July 2009
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Jul 30th
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Jul 30th
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Jul 29th
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“I know this may sound oversensitive, but if you’re a maker, think of your...”
– Y Combinator’s Paul Graham eloquently explains the dichotomy between the manager’s and the maker’s schedules. We mostly have the ringers on our phones turned off for this reason — that frequent din is a subconscious disruption to designers and developers alike; handling client...
Jul 29th
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Jul 29th
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Jul 29th
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Jul 28th
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Jul 27th
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Jul 26th
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Jul 25th
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Jul 25th
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Jul 25th
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Jul 24th
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“Mental Leaps” by Jörg Brönnimann contains some incredible macro photography shot with a Canon 5D2 and MP-E 65mm f/2.8 (5×) lens.
Jul 24th
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“They have no idea what they’re talking about. Seriously, look at this gibberish....”
– John Gruber sums up the AP’s new plans regarding its content.
Jul 24th
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Jul 23rd
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Jul 22nd
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Jul 20th
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Design student Michael Dibblee recites a key verse from Poe’s The Raven using animated, hand-drawn type. Added to Nice Type.
Jul 19th
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Jul 19th
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Jul 19th
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Jul 19th
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Jul 19th
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Fantastic, candid 44-minute interview with Moon director Duncan Jones, from the folks at /Film. Love the bit where he gets all starstruck after a call from Robert Zubrin. There are spoilers in the second half, clearly signposted. (via Dean Minifie)
Jul 18th
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Jul 18th
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Jul 18th
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Jul 18th
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Jul 18th
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“Our next generation must think boldly in terms of a goal for the space program:...”
– On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, achieved on less processing power than a cellphone, Buzz Aldrin thinks further afield in The Washington Post. (via Jason Kottke)
Jul 17th
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Jul 17th
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Esquire Theme Update →
Public service announcement: now with support for photosets.
Jul 17th
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Jul 15th
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Jul 15th
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Jul 15th
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Jul 14th
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Jul 14th
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Jul 14th
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Jul 14th
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Jul 14th
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“Has Tom really dumped Katie? Went to the shop for a pie and it looks bad.”
– Ha! Dave Sparks on Twitter.
Jul 14th
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Better Vimeo embeds on Tumblr
Note: an updated version of this function with support for Vimeo’s universal player is detailed in this post. Vimeo offers plenty of customisation options when embedding its player, but Tumblr’s automated code generator doesn’t respect these, overwriting them with its own defaults. To fix this, I wrote a quick jQuery function to rewrite Tumblr’s default options string for...
Jul 13th
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Great idea: break Star Wars: A New Hope into 473 15-second clips, get fans to reshoot them in any style, then reassemble the whole as Star Wars: Uncut. They have a Tumblr too.
Jul 13th
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Jul 13th
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“If you missed The Wire, you most likely don’t care at all, but if you’ve seen...”
– Makes me happy to read posts like this one from Adam Lisagor, mostly because it’s so well-written, but also because I remember those fine moments. Go watch, it might just be TV but it’s damn good.
Jul 13th
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Martin De Thurah’s surreal video for Röyksopp’s track “What Else Is There?”, featuring the vocal talents of Karin Dreijer Andersson of The Knife and Fever Ray. (via Mashable)
Jul 12th
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Jul 12th
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“Because old business models won’t change, eMusic now looks broken by the...”
– From Russell Brown’s backgrounder on eMusic’s new pricing regime, from an Australasian perspective. Short story: so it can deliver Sony’s back catalogue to the US, Canada and the EU, eMusic has roughly doubled the price of its tracks, leaving users outside those territories...
Jul 11th
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Jul 11th
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Jul 10th
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Jul 9th
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