March 2010
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February 2010
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“But Casual Victim Pile isn’t any sort of manifesto or template. To quote Cosloy...”
– I have to admit that I’m as guilty as anyone of lamenting the loss (and impending loss) of places like Armadillo World Headquarters, Liberty Lunch, and the Cactus Cafe, but at the same time this kind of enthusiasm for what’s going on now and how it lays foundations for Austin’s...
November 2009
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WatchMy favorite musician from my teens covering my favorite record ever - hard to beat / Record Club: Skip Spence “Little Hands” on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
October 2009
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September 2009
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July 2009
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“Be not ashamed to study the astronomy and terrestrial philosophy of the...”
– Peter Severinus, 16th c. Danish Paracelsian physician
March 2009
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WatchPavement - Gold Soundz
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“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
– Horace Walpole (via quote-book) (via afternoontea)
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“So if Twitter is not a threat to Google, is it a threat to Facebook? That case...”
– Farhad’s redeeming himself from whatever the hell that piece on Gmail was a few weeks back. The above is precisely why Twitter is the only explicitly social network I participate in. Basically the Web 2.0 equivalent of Gruber’s Untitled Document Syndrome. (Quoted from Twitter’s not...
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In the Details: Distinguishing Form Labels
designaday:
A question was posed to the IxDA discussion list about whether or not colons should be used between a label and a form field. The answer is no, and the reasoning is very straightforward.
Colons have been used to separate labels from values because there does need to be something to distinguish one from the other. In black and white print, the colon serves this purpose quite well....
February 2009
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“Although Linnaeus had many disciples, only one ever located any cochineal. In...”
– This anecdote is one of my new favorite history of science stories. The production of scientific knowledge is always, and always has been, contingent on many unpredictable and uncontrollable variables; however, the engagement with physical specimens and great distances that defined the work of...
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The technical story of Muxtape
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Originally Muxtape was written in PHP, about a year ago. PHP is a fantastic language for gradually turning static pages into functional ones in an ad hoc way. However, PHP as a language is a clusterfuck of bad design decisions because it lacks a clear vision. With the new Muxtape we have an amazingly expansive (and yet minimally focused) vision and needed a better foundation to...
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January 2009
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“Why do I get so tangled up in the speaker decision? I’m as dumb about ohms...”
– @hodgman
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“So now I’ve said more than I wanted to say, and all that I am going to say,...”
– Letter from Apple CEO Steve Jobs
Dan Benjamin - Regarding The Personal Web →
A very insightful essay into the changes that Web 2.0 trends, summed up here as the “personal web,” have meant for thoughtful writing, and content creation as a whole, on the web.
I think Benjamin strikes the right balance between a celebration and a lament: these new applications are brilliant for their ease of use and relatively frictionless integration, but being turned on to so...
“I don’t think about that,” he said. “When I got back here in...”
– Steve Jobs from 25 Years of Mac: From Boxy Beige to Silver Sleek
This attitude has doubtlessly contributed to Steve Jobs’ peculiarly innovative career in high tech, but it also sometimes leads to senseless contrarian positions such as his famous “people don’t read anymore”...
December 2008
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“The televised, Bible-bashing entrepreneur is perhaps the single most...”
– Christopher Hitchens on Rick Warren. Amen.
“The typographer shouldn’t care too much what kind of fonts he has at his...”
– Information Architects » Blog Archive » Web Design is 95% Typography
“My understanding is that he is leaving show business to pursue a career as a...”
– David Mamet, on Jeremy Piven’s leaving Speed-the-Plow because of high mercury levels.
“… [T]hey threw overboard everything on the gun-deck and in the...”
– Wreck of the San Alberto, by João Baptista Lavanha (1597), translated by Charles Boxer.
The above is a description of emptying the ship’s hold in preparation for increasingly worse weather; I would love an illustration of this passage.
24 ways 2008 →
24 ways is the advent calendar for web geeks. Each day throughout December we publish a daily dose of web design and development goodness to bring you all a little Christmas cheer.
This year’s series starts with an article, Easing the Path from Design to Development, which outlines a pre-flight checklist intended to help designers cover the needs of developers. Interesting and helpful...