April 2011
37 posts
FAQ about Pasta Sauce—How Long Dare I Keep the... →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-24) →
Ensemble Gilles Binchois (19)
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir (14)
Studio der Frühen Musik (13)
David Munrow (11)
Michel Piguet (6)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Free House Cleaning Maid Services for cancer... →
Fighting cancer is difficult enough, but living with it is even tougher - and that’s where the Cleaning for A Reason Foundation steps in. This nonprofit offers free professional housecleaning, and maid services to improve the lives of women undergoing treatment for cancer - any type of cancer. HOW OUR PROGRAM WORKS Are you a Maid Service? Interested in becoming a partner in our foundation?...
Teen Sex on TV: Are We Back in the '80s? - Meghan... →
Hang on, this seems to suggest that the US gets the TV programme Skins? Wow, really sorry about that! I’d cheerfully get rid of the entire genre in this article. Ok, I might let you keep Buffy, just don’t make me watch it! The rest, be gone! {:)
Warner Bros. 1930s movie poster typography →
About five years ago the typeface Trajan was used so ubiquitously on movie posters it became known as ‘the movie font.’ Later, when the typeface Gotham was used in Obama’s campaign it became the new go-to font for movie poster designers. Trajan got relegated to thrillers and horror movies. It became a genre-specific trend/cliché like handwritten fonts for indie comedies. Or Gill sans extra bold...
Upcoming changes to Spotify Free/Open - Spotify →
As of May 1st, any user who signed up to the free service on or before November 1st 2010 will be able to play each track for free up to a total of 5 times. Users who signed up after the beginning of November will see these changes applied 6 months after the time they set up their Spotify account.
Bum, so after being amongst the first signups, I get to lose out sooner?! Interesting logic...
This message was sent from me to you. | Steven... →
Ah, yes - one of my pet peeves also!
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Technolog - Facebook 'deleted' photos stay online... →
If you’re already scared that any awkward photos taken of you may crop up later on a social network, get this: Even when they’re deleted, they may stay accessible for many, many months.
Jacqui Cheng at Ars Technica has discovered that supposedly “deleted” photos posted to Facebook are “still online more than 16 months later.” We tested the situation here, and...
Offline Password Guessers - Some Maths →
The easiest way to guess a password isn’t to guess it at all, but to exploit the inherent insecurity in the underlying operating system.
Obviously some of this applies to online attempts to guess your passwords. I just like the Maths and the logic involved. {:)
FBI — Help Solve an Open Murder Case, Part 2 →
On June 30, 1999, sheriff’s officers in St. Louis, Missouri discovered the body of 41-year-old Ricky McCormick. He had been murdered and dumped in a field. The only clues regarding the homicide were two encrypted notes found in the victim’s pants pockets. Despite extensive work by our Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit (CRRU), as well as help from the American Cryptogram Association, the...
The Munson's Apps: Extension data Sync through... →
I’ve been looking at the work done by George Papadakis (check it here) and the extension that bringed me to him: All Mangas Reader (by Duhoux Pierre-Louis). They developed the BSync script that I’m using in my own extensions. It allows chrome extensions to sync data helped by Google Chrome Bookmark sync.
Tumview Neue - A Tumblr Photo Viewer →
A photo browser for Tumblr.
Quite neat.
Simple Desktops →
Simple Desktops is a collection of desktop wallpapers curated by Tom Watson designed to make your computer beautiful without distraction.
FontFont : My Favorites - Typefacts’ Free Faves →
Hmmm, think there’s a reason why these might be free. {:) Ok Fancy Writing Micro could have a use, but none of these are my cup of tea. Which is a stupid thing to say given I don’t actually like tea. “My can of Red Bull” is not exactly the same ring though… ;P
BBC News - What is the alternative vote? →
A referendum on 5 May 2011 will ask UK voters whether they want to change how MPs are elected in General Elections. Instead of just voting for one candidate voters could rank candidates in order of preference, and these preferences could be used to decide the outcome in places where no candidate wins more than 50%. Use this guide to find out more.
the Movie title stills collection →
A collection containing hundreds of main titles from feature films
This is fab on soooo many levels. Beautiful shots (especially for typography nuts) but also a rather lovingly crafted website.
DropTunes Is a Web Jukebox for Your Dropbox Music... →
You can play music tracks through Dropbox’s web interface, but only one at a time, in a very minimalist player. DropTunes provides a great web front-end for your Dropbox-synced tunes, offering Flash or HTML5-based streaming and continual playback. It’s pretty darned handy.
the Data Liberation Front →
We intend for this site to be a central location for information on how to move your data in and out of Google products. Welcome. Click on any product link on the left hand side for more information on how to liberate your data from (or to!) that product. The Data Liberation Front The Data Liberation Front is an engineering team at Google whose singular goal is to make it easier for users to move...
The Russians Used a Pencil →
Although this joke is not factually correct, the punchline still resonates. There is something to be said about a simple and elegant solution versus a bloated and complicated one. And thus the impetus for creating this blog: to harbor a space where simplicity in design can be commended and celebrated.
This was one of those rare times where I saw the name and decided frankly the blog could be...
‘Light’ variant added to Ubuntu Font Family →
Letters of Note: Permission to land →
With the Vietnam War coming to a close on April 30th of 1975 and the U.S. evacuating as many people as possible from South Vietnam in Operation Frequent Wind, crew aboard the USS Midway were surprised to see a small two-seat Cessna O-1 Bird Dog approach the vessel and then circle above. Flying that plane, having just escaped from Con Son Island with his wife and five children - also aboard - was...
