March 2009
46 posts
“(gonna miss 2k8)
/// The Year
/// The Neon Died”
– Hipster Runoff - The Most Fascinating/Beautiful Alternative Personal Brands of 2k8
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'IE8 Does Not Pass Acid3 Because Standards Not... →
Microsoft doing their utmost best to make web design standards developments slow as all fuck. again.
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“Read this issue online if you can’t see the images or are using Outlook...”
– Xbox NZ March Email Newsletter
Even the official Microsoft Xbox marketing team won’t stand by their (lack of) html standards support in Outlook 2007
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Labuat →
ok, so this is my new favouritest interactive music video ever, the animation is flawless, and the brush, oh the brush!
Perfectly executed, and just downright beautiful.
This video puts all the joy back in painting that years and years of digital computer work have taken out.
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Placebo - Battle For The Sun
So, the first time...
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Designing Firefox 3.2 →
Pretty cool article from iA, concerning how browser tabs may have become obsolete.
While replacing the browsing window with an itunes-esque thumbcover layout is all good in theory, the beauty of tabs is that the navigation is always present and doesnt interrupt the browsing experience, I’ve always wondered more about an autohidden navigation interface, that tapped into this method of...
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TWEEEEET →
collection of designers twitter accounts,
I’m not on there, but you can follow me - @reconfine
Kind of like newsbox days of old.
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Autofill your ipod/phone →
Details on how to access the new autofill feature available with the latest iTunes 8.1 update.
Useful if you are too lazy / random to specifically select individual songs to transfer!
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papervision.js →
awwwwh shit.
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Thanks...
… to the tumblr team for fixing user interface gripe number 1 on my list!
hopefully they are working down.
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WatchIf you see only one Augmented Reality demo - make it this one (baseball cards be damned). levelhead - Incredible spatial and orientation driven game.
I think what i’m really the most impressed with is the live lighting effects. wow.
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Google Reader adds comments. →
nuff said.
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Tumblr is great, but...
…. there are a few things that really grate against my cervix.
The minimised advanced options panel when you are adding a post. I always nearly miss this until the last second, when i open it up to add tags, and set my custom URL. It’s not saving any space, just adding an extra click to get to un-necessarily hidden functionality. grrr.
Displaying a placeholder image on the...
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What's in store at Michael Lett's s/f →
this store and the womens fox hunting jacket in the army surplus store are the highlights of my walk to and from work. The sex shops are just an added bonus.
taf:
I had no idea this tiny store disguised among the sex shops existed until today, but I’m told it has been really popular. It’s only open on Saturdays between 11 and 4 but has attracted quite a gathering of people interested in...
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“Fox is trying a new strategy to encourage DVD purchases, by releasing two...”
– Fox to strip extras from rental DVDs | Crave - CNET
Great idea, I have no issue with purchased dvd’s having more extras than rentals. If i’m going to pay ~3 times the price for my own copy, it’d be nice to have some exclusive content. Given the recent surge in rental rates, -...
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La Roux - In For The Kill (Skreams Let's Get... →
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February 2009
44 posts
If Media Were Most Delicious Cakes
Currently this is how things stack up in the media world - with regards to music, films, television content, and to a far lesser degree software.
Option 1 - Legitimate Cake Purchase
Pros :
The cake maker and cake distributor are paid for their cakes.
This is legal
Cons :
The cake is likely not to be fresh anymore
The cake can only be eaten in 4 different places
You can only...
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