September 2009
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The Dropbox Blog » Blog Archive » So is the... →
Oh hell yes.
Sep 29th
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Retrorocket Design: Migrating Textpattern Designs →
In which I post about dangerous MySQL tricks that I don’t fully understand!
Sep 28th
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Bigbird Redux
atebits: You might be wondering where I’ve been for the past four months. Counting my cash on a beach surrounded by bikini-clad women? Naah. Actually, I’ve been in my batcave slaving away on something really, really cool. It’s Tweetie 2. And it’s coming - first for iPhone, then for Mac. I’ve gone back to Twitterific since its 2.0 version was released, but Tweetie 2.0 sounds like...
Sep 28th
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Sep 27th
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Circulating Library: Harrison and Smythe's New... →
Part two.
Sep 27th
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Sep 27th
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Circulating Library: Harrison and Smythe Present... →
Featuring “Investigative Journalism Barbie” and “Melodramatic Barbie”
Sep 26th
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Sep 25th
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Sep 25th
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Sep 24th
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NetNewsWire? More like NetNewsOMGI'MGONNADIE →
zachholman: My favorite and most-used piece of Mac software, NetNewsWire, released a new version this week. NetNewsWire (whose parent company is NewsGator) is probably the finest RSS software on the planet, with best-of-class apps on each platform. [As I alluded in a tweet](http://twitter.com/holman/status/4310201305), this both excites me terribly and implants the fear of change in me....
Sep 24th
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“The problem for any greater transformation within a Left framework is that, as...”
– The Australian’s series on the left at Larvatus Prodeo Guy Rundle, writing for Crikey.
Sep 24th
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Sep 24th
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Bioshock Mac Version Release Date Announced →
I’m slightly miffed that there hadn’t been any news about this since the original announcement nearly a year ago. I’d assumed it’d been cancelled and bought the PC version. I think this is one of those times where more frequent updates might have helped expand the potential market.
Sep 24th
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John Siracusa on Mac File Metadata →
More interesting than it sounds. Via Daring Fireball.
Sep 24th
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Times Higher Education - Terence Kealey: a... →
Seriously, Terence, if you need to rope in your editor and a bunch of tendentious definitions to help explain your joke, chances are it wasn’t all that funny to begin with.
Sep 23rd
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A collection of photos from the Sydney Dust Storm →
Tom Coates’s gallery of Sydney Dust Storm photos he’s collected around Flickr. Extraordinary.
Sep 23rd
Should I use the Question & Answer feature?
Well, should I?
Sep 23rd
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Sep 22nd
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Circulating Library →
Credit where it’s due. A fine blog, in which my frequently disturbed conversational style sometimes makes a guest appearance.
Sep 22nd
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Catriona and I talk about the dust (via...
Catriona: I’m thinking I should probably ring to check that my parents aren’t buried under dust. But it would be only polite to wait until 9 am, yes?
Catriona: And if they are buried under dust, there’s probably not a great deal I can do about it from 1000 km away, so I may as well enjoy my coffee.
Nick: All a bit of a worry. Doesn’t bode well for the coming summer.
Catriona: You say that whatever happens! “I dropped the remote! Doesn’t bode well for the coming summer! Going to be a long hot summer!”
Nick: Hah! But I’m always right, aren’t I?
Catriona: Which suggests that it has nothing to do with your superstitious methods of prediction, but is just always a long, hot summer.
Nick: Hmm. I’m not so sure about that. I think I’m precognitive.
Catriona: And your precognition takes the form of being able to link the smallest event to the (inevitable) heat of summer, does it?
Catriona: I’ll just repeat that: you think you’re precognitive because you somehow manage to predict that summer—SUMMER—will be hot?
Nick: I knew before I posted that you wouldn’t find it all that convincing. #ESP_win
Sep 22nd
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Tumblr Theming Again
Tumblr’s just pulled out a bunch of improvements to the way it handles theme customisation. Relies a lot on HTML meta tags to supply default CSS rules that the inline CSS block can be called on to override. Not sure I like the mixing of styling and presentation that you have to do for a user-customisable theme. Natively parsing a separate CSS file with theme variables within that file...
Sep 22nd
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On TWiT 213
This Week in Tech is a light and breezy podcasted tech-news chat show hosted by the affable Leo Laporte. It’s not a demanding listen, though its emphasis on Silicon Valley celebrity insiderism and its roster of not-especially savvy tech journalist guests can make it a bit trying at times. It’s also far too laddish (erm, dweeb-macho might be a better term), with the rare female guest...
Sep 21st
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Sep 21st
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Sep 21st
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Synthtube →
“SynthTube is a site that collates and reviews the best Synthesizer-related videos from YouTube and around the web, and reviews them, with a specific focus on highlighting the gear and performers involved in their creation.” Nice.
Sep 21st
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Better Button and Nav Interactions | Darren Hoyt... →
I love buttons. There, I said it.
Sep 21st
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Sep 21st
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“This API needs to be dropped, dragged behind a shed and shot in the head.”
– Quirksmode Commenter “kl” on the HTML5 Drag-and-Drop API nightmare.
Sep 21st
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Sep 20th
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RubenMiller on the Letterhead Fonts makeover →
I love essays about the design process, but given the sheer complexity of the work under discussion, I could have done with something more … book-length. Incredible technique.
Sep 20th
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“But is this explosion of prose good, on a technical level? Yes. Lunsford’s...”
– Clive Thompson on the New Literacy via Marco.org.
Sep 20th
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Sep 20th
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Putting Notes into the theme
My next step with this redesign is to add Tumblr “notes”, which are a list of who’s reblogged or “liked” an individual post. Unfortunately the documentation for this feature is a little sparse. And badly copyedited: “Rendered on permalink pages this post has notes”. Sigh. The slick Notes functionality on sites like this is what I’m after but...
Sep 19th
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Sep 19th
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“JESSICUH We are in great need of Draino. I tire of clogged showahs. Can you...”
– True Blood Finale - WTF Did I Just Watch? - True Blood - io9 IO9’s True Blood recapper continues to amuse, again imagining fusty, slightly passive aggressive notes from Vampire Bill.
Sep 19th
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Redesigning
Lots of stuff breaking right now. Wishing there was a better off-line design solution for Tumblr! Update Redesign seems to be going well now.
Sep 19th
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Volpin Props: Big Daddy (Bioshock) →
Via BoingBoing. Fantastic prop build.
Sep 19th
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(reblog) Classy
Ouch. I’d assumed Posterous had sought permission from Tumblr to use their theme language. Clearly not. I was impressed when I heard the news about Tumblr theme integration as it seemed like it could be a win for both companies as well as designers who wouldn’t need to learn a whole new template syntax. jeffrock: Posterous announced their new Theming feature yesterday, which would...
Sep 18th
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Sep 18th
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I edited Dan Brown’s writing, slowly - The Globe... →
Via Kottke. I know today’s Talk Like A Pirate Day, but can it also be Kick Dan Brown in the Arse Day?
Sep 18th
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Sep 18th
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3D Sketching Interface
 I want that right now. Posted via email from Rocketpilot’s secondary control room | Comment »
Sep 17th
Sep 17th
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Science Fiction Special in New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/special/sci-fi-the-fiction-of-now Guest-edited by Kim Stanley Robinson and featuring a cast of Brit-SF luminaries such as Ken Macleod. Posted via email from Rocketpilot’s secondary control room | Comment »
Sep 16th
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Sep 10th
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Sep 10th