April 2009
15 posts
Hard Graft →
Purveyors of beautiful, handmade felt “technology cases”, for laptops and such. Shame they’re so expensive — ~£85 for a laptop sleeve shipped to the UK is a little steep.
WatchJames Jarvis and Richard Kenworthy’s beautiful video “Onwards” for Nike, featuring Manitoba’s Crayon. Make sure you watch it all.
Christmas Sweater Collection →
The greatest collection of lovely Christmas sweaters known to man. Admit it, you’re jealous.
Protovis →
“A visualization toolkit for JavaScript using the canvas element”, complete with some beautiful examples.
XHTML 2 vs. HTML 5 →
Mike Malone’s slightly old, but excellent, overview of XHTML 2 and HTML 5.
That Favorites Script →
Perl script to output an ordered list of favourite tweets, by username, for a given user.
Hide Any Program's Dock Icon →
A handy tip for hiding the Dock icon for any OSX application (*cough* Tweetie *cough*).
“The school of content management brought us such developments as portals,...”
– Gerry McGovern — You can’t automate everything.
Mousing Around →
A mouse “How To”, the Apple way.
The Last.fm Boffin →
A proof-of-concept application from Last.fm which builds a tag cloud for your local music from Last.fm’s own data. I rather like the effect when it’s processing too.
The Simpsons Stamps →
America’s first family have made it onto their own range of stamps.
Ghost in the Machine →
‘Portraits of musicians made out of recycled cassette tape with original cassette.’ The likes of Dylan, Bob Marley and Robert Smith are all brilliantly done.
iPhone Preview bookmarklet →
A simple but potentially handy little bookmarklet which opens the page you’re viewing in its own 320 x 480 window, for previewing iPhone layouts in Safari 4.
