I found the first search result for “IE7 inline-block” funny.
I like this Stack Overflow feature: when adding a comment to an answer or question, you have to type at least 15 characters.
This discourages users to write meaningless comments à la ‘Nice!’ or ‘Awesome!’ and probably makes them more often use the features that were made for this (like up- or down-voting).
I found this graffiti on a wall somewhere in Auckland, after walking home from a concert. This was one of those moments where I was very glad of having my small Canon Ixus camera with me.
The graffiti shows Marilyn Monroe (obviously) with a Moko - Māori for “Tattoo” - on her chin.
Validation (via hughnewman1024)
15 minutes, very well spent.
Retrieve a discarded water bottle. Tear off the label and fill with any water that’s not too murky from a creek, standpipe, or puddle. Place the bottle on a piece of metal in full sun. In six hours the UVA radiation will kill viruses, bacteria, and parasites in the water, making it safe to drink.
Clever.
(via NGM Blog Central - High Marks for Clean Water - National Geographic Magazine - NGM.com)
The brilliant Paul Irish built a CSS3 rule generating web app that he calls, “CSS3, Please!” Using automated vendor specific code, you can make
box-shadow,gradient,rgba, evenrotate, work in IE, Mozilla and WebKit.The great news is that this is merely version 1.0. Read his write-up on PaulIrish.com.
Very rarely, I need to create my own global settings inside my Rails apps. If you want these settings to be different for each environment (development, test, production), you can use a YAML file to do so.
As I always need to look up how that works, I finally created a Gist, so I can look it up more quickly.
Here it is:
Land of the Long White Cloud - Movie Trailer
The Maori name for ‘New Zealand’ is ‘Aotearoa’, which means ‘Land of the long white cloud’.
This trailer of a lovely documentary is about a fishing competition and its participators on the 90 Mile Beach at the top of New Zealand’s North Island.
You learn - amongst other things - that fishermen also follow the KISS principle. ;-)
On a mac, you can use Cmd-tilde (⌘~) to switch between the different open windows of an application.
The tilde is conveniently placed right above the Tab key (⇥). So this combination is very similar to the one used to sitch between apps (Cmd-Tab ⌘⇥).
I just found out about this. Woohoo!
(On the german keyboard layout, the default combination is ‘⌘<’, which is not as conveniently placed as on the english layout. You can change this in System Preferences -> Keyboard and Mouse. I changed it to ‘⌘^’ which is the equivalent of the english combination.)
But we take pride in our technologies. If I’m not striving for my guru ranking in a particular programming language or design style, then what really matters? I’ve hinted at it throughout the whole article, but let me make it painfully obvious.
People.
People matter. Not users, but people. A user is a faceless entity, robotically performing tasks that we test and optimize. A person lives, laughs, cries, loves, hates—and uses the sites and applications we make. My mom. Your five-year-old. His grandfather. Her best friend. Their science class. They don’t tell us how much they appreciate our progressive enhancement or how we use the drawing API or our impeccable use of attribute selectors. They only say that a website was confusing or hard to read or fun to play with. That’s the real motivation for excellence: bringing ease, joy, and fun to the people around us.
Scott Berkun: The cult of busy (via marco)
There is a lot more good stuff in this article. Go, and read the whole thing!
