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Silly, overproduced, over-expensive video to pep up the Microsoft sales team for managing to get their heads around the sheer number of SKUs for Vista. This is what Big Companies think is a valuable use of money
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“…the fact that Flickr has users who are passionate and articulate about what they love about the site is an asset. It’s also potentially a headache.” A great piece by Tom Ewing on debates about brand values with an engaged audience.
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“Over the Air presentation by Tom Hume and Bryan Rieger of Future Platforms about the PrimeSky project they did for the Royal Observatory at Greewich.” Lots of well-executed ideas piece together impressively. A good example of how to think this way.
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Some great points here, especially 1, 2, and 3, which apply equally to many forms of design.
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“A JavaScript and regular expression centric blog” – worth it for the title alone.
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“A term in landscape architecture used to describe a path that isn’t designed but rather is worn casually away by people finding the shortest distance between two points.”
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Some great talks here, and fantastic video – high quality, and slides throughout. Impressive conference, and great to be able to download it.
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Disney are shutting down VMK despite its continued success and large userbase; as a “promotion”, it’s run its course. Some of the comments are very affecting. Lessons to be learned about the implicit contracts you create when you build worlds.
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Yahoo expand their Exceptional Performance best practice; there are some interesting new tricks in here that might seem counterintuitive, but you can actually implement “right” if you think about it. Great that somebody (else) cares about this stuff.
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“Here are all the recordings from Webstock 08 and Webstock06.” Comprehensive, and from the looks of things, nice high-quality formats.
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“UFO: Alien Invasion”, an open-source clone of the X-Com/UFO games, now has an OSX port available. That requires trying out, then.
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“FixtureReplacement is a Rails plugin that provides a simple way to quickly populate your test database with model objects without having to manage multiple, brittle fixture files.” Looks very handy indeed.
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“With money, it seems, it is not familiarity, but unfamiliarity that breeds contempt.” People are less good at estimating the value of unfamiliar currency, no matter what it says on it.
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Collaborative mapping and annotation of skateboarding spots. Nifty – and I quite like the Ferro-esque type everywhere.
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“I thought, why not build a relational database in HTML? So I did. I even got inner joins working.” This is insane. Great, but insane.
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“Rubular is a Ruby-based regular expression parser. It’s a handy way to test regular expressions as you write them.”
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Forty+ years of Sports Illustrated, all under one roof online, and free. Worth it for the photography alone, even if you’re not a sportsfan.
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“…the same topic kept coming up, over and over… you can think of it as an amalgamation of crowd theory, human terrain mapping, and social simulation. It is the science of groups; it is a new kind of quantitative political science.”
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“For now, I’m back doing the stuff I love: coding some web projects, and designing text again after far too long.” Dean Allen is back, and it’s lovely to have him. Wishing you the best, Dean.
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“It looks like Nick Kallen’s wildly popular has_finder plugin will be making its way into Rails 2.x in the form of named_scope” This is excellent news.
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“The tone of the opinions reminded me of the Daily Mail attitude to social networking sites. The resonances were so strong that I decided to conduct a quick experiment…” Eerily accurate text-substitution fun from Jeremy.
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If you’re using Lightroom to manage your photos, you are probably serious about your photographs. […] if you are indeed serious, then practicing good color management is essential.