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“This feels like yet another death knell,” emailed an A&R executive at a major European label. “If the best band in the world doesn’t want a part of us, I’m not sure what’s left for this business.”
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|The news last week that Sony has dropped the game for European release, forcing gamers to import the multiregional US version, is sad. This is exactly the kind of title the system needs to be promoting…” You’re telling me. What are Sony smoking?
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Nice presentation reframing issues as design challenges, and questioning why designers aren’t solving design problems.
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“This code, extracted from the Rails codebase of dopplr.com, extends your User model with methods to pull in social network information from sites such as GMail, Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and any site supporting appropriate Microformats.”
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The Processing book. I had a look at blackbeltjones’ a few nights ago – big, dense, heavy, paper like a bible. Quite a lovely book, really. Will probably buy it at some point.
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Fantastic conclusion to the TF2 interview. Lots of lovely stuff in here about design processes, being honest to users, and seeking out hard problems. A must-read for anyone who makes things, really.
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Inconsolata “…is a monospace font, designed for code listings and the like, in print”. It’s also rather attractive on the screen, and might be the first monospace with rounded characters I actually like.
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Gosh. I really can’t wait for that. There’s just something about tiny robots that gets me every time…
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“Designing playful IAs means taking care that you encourage discovery, support exploration and provide feedback on mastery.” Kars’ whole talk is great, really.
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DHH fills us in on the changes in Rails 2.0. Given the preview release is out now, the full version can’t be that far off. Big changes, too.
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A useful plugin for WordPress – prior to 2.2, data was stored as latin1. Now it’s UTF-8. If you’ve got a lot to convert, this seemed to do the trick.
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A quick guide to how you unlock all the other bits of armor in Halo 3.
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“A library for finding memory leaks.” – with solid Rails integration and, apparently, graphs by Gruff.
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Wow. Just wow. Phenomenal print adverts for Lego, that manage to sum up the brand so well.
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“Clutter Free is a plugin that lets you hide portions of the WordPress posting interface that you rarely (or never) use.”
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Greasmonkey script that “reskins the Akismet spambox page for WordPress admins”. Might make things a bit better, I guess…
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A new version of the popular admin reskin for WordPress.
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A detailed explanation of the WordPress 2.3 implementation of resolving to a single canonical URL.
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“Fray is being reborn as a quarterly printed book, and we need your help.” A great move from Derek Powazek
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I like the look of this blog – content big, small, whatever, familiar aesthetic, and some lovely design touches. Giving me ideas for future overhauls (after the impending one)…
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as days pass by » Blog Archive » DOMContentLoaded for IE, Safari, everything, without document.write“it should be possible to combine the existing Safari method, Opera and Mozilla’s DOMContentLoaded support, and Hedger’s IE approach into a short bit of boilerplate code that can be dropped into your standalone script.” Nice!
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“…you have to like children… If you do not, you will never be able to treat them as individuals… the test of whether you enjoy children’s company is whether you find them fun.” David quoting Mike Baker. Fab.
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“With a Leica, all you hear is the shutter, which is the quietest on the market. The result—and this may be the most seductive reason for the Leica cult—is that a photograph sounds like a kiss.” Wonderful New Yorker piece on the cult of Leica.