October 2009
20 posts
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September 2009
38 posts
Typedia: Blog: Machine Tags for Type →
We’ve defined a set of machine tags that will specify a good chunk of the information about the type in an image. Even if the minimum you feel comfortable tagging a photo with is the “face” machine tag, it will go a long way towards making Typedia more useful. Here’s the syntax for tagging a typeface, style, foundry, and designer:
“Lord Mandelson denied this, saying that what he’d really said was...”
– Peter Mandleson, quoted by Channel 4 News, referring to The Sun newspaper.. “Chumps” is not the word he’s actually quoted as saying. He apparently can’t even tell the truth about telling the truth.
“Of course, patriots know that the 50-star flag truly represents one nation under...”
– —Chuck Norris: Stop Using The Modern American Flag — Or Use Tea-Stained Ones
Yes! Show your olde-timey patriotism for the USA by desecrating your flag! With the favoured drink of… British people.
I say ‘old timey’, but I guess I mean 1954, since that’s the actual origin of the ‘under...
The Ultimate Productivity Blog →
Slow Club - Christmas TV
It’s OK that I...
“You live in their house, Wallace. Don’t expect everyone to come to your...”
– —BigBadBama’s comment on Hurt Feelings At FOX News? at TalkingPointsMemo
Addressing Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace in the concept of consequence.
“We figured FOX would rather show So You Think You Can Dance than broadcast an...”
– —Statement from The White House concerning Obama’s absence from Fox News on his media tour this morning.
Oh, snap.
(via TalkingPointsMemo)
Pipes: Ben Ward's Lovestream →
David Thompson took my various loved item feeds and merged them together using Yahoo Pipes.
It’s a streaming pipe of love.
Hot.
“Leonardo’s surname was not Da Vinci. He was from Vinci, or of Vinci. As many...”
– Dan Brown’s 20 worst sentences
I’m familiar with the fact that Dan Brown is an absolutely terrible writer, but this is ridiculous.
Admittedly, I didn’t know the etymology of ‘Da Vinci’ until I read this, but then, I never wrote a book about it either.
Sharing the Love
I linked to my exciting new Fever ‘Saved Items’ feed before, but the thought occurs that I could link to my various other feeds of affection as well, so here they are.
Would love to know if people actual consume any of these, and how, and what they get from them. I don’t necessarily mean just mine; I mean anyone’s. It’s the concept of following favourite items that interests me...
Exercises in Self Discovery
The previous post is a first step in trying to identify myself. I’ve stared at my unstyled blog pages for a long time now and not really being an artist, I got nothin’. If I were to approach someone to design my blog for me, or even just some art for the header, I haven’t the faintest clue what I’d ask for, not even a direction, style or starting point.
The four words try to...
4 Words to Get Closer to Me
Spontaneous
Obsessive
Passionate
Tangential
“Meet the man who changed Glenn Beck's life” -... →
Fascinating write up around W. Cleon Skousen and his books of revisionist history, and their effect on today’s neo-conservative movements.
“If there was any question on where America stands right now I think these images...”
– Time to Re-found America: Glenn Beck – The 912 Project (transcript of Fox News video)
It’s with some delight that my Britishness can be of some assistance in the US Health Care debatecle. Glenn Beck cites The Daily Mail as his source for the ‘2 million’ figure. Oh boy. The Daily Mail, which...
9.12 DC Tea Party - Interviews →
At the less (but still a bit) snarky end of 9/12 coverage comes this 10 minute set of interviews. It’s a guy wandering through the crowds in DC, filming the various batshit aspects of the protesters and their sloganeering, but also engaging them. And not ‘engaging’ in a shouting-across-the-street, taking the piss way. Engaging in an actual calm, intelligent way.
He asks direct questions...
“Billionaires for Wealthcare is a grassroots network of health insurance CEOs,...”
– This is both the most brilliantly awesome thing ever, and embarrassing for humanity.
Billionaires for Wealthcare
I’m unsure where I stand on taking advantage of these people that have already been taken advantage of once by Glenn Beck and his ilk. There must be a limit at which your own...
My Saved Items from Fever (RSS Feed) →
Fever just got an update and now includes options to export saved items as an RSS feed.
Useful in its own right, this is especially cool as you can use other people’s Saved Items as Sparks in your own Fever instance, socially promoting interesting content.
It’s not the driving purpose behind Fever, but I think it’s got a lot of potential as a first class demonstration of a...
“Unfortunately I let that emotion get the best of me and I reacted by speaking...”
– Congressman Joe Wilson’s appeal for campaign donations
So wait. You are or you aren’t sorry for an outrageous disrespect of your country’s democratic institutions and the office of President? Because I’m pretty sure you said you were, and then every time you’ve opened...
“On top of that, it seemed like it might be an unsatisfying way of ingesting...”
– —Anna Pickard’s What’s sauce for the goose is probably something I wouldn’t include on my list
I must admit, this is exactly how I assume the inside of Anna’s mind worked. She’s wonderfully funny.
“I have now decided that making iTunes visually inconsistent with everything must...”
– —David Emery Online: Sche-dual
The most eloquent paragraph I ever did read concerning iTunes UI deviance.
“To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict or blame their...”
– —Barack Obama’s Inauguration Speech
Much time spent pondering the absurdity of the US Political Circus these past few days. The health care hullabaloo is back up with a vengeance today as Obama gets his opportunity to set the tone with a speech to Congress.
Because I get tend to get riled...
Guitar Hero: The Beatles →
It’s almost all of my Guitar Hero franchise abuse trolling wrapped up into one awesome game trailer. If only it had integrated a swipe at DJ Hero as well.
“The trouble is, once you’ve gasped or chuckled over the YouTube clips of...”
– Charlie Brooker in The Guardian
Charlie Brooker on Glenn Beck. Perfect.
“The HTML5 specification as a single document will not be the document that...”
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My comment on Eric Meyer’s “Nine Into Five”
Quoting myself, as since writing that comment a couple of developer-centric guides have come to my attention.
Most relevant is the work-in-progress “HTML 5: The Mark-up Language” by Michael Smith. This is the document that I had in mind when I...
Watch“Doubtful Comforts” by Blue Roses
via. David Emery
“A swarm of 10 trillion small mirrors launched into space one million at a time...”
– —Engineering Earth ‘is feasible’ · BBC News
This, apparently, falls into the ‘feasible’ category of geo-engineering. The report does, however, express concern over emptying a shittonne of iron filings into the oceans to grow algae.