May 2009
75 posts
hobox just stole 20 minutes, but I made this!
“The reality is that the browser vendors have the ultimate veto on everything in...”
– Ian Hickson, Editor of the HTML 5 Specification via Gruber
invisible interfaces
clarke is awesome, it lives in your menubar and silently updates your position on fire eagle. See I quite like fire eagle but I dislike actually telling it where I am, clarke now does this for me at regular invisible intervals and I can use interesting fire eagle apps without doing anything
it makes me think about other invisible interfaces: like the one where you remove your headphones from your...
Maxïmo Park - I Haven’t Seen Her In Ages
Read something interesting lately?
I’m trying to fill up my Instapaper with interesting articles about things I don’t know much about, so if you’ve read something interesting on the internet then please share a link in the answers.
Thank you muchly
Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream
So, you're in love with one of your friends, but... →
kapi:
This. is. brilliant.
Watchadvancedbeauty a collection of sound sculptures, audio-reactive visual pieces further exploring the related themes of synesthesia.
Wish I could spend all my time making things like this.
Watchlights on
“lights on is an audio visual performance created for the Ars Electronica museum in Linz, Austria, which has a facade that contains 1085 LED controllable windows. The windows’ colors are changed in realtime with music that’s broadcasted on speakers surrounding the building. “
LCD Soundsystem - Losing my edge
‘I’m...
“The secret to building half a product instead of a half-ass product is saying...”
– Start With No (by 37signals)
“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits...”
– F. Matthias Alexander (via tlvx)
“You can only work for people you like”
– Milton Glaser
Nouvelle Vague - I Melt With You
Perfect for a...
Directory
nostrich:
The directory is being touted as a way to find blogs that are “gaining momentum”. But how does listing the most popular 7 blogs in a particular category help anyone except the popular people? Sure, you can click “more” and get a full list, but it’s still weighted so that the popular people are at the top. And anyone that’s been on the web for a while knows that a) most people won’t...
Watchswimming in Ubik’s low-bit pixel pool
how to remove adobe pdf viewer from Safari
This is the one that’s takes 20 seconds to start on a modern mac and will probably cause Safari to bail at a critical moment.
Head into /Library/Internet Plugins/ drag AdobePDFViewer into trash then restart safari.
Regular speedy PDF viewing is restored!
“Having a though once is what the mind is for; having the same thought twice, in...”
– David Allen - How to be creative amit chaos
“Talking about your work does not directly improve the actual quality of your...”
– Jack Schulze
