December 2007
Ben Ward on Identity theft →
“If it is the case that society has decided to share their keys, then it is up to the banks, governments and insurance companies to change their locks.”
Explosm →
Dude! Just be yourself!
Sonic the Hedgehog blasts his way onto the iPod →
WANT!
“Change is needed. It looks like change is coming. It may even be a regime...”
– Jeremy Keith takes the sensible approach.
Work hard, Smell Hard →
Nayan, Baggus, Pritt and Franco take on the Fosters challenge
Digital Web Magazine's new Editor in Chief,... →
Nice work Mr. P!
I'm joining the myminicity thing. →
“we can’t expect any standards body to do what is being asked of the CSS WG,...”
– Alex Russell: The W3C cannot save us.
“So, what we, the ordinary web developers of the world, are left with is...”
– Stuart Langridge
“You know what the most complex piece of engineering known to man in the whole...”
– Linus Torvalds
Meat →
“And why not? Imagine how unbearably, how unutterably cold the Universe would be if one were all alone …”
Is it Christmas? →
Well is it?
24 ways: CSS for Accessibility →
“CSS is magical stuff. In the right hands, it can transform the plainest of (well-structured) documents into a visual feast. But itâs not all fur coat and nae knickers (as my granny used to say).”
Report: 95 percent of all e-mail has that spammy... →
“One company, Barracuda Networks, goes so far as to say that spam now accounts for 90 to 95 percent of all e-mail, with no end in sight.” — EEEP!
“I would just like to draw attention to everyone reading the above that this...”
– Terry Pratchett is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s. [via Natbat]
Will Draw For BEER →
Help Anton get to SXSW this year!
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Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice (video) →
“We do better objectively, but we feel worse”. This explains a lot.
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The Future of Comet: Part 1, Comet Today →
How on-demand Javascript works in todays browsers. Looks complex.
Enterprise Software *Should* be Sexy →
“This horrible, punishing piece of software made my job suck. Seriously, I’d come home from work and need an hour-long bitch session about this application just to wind down.” — I know of a certain CMS like that…
Facebook Harder To Shake Than The Columbia Record... →
“In no way do I want to support something that is so contra my love of the Web or so against the principles I espouse about how to treat people using a service you build. Your mileage, of course, will vary.”
24 ways: Tracking Christmas Cheer with Google... →
“I love statistics. As an informatician I canât get enough graphs, charts, and numbers. So you can imagine when Google released their Charts API I thought Christmas had come early.”
Killing Some Bad Layout Conventions →
“In this article Iâll examine a couple of these inferior Web design conventions and expose their flaws. Iâll then suggest more effective alternatives to these conventions and explain why they work better.”
Do websites need to look exactly the same in every... →
I won’t spoil it for you.
WatchGee Atherton, nutbar.
Reunion →
The time had come. No turning back now. I was set for a front row start in a race format I had never entered before. There were 160 riders all starting at the same time on a 50-minute downhill.
Andrew “Needles” Neethling looks back on Megavalanche Reunion Island.
Ah, Megavalanche. It’s one of those events that most people see as complete insanity. The organisers plot an hour-or-so long route...
A history of the Amiga, part 5: postlaunch blues:... →
“The Amiga computer had been demonstrated in public to rave reviews, and everyone was excited at the potential of this great technology. That’s when the problems started.”
The 53 Places to Go in 2008 →
Holiday recommendation from the New York Times.
How to Recreate Depth of Field in 7 Steps... →
“If you didnât quite get your aperture settings right when you were out and about with your camera itâs possible to recreate a depth of field effect in Photoshop.”
Bad Science » A rather long build up to one... →
“the Daily Mail, in demanding a ban, seems to have missed one important element of the story: BBP is already banned for use in cosmetics… and has been for quite some time now.”
The Enigma of Amigara Fault →
Great manga. Rather confusingly it reads right-to-left. [via KateMonkey]
The chapel →
We were just talking about vertical panoramas the other day. Here’s a nice one, shot in Budapest.
Things Other People Accomplished When They Were... →
How to make yourself feel rubbish. Or inspired. Yes, inspired, that’s it.
WatchNinja Parade Slips Through Town Unnoticed Once Again
Hixie's Natural Log: Evolution in the species... →
“…three very different types of companies that are each immune to Microsoft’s strategies in their own way. Yet all are still vulnerable to the same thing: a better product. For the end users, this is a good position for the industry to be in.”
Principles of Design →
Patrick McNeil’s series on the basics of design. Nice work.
Stop the complaining about boxes and grids. →
“A web designer who complains about grids and boxes is like an architect who complains about gravity.”
Always Have a Solution →
“The advice is simple: Never complain about a bad idea without having an alternative ready to propose.”
24 ways: Capturing Caps Lock →
“Avoid unsightly login errors with this handy JavaScript technique, offering the opportunity to warn users that they have Caps Lock on when entering their password.”
Tunnel baby →
Smiley, smiley, smiley, WOOOAAAARRRRGHHHHH!!! WTF?
Zoom →
Web accessibility can be hard to get your head around. It’s all very well talking about best practise, but without personal experience it can be very hard to understand the day-to-day issues people face.
I’m lucky, in that my eyesight is still 20/20. Yet today I ran head-on into a common web accessibility barrier. I got a (diluted) taste of what it’s like to use a screen magnifier to browse the...
