August 2008
23 posts
WatchThe Archive
“Paul Mawhinney was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Over the years he has amassed what has become the world’s largest record collection. Due to health issues and a struggling record industry Paul is being forced to sell his collection. This is the story of a man and his records. I hope you enjoy it.”
Organize Receipts - Shoeboxed - Scan, Email or... →
I’m currently using a Fujitsu Snapscan to handle all of my various papery bits, but this service looks like a viable alternative for those who prefer having their receipts in the cloud.
The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming on... →
This looks like a great introduction to programming with some nice interactive examples of code in action.
WatchSigur Rós @ MoMA // Current
WordPress theme: CODA →
Slider-style design inspired by the eponymous Panic software application web site. I don’t use WordPress for the most part, but you never know when a client might ask for something.
iTW - a TiddlyWiki for iPhone →
Who knows, may need this some day.
WatchAurora (Part 1) on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
How-To: Automated Backups to Amazon’s S3 with... →
This deals specifically with Slicehost, but this probably would be pretty handy for any web server or hosted site.
Lightroom to iPhoto export →
Don’t know if this works in Lightroom 2 or iPhoto ‘08, but I’m playing around with LR2 at the moment so this may become useful soon.
National Film Board of Canada beta site →
Freshly redesigned site with *tons* of short and feature length films to watch. I really liked the old design and I find this new one too dark, but the content is just stellar.
WatchVery Nice, Very Nice by Arthur Lipsett- NFB
WatchOMG OMG, animated version of Get Your War On! WEEK MADE.
Distributed revision control with Mercurial →
Firefox has switched their version control system from crusty old CVS over to Mercurial, so I’ll need to learn at least the basics of this if I want to continue building Firefox. Wee!
The World of Web Trolling →
The New York Times Magazine looks at web trolling. Looks like an interesting article [via <a href=”http://www.buzzfeed.com/”>Buzzfeed</a>)