April 2010
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“We really need a word for the type of character whose smug gloating is there...”
– jblum: Doctor Who 5x01 — The Eleventh Hour a typically thoughtful aside from Jon Blum’s review of “The Eleventh Hour”. The blowfish man from the pre-credits sequence in the season two opener of Torchwood is another example.
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ImageAlpha — GUI for PNG8+alpha image converters →
Found after reading a comments thread on Mezzoblue, on a topic dear to my heart.
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Where Microsoft beats Apple →
Joe Clark gives Apple a well-earned serve over its lack of leadership in computer typography. (via Zeldman)
(edit to fix typo)
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“[T]he Desire is undoubtedly an iPhone killer, even if it doesn’t end up...”
– HTC Desire review: I somehow think we’re setting a very low bar for the term “iPhone Killer”.
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atebits: An Amazing Ride →
Once upon a time I wanted a better Twitter app for my iPhone, so I wrote one. My goal was to make something simple, beautiful, and intuitive. It’s been a wild ride since 1.0, and over the last year and a half Tweetie has gone from a no-name app from a little known software company to an app hailed…
Tweetie 2 for Mac: Dead like a badly rehashed Monty Python sketch or just resting?
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MX: The "X" Stands for Execrable
MX is a free street newspaper published here in Brisbane, Australia. I don’t normally pick it up; it’s a bit of a cheap-and-nasty, and the street vendors are unpleasantly pushy. But I found a copy on an unoccupied seat on my bus this afternoon, so I thought I’d have a flick through it.
And here’s what I found in the “MX Gloss & Glam (edited by Jane...
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“Apple is selling the idea of less is more. I also think that this is what...”
– Commenter “kaffeen”, on the BoingBoing discussion thread for Cory Doctorow’s post, Why I won’t buy an iPad. I invite contemplation.
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“Well, that’s what happens when you introduce Robin Williams into an...”
– Robin Williams angers Australia. Australia angers Alabama: Onion AV Club commenters rule.
March 2010
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Into The Abyss: Teal and Orange - Hollywood,... →
Interesting post about the current fad of digitally grading film with a teal-orange colour palette. It makes skin tones pop against a strongly contrasting background, but also makes everyone look like they’ve drowned in fake tan.
I’m, embarrassingly, a total sucker for fake chrome effects using a similar colour palette, which I suspect is the reason it’s never hugely bothered...