Link archive: August, 2008

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Sunday, August 31st, 2008

What reading Tufte won’t teach you: Interface design guidelines - glyphobet • ???????? • ????????

A good list of interface guidelines based on real world experience with a mobile phone, an music player and an operating system.

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

JavaScript Rock Star

Guitar done with YouTube and JavaScript. John Resig is nuts, nuts I tell ya!

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Microsoft breaks IE8 interoperability promise | The Register

Håkon is not happy with the default settings in IE8. Deep in the preferences, "Display intranet sites in Compatibility View" is checked.

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

GUIMagnets - Prototyping made sticky

Interface elements as fridge magnets. Make prototyping fun!

2081 - Everyone Will Finally Be Equal

The classic Kurt Vonnegut short story Harrison Bergeron has been turned into a film. I hope it doesn't suck.

Monday, August 25th, 2008

iphone login screens - a set on Flickr

Screenshots of various log in screens on the iPhone. I think Cindy has been hanging out with Luke W.

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Ma.gnolia.org

Magnolia's going Open Source. Soon you'll be able to host and run your own instance of the social bookmarking service.

"GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) -- In a small nondescript office on West Friendly Ave., a group of designers produces tiny artistic masterpieces that millions of people interact with every day." Nice TV news video clip showing our heroes and their beauti…

hCard Wizard [Matthew Levine]

Words cannot describe how brilliant this is. In response to a whinging Twitter post I made, Matthew Levine created a bookmarklet to quickly and easily create simple hCards for easy adding to blog posts. It works beautifully.

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

In face of exorbitant fees, Pandora may have to pull the plug - MacUser

The muisc "industry" is clearly populated by asshats who actively enjoy displaying their incompetence and malice.

Web Directions: East 08

I'm going to Japan in November to talk about Ajax. I am very excited about this.

An Event Apart: San Francisco [Day 2]...live blogging

Wesley Hodgson liveblogged the talk I just gave at An Event Apart San Francisco — Patterns in the process.

Judge Backs Fox on Rights to Superhero Movie - NYTimes.com

I hope this doesn't pan out: "The dark heroes of Warner Brothers’ “Watchmen,” set for release next March, have a new problem on their hands: A federal judge has ruled that they may belong to 20th Century Fox."

Monday, August 18th, 2008

An Event Apart 2008 | The Web Life | ZDNet.com

Follow the fun at An Event Apart San Francisco thanks to the diligent liveblogging of Andrew Mager. The man's a machine!

CSS for lunch » Mastering the presentation layer of the web… at lunch time.

Here's a great project from Andrew Mager. He takes a little time out at lunch to post a small markup or CSS tip. Over time this builds up into a really valuable resource.

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

Sushi & Robots

Jina's new site is live and quite lovely it is too.

Death Star over San Francisco // Current

Handheld footage from Imperial Fleet Week in San Francisco.

Friday, August 15th, 2008

The Paragraph in Web Typography & Design — Jon Tan ?

A wonderfully informative and useful look at paragraphs styles ...in history and in CSS.

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Little Gordon – from Caterer.com

He's not big and he's not clever but Little Gordon is f*cking funny.

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

10^0, 10^1, 10^2 predictions

Brian and Josh are organising a Long Bet style gathering for the day before dConstruct. To participate, choose a timescale and enter your prediction. What an excellent way to kick-start some discussion.

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

Who Framed George Lakoff? - ChronicleReview.com

A detailed look at the troubled history of George Lakoff, the father of conceptual metaphor.

THE ORWELL PRIZE

In a similar treatment to the Pepys blog, the diary of George Orwell is being republished as a blog offset by 70 years.

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

Hueniverse: Beginner’s Guide to Discovery – Part II: People vs. Machines

A great explanation of how open technologies like microformats and OpenID enable greater discovery of data.

Facebook Security Advice: Never Ever Enter Your Passwords On Another Site, Unless We Ask You To

I never thought I'd find myself linking to and agreeing with a post on TechC*nt but it's good to see somebody pointing out Facebook's hypocrisy with using the password anti-pattern.

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Virtual Worlds

An interactive, collaborative timeline of the history and development of virtual worlds, open for anyone to edit.

Hide and Seek Sandpit » Events

There will be an evening games in the foyer of the Clearleft office building on Thursday, August 21st.

Call for Review: Updated WAI-ARIA Specification from Shawn Henry on 2008-08-06 (w3c-wai-ig@w3.org from July to September 2008)

Shawn at the W3C wants feedback on the ARIA working draft, particularly "feedback on host language embedding, that is, how ARIA is implemented in HTML, XHTML, SVG, and other host languages." If you don't chime in now, don't bitch later.