May 2010
Full contact crokinole with @leerichmond http://ping.fm/Gc20P
Hollywood hellraiser Dennis Hopper dead at 74 →
Hollywood actor Dennis Hopper, best known for directing and starring in the 1969 cult classic “Easy Rider,” died on Saturday at his home in Venice, California, from complications of prostate cancer.
Hollywood hellraiser Dennis Hopper dead at 74... →
Hollywood actor Dennis Hopper, best known for directing and starring in the 1969 cult classic “Easy Rider,” died on Saturday at his home in Venice, California, from complications of prostate cancer.
The OCAD 2010 grad show →
No one does a design review like Joe Clark, and in Canada, no one (else) does reviews of grad shows
Performance of conditional comments →
Seems like using IE’s conditional comments might slow page loads in that browser
Top 1000 sites →
According to Google (minus Google)
Wired app a CD-ROM →
Apparently, the app is just a series of very big images leaving one to wonder why not HTML?
Transit etiquette posters →
Pseudo-posters for an imaginary civility campaign on Toronto’s transit (so agree with the second)
Newsweek.com redesigns (again) →
This time the site goes the minimal approach, possibly inspired by its Tumblr site
Typeface →
Overview of an interesting documentary about the Hamilton wood type factory and the legacy of letterpress
Sony's rollable OLED display can wrap around a... →
Nothing says ‘future’ quite like a rollable display. Today Sony’s giving us a glimpse into what will one day be with its 80&mm-thick organic
Sony's rollable OLED display can wrap around a... →
Nothing says ‘future’ quite like a rollable display. Today Sony’s giving us a glimpse into what will one day be with its 80&mm-thick organic
Wondering how hard it would be to build an automated lawn sprinkler that knows it’s raining out
Ignite Seattle 10 →
Line-up for the June 14, 2010 edition of the the 5-minute talks in Seattle
Mediagazer leaderboard →
Need to stay atop of the media gossip? Here’s the top 100 sites to start with
News | The Times →
The new Times look - http://ping.fm/bxXQz - makes me think of the design potential in high resolution displays & zoom layouts
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Seesmic on the iPhone finally makes Twitter lists useful and creates a good posting UI for Ping.fm http://bit.ly/d3wLTr
Seesmic for the iPhone finally
Psychology and UX design →
Understanding how the brain, the visual system, memory, and motivation work helps user experience design
Going to free Henry
Inside The Newsroom →
Business Insider interviews Andrew Golis about his efforts to bring real news reporting to Yahoo News
Lindsay Lohan expected in court on Monday -... →
Actress’ attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley, says the 23-year-old star will return to Los Angeles on Saturday and appear in court Monday morning.
And away we go…http://ping.fm/cKAs9
Ken Whyte takes on another magazine →
Comprehensive analysis about what direction Ken Whyte may be taking Chatelaine
Things are going to look real good
Let there be life →
Officially branded (in its genes) JCVI-syn1.0, this creature - Venter’s Frankenbug — is the first without an ancestor
Pac Man and donut day in the Smelter
Lessons from working with Web standards, revisited →
Just over four years ago, I wrote about a large-scale Web redesign on a news site. Today, I’m doing a similar thing, for a different site. Both projects relied on Basecamp for project…
OH: Why don’t you show him that tattoo that says “I hate Belgians”?
Floppy disks, dead by 30 →
Sony announced its stopping production on once ubiquitous storage medium no known as the “save” icon
font-face rendering →
Nice flow chart showing how and why different browsers and operating systems display type
Typekit releases its type loader →
Now any site can deliver custom fonts to its audience using the same fallback techniques as Typekit
Sports Illustrated HTML5 app →
Nice, app-like experience built with just the Web stack (note the radial, menu, too)
Google does Web fonts →
Google introduces a new API to embed a narrow selection of Web-friendly fonts
Microsoft is the gap year destination of choice for the kids on the company shuttle - the talk’s all about going to grad school this fall
Chris Thorpe on the Guardian API →
The Guardian’s “developer advocate” talks a bit about the strategy behind a very open API
The mesh Prize →
The $40,000 prize aims to help encourage innovative risks in the Canadian digital media industry
