March 2010
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Math of Publishing Meets the E-Book →
An interesting article about the profitability of E-Books.
February 2010
17 posts
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Uniform: Sexy Forms with jQuery →
I think I’ll be using this on all my web forms from now on. This is very cool stuff.
(via maniacalrage)
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Cliché →
Seth Godin on clichés (via bobulate):
In printing, a cliché was a printing plate cast from movable type. This is also called a stereotype. When letters were set one at a time, it made sense to cast a phrase used repeatedly as a single slug of metal. “Cliché” came to mean such a ready-made phrase. The French word “cliché” comes from the sound made when the matrix is dropped into molten metal to...
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Suicide Linux →
Well, there’s one way to indoctrinate you from typing incorrect commands or hitting the Return key by accident: wipe the hard drive every time you do so! (Well, the first time, because it’s hard to type in more commands when the OS doesn’t exist anymore.)
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Why do locals hate the Internet?
“A conversation I have every month or so” by dwineman:
Me: (tries to visit a local restaurant’s website via iPhone) Restaurant website: I require Flash. Fuck off. Me: I just want to know how late you’re open. Website: Nope. Me: But I’m on my phone. Don’t you have a little “HTML Version” link up in the corner or something? Website: I’m ignoring you. Me: What if I’m on my phone because...
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Replies →
Tumblr added Replies today so that you can reply to posts from bloggers that you’re following, provided that they’re also following you. It’s also a good way to discover all the jerks* you’re following that aren’t following you back.
* Added for dramatic effect - if I’m following you, I really don’t care if you follow me back, so long as you keep up the...
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WatchI love letterpress prints. I love video game references. But a letterpress print of pixel monsters, all from one of my favorite web developers? I don’t know if there’s a term for this level of awesomeness.
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Just an observation
Remember a few years ago where a modern website would have tags at the bottom emphasizing its standards compliance, such as XHTML 1.0 or CSS2? You don’t see it anymore. That’s quite the testament to the exposure of web standards to the general community. I wonder if it’ll get popular for, say, HTML5 adoption?
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Ditch the Desktop
Sadly, in the name of convenience I often toss a bunch of files on the desktop just so I don’t need to dig through folders to save something. Doing this lets you become quite unorganized.
When saving a file elsewhere, you choose what folder to put the file in, and what subfolder it would go in, and so on. The files are organized and easy to locate when you need to find it. If you save to...
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Setting Up an Awesome Matte Theme on your iPhone...
After seeing Shawn Blanc’s awesome new iPhone look, I decided that I simply had to have something just as cool on my iPod. So, I followed his instructions, with a few tweaks:
Installed blackra1n
Installed Cydia
Used Cydia to install OpenSSH, Winterboard, FontSwap and Droid Sans for FontSwap
Downloaded Matte iPhone UI and Overdue icons from deviantART (the Matte Nano icons Shawn linked...
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Microsoft Tag →
Yet another barcode/tag technology for printed materials. I don’t see this as being any benefit to the consumer - I don’t know about you, but I’ve never stopped to think “Gee, I really need to see all the cheesy promotional material for this random product. If only there were some clumsy technology to allow me to, in a dozen or so steps, see the website this thing is being...