September 2009
53 posts
Want success for your daughter? Call her Bruce →
The study focused on women in South Carolina but lends credence to the general “Portia hypothesis” - that women with masculine names just do get further in the legal profession, much like the cross-dressing character in The Merchant of Venice.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-20) →
Ella Fitzgerald (3)
Jack Landron (2)
Loreena McKennitt (1)
Nicola Hitchcock/Lenny Ibizarre (1)
Minnie Riperton (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
iPhone Offline Apps →
The offline application cache allows users to run web apps even when they are not connected to the internet. It works like this: when a user navigates to your web app, the browser downloads and stores all the files it needs to display the page (html, css, javascript, images, etc…). The next time the user navigates to your web app, the browser will recognize the url and serve the files out of...
Designing the ultimate wayfinding typeface | Ralf... →
After traveling all over Europe for three years to experience and document as much road signage systems as possible, I started to design my own wayfinding typeface. This was part of my diploma at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. After all my practical and theoretical research it became clear to me that the regular way of designing a typeface on paper or on screen was not really...
Dopplr Blog » Blog Archive » Nokia Acquires Dopplr →
Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Dopplr has been acquired by Nokia. Nokia shares our vision of the Social Atlas, the idea that social location data can improve our experience of cities. To see where people on Dopplr go, you can visit the Shepherdess in London, Hakaniemen Halli in Helsinki, or the Hotel on Rivington in New York. We like these places, and we trust you’ll like them too. The...
GRC | How Sub-Pixel Font Rendering Works →
But on any LCD panel, we can take advantage of the known-ordering of the individual R-G-B sub-pixels that exist within each whole LCD display pixel. So, as shown here, by drawing the diagonal edge with some non-white pixels we can produce a much smoother edge to dramatically reduce the jaggies!
Really well explained.
via @litherland
Grammar Girl's Strunk & Twite: An Unofficial... →
Writing Style for Print vs. Web (Jakob Nielsen's... →
Linear vs. non-linear. Author-driven vs. reader-driven. Storytelling vs. ruthless pursuit of actionable content. Anecdotal examples vs. comprehensive data. Sentences vs. fragments.
Details on Twitter’s Imminent Geolocation Launch |... →
# Twitter will soon be able to store location data–that is, latitude and longitude points–on a per-tweet basis, and for your user profile. # Revealing your location will be opt-in only. You will have to visit your Twitter account’s settings page on the web site to allow Twitter to store that data. It will not be enabled by default. Even if your Twitter client sends lat/log points along with your...
Twitter Blog: MySpace Gets Twitterized! →
When you sync your MySpace account with Twitter, you’ll be able to update your status as you normally would from your home page, status and mood page, or mobile phone. When you update your status on MySpace it will also update Twitter—and, the reverse is true.
Mmm, lovely Myspace. Snarf, snarf. ;P
How To Turn an iPhone into a Moleskine Book |... →
The iPod Touch makes a great e-book reader, with a large, high-resolution screen and touch navigation. You’ll need to jailbreak it first (find out how at the Wired How-To Wiki) and install either the free Books application or the $35 i2Reader (both of which are found in the Installer). Any text file can then be loaded up and you simply swipe through the pages. I2Reader also lets you bookmark pages...
Share Lists of Twitter Users | TweepML →
Welcome What is TweepML? TweepML is a simple format to make it easy for people to share a list of Twitter users (“Tweeps”). Using TweepML You can add TweepML to your website to make it easy for people to follow everyone on it with a single click. Every time you see the TweepML symbol you have a link to a TweepML and you can use our follow tool to select users to follow. See the list of...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-20) →
Ella Fitzgerald (3)
Jack Landron (2)
Loreena McKennitt (1)
Nicola Hitchcock/Lenny Ibizarre (1)
Minnie Riperton (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Card.ly Lets You Create Cool Online Business Cards... →
After a month or so of coding, Card.ly is now live. I love it (here’s mine), and I’m going to send the link to a bunch of my friends. It’s a bit more limited in scope than Chi.mp (our coverage) and a different approach from Unhub (our coverage), but I doubt there’s an easier way to create custom social hubs that look so damn good than Card.ly. Once you add personal details and your various online...
7 Extraordinary Ink Technologies From The Bleeding... →
Conductive ink, made by Bare, is capable of conducting electricity, which is hardly a unique selling point these days. What makes this ink special is that it can safely be applied to human skin, creating weird and wonderful electronic circuitry. The ink, which is non-toxic and temporary, can be brushed, stamped or sprayed onto the skin’s outer layer, allowing a person to interact with electronics...
Do Twitter Users Really Want To Make Phone Calls?... →
Today Twitter is rolling out a new beta service that will allow users to call one another. Calls will be limited to just two minutes, and users need to follow each other. Celebrities beware?
Wondering just how long it will be before the lines between Twitter and IMing are completely blurred?!
Invisible Printer Ink →
Remain rather unconvinced.
@litherland:
idsgn: “IKEA may have the last laugh as Verdana, along with web-safe pal Georgia, are getting a makeover fit for print” idsgn.org/posts/v…
Designers! It just got even easier to distribute...
staff:
Starting today, themes you add on your Manage Themes page can be immediately shared and installed by Tumblr users. Just click “Share this theme” for a permalink to distribute. There will only be a short delay before the theme is featured in the Theme Garden.
UK Government Plan Legislation to Cut off People's... →
How would you feel if the government suddenly cut your internet off? Peter Mandelson has plans which could mean cutting off the internet connection of the 7 million Britons who have downloaded copyrighted content over the internet. These new measures are being rushed through by Mandelson in an attempt to tackle online filesharing. However industry experts warn these harsh new measures could easily...
Six Fonts That Piss People Off | Design &... →
A furor erupts when Ikea changes its official typeface. Here are five other controversial fonts, involving Nazis, incest, and comic books.
How can you NOT read an article with an intro like that?! :D
UK Freecycle becomes Freegle →
While Freecycle is a GREAT idea, all our UK groups were basically forced to work under a system managed from America. Leaders of Freecycle in the UK spent more than two years talking with the main Freecycle Network trying to get the freedom to run things in a way more suited to this country and our its laws. Nothing changed.
In July the four leading members of our National UK Freecycle team...
Google Fast Flip →
via @weblivz
Quite a neat way to flip through the day’s front pages
Ikea, please get rid of Verdana! Petition →
To: Ikea Ikea was always considered one of the top global advocates for good design, through their products and catalogue designs. Their identity was minimalist, clean, using classic typefaces derived from Futura (Ikea Sans) and Century Schoolbook (Ikea Serif). This summer, something terrible happened. The typefaces in both printed and electronic communications were replaced with Verdana, a...
TwitApps shutting down « 3ft9 →
It is with some regret that I am announcing that I will be shutting TwitApps down at the end of this month. I would like to say this has been a difficult decision but that’s not accurate. I love Twitter and use it a lot, but I’m tired of developing for the API. It’s not that I don’t think the API team over there do a fantastic job, or that I think the API is bad, it’s a personal thing. It no...
BBC NEWS | South Africa | Pigeon 'faster than... →
A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country’s biggest web firm, Telkom. Winston the pigeon took two hours to carry the data 60 miles - in the same time the ADSL had sent 4% of the data. Telkom said it was not responsible for the firm’s slow internet speeds. The idea for the race came when a member of staff at...
Facebook Lite launches →
“Facebook Lite”, is a stripped down version of the social networking site said to be originally created for countries where internet access is slow. Despite this however, it Facebook has gone live with the new version in the US, offering Facebookers an alternative way of accessing their pages, without the flab of applications and the new design….UPDATE: Facebook has confirmed to...
New End User Licence Agreement For FontFont | The... →
The most relevant change is that FontFont now allows embedding in any non-editable document, application, and even device* – be it for “commercial” or “non-commercial” use –, as long as the font is embedded as a subset in a secure format, so that only viewing and printing but not editing is possible. This is especially attractive for corporate users, because companies don’t need additional...
WordPress Just Made Millions of Blogs Real-Time... →
All blogs on the WordPress.com platform and any WordPress.org blogs that opt-in (using this plug-in) will now make instant updates available to any RSS readers subscribed to a new feature called RSSCloud. There is currently only one RSS aggregator that supports RSSCloud, Dave Winer’s brand-new reader River2. That will probably change very soon. Update: Within hours another RSS reader called...
'Carrot' car runs on chocs and wine - Yahoo! News... →
A racing car partly made from carrots that runs on chocolate and stale wine has its first outing at Brands Hatch next month.
The car looks identical to other Formula 3 machines with performance to match, reaching speeds of 130mph and accelerating to 60mph in under 2.5 seconds. But that is where the similarity ends. The “Worldfirst” racer designed by engineers at the University of...
