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  • we are all screen readers now (tecznotes)
    "Fast-forward ten years, and I'm now using all those accessibility features on a daily basis. At some point during the dot-com bust it turned out that the written word was the payload, and regular people started using alternative (browsing) devices to access text from the web. Arguments about device-independent, semantic markup and graceful degradation suddenly have an additional halo of legitimacy because they affect everyone."
    (tags: text web reading mikemigurski words information accessibility content semanticmarkup doingitright )
  • Arduino Squid on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
    "LEDs pulse back and forth in the mantle to indicate roughly how many friends are on Xbox Live. It goes into red alert if anyone's playing Left 4 Dead." Nicely done; might poke something similar into life for myself, just for kicks.
    (tags: arduino xboxlive games friends play social electronics )
  • The Benefits of a Classical Education – O'Reilly Radar
    Tim O'Reilly on what he learned from studying the classics at University. Simply because of competence at the languages, I know more of the Romans than the Greeks, but this is thoughtful stuff. I was often asked at school by peers why I'd study something of "no practical value"; O'Reilly has some smart answers.
    (tags: education classics philosophy timoreilly learning history )
  • GameSetWatch – Opinion/Round-Up: The State Of Social Gaming
    "I think that there are really obvious reasons this isn't currently happening. Tech-oriented, web-trained, fast-paced, hard-nosed Silicon Valley culture is not really that similar to game developer culture. Outside of GDC Austin… I haven't seen a lot of opportunities for the two industries to mix. Most crucially, everybody's too damn busy trying to get their jobs done to really spend a lot of time or thought on the issue." That gap in culture is something that still fascinates me.
    (tags: games social facebook platform culture web socialsoftware )
  • Pulse Laser: The Utility of the Unfinished
    "How finished an artefact is is an important indicator of its relationship to the world: not just an indication of where it is in its lifecycle, but also one that explains how it should be understood, and that opens a dialogue between the observer and the artefact." Me, on Pulse Laser, talking about unfinished states as conversation tools, amongst other things.
    (tags: design writing wear schulzeandwebb dialogue conversation patina unfinished )
  • The Aeneid on Facebook
    "Virgil is singing arms and a man". I must admit, I prefer "the man", but this is lovely nontheless.
    (tags: facebook humour classics pastiche aeneid virgil system:filetype:png system:media:image )
  • In search of the click track « Music Machinery
    "I’ve always been curious about which drummers use a click track and which don’t, so I thought it might be fun to try to build a click track detector using the Echo Nest remix SDK." Analysing tempo fluctuation on a variety of popular recordings to find out who uses a click track; as you might have guessed, Ringo and John Bonham didn't.
    (tags: audio music sound analysis api python clicktrack drummers rhythm )
  • YouTube – SF4 – Abel vs Sagat
    Finally, a decent video of Abel. Ignore the first round, where he gets hammered, and concentrate on the second two: he negates Sagat's ranged game by getting in close, throwing in some careful EX scissor kicks, and massive abuse of linking a juggle into the aerial grab throw.
    (tags: games strategy videos streetfighter4 abel sagat )
  • Almost Perfect htaccess File for WordPress Blogs | Josiah Cole dot com
    Some nice tips in here, mainly about blocking access to things and security.
    (tags: security wordpress apache htaccess )
  • Strobist: CERN, Pt. 1: It's the Little Things that Matter
    David Hobby goes to Cern, and has a ball. Also: takes some nice portraits.
    (tags: photography strobist cern )
  • Godbit Project | Pagination with Code Igniter
    Useful tutorial on building Pagination, that goes beyond the Pagination library and points out what you need to be doing with the Model, too.
    (tags: programming tutorial development web framework php pagination codeigniter )
  • Reassessing Your Definition of Illmatic « Bandcamp Blog
    Bandcamp add an automatic way to generate one-time use download codes for music – so bands can promote singles and the like. And then: they add automatic Moo Minicard generation to the mix. Bloody brilliant, and definitely The Right Way To Do Things.
    (tags: distribution api promotion integration brilliant bandcamp moo minicards smallpieces )
  • This is why you're fat.
    "where dreams become heart attacks" – photographs of revolting, calorie-drenched food "experiments".
    (tags: blog food health calories cholesterol disgusting )
  • Living Epic: Video Games in the Ancient World: Makin' <em>kleos</em>, makin' fanboys
    "That is, the activity of making kleos, as a bard or as a player, is about forming an affinity group—people who think the game is a cool game, who want to talk about it, who would go to the mat for it. It’s about making fanboys. Odysseus is going to turn the Phaeacians into Odysseus fanboys, just as the bard of Odyssey 9 is going to turn his audience into fanboys of the Odyssey, just as he the bard is already such a fanboy."
    (tags: games storytelling stories epic homer fans kleos fandom classics )
  • cityofsound: Cables
    "Either way, I love reading these cables. The language is crafted so perfectly, despite the constraints. They’re caught between poetry and machinery." Yes. And what a different game it was then; lots to like in this taut post from Dan Hill.
    (tags: broadcast media sport commentary compression cricket condensation cables telegram bandwidth )
  • House of Bendie
    "Welcome to House of Bendie – a UK clothing line that takes classic, British suiting fabrics and creates unsuit-like clothes for men and women. We specialise in bespoke hoodies: hand-made, made-to-measure, hooded jackets crafted from exquisite suit materials." Oh, lovely.
    (tags: uk clothing tailoring hoodie clothes )
  • UGC its rude, its wrong and it misses the point « Derivadow.com
    "Generated" certainly is the wrong word.
    (tags: socialsoftware ugc crowdsourcing web20 )

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