The ups and downs of social networks. Interesting data on usage around the world.
Duly noted
July 2010
Audioboo. How is Audioboo different from what Odeo was?
Newport (Ymerodraeth State of Mind). Hilarious "Welsh" take on Jay-Z's Empire State of Mind.
EPICWIN. D&D-esque iPhone game that gives you points for doing your chores.
Newsweek: The Creativity Crisis. "[T]here is one crucial difference between IQ and CQ [creativity] scores. With intelligence, there is a phenomenon called the Flynn effect—each generation, scores go up about 10 points. Enriched environments are making kids smarter. With creativity, a reverse trend has just been identified and is being reported for the first time here: American creativity scores are falling."
jQuery Masonry. "Whereas floating arranges elements horizontally then vertically, Masonry arranges elements vertically then horizontally according to a grid."
sibilant
- adj. Of, characterized by, or producing a hissing sound like that of (s) or (sh): the sibilant consonants; a sibilant bird call.
- n. A sibilant speech sound, such as English (s), (sh), (z), or (zh).
- Jul 7, 2010 at 9:16
- also in Language
Jim Jefferies on Religion Horrible Blasphemy Panda.
NY Times: Top World Cup Players on Facebook, Day by Day. Great interactive graphic.
Nissan Urban Bowling. Haha.
BIG BANG BIG BOOM. By Blu.
Opinion: England: Stars, cars and chumps. Great write-up on what's wrong with England's team.
June 2010
David Maupilé. A very nice photographer's portfolio based on a Leporello.
F-Secure: How to find your lost phone. Great idea and nicely done video.
Clever Axe ad. Once seen, it's obvious.
TwitStream. jQuery, AJAX, and the Twitter Search API.
Dalton Maag. The font foundry.
What’s the best Wordpress caching plugin?. Recommendation: HyperCache + DB Cache Reloaded.
May 2010
Burkas and Birkins. A review of Sex and the City 2.
Spricket24: Wieners and vaginas. Very Zefrank-esque.
Dispatching YouTube API events to individual javascript objects.
CodeIgniter (and some other PHP frameworks, for that matter) can freak out over strange cookie names. For example, the ` character will trigger a “Disallowed Key Characters” — though strangely, in IE only. One solution is to allow that character in your Clean Keys filter in your Input class.
Timeline - Version control for designers. Photoshop plugin that integrates with SVN.
CSSUtilities. A javascript library for querying CSS stylesheets (eg. get values in the original, un-normalized unit; which properties apply directly, or which through inheritance).
Weston Ruter: CSS Transitions via jQuery Animations.
Gravité. Renaud Hallée’s work of “falling objects synchronized to produce rhythm.” Hallée’s site.
April 2010
When investigating how to read a Powerpoint file with PHP, this Stackoverflow thread was about the most informative out there. Two points of attack: study up on the format, or try to use the Lucene indexing package.
Nivo Slider. A very slick Jquery carousel.
Pimp That Snack is hilarious, ingenious! Check out Mega Tots, The Mighty Rolo, the Tremendous Toffee Crisp, and The Creme de la Creme Egg. Via Rob.
A case study of C3. And why should you care? It's the project from which sprang forth XP (a somewhat progenitor of agile).
March 2010
Of mice and lords. From a House of Lords debate transcript.
Birds on the Wires. If birds were notes on sheet music, what would they sound like?
Irene.fr: Kid Cudi / Pursuit of happiness, by Megaforce. Neat video.
How to get rank using a mysql query. Uses a variable to count the rank.
Arcticstartup: Foodie.fm helps you grocery shop smarter. I can't wait to try this.
February 2010
Whatever happened to the advent of personal wireless mesh networking? Nokia used to sell a wireless mesh network router, right?
I wonder which is the biggest hurdle: the actual technology, security concerns or political reasons.
Harvard Classics. Originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature.
Eliot claimed that the elements of a liberal education could be obtained by spending 15 minutes a day reading from a collection of books that could fit on a five-foot shelf.
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