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“Finally some new footage of IGF competition finalist Fez.” Oh wow. This looks like it could be very good indeed.
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Looks like a great diff-ing application; shame it’s Leopard only, as I’d be on it like a flash. Beyond Compare is still the one Windows app I kind-of miss.
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…and I still haven’t finished _Les Gommes_. Time to dip back in, I think; a shame Robbe-Grillet is dead.
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“When he has mastered tone, and with it exposure and development, he knows the most difficult part of his technique and practice, let him then proceed to picture-making.” Emerson’s Naturalistic Photography for Students of the Art, 1889.
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“C is prickly, so its affordance is care.”
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Short story from 1909.
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Wavelet-based video codec and player for the Nintendo DS, developed by Nick and his brother.
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If you’ve ever wanted to watch a trainwreck of a comments thread take shape, here’s a good place to start.
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Joel Johnson interviews a designer of some “classic” Space Lego, from c.1990. I had a least one of these sets – it was one of my favourite Leg sets to build; really well thought through.
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“William McDonough’s book, written with his colleague, the German chemist Michael Braungart, is a manifesto calling for the transformation of human industry through ecologically intelligent design.” I took a look at Tom’s copy a few weeks; looked good.
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“There is no such thing as too much accessibility, and its ludicrous to suggest that too much accessibility actually reduces the accessibility of a site… What we are [actually] seeing is a non-understanding of web accessibility”. Great article.
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“This article explores the practice of “beeping” or “missed calling” between mobile phone users, or calling a number and hanging up before the mobile’s owner can pick up the call”
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“The EnerJar is an easy-to-build device that accurately measures the power draw of electrical appliances” Delightful – lovely form-factor (in itself, an act of recycling), simple to build, genuine usefulness. More like this, please.
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“The spreadsheet has an older, wiser cousin, and it is called database.”
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“We don’t want to be a beautiful website, we want to be a beautiful part of the web.” Matt Jones’ talk from IXDA08 in Savannah. Lots of cracking stuff calcified really well in here. Bravo!
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An up-to-date cheatsheet for jQuery. Nicely laid-out, and nicely dense.
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“Practitioners, Schön says, have ‘an awareness of complexity that resists the skills and techniques of traditional expertise’ and are ‘frequently embroiled in conflicts of values, goals, purposes, and interests.'”
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“Zelda Classic is a tribute to … The Legend of Zelda. It has been developed into an exact replica of the NES version that we all know and love. Beyond that, Zelda Classic allows the development of new quests…” Looks fun.
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Using an Asus eeePC as a mobile RAW-processing and viewing platform. Not sure it’d replace Lightroom, but it sure is a nice idea for a mobile preview environment…