May 2010
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“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the...”
– “Eloisa to Abelard” by Alexander Pope
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Live Online Drum lessons - With Mike Johnston →
Videos for drum lessons for those interested. The guy is not only a good drummer but also entertaining teacher.
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“Microsoft depends more on maintaining the status quo, while Apple is in a...”
– Peter A. Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal
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It's Official: Apple Is Now Worth More Than... →
Beat that suckers!
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“If you evangelize Apple, I respect you for your taste; If you evangelize Google,...”
– Tuhin Kumar on Facebook
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“Microsoft—in a nutshell—is a company that had one successful product that we are...”
– Mike Lee (via caseyliss) (via marco, peroty)
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Facebook Leaks Usernames, User IDs, and Personal... →
Well done Facebook. This is exactly the cheap stunt I expect from a site like you.
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The Big Caption →
What can be better than Photography with Typography.
A complement to The Big Picture
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“It’s important that nobody gets mad at you for screwing up. We know screwups are...”
– Lee Unkrich, director of Toy Story 3, Wired magazine
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Trick.ly →
If you want to share a link with the world but want only a group of people to see it, share it with this nifty tool. It makes you fill a password before decrypting the URL. So you share to those who know the password. You can also add hints/clues to Passwords.
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Font Preview - Google Font Directory →
The Google Font Directory’s Preview page is a nice little touch where you can control the kerning and other most basic features of typography rather than just previewing the font.
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Google Font API, Font Directory & Typekit →
Google and Typekit announced some great collaboration news for everybody who is related to the web.
The Google Font API provides a simple, cross-browser method for using any font in the Google Font Directory on your web page. The fonts have all the advantages of normal text: in addition to being richer visually, text styled in web fonts is still searchable, scales crisply when zoomed, and is...
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WebM: an open web media project →
WebM includes: VP8, a high-quality video codec we are releasing today under a BSD-style, royalty-free license Vorbis, an already open source and broadly implemented audio codec a container format based on a subset of the Matroska media container
As @gruber says, Microsoft and Apple the two Big companies are missing the list.
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Guzzle.it - Latest news about stuff you care →
Guzzle is a topic-based single page news aggregator.
Even though the search algorithm is weak (It shows me the David Villa news from Sports Illustrated in my Illustration tab and NOT in my Manchester United tab) yet I like the interface and will be playing with it for a few days to see if I stick with it.
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Our Solar System in CSS3 →
Solar System in CSS3. In the eyes of IE, the world .. err.. the universe is still flat.
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Tokyo Illustrators Society →
Besides home to some amazing illustrations, the website is a work of art in itself.
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Think Vitamin Membership
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I am sold on the idea! Just tell me where to pay and how to pay!
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“User experience design isn’t a checkbox. You don’t do it and then move on. It...”
– Liz Danzico (@bobulate)
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GPS cocks →
Since I am so stuck on the male body part today, here is one more via @adactio.
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Accidental Penis →
Well the heading says it all. Need I explain it here?
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4 Lessons Learned From Google’s Nexus One Store... →
Kevin Tofel highlights interesting (though evident) facts about Google’s Nexus One store closure:
Consumers aren’t ready to purchase a new handset sight unseen
There’s the marketing issue — there really wasn’t any.
Majority of U.S. consumers still aren’t ready to adopt the unsubsidized handset model that Europe and other areas use.
Essentially, that’s what happened the moment Google...
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badpaintingsofbarackobama.com →
While not all of these paintings strike out as bad to me, yet the majority of them are.
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HTML5 vs Flash →
Very well designed site for an obvious debate. Some good Wow goodies around the site too.
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Twitter Improves Trending Topic Algorithm →
Twitter has finally improved its trending algorithm to show not the most POPULAR but the most BREAKING and IMMEDIATELY POPULAR trends.
“The new algorithm identifies topics that are immediately popular, rather than topics that have been popular for a while or on a daily basis, to help people discover the ‘most breaking’ breaking news from across the world. (We had previously built in this...
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WatchNever seen a better CPR video. Definitely NSFW. Super Sexy CPR (by Super Sexy CPR)
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WatchAfter all those gorgeous images of Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland it was a matter of time before an HD video was made.
Shot with: Canon 5d mkII
Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull - May 1st and 2nd, 2010 (by Sean Stiegemeier)
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diaspora* →
The privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network. Looks like there was never a better time to create the facebook killer.
Amazingly their Kickstarter project has already garnered $142,955 PLEDGED of the $10,000 GOAL. To be honest that is not the way to go about a startup with more cash than required.
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Glyphs →
Editing glyphs is now as easy as making a file in AI.
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Combining fonts with Helvetica →
Indra Kupferschmid talks about what fonts to use to spice up your insipid Helvetica based design.
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New Programming Jargon →
Could not stop laughing while going through this list of geek jargon:
Duck: A feature added for no other reason than to draw management attention and be removed, thus avoiding unnecessary changes in other aspects of the product.
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Facebook Privacy: A Bewildering Tangle of Options →
Yet another infographic shows the issues with Facebook Privacy Policy.