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Impressive (if fixed-width) grid-based CSS framework. Looks natty; I should check it out, I feel.
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$99 desktop that has 4gb of internal storage and uses S3 for the rest. Distributed thin-ish clients, much like were promised in the golden age of Java. Etc, etc, etc.
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“European settlers found it difficult to accept that a continent as large as Australia could have no great rivers comparable to those of Africa or North and South America.” Beautiful, incorrect, cartography.
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Genius little flash game that looks a bit like a side-scrolling collect-em-shmup, but turns out to be something far more irritating and hilarious
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“I wrote a “Grep in Project” command that combines the speed of grep with a decent, well-integrated UI.” Oh wow. Just what I’ve needed.
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Brian May finishes writing up; now he’s just waiting on the Viva. Good for him.(tags: science)
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“It handled it fine, right up until the time you tried to print, and then IE choked on it.” IE doesn’t like the name ‘tags’ in documents it’s printing.
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As mentioned on, I think, Metafilter. Lovely, old-fashioned, hypertext writing.
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Great write-up and series of notes on Bill Buxton’s book, by Michal Migurski
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“Others have complained that the third valve is used only at the expert level, that even proficient players only score a maximum of 60 points per song, and that the “oompah” meter stays the same shade of gray even if every note is hit.”
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“MileMarker adds a helper for marking page elements with the milestone they are slated to be developed, and makes them unable to be interacted with.” The JS-y approach isn’t quite how I’d do it, but it’s a neat idea.
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“I suspect designing for the Web instead of around it is at least as important as language choice.”
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Beautiful: “Anymails is a visualization of my received emails… An unread email is hairy and swims fast; a read email has less hair and does not swim so fast anymore; a responded email is hairless and barely moves.”
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“Today we’re happy to announce that we are adding support for the hCard microformat to Google Maps results.”
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“Brian “Box” Brown issued me a challenge to draw 200 bad comics. As a gentleman and a scholar, I had no choice but to oblige.”
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Getting Practice Done. A bit metric/exercise focused for my liking, but maybe worth checking out.
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Sneak peek of Jon Favreau’s “Iron Man” from San DIego Comicon. It looks, in a word, awesome.
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Beautiful set of stills from the Modesty Blaise movie. Looks suitably camp/erotic by turns; I’ve only read the books and glanced at the comics.
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More useful bash-fu from John Nunemaker
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“I thought I would write a little about how the places and spaces that were familiar to us had begun to warp and twist in entirely new ways, and how I experienced new, unfamiliar places as a result of the birth.”
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More sed & awk goodness from the caboo.se
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X-RAY let’s you see the box model for any element on a page in action – where is the top and left of an element, how big is each margin, how big is the padding, how wide and high is the content box.
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“dotfiles.org is a place to upload, share, and synchronize your dotfiles.” Built in camping, I think.
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Many developers have learned to dread branches, either becasue of poor practices or weak tools, or both. With that here are twelve tips for working with branches in Subversion.
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“Much of the past 4 weeks has been spent determining which has the most sensitive built-in accelerometer: an iPhone, a Nintendo Wiimote, or our newborn son.”
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“Games create conceptual touchstones – shared references that bridge different points of view and provide a common platform for conversation. That’s what most design deliverables try to do, with varying degrees of success.”
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For The Dulwich Horror TO LET signs across London will form the canvas onto which Dean Kenning will paint images representing the supernatural and monstrous entities from H.P.Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos.
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“This on-line textbook introduces many of the basics of formal approaches to the analysis of social networks.”
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The banning of Manhunt 2 will prove to be a good thing if it helps companies like Rockstar to realise that the industry’s ambition should be the opposite of everyone else’s: to get off the front page and into the arts section.
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“persistent play, GPS telemetry, live sharks”. Oh boy. That’s phenomenal.
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Handouts for the tutorial given at OSCON, July 23th, 2007. Looks like a great talk.