December 2009
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I.D. Magazine 1954-2009
I.D. Magazine has decided to shutter after 55 years in publication.
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“Well, I didn’t know it was hard.”
– Ivan Sutherland, when asked, “How could you possibly have done the first interactive graphics program, the first non-procedural programming language, the first object oriented software system, all in one year?”
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IGN Rebrand & Redesign
Gaming & entertainment juggernaut IGN has rolled out new branding by Attik and a new internal site design for both public and corporate faces.
And of course, an introductory video chock full of cheese and internet cliches:
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namebench will benchmark and report the fastest public DNS servers for your connection. google’s new public DNS was on the low end for me, surprisingly.
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Design Matters
The internet streaming show, Design Matters is shooting a pilot at the School of Visual Arts, this Friday. Hosted by Debbie Millman, the inaugural interviewees will be Stefan Sagmeister and Milton Glaser! There will be two seatings and attendance is open to the public, details at Facebook.
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“You can lend to one friend. One time. You can’t pick two friends, not even...”
– Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos’s ironic comment on B&N’s Nook reader
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Better Update Your URL-Matching RegExp
the Tonga (.to) registry decided to add an A record for the whole TLD. as in http://to./, which appears to be a soon to be public URL shortener. the period at the end is actually meaningless, but it stops the browser from automatically adding .com to the URL. this makes Tonga provider of the shortest (and silliest) URL shortener around, so expect to see this everywhere as soon as it’s...
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jQuery 1.4a1 Released
the jQuery team have released 1.4a1, with a whole bunch of serious optimisations for speed/resource usage.
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Syntax Highlighting in tumblr
i wanted code i posted here to have syntax highlighting, and my favourite javascript library for doing such a thing happens to be SyntaxHighlighter - however, i work with several different languages and including every single brush script i might need seemed like a waste of bandwidth and HTTP connections. so, using jQuery, i’ll discover what brush scripts i need for the posts displayed and...
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NASA releases largest image ever of the Milky Way gallaxy
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USB outlet, $9.95 from FastMac
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LastPass updated their web site. looks more like a reputable company now and less like a couple guys in their basement. i’ve been using their service for a few months now, it’s quite excellent.
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Beginning a Tumblr adventure
i needed a place to dump code, design, and misc other crap without reinventing the wheel - so here we go, tumblr, don’t let me down!