August 2009
56 posts
Watchflight patterns
July 2009
48 posts
WatchI can’t tell if this is a real product or not. I don’t know if I really want to know.
Toxic Linfen, China - The World's Most Polluted... →
5-year-old boy plays "Folsom Prison Blues" by... →
“I find one meeting can sometimes affect a whole day. A meeting commonly blows at...”
– Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule
WatchSyFy
Simon's Cat 'Fly Guy' →
WatchMcDonald’s Versus: Making of…
Hovering Balloon →
How can we get our toddler to let us brush his... →
Depending on the weather, this can be an endless source of angst, so maybe one of these many ideas might prove helpful.
For Mozilla and Google, Group Hugs Are Getting... →
Nice to see an article about Mozilla in the Grey Lady, but any article that quotes Rob Enderle is immediately suspect.
“There was also the rule about being alone. Adams might be sitting at the desk in...”
– Speechless: Dilbert Creator’s Struggle to Regain His Voice - Great article on Scott Adams’ struggle with spasmodic dysphonia. I’d read his posts on his
JK Wedding Entrance Dance →
hooping to Geggy Tah's Holly Oak Tree →
“He was here for only a few days with his girlfriend and new baby, and he was in...”
– Glen E. Friedman breaks the news that Paul “Baby Paul” Cullen has died - he was the youngest member of the original Zephyr skate team.
Cloth Diapering Goes High-Tech →
Wired takes a look at a few newish options to the (tries hard to avoid poop pun, fails) tried-and-poo cloth diapers.
WatchMy Influences
The Best Baby Stores in Toronto →
I’m thankful that Macklem’s is a few minutes away from our current place, but they don’t carry everything, so this list will undoubtedly get some extra attention.
Emmy Roundtable: Women of Comedy →
Support Details →
This looks supremely useful - a nicely designed site that spits back basic (but very useful) information on a user’s system, browser, and current setup.
Easier Theme Development with Sample WordPress... →
Handy sample content for WP installs to help test out templates, etc.
“We’re not focused on designing the news,” Vinh says. “With a design eye, we’re...”
– Black, White and Read Online: brand new (to me, at least) magazine The New York Review of Ideas spotlights NYTimes Design Director Khoi Vinh.
“MetaFilter is ten years old today.”
– A Whole Lotta Nothing: I get by with a little help from 94552 friends
WatchThe Fifty Four
BBC 3 Bullsh!t detectors exposes three mediums →
punypng - PNG Image Optimization and Compression →
Online service that crunches those PNGs. I haven’t tested it yet, but will give it a whirl soon.
WatchCode Rush, the documentary that covers the Mozilla team during the first release of the Mozilla browser ini 1998 is no longer under copyright. Read an interview with the director, David Winton, and (soon) download a ton of the unreleased footage.
adaptive path » downloads for designing the... →
Awesomesauce.
Final Builds Site - Internet Explorer Collection →
“Internet Explorer Collection contains multiple IE versions, which are standalone so they can be used at the same time. Conditional Comments work exactly the same as in the native versions. The…
WatchDon’t Make Me Scroll
“Like many others, I have recently gotten more and more immersed into the...”
– Infographics Galore, 11 STUNNING Examples of Design-Enhanced Data
“Many of the more macho coffee drinkers think that all decaffeinated coffee is...”
– In Defense of Decaf - The Atlantic Food Channel
I had no idea The Atlantic had a coffee blog.
“At lunch last weekend I overheard someone at another table say that when she...”
– Appreciating Coffee Like Wine - The Atlantic Food Channel
Reuters Handbook of Journalism →
“This handbook is not intended as a collection of ârulesâ. Beyond the obvious, such as the cardinal sin of plagiarism, the dishonesty of fabrication or the immorality of bribe-taking, journalism…
camen design · Video for Everybody! →
Awesome, JS-free solution for supporting the new <video> tag with fallback to Flash.
How Konigi is Built on Drupal | Konigi →
Add Drupal to the big “List of Stuff I Want To Learn If I Ever Figure Out How To Not Need Sleep”.
Modernizr →
:”Have you ever wanted to do if-statements in your CSS for the availability of cool features like border-radius? Well, with Modernizr you can accomplish just that!”
Search User Interfaces →
Read the entire book online for free.
“‘Rock Star’ is perhaps the most abused phrase in the history of job...”
– You Keep Using That Word. I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means (via 37signals)
