February 2010
16 posts
See the music →
bobulate:
Alex Stenweiss invented the album cover as we know it to create a new art form:
“I love music so much and I had such ambition that I was willing to go way beyond what the hell they paid me for. I wanted people to look at the artwork and hear the music.”
So:
In 1940, as Columbia Records’ young new art director, he pitched an idea: Why not replace the standard plain brown wrapper...
Tech Journalism Near Death as iPad Coverage Has...
nostrich:
CUPERTINO, CA — Experts expressed grave concern for the health of technology journalism this morning, one week after hundreds of tech blogs suffered extreme, adverse reactions to a routine Apple product launch. One witness commented, “they just couldn’t handle it. I don’t think some of these guys will ever recover.” A spokesperson for Engadget said that coverage of the iPad was...
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“Computer nerds got a sneak peek at a largely still world that has never made...”
– Frank Chimero has a blog.: The Attack of Momputing
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Things people try to log into
Yeah! What the hell?
mrgan:
Regarding this morning’s amazing occurrence where people who had googled for “facebook login” and got taken to a news story about Facebook then assumed that the news website was Facebook itself…
Flickr user jimwhimpey posted screenshot of login pages for Facebook and MySpace; this resulted in comments from users trying to log in to those websites using small...
I liked the old Facebook login better →
mrgan:
Please read marco’s post on a mindblowing web artifact:
(via Zoya)
Dear visitors from Google. This site is not Facebook. This is a website called ReadWriteWeb that reports on news about Facebook and other Internet services. To access Facebook right now, click here. For future reference, type “facebook.com” into your browser address bar or enter “facebook” into Google and click on the...
“Clearly, the way Apple approached the iPad was that of course the iPad was going...”
– Daring Fireball Linked List: Paul Thurrott, Warming to iPad
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About Ruby Quicktips
I launched a Ruby Quicktips site: http://rubyquicktips.tumblr.com/. Here is some introduction:
rubyquicktips:
I have collected some initial tips for this blog now and thought it would be time to write something about the blog itself. So, here we go…
Do you know these moments when you talk to fellow programmers, read a blog article or book and suddenly discover a neat, new trick you haven’t...
“CSS3 is where things are headed, and portions of it are here now. It’s not all...”
– Dan Cederholm, Up Late with CSS3, and Loving It! (via webkitbits)
All in all an informative article with opinions on web-standards, CSS, web browsers and more.
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20 Greatest Extended Takes In Movie History -... →
The extended take is, “an uninterrupted shot in a film which lasts much longer than the conventional editing pace either of the film itself or of films in general, usually lasting several minutes. It can be used for dramatic and narrative effect if done properly, and in moving shots is often accomplished through the use of a dolly or stedicam.”
The extended take is a cinematic...
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Oh Instapaper, how I love thou!
Unfortunately, it can’t do anything about the text itself… ;-)
January 2010
30 posts
“I’d be thrilled if the iPad edition of Instapaper sold one-tenth as many copies...”
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Marco.org - Loosely organized initial thoughts on the iPad
Great attitude! I think this is what makes great software.