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“The Telegraph will soon become the first newspaper in the world, and the first British media company, to become an OpenID provider. Readers will be able to begin using the service from the end of February.” That’s an interesting – and savvy – move.
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“”the people who make huge money, the George Soroses and Julian Robertsons of the world, they’re the people who can step back and see when the paradigm is going to shift, and I think that comes from having a broader experience”
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Mmmn. Yum.(tags: fonts typography)
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“After the toy-hacking workshop I realised how awful I am at soldering… I want to be good at soldering… partly because I like all that MAKE magazine stuff and I feel like if I’m good at soldering those people will like me.” Russell being excellent.
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Fifty photographs of directors at work. They made wonderful films; these are wonderful photographs.
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“Candyfab was first built using three sacks of granulated sugar, an aquarium pump, a car jack and some recycled printer parts. And it only bloody works.” Fabulous.
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“Instead, user research for the Web should delve into the qualitative aspects of design to understand how and why people respond to what has been created, and, more importantly, how to apply that insight to future work.” Lane Becker on fine form.
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Lots, and lots, and lots of old Pelican book covers. Delightful.
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“Thom’s Quick & Dirty Guide to Color Management: 99% of what you need to know in 1% of the space.”
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“The first incarnation of The Commons is a pilot project we’ve created in partnership with The Library of Congress.” Oh gosh. There’s so much wonderful, remarkable photography in here; I could lose myself.
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“ScreenSteps brings simplicity to the labor intensive process of software documentation.” Focusing on the screengrab, rather than video, as instruction tool. Could be a nice approach, especially if export is any good.
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“This smart energy saving meter from efergy will enable you to monitor and calculate the cost of running your home or office lights and appliances, and so help you work out your carbon footprint.” Not quite a Wattson, but cheaper, for sure.
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“Snipplr is a public source code repository that gives you a place to store and organize all the little pieces of code that you use each day… Did we mention it works with TextMate, too?” Looks good!
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“The sketchboard is a low-fi technique that makes it possible for designers to explore and evaluate a range of interaction concepts while involving both business and technology partners”
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“This is a site for large data sets and the people who love them: the scrapers and crawlers who collect them, the academics and geeks who process them, the designers and artists who visualize them.” Aaron Swartz strikes again. This looks great.
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A wonderful film, even if it’s not strictly the whole truth. Claude Lelouch drives through Paris in the early morning a bit like a madman. The effect is awesome; on the big screen, it’s incredible.
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The Wikipedia page spills the whole truth on the film, and has lots of good links to related material – Google Maps mashups, behind the scenes footage, etc.
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“For years we have done our training in a certain way… it might be better to replace some of those generic exercises with others which will be better in an urban environment because of the work we are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
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New release of jQuery: as usual, it’s a blend of rather impressive performance boosts and some neat new functionality.
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“Arvon provides residential creative writing courses at four beautiful, historic houses around the UK.” Some interesting courses and good teachers – Brian Talbot on graphic novel writing, for instance…
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Thomas Jefferson’s entire library – and his reviews of books in it – exists as an account on LibraryThing. I’m glad that things like this exist in the world, and that the Internet makes them possible.
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the_decapitator: he finds ordinary bus-shelter adverts, and then graphically – and entertainigly – decapitates someone in them. entertaining! subversive! hurrah for culture hacking.
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“Nocera mentions Bezos’ belief that if you do something good for one customer, they will tell one hundred others. […] Put it all together, and you begin to see what a truly empowered, truly knowledge-based global economy looks like.”
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Very nice – reminds me a lot of the work I’ve done building CMS-style sites with WordPress. It’s not hard – just requires some thought and trickery. Great that this is free, anyhow.
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“Before the unexpected series of events that began yesterday afternoon, for example, Hansen had no intention of ever being here, outside this house, waiting for a SWAT team on an overcast Sunday afternoon.” God, US Esquire can be good.
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“Mommy, why is there a Server in the House?” A lovely book to explain the “stay-at-home server” to kids, snapped by the gang at Gizmodo. Well, it made me laugh
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“[The] first episode is an introduction to umbrellas. We work with only one umbrella and add a single fill card to it” Don “Wizwow” Gianatti starts a series of lighting tutorials.
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Radiopopper: a prototype, low-budget rf flash trigger. The target market: better than the Chinese Gadget Infinity, not in the same league as Pocket Wizard. Interesting to see hardware emerging to fill a niche – namely, Strobist readers.
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‘”Paths are made by walking”
In order to determine whether the above phrase was actually true, we kept running in a park for 5 days.’
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“I was so busy working in 2007, I forgot to blog about most of it! So here is a top 10 countdown looking back at the ideas and projects that I’m very glad were a part of my year…” Jane McGonigal reviews her year.
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Lovely commercial for a Volkswagen SUV – “The city never rests; enjoy the movement.” Not sure a SUV is the best way to enjoy the movement, but I say their point.
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‘”The list of problems seemed endless. At the end of the demo, Jobs fixed the dozen or so people in the room with a level stare and said, “We don’t have a product yet.”‘
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“…the discipline is entirely about cheapness. The glory goes to parsimony, to the algorithms that invest the fewest CPU cycles for the greatest return… What scientists saved programmers squander.” Paul Ford is a man after my own heart.
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“…a suspiciously high proportion of my UNIX colleagues had already developed, in some prior career, a comfort and fluency with text and printed words. They were adept readers and writers, and UNIX played handily to those strengths.”
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Wow. This looks great. Add to cart…