January 2012
WatchLes Arcs Snow Trip (by Brett Stevens)
“the thing is good. the second thing isnt so good. the second thing is set before...”
– This email is the best thing in my inbox right now.
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend” is not a universal truth—and sometimes it...”
– Watts Martin.
“Schrödinger’s cat is not actually a paradox at all. It’s...”
– RobotRollCall on Reddit.
“CSS is a total slag, and often rather dirty.”
– @mollydotcom.
Visual Idiot's Photoshop Simulator →
Holy crap! Visual Idiot has created a fully functional Photoshop simulator, in the browser. I didn’t think HTML5 was that capable yet.
(hat tip to Jeremy Keith)
December 2011
“You will gain tremendous credibility, become much more productive, make those...”
– Dan Palotta: I Don’t Understand What Anyone Is Saying Anymore.
“…we aren’t frustrated enough, impatient enough, skeptical enough, with the...”
– While you were sleeping.
“I’m skeptical of rote simplicity. It’s good for the people making digital tools...”
– Frank Chimero: A Series of Ill-Informed Hunches and Observations.
Metaphilm - Fight Club →
In the film Fight Club, the real name of the protagonist (Ed Norton’s character) is never revealed. Many believe the reason behind this anonymity is to give “Jack” more of an everyman quality. Do not be deceived. “Jack” is really Calvin from the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes.
This is brilliant. I’d love it to be true, but (as the author says) reality bites,...
“I’m a bit sad for Firefox. It used to be the fast, powerful, progressive browser...”
– Marco Arment. I’d be a bit sad too, if that were actually true any more. Firefox 3.6 was a big wobbly monster, but these days it’s fast, stable and uses fewer resources than Chrome (in my experience).
Alas, Firebug slow it right down and makes it leak like a sieve. They’re working...
November 2011
WatchBike Check: Andrea Bruno’s Transition Covert.
All the best people ride a Covert.
“If you think you’ve found a flaw in an airport’s security checkpoint and...”
– Watts Martin on Charlie Miller. Bang on.
“Clutter is what happens when we fill a page with things the user doesn’t care...”
– Jared Spool.
WatchBack in August a bunch of us went biking in Les Arcs. It was awesome and we all rode like gods. Luckily, Brett has cobbled together a video of us all looking rubbish! YAY!
October 2011
“Some days you ride the unicorn. Some days the unicorn rides you.”
– Jeremy Keith.
The future
We were having a chat about the new iPhone 4S. Tim said something like “Android may well have matured in a couple of years” and I found myself pointing out how everything will be different…
Apple will release iPhone 5S. It’ll have an 8 core processor, a 10 gigapixel video camera and the most incredible OS known to mankind. The tech press will say it’s a bit of a...
“After hellos, you take your place in the first shed, running tree trunks through...”
– The Man Who Sailed His House (via Instapaper)
Switch ft Andrea Martin - I Still Love You (via...
“Ten years ago today, we still had not yet met the iPod. The last of Steve’s five...”
– Apple Outsider » SJ.
“All right, the camera meets or exceeds anything else on the market in a phone,...”
– Coyote Tracks: A new iPhone prediction.
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“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else...”
– George Orwell (via philphys, 2105)
WatchI was very tempted to get a Nukeproof Mega a while back and this advert featuring Nigel Page should give you a good idea why. Really nicely done.
(In the end I went for a Transition Covert, which is rather good)
September 2011
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Responsive Web Design: the Goldilocks Approach →
Chris Armstrong outlines an ‘em’ based approach to responsive web design.
(It’s the approach I took too. I really ought to write some of my more recent web development adventures down somewhere public.)
“People were actually complaining about giving Tim Cook $384 million over ten...”
– The Macalope Weekly: Busted businesses.
“Consumers are better off when developers use feature detection and fallback...”
– Browsing Without Plug-ins - IEBlog.
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“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via geneticist)
“The scientific method is universal. If we selectively ignore it in certain...”
– Diamond planets, climate change and the scientific method.
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“In Holland, we have two words for design. One is vormgeving; in German...”
– Gert Dumbar (via banquethall, viafrank).
“While tablets are often grouped into the “mobile” bucket, they are in fact only...”
– martymoo » Designing for Tablets: Not Quite “Mobile”.
