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  • Code: Flickr Developer Blog » On UI Quality (The Little Things): Client-side Image Resizing
    "IE 6 is a riskier proposition, but can show improved image resizing when the AlphaImageLoader CSS filter is applied, the same filter commonly used for properly displaying PNGs with alpha transparency." Oh, that's interesting.
    (tags: ui polish ie6 ie internetexplore web development image sizing )
  • ME 2D Beta at Borne Games
    Mirror's Edge 2D flash game – which look, by all accounts, to be an official spin-off. Can't wait to see the full version; it's a very impressive little game.
    (tags: mirrorsedge games flash online free )
  • Abstract Heresies
    "You want to know what I think? I'll tell you what I think. Here's what I think: Java Java Java is is is too too too damn damn damn verbose verbose verbose. That's what I think. And I'm sticking to it. So there."
    (tags: java criticism formfollowsfunction programming development )
  • The Nietzsche Family Circus
    "The Nietzsche Family Circus pairs a randomized Family Circus cartoon with a randomized Friedrich Nietzsche quote." This one is particularly good.
    (tags: comics webcomics nietzsche )
  • Video: Stop-motion cutout Mega Man versus LEGO, pasta – Boing Boing Gadgets
    Wonderful, wonderful, stop-motion trailer for a Megaman 9 built out of the real world. Hypnotic, and lovely.
    (tags: games megaman rockman stopmotion animation lovely )
  • Scott To Pass Go For Monopoly Movie
    "Director Ridley Scott will helm the bizarre big screen adaptation of popular boardgame Monopoly… According to the Hollywood Reporter, Ridley will give the Monopoly movie a futuristic edge akin to his 1982 epic Blade Runner… The unlikely subject matter is just one in a line of Hasbro games to get big screen makeovers as part of an exclusive pairing with Universal Studios… Transformers filmmaker Michael Bay is producing a Ouija Board feature, while a film version of beloved classic Battleship is also in development." I know what "development" means, but still, this is the craziest games-to-film news I've seen for quite some time. Hollywood is strange.
    (tags: boardgames hasbro ridleyscott movies films hollywood crazy monopoly battleship adaptation )

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