May 2009
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Social Patterns →
List of social patterns from the upcoming O’Reilly book.
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L+E Visual Thinking Archive →
Must peruse. (Lots of related-to-social dataviz.)
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Creating really small icons →
Anti-aliasing a vector (or larger rasterized image with vectors inside?). Try rounding the corners to fool Photoshop into making it look pretty.
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A Coder in Courierland →
Well-written blog post about being a courier in Canada.
April 2009
104 posts
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Image Spark →
Gorgeous gorgeous infographics.
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Buy OUTLIER Garments! →
When I’m rich I’ll buy that $200 hoodie.
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“5:11 PM Apr 27th from web: I am wondering if I should move to someplace remote,...”
– [ via @MagdalenaBrooks ]
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So I ask: "What is the word that is sung in...
Aziz: It's absolutely not your fault.
Timoni: good. *ahem*
Aziz: It is said, so as to best exploit auto-tune: "Show-uh-ty."
Timoni: it's shorty? and not 'salright?
Timoni: but why are they calling everybody shorty!
Aziz: It means "baby".
Aziz: But it sounds better than "baby" when a computer is making your voice on-pitch.
Timoni: ohhhhhhhhhhhh
Aziz: But it also refers TO a baby.
Timoni: a tiny tiny baby?
Aziz: A baby of any size.
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Deda Tape, Chrome →
Searching for the hottest grip tape. I want sparkly electric blue, but this is also pretty cute.
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The Kinfolk Bicycle Co. →
Hot new bikes from Japan. Sweet colors.
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“Much of what we do online has obvious analogues in the past: E-mail and IM...”
– [ The reluctant Twitterer’s dilemma. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine (via laurao) ]
I totally disagree. Twitter is obviously the party of the internet. It’s like group chat. It’s like IRC. But BIGGER. You go to Twitter to be witty, meet folks, have short little fun discussions (or...
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“The male brain, extreme or not, is compatible with visual design. It allows you...”
– [ The extreme Google brain ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto ]
When people ask “why aren’t there more female programmers?” I always assume this is the answer.
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creative mornings →
Swiss Miss-organized monthly design coffee & chat meeting. In the morning, obviously. :)
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it's gonna be big.
Heather Rasley, Sasha Volynets and I have created The Drawing Room, a monthly event for designers in the Bay area.
The Drawing Room is a monthly event where people can share their work, receive solid feedback, improve their designs, and learn new techniques and trends. The goal is to help awesome designers (and design novices, too) improve their design skills.
The first event will be held on...
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Realization
The way I use search on the internet has changed. I used to go to Google for everything, but now, when I want to search for something useful and design-specific, I don’t search Google: I search Google Reader.
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“Fog Creek explicitly recognizes that many good software engineers have no desire...”
– [ Fog Creek Compensation - Joel on Software ]
This is very practical. I dread the day I have to add managerial responsibilities to my job (which I love!) in order to make more money.
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typo/graphic posters →
Collection of truly incredible, often type-based high design posters.
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[ Souvenir by OMD ]
Andy McCluskey sounds a lot...
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after "objectified"
There’s a lot of discussion, in “Objectified,” about how people love things that are well-made and a pleasure to use, and how designers delight in making things that are well-made and a pleasure to use. Unfortunately ‘well-made’ is usually synonymous with heavy, lasting materials, the sorts of materials against which the entire banner of ‘sustainability...
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eye are see
muttley: a friend of mine has an HR policy that says you can't hold eye contact with another person in the office for more than 20 seconds
timoni: but what if you're trying to signal that you want to sleep with them?
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“esquilax: A legendary horse with the head of a rabbit and the body of a rabbit.”
– [ esquilax, via the Urban Dictionary ]
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"A Gaythering Storm" →
“And this gay rain army won’t stop. They’re come at us…marching. Not marching. Dancing. It’ll be choreographed. It’ll be good.”
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“One thing about the type in the Zen Garden—it’s not treated beyond a...”
– [ Real Fonts on the Web: An Interview with The Font Bureau’s David Berlow, in A List Apart ]
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“In the United States a pressman is a man who runs a printing press; in England...”
– [ Chapter 4. American and English Today, from H.L. Mencken’s The American Language, 1921. ]
1921 wasn’t so long ago. I wonder when, then, did American English adopt “journalist”?
Also, I’m glad calling American English “American” never really caught on.
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CSS-Tricks #39: How to Use sIFR 3 →
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NEW MATH by Craig Damrauer →
Highly entertaining “formulas for life!” Ahahahaha. I made that tagline up myself.
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Fluid Images →
Script for swapping out pngs in IE for graceful image resizing.
Watch[ Happy Up Here, Röyksopp ]
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“If your tweet is good enough that someone would pay $20 for it, it’s valuable...”
– [ via Neven Mrgan’s tumbl ]
Yeah. I’d agree that if somebody is making money off my twitters—other than Twitter—that “somebody” ought to be me. Maybe me plus whoever came up with the money idea. I’m a generous gal.
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From Apple Trees to Stone Circles, How to... →
Sounds charming. From Penguin’s new Particular Books imprint.
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Eyvind Earle and Sleeping Beauty, from Cartoon... →
A nice discussion as to why Earle’s background concepts on Sleeping Beauty didn’t follow through with the character animations. This is a pretty obvious flaw in the film, although it never affected…
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