February 2009
The unrecognizable Internet of 1996 →
The unrecognizable Internet of 1996.
Sifting through old Web pages today is a bit like playing video games from the 1970s; the fun is in considering how awesome people thought they were,…
Yves Saint Laurent armchair auctioned off for... →
Yves Saint Laurent armchair auctioned off for $28,000,000.
Congratulations winner, you’re an idiot.
New in Basecamp: Milestone Quick Window →
Last night we launched a big new feature in Basecamp. The more you use it the more we think you’re going to like it. Here’s the background: We’ve been gathering a lot of feedback regarding…
jCarousel - Riding carousels with jQuery →
Simple carousels with jQuery. Configurable with a handful of useful options / parameters to build your carousels. Simple unordered list markup in the document and the script takes care of the rest.
Gridmaker For Photoshop CS4 →
After a suggestion from John Nack I had a go at porting GridMaker 2 to the new Flash Panel framework in CS4
Amateur’s Guide To Customizing Website Design With... →
The tool is a FireFox extension called FireBug and it is so cool that many web developers use FireFox for the only reason that it can be extended with FireBug.
David Beckham sinks football in basket hoop with... →
He is lauded for his stunning set piece free kicks. But David Beckham showed he can hit the spot in more than one sport as he sunk a football in a basket hoop - with his foot.
'Slumdog' child star beaten by dad →
A 10-year-old actor who appeared in the Oscar-winning film “Slumdog Millionaire” was allegedly beaten Friday by his father in Mumbai, witnesses claim.
Clash of the Coupes: '09 Nissan 370z vs.'08... →
“Can Nissan conquer Porsche (again), with change to spare?”
Why the Japanese Hate the iPhone →
Apple’s iPhone has wowed most of the globe — but not Japan, where the handset is selling so poorly it’s being offered for free.
Albert Einstein on God →
Einstein’s written view on God.
Dell’s Net Income Plunges 48 Percent →
Punished by plummeting sales of computers, Dell presented investors with its lowest fourth-quarter profit since 2002.
12-hour Viagra-fuelled Orgy Ends in Death →
British newspaper, The Sun, reports the 28-year-old Russian man died after taking a bottle of Viagra pills for an apparent 12-hour sex romp.Two women told Moscow police they bet Tuganov $US4300 that…
Pirate Bay Trial Day 9: BitTorrent Is Not Evil →
Yesterday several entertainment industry insiders explained how piracy was responsible for the downfall of their industries. Today, Kristoffer Schollin from Gothenburg University explains that…
Support for Marijuana Legalization Getting Higher →
he first poll, conducted last week by Rasmussen Reports, has 40 percent of Americans in support of legalizing the drug and 46 percent opposed.
Pirate Bay Witness’ Wife Overwhelmed With Flowers →
When Professor and media researcher Roger Wallis left the stand yesterday, the court asked whether he wanted to be reimbursed for his appearance. “You are welcome to send some flowers to my wife,” he…
Lost World of Extremophiles Hides Beneath Great... →
Just 20 metres beneath the surface of some of the largest freshwater reservoirs on Earth are deep brine-filled pockets that support unusual colonies of life.
The Green, Universal Charger Moves to the Next... →
Green Plug has more ambitious goals than just a universal charger: their innovation is a smart charger that interacts with a chip in the electronic device to manage power use while charging, while…
Confronted with the truth, Hannity refused to back... →
On Fox News, Sean Hannity repeated the false GOP talking points that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act directs that funds be spent to protect the salt marsh harvest mouse in San Francisco…
French Town Changing Name to Improve Ranks in... →
Eu, a small town in North France, ranks rather poorly in search engines as the word EU may refer to the more popular European Union or or even the Chemical symbol for Europium.
TV.com iPhone App Streams Free Full-Length CBS and... →
Today CBS pushed out a streaming video player for iPhones and touchy iPods, with smooth navigation of all the content available on its TV.com, including impressive full-length episodes of some, but…
Google Responds To ‘Gfail’ Outage With Apps Status... →
In response to its extended Gmail outage yesterday, Google has just launched the Google Apps Status Dashboard. The dashboard offers an at-a-glance look at the system health of most popular Google…
Gmail Gets Multi-Attachment Uploading →
Gmail users can now select multiple attachments when adding them to an e-mail message. The new system simply opens your operating system’s file explorer, and supports selecting of multiple files at…
The newest Happy Webbie →
The Happy Webbies site sees a fresh coat and the addition of yours truly. My fabricated quote is spot on. Stank. ●
Baxter scented candle, designed by Marc Atlan. The... →
Baxter scented candle, designed by Marc Atlan. The packaging says what it is, precisely.
Minimal Style by Angelika Taschen. →
Minimal Style by Angelika Taschen.
SimplyNoise is a white, pink, and brown noise... →
SimplyNoise is a white, pink, and brown noise generator in the form of a web page.
Yves Saint Laurent armchair auctioned off for... →
Yves Saint Laurent armchair auctioned off for $28,000,000.
Congratulations winner, you’re an idiot.
The unrecognizable Internet of 1996 →
The unrecognizable Internet of 1996.
Sifting through old Web pages today is a bit like playing video games from the 1970s; the fun is in considering how awesome people thought they were,…
Get your grid on, Gridmaker for Photoshop CS4 →
Built on top of the popular 960.gs grid, Gridmaker for Photoshop CS4 provides you with a small configurable panel for building your grids right inside Photoshop.
Pork Brains In Milk... →
Pork Brains In Milk Gravy
(via donnerpartykitchenstaff)
Stop Being a Slave to the Clock →
Usually I’m all about productivity and getting the most out of every minute but this neat little program kinda takes the pressure off.
Fuzzy Clock is designed to free us from the tyranny of…
Objectpark's FuzzyClock →
Getting Projects Done with MindManager 8, Google... →
MindManager software “uses the power of visual thinking to focus your actions on your most important job tasks.” Looks like an intriguing tool for those who think visually. If that sounds like…
7 Reasons Why WordPress Could Fail →
An on-going series on various different scenarios of WordPress fail.
10 WordPress tips for 2009 →
This is a good list, from hardening security, dealing with spiders, and so on. [Link]
3 WordPress plugins to manage 125×125 ads →
If you’re a developer, you probably have had clients asking for ways to manage ads easily. Take a look at these plugins.
Ewww. Awesome. →
qsb-mac - Google Code →
15 Inspiring Typography Based Blog Designs →
Typography is perhaps the most important element of any site, certainly for a blog or magazine styled site. Good typography should not dominate a page, it should highlight certain areas as well as…
iJustine Sings and Old Men… Well… →
I know the point of the video is to watch the beautiful Justine Ezarik sing a lovely tribute to the birth of Steve Jobs, but I can’t help but notice the scary creepy old man in the right…
Info: 15 Useful WordPress Tricks →
Wordpress is a very powerful Content Management System. It has tons of capability and can be extremely powerful. No matter how many awesome features such as threaded comments or breadcrumb…
Safari 4 Beta Preview: A New Compass →
On Tuesday, Apple released a public beta of its web browser, Safari’s, latest revision. The new version encompasses over 150 new and innovative features, with things such as CSS effects, Top…
Spiritualized →
Spiritualized are an English space rock band formed in 1990 in Rugby, Warwickshire by Jason Pierce (who often goes by the alias J.
Suprb →
Suprb is a multidisciplinary design studio based in Stockholm, Sweden
Big Release - Timesheet Views and Support for BIG... →
This release has some pretty exciting new features as well as some important back-end improvements. It also is our first full release with a new member of our senior team, Mark Wolgemuth…
Louis CK on Conan →
Louis CK on Conan: This clip is ALL OVER my friends’ Facebook walls today, but it’s simply too good to resist passing it along to even more people. (Embedding is disabled, so here’s a link…
AlertThingy brings updates from Basecamp and other... →
Jeremy Baines of AlertThingy recently, um, alerted us that the app now integrates with Basecamp. More details: AlertThingy v3 brings the very latest updates from your favourite social networks…
The stupidest piece of pro blogging advice I have... →
As the pro blogging dinosaurs struggle to find something to write about, scraping the bottom of their barrels of old and tired ideas, some of the less scrupulous ones spew out advice that can only…