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“Using information design principles and graphical techniques, the 85+ recorded covers of Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart” is mapped in relation to the original recordings by the band.” Lovely.
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“this is probably a bit naughty” – maybe, but a nice hack nontheless.
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Beautiful new series with some lovely covers – the cover for The Man Who Was Thursday makes me want to buy it all over again. It’s just perfect.
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Long, detailed article explaining the new sharpening controls in Lightroom 1.1. Looks like a must-read.
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Nice database front-end that’s not a full ORM, but useful for boring db maintenance, that’s for sure.
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Template maker is “a Python library for extracting data from similarly formatted text strings.” Looks super-useful.
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jQuery plugins, really, but probably worth a look.
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Modular form componentry; at a first glance, it looks good, but I want to go over it in a bit more detail…
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“…at which step in this narrative would my 1977-era audience first say “you’ve got to be shitting me!” … and when would they start moaning and holding their head in their hands?”
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“The number of lines of code in the application is a common measure of the importance of the application, and the number of lines a programmer can produce in a day, week, or month is a useful metric for project planning and resource allocation.”
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“Journalists are always asking us if we actually want to be successful. I am successful. I get to make records and do all that stuff, and if it goes tits-up I have a decent job.” Broken Family Band are adamant on keeping the day job.
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Rather good, free Rails screencasts. Short, sweet, accurate. Lots of good stuff in them.
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How to customize the templates in Billable. They’re just XHTML, you know.
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The project.ioni.st archives are very, very beautiful
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“Reducing the movement of matter – whether goods, or people – is a main challenge in the transition to sustainability.” The other two lines are as good.
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Free comics for display on the PSP. Nice.
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“Why is the girl in the centre smiling? Her fiancé lies at death’s door after being rescued from the sea. She smiles because she saw a press cameraman and knew her picture was going in the papers.” Nice article on press photographers.
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Wonderful talk from Doug Crockford. Must download.
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Just beautiful. The sonnet and haiku are my favourites so far. (Inform 7 is a natural-language programming language for writing text adventures).
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Some nice, insightful commentary on the relevance of Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines in 2007. Good stuff, for anyone interested in interface design.
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“Any team where the biggest jerk makes all the big decisions is asshole driven development.” This, and many more gems, can be found in this Scott Berkun blogpost.
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A wicked problem is one for which each attempt to create a solution changes the understanding of the problem.
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Nice, effective, comprehensive palette for wireframing webpages. A must-download for any Omnigrafflers.
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David’s going kind-of full-time on Strobist. Which is great news – it’s a fabulous resource.
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Nice, customer-facing page explaining the benefits of OpenID to average users. Up to 37s usual standard.
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This is me, I think.
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Delicious Food. Beautiful Photography. Created, rated and improved by you and fellow food-lovers from all over the world.
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Absolutely beautiful. The video at the end is hypnotic.
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Remarkable piece from Adam Greenfield on experience design. The second time I’ve seen the Saarinen quotation pop-up, too. A must-read.