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In the Markdown Mark repository on Github, I included 12 PNG images of the mark at different specific sizes. Several people asked me why I had done this instead of including a vector graphic, and the…
Consistency in Interactive Design - Skookum Digital Works
My name’s Rich Robinson, I am the Interaction Designer here at Skookum. I make all the super fancy coding look pretty and if, after today, you still want to hear more of my boring drivel, you…
Beastie Boys' Album Sales Surge 1,235%, 'Licensed to Ill' Returns to Top 20 | Billboard.biz
Beastie Boys' Album Sales Surge 1,235%, 'Licensed to Ill' Returns to Top 20 May 09, 2012 | By Keith Caulfield (@keith_caulfield), Los Angeles The first rap album…
Afterword: Adam Yauch | Features | Pitchfork
Photo by Ari Marcopoulos There are two kinds of pop stars I admire: those that seem larger than life and completely out of reach-- your Prince, Michael Jackson, Madonna types-- and those that…
Tom Gabel of Against Me Comes Out as Transgender | Music News | Rolling Stone
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Lugar's parting words: Part defense, part warning - CNN.com
Lugar: My service isn't concluded Indianapolis (CNN) -- As soon as 36-year Senate veteran Richard Lugar finished his concession speech Tuesday, he walked off the stage, out the back door and into his…
R.I.P. Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys (1964-2012) | Music | Newswire | The A.V. Club
More sad news from the music world: Russell Simmons' GlobalGrind has announced (and Rolling Stone has confirmed) that Adam "MCA" Yauch, one-third of the pioneering and remarkably indomitable hip-hop…
'Hobbit': Peter Jackson responds to complaints about footage | Inside Movies | EW.com
Image Credit: Todd Oren/Getty Images; James Fisher Peter Jackson says the negative reaction this week over new technology he’s using to shoot The Hobbit won’t hold him back, and he…
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How Samuel L. Jackson Became His Own Genre - NYTimes.com
Before “The Mountaintop” opened on Broadway last fall, there were rumors that this fictional account of Martin Luther King Jr.’s last night before his assassination would present him as a flawed man,…
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A Computer Scientist in a Business School: The Google attack: How I attacked myself using Google Spreadsheets and I ramped up a $1000 bandwidth bill
It all started with an email. From: Amazon Web Services LLC Subject: Review of your AWS Account Estimated Month to Date Billing Charges of $720.85 Greetings from AWS, During a routine review of your…
PHP: a fractal of bad design - fuzzy notepad
Preface I’m cranky. I complain about a lot of things. There’s a lot in the world of technology I don’t like, and that’s really to be expected—programming is a…
The Jig Is Up: Time to Get Past Facebook and Invent a New Future - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
After five years pursuing the social-local-mobile dream, we need a fresh paradigm for technology startups. Finnish teenagers performing digital ennui in 1996 2006. Reuters. We're there. The future…
Kurt Cobain Is Kind of the Star of Clint Eastwood's 'A Star Is Born' | SPIN
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Photoshop Actions to fix the banding of Photoshop's gradients.
Simply select the action and press play. Your document will be converted into a 16-bit document and a new layer applied to the top of your group/document fixing all the banding in that document.…
Paper: the next great iPad app from the brains behind Courier | The Verge
Is this the drawing app you've been waiting for? Previous Story LG begins mass production of flexible e-paper display George Petschnigg throws his hands into the air as he traces thousands of years…
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wtfjs - a little code blog about that language we love despite giving us so much to hate
This installment of wtfjs has to do with the Abstract Equality Comparison Algorithm (as most do), Array's constructor, and expressions. Let's take the following example: new Array([], null,undefined,…
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It’s been some time that we wanted to say those words: Sparrow iPhone is now available on the App Store. Like on the Mac, our goal is to offer you a pleasurable yet more efficient way to deal…
I’m not a “curator” – Marco.org
Curator’s Code is an attempt to codify and standardize “via” links and attribution from link blogs and aggregators with two new symbols: ᔥ means “via” ↬…
Dropbox revamps website, adds photo viewer, indexed search, keyboard shortcuts | The Verge
Dropbox just rolled out a big facelift to its web client that adds an indexed search box that fetches results while you type, picture thumbnails, drag and drop, keyboard shortcuts for selecting…
Pixel Union | Premium Themes
Buzz Andersen is what we in the design world call “a total badass.” After co-creating the hugely successful Birdfeed Twitter client, and working on both OS X and Soundtrack Pro…
Mo Willems’ meditation on death. - Slate Magazine
From Harry’s willing martyrdom in the seventh Harry Potter novel to the snuff-film ruthlessness of the Hunger Games series to the existential bleakness of Toy Story 3,
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Face. 5 Years.—Celebrating our 5th Anniversary of supermodernist design. Pocketmag.—Identity re-design, editorial design and system, and web design and development for a mexican…
» She Said Yes! Jered McFerron
February 29, 2012 at 8:32 pm In 2003 I rewrote Metroid, from scratch, for the PC. You can download that here. It’s written entirely in C++ with no emulation of the original ROM. I…
Lytro review | The Verge
You've never seen a camera like this before There are a few easy ways to make a digital camera better: make the sensor bigger, improve the quality of the lens, speed up the processor. But those are…
Nike Unveils Its Big New Paradigm: Shoes Knit Like Socks | Co.Design: business + innovation + design
When most of us think about what we want in a shoe, a sock probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. Sure it has comfort, but what about stability? And how about some support? Nike…
Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Introducing the HUD. Say hello to the future of the menu.
The desktop remains central to our everyday work and play, despite all the excitement around tablets, TV’s and phones. So it’s exciting for us to innovate in the desktop too, especially…
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A collection of screenshots encompassing some of the best looking Android apps, and / or apps with interesting user interfaces, hopefully providing some inspiration or insight into Android UI…
Out of Sight, Top of Mind | Inc.com
How to keep a business on track when its top performers are scattered across the map. Laurent Cilluffo Jason Fried is the co-founder and president of 37signals. Caldwell, Idah
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Everything was made.Each invention shows that the world is malleable, from the simplest stone tool to the screen you're using to read this. We make what we want, break things in the process, collect…
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By changing the way it uses its media platforms, SPIN changed its strategy for how it presents music journalism. News, reviews, and playlists would be more relevant online, and long form essays with…
Shepard Fairey and Kenny Scharf Headed for "The Simpsons" - Bowery Boogie
Somehow The Simpsons is still on the air, not having aged at all. Our days of watching the show every Sunday evening are pretty much over, though. Nevertheless, the seminal Matt Groening animated…
Apple - OS X Mountain Lion. Innovation comes back to the Mac.
OS X Mountain Lion arrives this summer. With all-new features inspired by iPad, the Mac just keeps getting better and better.
A Conversation with Gabriel Ricioppo of Need Supply Co. | Hypebeast
Situated within the Carytown district of Richmond, Virginia, Need Supply Co. has long been a mainstay to the local retail and fashion scene since its inception in 1996. Having recently celebrated…
Damon Albarn Talks 2012 Plans | News | Pitchfork
By Ryan Dombal on February 14, 2012 at 03:33 p.m. Photo by Jonny Donovan Damon Albarn has been one of pop's great multi-taskers for years, but 2012 is shaping up to be an especially headline-heavy…
The Talented Mr. Avett - Revue - February 2012 - Charlotte, NC
Turns out, musician Scott Avett is a visual artist, too By Page Leggett Courtesy, The Educational Center Concord native Scott Avett is well known for being an award-winning musician…
Elevation Dock: The Best Dock For iPhone by Casey Hopkins — Kickstarter
Hi! Thanks for stopping by and checking out our project! With your support this product can become a reality. If you have tried using docks for your iPhone, you have probably felt our frustration:…
Colin Farrell in 'Seven Psychopaths' | Inside Movies | EW.com
Photo: Chuck Zlotnick Do all raging tyrants have an adorable, cuddly, little thing they treasure? “I know I do!” says writer-director Martin McDonagh, the twisted mind behind the 2009…
BBC News - Fake rhino attempts zoo escape
Help A zoo in Tokyo has been simulating a rhino escape to prepare staff for a possible emergency. Two employees wore a life-size rhino costume and tried to escape the compound before being hit with…
Inside Instagram: How Slowing Its Roll Put the Little Startup in the Fast Lane
The must-have app on the iPhone is not iMessage. It's not iTunes or Safari or even Find My iPhone. It's Instagram, the photo-sharing app that once described itself as "quirky." Cultish would be more…
Not Just Coffee celebrates one year of business | The QC Life
Friends, family, and loyal customers gathered Friday night to celebrate the one year anniversary of Charlotte’s Not Just Coffee. Originally located at Area Fifteen near NoDa, Not Just Coffee…
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What Should Liam Neeson Punch Next? : Monkey See : NPR
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Big Spaceship : Corpsify Revived in HTML5
January 24th, 2012 This week marks the triumphant return of Corpsify, a collaborative art project inspired by a collective drawing method known as ‘exquisite corpse.’ Formerly a Flash…
Say Hello to the New Vimeo on Vimeo Staff Blog
Today is a big day — one of the biggest in the short-ish history of our small-ish company. For the past year (37 years in Internet time), we’ve been working nonstop on a project that…
Famous Photographers Pose With Their Iconic Images - DesignTAXI.com
Steve McCurry San Diego-based photographer Tim Mataoni has sought to show us the people behind iconic photographs by taking portraits of them with their famous works. Mantoani’s book titled…
Swizz Beats is the CEO of Megaupload – FACT magazine: music and art
Swizz Beats is the CEO of Megaupload So who saw this coming? It turns out that the CEO of file-sharing site Megaupload (no need to play dumb, we’ve all used it) is none other than Kasseem…
KeepTheWebOpen.com
The OPEN Act secures two fundamental principles. First, Americans have a right benefit from what they've created. And second, Americans have a right to an open internet. Our duty is to protect these…
Internet 2011 in numbers | Royal Pingdom
Internet 2011 in numbers Posted in Main on January 17th, 2012 by Pingdom So what happened with the Internet in 2011? How many email accounts were there in the world in 2011? How many websites? How…
The Dangerous Effects of Reading | Certain Extent
I am working out of a massive office building in one of those little commercial compounds this week. The entire area has all sorts of nice things – a paper-printing shop, coffee, sushi,…
Learn You a Flexbox for Great Good! | The Haystack.
So you want to learn Flexbox? Perhaps you’ve heard about it. Perhaps you’ve read a tutorial or two about it. Perhaps you’ve even played around with it already. If you’ve…
Google's Kenyan ripoff - Boing Boing
Mocality is an African startup that has a Kenya-wide business directory. There is no Kenyan yellow pages, so the directory was crowdsourced, paying thousands of Kenyans to help create and validate…
Jon Heder on Napoleon Dynamite, Avoiding Raunchy Roles, and Fellow Mormon Mitt Romney -- Vulture
Jon Heder. It’s been seven years between the movie Napoleon Dynamite and FOX’s new animated series Napoleon Dynamite, and the original movie isn’t even streaming on Netflix…
Retail: Richmond, Regional 'Local + Global' Partnership - Apolis
View All | View Film Photo by Need Supply Co. By Raan & Shea Parton, Chris Bossola, Gabriel Ricioppo We are proud to introduce the Apolis + Need Supply Co. Richmond Market Bag exclusive
Velvet Underground Sue Andy Warhol Foundation For Copyright Infringement | Music News | Rolling Stone
January 11, 2012 4:15 PM ET The Velvet Underground & Nico Verve Records
Nintendo Wii U video walkthrough: Chase Mii, Battle Mii, the Zelda HD experience, and more! | The Verge
For the less gaming-focused tech enthusiasts that missed the E3 2011 debut, Nintendo has brought its Wii U hardware to CES this year. It's the exact same demo we saw back in June, albeit as two…
Visual Idiot · Photoshop Simulator
The following is a realistic Photoshop simulator, written by myself in HTML 5, CSS3, and jQuery/Javascript. Browser support is untested in everything except Google Chrome (I didn't have time to wait…
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Feb 9 2012 Zeus Ready Busting Visions Zeus will release their sophomore album, Busting Visions, on March 27th through Arts & Crafts. The record reportedly "[oozes] cool, with fuzzed-out…
Digital Music News - It's Official: Vinyl Sales Up 39 Percent In 2011...
BigChampagne's Biggest Movers (a/o December 19th): Biggest-Moving Songs (Movement): RE-ENTRY Taylor Swift, "Ours" RE-ENTRY Skrillex, "First Of The Year…
Virtualizing storage for scale, resiliency, and efficiency - Building Windows 8 - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
Virtualizing storage for scale, resiliency, and efficiency Steven Sinofsky In this post, we are…
GQ's Best Albums of the Year 2011: Music: GQ
Action Bronson, Dr. LecterWhere to Listen: In a broken-down Toyota Tercel while scarfing down a plate of lobsters on the barbeque. Queens, New York's hefty, hearty Action Bronson is a throwback rap…
14 Of The Year's Best Ideas In Interface Design | Co.Design
Nowadays, our gadgets meld seamlessly into our lives straight out of the box. Once charged up, we can make sense of them after a few minutes of exploratory button-pushing. The horror of VCR…
FontShop Newsletter | December 21, 2011
FontShop's Best Typefaces of 2011 Another year has whizzed by! While last year saw the real breakthrough for webfonts, this year we witnessed the introduction of mobile fonts and the promise of more…
Switching from GoDaddy to DNSimple - Blog Articles - LessEverything
We've been using godaddy.com to manage our domain names and serverbeach.com (where we lease servers) to manage our DNS. A good friend of mine Anthony Eden created an app call DNSimple.com which…
Lookwork: Library
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Domo Arigato, Mr Roboto - Boing Boing
“I can’t wake up one morning and say, ‘Screw the letter B,’” type designer Matthew Carter told me last year when I interviewed him for the Economist, just after he had…
How to PR Like a Pro: A Guide to Getting Media Attention – Shopify
I've written about garnering media attention for your business before, but I keep getting requests to delve a little deeper into the topic. So here you go, this will teach you exactly how…
Colbert Offers $500K for GOP Primary - The Daily Beast
Beware comedians bearing gifts. Steven Colbert has offered to give the South Carolina GOP the $500,000 it needs to hold the state's primary, but he wants naming rights to the race. “We would…
'Dragon Tattoo' Director David Fincher On What's Next - MTV Movie News| MTV
If you've somehow missed the cultural phenomenon that is Stieg Larsson's massively successful Millenium trilogy, it might be time to give in and see what all the fuss is about. MTV has already named…
Interviews: ?uestlove | Features | Pitchfork
The Roots are an album band, and they've always taken full advantage of the depth that goes along with the LP format. But while many of their records have common threads running through them, their…
Meet SOPA author Lamar Smith, Hollywood's favorite Republican | Privacy Inc. - CNET News
When large content holders want to rewrite copyright law, or enact legislation like the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, they give House Judiciary chairman Lamar Smith a call. Rep. Lamar Smith,…
Nintendo's Miyamoto Stepping Down, Working on Smaller Games | Game|Life | Wired.com
Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — The creator of Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda will step down from his current position at Nintendo but remain with the company to…
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?uestlove Talks Michele Bachmann Fiasco, New D'Angelo Album | News | Pitchfork
During their tenure as house band for "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon", the Roots-- led by drummer and musical mastermind Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson-- have taken many opportunities to poke fun or pay…
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Bottled Water Drinkers Are The New Smokers : TreeHugger
A year ago we quoted Giles Coren of the London Times writing "Mineral water is a preposterous vanity." This modest and self-effacing food critic now takes credit for the government taking action…
Stop SOPA Campaign Update - ColeVsCode
This weekend SendWrite completed mailing over 3000 letters to senators and representatives. As we speak those letters, the voices of thousands of internet advocates, are en-route to Washington. The…
All Aboard New York City’s Geek Train | Epicenter | Wired.com
There is now Wi-Fi access on the New York City subway. Well, only on the “L” train. Okay, just the last two cars of the L train, on a portion of the line, from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Only for…
Announcing jQuery Mobile 1.0 | jQuery Mobile
That’s right, version 1.0 is out! After more than a year of refinements, we now have a rock solid release. When we first launched this site back in the summer of 2010, we had a few concept…
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Nov 16, 2011 CHARGES I'm a big fan of Apollo Up! and still, somewhat, lament their demise. They really were an incredibly good band with a catalog that still appeals to my ears. So, when I saw that…
Microsoft Socl: inside the company's secret social network (exclusive) | The Verge
Earlier this summer, a teaser page appeared at Socl.com revealing Tulalip, an oddly named service from Microsoft promising a new way to "Find what you need and Share what you know." Facebook and…
The End of Cheap Coffee: Why the Diner Staple Is About to Become a Luxury - Food - GOOD
On a rainy Wednesday afternoon in Venice, California, Dan Kougan spreads out three shot glasses in front of a curious audience. The champagne-colored liquid bubbling on the left is a homemade hops…
Internet giants place full-page anti-SOPA ad in NYT - Boing Boing
By Cory Doctorow at 6:13 am Wednesday, Nov 16 Congress may not want to hear from opponents of the Stop Online Piracy Act at today's hearing, but that hasn't stopped a broad coalition of (often…