Links from 2009

What a musical trip! 'Round The World In A Blu-Tac Bobcat'! Underground electronic producer Cursor Miner (Lo Recordings) in the mix.

A simple checklist that presents the principles and techniques of WCAG 2.0 in a more user-friendly, understandable format. The language has been significantly changed and simplified from the official WCAG 2.0 specification to make it more easily tested and verified for web pages.

Convinced that customers’ online-shopping behavior is now deeply colored by social-media experiences, the Richfield retailer has opened up proprietary product catalog data collected through its online store.

HAL 9000 screensaver

I can see you’re really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.

...and here's the Line site, too.

Bandcamp have got their custom domains sorted out. Hurrah.

IE NetRenderer allows you to check how a website is rendered by Internet Explorer 7, 6 or 5.5, as seen from a high speed datacenter located in Germany.

Validator S.A.C. (Stand Alone Complex) is a stand-alone, easy to install, version of the W3C's HTML / XHTML Markup Validator for Mac OS X.

Freecycle starting the move away from Yahoo! Groups towards custom solution.

A web-based service that allows users to hold text, voice, and video chats on multiple instant messaging protocols. Currently supported protocols include AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, MSN, MySpace, Skype, and Yahoo Messenger.

A Free and Open Source microblogging platform. It helps people in a community, company or group to exchange short (140 character) messages over the Web.

"Allows you to use TortoiseSVN and other Subversion clients with Team Foundation Server. It converts the calls made by your Subversion client to the API supported by TFS." I really hope I don't have to use this.

Creators of socially responsible video games

Wrong but potentially useful as last resort. "CSS Browser Selector is a very small javascript with just one line which empower CSS selectors. It gives you the ability to write specific CSS code for each operating system and each browser."

cartographer:

Snowflake is an installation by arduino supplier Tinker.it. Viewers can interact with the display by tapping their Oyster travel card against it which will generate a snowflake based on the data on the card.

Made By Many ” “What Is a Social-Media Agency?”

“The old digital agency model is not helpful today. Instead, the industry can learn a lot from social start-ups (like Vimeo – who I am in love with, or SoundCloud) and work as fast as possible, being…

Transport and Property in London – Where Can I Live

We think that people want to live where they can easily get to work, so we created a simple tool to answer that difficult question: “Where Can I Live?”.

The old digital agency model is not helpful today. Instead, the industry can learn a lot from social start-ups (like Vimeo - who I am in love with, or SoundCloud) and work as fast as possible, being entrepreneurial, pragmatic, and nimble [...] People in traditional agencies - ‘old new media’ and our cousins in advertising - say they find all of the above quite challenging - which is weird because these agencies are stuffed with really smart people.

For throwing at certain designers. Surprising how poor some cta's are.

Useful reminder.

Designers Republic goes under. "I’ve never liked that agency model - it’s not where creativity lies. DR accidentally ended up there in order to service bigger clients. I’m not being ungrateful to the people who ran the business side at DR – it wasn’t their fault. I’m glad we did it - it took getting there to make me realise that it wasn’t where I wanted to be."

We aim to re-start production of analog INTEGRAL FILM for vintage Polaroid cameras in 2010. We have acquired Polaroid's old equipment, factory and seek your support.

Allows electronic dance music fans to listen to DJ sets like they were albums. Users are able to view tracklists, skip tracks, and jump to specific songs. They have the ability to quickly skim through sets or instantly play any song contained at any point in any DJ set.

Interesting, but sort of scary and wrong at the same time.

This site details all standards & guidelines for developing and delivering products and services for BBC online (bbc.co.uk).

This keyring-friendly USB device lets you swap contact details instantly. Simply pull out your Poken and ‘high five’ it with your new best friend’s. Clever RF technology then zaps the info between the devices, so next time you log on to your favourite site, your profiles are linked. Genius!

How do you take digital information into the physical world? Print it, of course. But that's just the beginning...

"Capture your displays as a Photoshop layered image". Can't think of a use for this yet, but cool.

Workflow tips. "The thing that’s hard about Git for most people is the same thing that’s hard about all DVCS tools: if you’re used to centralized systems, they work weird [...] It’s also really easy to never grok DVCS, so when something unusual happens, you don’t know how to fix it."

We want to be a fun, inspiring place where you make your own 3D designs come to life using 3D printing.

As both the Internet and casual sex continue to rise in popularity, e-cards have also seen a rise in use. But the e-cards that connect all of those things aren't your typical "Happy Birthday" with a picture of a cat popping out of a cake; they're aimed at notifying partners that they've been exposed to a sexually-transmitted disease or infection.

You want to read about the code structure of the new whitehouse.gov website on this historic Inauguration Day of the 44th president of the USA. The site is built on ASP.NET

[this is good]

"An open source flash MP3 player which can be customized and integrated into websites easily. It has 5 different versions that lets you only use a "play button" or a player which lets users to choose tracks from multiple files."

Another mac svn client. This one looks like it might be quite good.

‘Ow-do, Ken?

New label from the Slutty Fringe boys.

Papercamp writeup from Jeremy Keith.

The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, which will publish the “Social Media Futures” report compiled by Future Foundation next week, has warned that advertising agencies face growth of just 1.2 per cent a year by 2016 if the industry fails to tackle the changes to the media created by sites such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

"Its been a good run, now please leave." Yes, please do.

'Hearts' is quite an exceptional album about heartbreak and, despite it lacking in instrumentation Line makes great use of the sounds created for the album and supplements it with some wonderful lyrical flourishes. I changed my mind about this album the more I listened to it.

Another review of Hearts: "Line – aka Neil Wells – has delivered a straight forward, but powerful brew of techno and downtempo beats, with some wicked tunes to boot."