July 2008
29 posts
WatchStudy Finds Young People Remain Apathetic About Office Politics
TumblePhone—iPhone-optimised interface for Tumblr... →
View your Tumblr site in pure iPhone goodness.
Amazon's Universal Wish List →
It is about time Amazon got around to this. Add a bookmark to your toolbar and then click on any product in any store to add it to your Amazon Wish List.
“I’d never thought I would say this, but I think it might in fact be time...”
– Johnathan Turley a constitutional law expert responding to a Red Cross report, finding our government guilty of war crimes.
Warp Speed Engine Designed →
I love it when Star Trek fantasy inspires reality. It is so interesting to see headlines that remind us, “That’s right, we do live in the future.”
Two Baylor University physicists have outlined how a faster-than-light engine (FTL), or warp drive, could be created that would bend but not break the laws of physics.
I’m sure its application is still eons away.
The...
Seattle approves 20¢ shopping bag fee →
Seattle City Council on Monday approved a 20-cent charge for consumers who want to bring home a disposable paper or plastic shopping bag from convenience, drug and grocery stores.
Not only are those little plastic bags useless—barely fitting two boxes of cereal without ripping—but they are not recyclable, clogging up the recycling machines. They are an awful invention that never improved on the...
emastic—A CSS Framework →
Another CSS Framework hits the streets. This time with the option of fixed AND fluid layouts. Nice!
WatchVery cool Gnarls Barkley video: “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul”
Watch“Amazing trick shots!” Woooooooow!!!
NY Times Debate on Literacy →
As teenagers’ scores on standardized reading tests have declined or stagnated, some argue that the hours spent prowling the Internet are the enemy of reading — diminishing literacy, wrecking attention spans and destroying a precious common culture that exists only through the reading of books.
Well crap! I had a terrible attention span before the Internet. What’s my excuse?
The Prisoner Miniseries Blog →
AMC, the network responsible for Mad Men, is creating a miniseries based on my favorite TV show of all time, The Prisoner.
This is exciting news for a long time fan of the show. I always believed that it was ideal content to be remade for a modern audience.
But I have to say I’m a little sad by the news as I always had an ambition to create a feature-length film version of the series....
iPhoneDevCamp Keynote Forum with Merlin Mann →
I will be on stage with Merlin Mann of 43 Folders and Mike Lee of Tapulous next week for the Keynote Forum at the iPhoneDevCamp in San Francisco, Saturday August 2.
The event will be video conferenced here at the Seattle iPhoneDevCamp, which I will be attending for a bit on Sunday morning.
WatchStar Wars: The Force Unleashed for iPhone
It’s a long demo and you can start seeing how the touch interface works about two minutes in.
It looks like it might get a bit tiring to hold and play and I would have liked to see use of the accelerometer to for certain actions. The gameplay looks like it might be based on the DS port with better graphics, and they just added stylus controls to...
iPhone Dev Camp →
iPhone Dev Camp 2 is coming August 2-3 at the Adobe office in San Francisco. Last year a lot of really cool projects came out of the weekend hack-a-thon. This year should be no different with people working on exciting new web apps and native apps.
As a special bonus this year Seattle mobile geeks will join the party at iPhone Dev Camp Seattle at the Adobe Seattle office the same weekend,...
The Watchmen Trailer →
Here is our first peek of The Watchmen!
Roomatic →
This past year I’ve been thinking that Twitter is increasing looking like IRC. Then Russ goes and builds Roomatic “a experiment to create a chatroom-like user interface on top of Twitter.”
Michael Arrington on Foo Camp 2008 →
I’m still writing up my impressions of the event, but Michael does a great job summarizing what the event is and what it is about.
Zoe Keating →
Had the chance to see Zoe Keating perform last night at Foo Camp… and I have to say I was amazed! She uses sampling technology to layer live tracks using only her cello to produce incredibly deep and powerful sounds.
Definitely check out her site, get a taste for her sound and buy her album from iTunes.
Mark Bittman on what's wrong with what we eat →
Excellent presentation by my favorite foodie, on how the food we eat isn’t just killing us, it is killing the planet.
(via Dave)
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Article: What's Next? →
As I’ve been preparing for Foo Camp I’ve been struggling to define what’s next for me? what excites me? and to a larger degree what is the future of the web?
The more I thought about it the more I got depressed, going from a hiccup in my “master plan” to a full blown professional, er… “crossroads.”
I’ve been struggling with writing this...
Opera Web Standards Curriculum →
Learning Web Standards just got easier. Opera’s new Web Standards Curriculum is a complete course to teach you standards-based web development, including HTML, CSS, design principles and background theory, and JavaScript basics.
Well done Chris and the folks at Opera!
Street View of the Tour de France →
One of the best parts of watching the Tour each July is seeing the incredible scenery of France. Google figured out a nice tie in with Street View allowing you to see France the way the peloton does.
“After a print job, or if/when you have a printer open in the dock, right click...”
– How to Close Print Queue in Leopard
WatchQuantum of Solace Trailer (in HD)
(via Garrett)