubin talk, but perhaps best of all, Tumblr’s creator David Karp will be delivering the closing keynote address at the two-day event. The cut-off for buying tickets is in two weeks,...
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WatchWhere The Wild Things Are trailer. Yep. (via Kris Lane)
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So, Is That Really Christopher Walken on Twitter? →
Asked and answered. (via Simon Willison)
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WebKitBits →
David Kaneda’s new project, a tumblelog focussed on Apple’s WebKit browser framework, and in particular its use in the mobile space. Some good tricks and techniques here already.
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“I had a recent debate over whether a border should be 3, 4 or 5 pixels wide, and...”
– Google’s visual design lead, Doug Bowman, is leaving the company after three years in the role. It’s difficult to comprehend that Google existed for its first seven years without a classically-trained designer on its payroll. I like Buzz Andersen’s take, that without a design-led...
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“Talking about meeting people who speak in sentences and have complicated lives...”
– Merlin Mann on the importance of getting face to face with one’s heroes.
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SuperPreview Beta Download →
Announced at MIX09, SuperPreview is a standalone Windows application that allows previewing of websites simultaneously in IE6 and whichever of IE7 or IE8 you have installed. Ars Technica and Web Designer Depot have more.
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“It must be comforting to be Tim Burton, knowing that you’ll never put...”
– I fear the great and almighty Neven Mrgan may be right. Damn.
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HelloWorld.show() →
An invitational exhibition of source code. Site by Shaun Inman, featuring the Replica typeface from LineTo.
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“Chicago” by Sufjan Stevens, from...
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“From now on all comments along the lines of ‘fail,’ ‘this looks like student...”
– Brand New’s Armin Vit is cracking down on asinine comments and anonymous posting, and encouraging his readers to elaborate on their thoughts and be more respectful when posting feedback. Good move.
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Johnny Depp and Paul Giamatti in Donnie Brasco...
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Replacing Tumblr’s Missing Paragraphs
When generating page markup, Tumblr’s template engine outputs any single line (or paragraph) entered into its source, caption or description fields without any containing elements (ie, no <p> tags). Containing elements are only added when there is at least two lines of copy, separated by a blank line.
Although this behaviour is commonplace in text-to-HTML converters, it can prove...
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Nerd Boyfriend →
A “sort of archival Sartorialist for nerd heroes and icons”, where the author identifies and links to garments that her subjects might be wearing. (via Adam Lisagor)
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iconPot →
A directory of 2,500 icons, arranged by set, and free for both personal and commercial use. (via David Kaneda)
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“Grids put control of our designs firmly in the hands of our users and their...”
– Ethan Marcotte writes on Fluid Grids for A List Apart, referencing in part the work he did at Airbag Industries for the W3C redesign.
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Best new Vampire Weekend single about furniture:...
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Tiny Art Director →
Bill Zeman blogs art critiques of his work from his four-year-old daughter. Hilarious. (via Greg Wood)
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Coffee by Week →
In the spirit of Daytum et al, Mike Harding is cataloguing every coffee he drinks during 2009. The photos are all taken using the “Helga” setting in CameraBag app for the iPhone, and there’s some simple WebKit transitions and jQuery to highlight the data by day.
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“In many ways, Vimeo’s ethical hipster editorial philosophy makes it a more...”
– The Washington Post’s Garance Franke-Ruta covers the White House’s quiet switch to Vimeo for broadcasting its video content. (via Vimeo Buzz)
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“I am thinking of a system where potentially successful apps are identified in a...”
– My colleague Karl von Randow, author of Mobile Fotos and other apps, suggests a possible approach to identifying iPhone apps that are on the verge of hitting the big time, and promoting them alongside Apple’s top app lists. The current app store model is largely a closed loop, with top listed...
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That’s What →
Creative use of Twitter’s API by Zac White to track all status updates that were replied to with the phrase “that’s what she said”.
