Links from 2008

95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography.

Coudal used to generate revenues almost exclusively from client work. Anyone who’s done client work knows the inherent frustrations that come along with that. But instead of merely accepting these frustrations [...], Coudal searched for another path.

An application that disables wireless and ethernet networking on an Apple computer for up to three hours at a time.

Short answer is no. Thank goodness. "Yes, Google was right. Spam was stuffed into hidden text on my site. They were not complaining about my accessibility technique."

Adbusters have changed their Turnoff TV week into Mental Detox Week, its tagline is Escape the Fantasy.

Milliways: Infocom’s Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Waxy.org

“From an anonymous source close to the company, I’ve found myself in possession of the "Infocom Drive” — a complete backup of Infocom’s shared network drive from 1989. This is one of the most amazing archives I’ve ever seen, a treasure chest documenting the rise and fall of the legendary interactive fiction game company.“

Your one-stop shop for information, gossip and discussion with the Flickr developer community

FFFFOUND! alternative.

Css Print Framework

Who to read besides Coupland, Stephenson, Gibson, and Sterling? I need an informational intake of this sort of highly-regarded (speculative? cyber?) fiction on a regular basis, or else I become irritable.

Dogtags! Dogtags! Dogtags!

Old, messy but good.

GroupTweet

“GroupTweet is constantly listening for direct texts sent to your group’s Twitter account. When a direct text is received, GroupTweet instantly publishes it as a tweet from the group account.”

Git is a version control Swiss army knife. A reliable versatile multipurpose revision control tool whose extraordinary flexibility makes it tricky to learn, let alone master. I'm recording what I've figured out so far in these pages.

"We give you FULL ADMINISTRATIVE ACCESS to the operating system. While our primary focus is cross-browser testing, you actually have full control over the configuration. When you disconnect, the virtual instance goes away and so does any trace of your wor

A jquery plugin which allows you to replace the browsers default vertical scrollbars on any block level element with an overflow:auto style. You can easily control the apperance of the custom scrollbars using simple CSS.

Contains Violence

“Part mystery and part peepshow, Contains Violence is a surreal snapshot connecting the secret lives of others […] using breakthrough audio-technology, and buildings on the West London skyline.”

Part mystery and part peepshow, Contains Violence is a surreal snapshot connecting the secret lives of others [...] using breakthrough audio-technology, and buildings on the West London skyline.

Sifter is designed to be bug and issue tracker for designers and non-technical people. However, we're pretty optimistic that technical people will like it too.

[With Git] you can work on five separate logical changes in your working copy – without interacting with the VCS at all – and then build up a series of commits in one fell swoop.

"Get a handy little iPhone or iPod Touch version of any website." Genius. Makes me wish I had an iPhone.

Last.fm claims its 12-week-old free, full-track music streams have resulted in 119 percent more CD and download sales through its Amazon.com click-through partnership.

posthuman.muxtape.com

That’s the post-rock, post-electronica Posthuman, not the hypothetical future being Posthuman.

Many of the more advanced [CSS] features aren't widely supported by the dominant browsers, but some very useful ones are -- including newer features from CSS3.

An ecology of open source online mapping tools has emerged alongside the market leader. It is now possible to replicate Google Maps’ functionality with open source software and produce high-quality mapping applications tailored to our design goals.

By connecting your Twitter account to your Harvest account, you will be able to perform simple commands in Harvest by sending Twitter messages to Harvest.

I think we should create a Wikipedia for data: a global database for all of these important data sources to which we all contribute and that anyone can use.

for all those obsessed with Twitter

Best. Press release. Ever.

Tweet Clouds

“Make a word cloud from a public Twitter stream”

Twubble

“…can help expand your Twitter bubble – it searches your friend graph and picks out people who you may like to follow.”

A plug-in style software-synthesizer for producing primitive electronic sounds like the old 8bit game consoles.

The following lineup of innovation lessons emerged from a video game conference, an interview, and several experts’ comments.

"I don’t give a crap whether you liked Eve, or found it boring, or unplayable or anything else: what you need to understand are the principles that are at its foundations, because they’re principles that can be applied to stop MMOs becoming stale and

Vote Match

“Designed to help Londoners decide how to vote in the London elections on 1 May”.

My results were exactly as expected.

James is podcasting again. Grand.

Updates will be intermittent and will follow no format whatsoever. The first podcast is a short music mix I’m calling Eat Tokyo.

"By now, you know all about Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead selling their latest albums at various prices, depending on the format. London-based indie electronica label Highpoint Lowlife is experimenting with a similar model for its new quadruple EP compila

anglepoised.muxtape.com

Finally got round to making one. What fun!

Mine has The Teenagers, Deerhoof, Beck (against my better judgement, but remixed by The Chap which evens things out a little), Black Devil Disco Club, Bastards of Love (remixed by LJ Kruzer), Fisk Industries, ¡Forward, Russia!, Death From Above 1979 (remixed by Justice), GusGus, Buraka Som Sistema, Huoratron and Von Südenfed.

Much noisier than I was expecting it to be.

The Mystery of Black Devil – eMusic Spotlight

A few years ago, the Rephlex label released a record called Disco Club that had black-crack collectors all atwitter over its white-hot machine drumming, chunky percussion loops and garbled synthesizers, sounding like an impish (and possibly evil) cousin to Giorgio Moroder. The artist, one Black Devil, was so little known that many listeners assumed it must be the work of one of Rephlex’s own stable — possibly Luke Vibert, who had just recorded his own retro-sounding tribute to Italo disco under a new pseudonym, Kerrier District. But Disco Club was soon deemed exactly what it seemed to be: a lost classic from 1978, pieced together from tape loops, rickety gear and session drumming.

It's really simple. You tell Fire Eagle your location, and we tell you stuff that's near it.

Lets you generate an RSS or XML Feed to filter out Tweets around a certain area. Just enter a city, state, postal code, choose the range of miles you want to include

We will briefly introduce you to Git usage based on your current Subversion knowledge.

Please read this if you do front-end work. Then read t'others in series.