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Wow – Jack Kirby did an unpublished treatment of the Prisoner. Really, really striking.
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“DataMapper is a Object Relational Mapper written in Ruby. The goal is to create an ORM which is fast, thread-safe and feature rich.” Looks very interesting; I rather like the migration-within-the-model thing (a la Django). One to watch out for.
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Guest edited by danah boyd and Nicole Ellison: a special issue of the JCMC on social network sites. Must return to this, because there’s lots to sink one’s teeth into.
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It’s a tracker. A tracker for Windows/OSX with VST instruments and effects support, a built-in sampler, and more. Certainly worth a play!
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A wonderful gig, and some great pictures from Joe Lee. Very jealous of that 85mm f1.4.
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People draw maps and more from memory. The results are interesting to say the least, and, at times, beautiful.
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“Fifteen years ago, Nokia launched its first GSM handset, the Nokia 1011, the model number coming from the launch date: 10 November 1992.”
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Currently very-much-enjoying Pukka: brings decent bookmarking not only to Safari but to lots of applications, handles multiple delicious accounts well, and is generally very smooth to use. Will almost certainly register it when the time comes…
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“Integrity will follow all of your internal links to find your pages, checking the server response code for all internal and external links found”. Handy broken-link checker for OSX.
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Interesting looking cheap drawing package for the Mac.
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Yet another monospace font – this time an opensource one from the Android project. Rather like this.
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I’m a sucker for robots, and these are particularly beautiful.
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RZA picks out the spoken-word samples he pulled from old kung-fu movies, and provides some background. I particularly like the waveform infographics…
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“The jQuery Form Plugin allows you to easily and unobtrusively upgrade HTML forms to use AJAX” And very good it is too.
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“Developing or modifying bookmarklets can be irritating, to say the least, because of this requirement that the JavaScript code be in the form of a URL.” Fortunately, Gruber makes it easy with his nifty Perl script.
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“We enjoy astonishing code; we think we should write code so clear that our most mediocre students (and the management team) will grasp it without effort.” How guilt affects expectations. (And “astonishing code” – what a wonderful goal!)
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NSFW in the way Cronenberg isn’t. Simply some of the most remarkable comics I’ve seen in a while; whilst somewhat interested in genitalia, Shintaro Kago also explores the medium itself with acute precision. “Abstraction” is my highlight.
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“…with all of its data, Flickr knows what, exactly, is — quite literally — the most photographed barn in America. Where everyone is taking pictures of taking pictures.” Sippey, on how Flickr is (inevitably) building a map of the world the size of the
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A rather lovely article from Rands, on the way a certain part of society just “is”. Accurate, not that judgmental, and quite sweet, really.
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Some comprehensive notes on this. I always run into the IE5/6 issues described here when I end up relying on multiple-class selectors.
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“I’m willing to accept that the API as a model for architecture contributes less to the design of individual buildings than to the function of the city, but it should effect both.” Some good stuff in here I need to go back over.
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Funny. Obvious at times, but funny.
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“The more I replay the scene, the more troublesome it is. It is the stuff of nightmares… If we conduct ourselves poorly as daily ambassadors, it is no wonder our country suffers a tarnished relationship with the world.”
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Some great photography – especially the portraits – onthis music-oriented photographer’s website.