July 2010
40 posts
Twitter Blog: Discovering Who To Follow →
I’m willing to bet this will be rubbish…
I love typography | OpenType Features →
In this article we’ll give you a look behind the scenes of OpenType substitution features — a general rather than comprehensive overview as the subject is simply too vast. We’ll start casually and work our way to more complex features and ideas. All examples that we will discuss should be considered starting points, just to pique your interest. Read on and find out that it’s really not difficult!
European Motor News | CHARLES PEUGEOT APPOINTED AS... →
I’m sorry but this is just too funny. Poor guy, that’s got to cause sooooo many problems.
Lemmings! - Choose game →
Yep, it’s Lemmings online! :)
48HR Magazine Becomes....Longshot!: Agenda: July... →
Here are a few things we’re going to reveal to you in the coming days and weeks:
Details on the agreement in principle with CBS. (It isn’t final, but we’re very close!)
Details on payments to all of Issue Zero’s staff and contributors. (Holy crap, you’ll be able to buy some gum!)
Details on…
The Straight Dope: In what language do deaf people... →
Can you think without language? Answer: Nope, at least not at the level humans are accustomed to. That’s why deafness can have far more serious consequences than blindness, developmentally speaking. The blind suffer many hardships, not the least of which is the inability to read in the usual manner. But even those sightless from birth acquire language by ear without difficulty in infancy,...
Chromoscope - View the Universe in different... →
Ever wanted X-ray specs or super-human vision? Chromoscope lets you explore our Galaxy (the Milky Way) and the distant Universe in a range of wavelengths from X-rays to the longest radio waves. Change the wavelength using the slider in the top right of the screen and explore space using your mouse. For more information we have a quick video tour or you can read more on our blog. If you get stuck,...
The Daily Mash - WEBBER TO START NEXT RACE IN A... →
FORMULA 1 car-pointer Mark Webber will start the next Grand Prix in a 1998 Fiat Punto.
Red Bull’s management have promised Webber that the ashtrays will be cleaned and the boot emptied in order to make the car as competitive as possible. The Punto will also go through the Executive Valet at the local Esso station rather than the Standard Service. Webber said: “There is no question of...
Blogger in Draft: Introducing Blogger Stats →
Speedy, aren’t they?! ;P
How I Accidentally Got 700,000 Fans on Facebook →
Perhaps you can see what had been happening. Even though the fan page shows the book’s cover and its synopsis, and informs visitors that it was published by Simon & Schuster, the vast majority of these supposed “fans” were somehow totally unaware that it was referring to a book at all. They had simply joined because they were fans of the phrase “Shut Up, I’m Talking.”
Hilarious!
What The Hell Am I Supposed To Do With All These... →
Too much of one thing can cause a person a lot of stress, and you know what’s stressing me out? All these rights guaranteed to me by the U.S. Constitution. There’s like—how many—a couple dozen? And they keep adding more! Isn’t that a bit much? I’m just a simple man who likes simple things, and I can tell you right now, there’s just no way I’m ever gonna need all...
Blog All Dog-Eared Pages: A Universal History of... →
Fernando Báez is the director of Venezuela’s National Library and the author of, among other things, a history of the lost library of Alexandria. In 2003 he was sent to Baghdad as part of a cultural commission to evaluate the damage down to Iraq’s—and the world’s—cultural heritage, having previously performed a similar, and similarly devastating, task in the former Yugoslavia. The result of 13...
MOBYLIVES » Idaho library target of “yearlong... →
Police in Boise, Idaho have arrested a 74-year-old woman after she was spotted “pouring mayonnaise in the Ada County library’s book drop box,” reports an Associated Press wire story. Police say the woman is “a person of interest” in “a yearlong spree of condiment-related crimes.” According to the AP, “the woman is under investigation for at least 10 similar cases of vandalism since May 2009....
Film news Back To The Future 'hoax' - we confess!... →
Bunch of eejits, that includes Guardian and the like re-reporting it. What happened to proper journalism when you like, fact-checked things beforehand?! {:)
Woman Wins Million-Plus In Texas Lottery For... →
We’re not the biggest lottery fans in the world (tax on the mathematically illiterate and all that), but if we had Joan Ginther’s luck maybe we’d change our mind. Last week Ginther traveled to Austin to pick up $10 million she won from some super extreme amazing give-us-your-money scratch-off ticket. Which isn’t unusual — someone has to win, after all — but it...
May-self Rating Chart →
shaunusher:
Above: A charming chart produced by a 17-year-old Harry Bertoia in 1932. Found alongside a selection of other fascinating lists - all taken from the book Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts and Other Artists’ Enumerations - at the delectable Sight Unseen blog.
List of U.S. Presidents by nickname →
shaunusher:
Yet again, Wikipedia proves its worth. Current favourites from this particular list include ‘His Rotundity’, ‘The Elephantine Economist’ and ‘His Little Majesty’.
Fonts.com Web Fonts →
Add great looking fonts to your Web site in three easy steps.
Create a project
Choose and assign fonts
Add a short script to your site
Open for beta invites. One of the few web font solutions that actually has nice sharp fonts on its own site! :D
Diaspora - One Month In →
During June, we have been focusing on developing a system for passing different forms of information in between seeds. When you post a status message on your seed, it gets pushed over HTTP in real time to all of your friends. We have also started to build the latest and greatest in web standards into Diaspora. Websockets are already in the Diaspora core, and any Diaspora plugins will be able to...
