Factory farming of salmon in Chile led to a virus that will reduce their salmon exports by 78% this year BusinessWeek reminds us of the 50 ugliest cars produced in the last 50 years Wired tries to convince us that doing anything but what you are suppose to be will make you more productive You can now tour the “Boneyard”, […]
Grape Nuts, the not-so-popular cereal brand, is just finely chopped up bread As many as 300 new golf courses may open between now and 2020 in China’s Hainan province The resurgence of classic board games in the US attributed to the economy’s downturn. No mention of the economics of the indie board game scene Information is Beautiful’s 2-dimensional coordinate chart of […]
Seattle vegans have a lot of options for Sunday brunch Simon Page’s prints for the International Year of Astronomy Measuring traffic on the web is hard for 3rd party tracking companies Conan O’Brien is on Twitter (hat tip: Phil )
Peter Gabriel’s new album of cover material, Scratch My Back, is “mesmerizingly awful” Wired’s Clive Thompson reminds those dangerous folks who text while driving that they could just take mass transit instead Warren Ellis reminds us that a bunker is a still bunker What YouTube taketh away it giveth back in 30 minutes. Internet still goes crazy A Bill Gates funded projects finds […]
Grateful Dead & Academia Previously rumored, now confirmed: Starbucks rolls out single-cup “pour-over” coffee on March 9th, nationwide” Web-wizard Shaun Inman is branching out out into iPhone video games Mozilla Thunderbird’s plans for 2010 include becoming a self-sustainable business Federal government hands Ohio money for new trains, tracks and passenger service stations but the state legislature doesn’t seem to want it How marketers use data […]
Boeing’s 787 flight test site has a leaderboard showing each test plane, number of flights and total of number of hours flown. The airplane’s identification number is a link to a 3rd party flight tracking service that provides a history of flights, with dates, previous route maps and live tracking when it is in the […]
Vivid account of Thomas Edison’s Menlo Park Laboratory, located in New Jersey, from 1876 to 1886 Is Adobe Flash ready for touchscreen devices?
Solitary Confinement, by Jan Stürmann (video, ~6 minutes) Popular Science picks their favorites from the 2010 International Toy Fair in New York. The LEGO carbonite-frozen Han Solo figurine commemorating the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back is my favorite Middle-class America just wants their hand-out already More Photoshop at 20: Recreating Photoshop 1.0.7 on the iPhone
Adobe Photoshop turns 20 Window’s users in the European Union will soon be given a choice of web browsers Hopeful British interns pay up to $5700 for work experience at dying publishing institution Condé Nast. The Guardian has some additional details Apple’s AppStore is taking off the pasties
HTML5 is doing just fine. Maybe Cholesterol-busting wonder drugs, those that supposedly help prevent a heart attacks, increase chances diabetes The Plastic Ono Band reunites for Yoko Ono’s birthday Two-time Olympic gold metal winner, Shaun White, on how he chooses which companies to lend his likeness too The “godfather of rap” is back and it probably will be televised.
An interview, dated February 13th, with “why the lucky stiff.” _why’s online presence was wiped from the the internet on August 19th, 2009 Wired UK isn’t dead yet, debut circulation is nearly 50,000 subscribers Climate change at fault for a 23% drop-off Kenyan coffee production US states awarded $1.5 billion from the Department of Transportion to kickstart projects. In a reversal […]
Sorry gang, still under the weather… :-(
On haitus till Wednesday, February 17th 2010.
Somedays, what is actually going on with progress in the W3C’s HTML WG, with respect to HTML5, is anyone’s guess Adobe’s Flash player 10.1 supports a private browsing mode. For those unaware, like your web browser, Flash has cookies too Seattle’s Saltchuk Resources has developed a hybrid tug boat Ithaca’s Gimme! Coffee composted roughly 24 tons in 2009. [Read about how […]
A Swedish developer laments incorporating technical jargon loanwords from English (more on “loanwords” from Wikipedia) A list of fonts shipped with Windows 7 New York magazine’s Sam Anderson wonders if ChatRoulette is a nod to our internet past. No discussion of how sites like John Halcyon Styn’s CitizenX pioneered this medium many years ago. In coffee news, Starbucks will be introducing […]
Infographics confirm it: Facebook has a lot of users. Speaking of Facebook, they now offer XMPP (or “Jabber”) support for their chat service Brett Kelly suggest “hiding” a kid’s toys for 90 days. If they don’t ask about them, donate them An three-part interview with a Nigerian scammer
Claire Zulkey examines leggings that look like jeans or “jeggings” Eric Raymond, author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar, teaches us How To Ask Questions The Smart Way (hat tip: Sam Ruby) Ever wanted to file a Bug in Mozilla’s or WebKit’s bug tracker but left in confusion? Maybe Johnathan Nightingale’s Bugzilla for Humans will ease your journey. How to pack […]
Teresa Nielsen Hayden, book editor, explains what exactly the “agency model” means when it comes to publishing ebooks. At least “one major publisher” may not be excited about such a model though MTV has a new logo New York Times Interactive Feature: Vancouver’s Olympic Venues (requires Adobe Flash support) Matt Haughey interviewed about online communities including Facebook, Reddit, and Haughey’s own […]
In a developing story from yesterday, Wolf Rentzsch counters Peter-Paul Koch’s assertion that mobile web developers have gotten lazy by focusing on building out iPhone-only web experiences. Wolf wonders if mobile web developers are trying to push the rest of the industry to catch-up. It is a fair question as mobile web browsers (outside of […]
David Hyde presents the work of Anton Stankowski Kevin Lynch, Adobe’s Chief Technology Officer, informs readers on Adobe Featured Blogs that “Regarding crashing, I can tell you that we don’t ship Flash with any known crash bugs.” The post doesn’t address Mozilla’s comments that Flash support had to be removed from Fennec because “The Adobe Flash plugin […]
Vegan Score has the scoop of an all-Vegan spa in Seattle:
And so is yours! Sweet Surrender is an all vegan sanctuary spa studio located in Green Lake (the part with easy parking and good bus lines too). Proprietor, Heather Flanders, opened her one-person studio to share the gift of therapeutic massage, body sugaring, […]
Peter-Paul Koch “shouts at web developers who think that delicately inserting an iPhone up their ass is the same as mobile web development.”
The article is full of other link-bait worthy quotes, but the basic point is worth discussing: Are web developers endangering the web ecosystem by coding specifically for mobile WebKit user-agents?
The blog focuses on the iPhone […]
Microsoft discontinues Xbox LIVE support for original Xbox consoles and Xbox 1 games playable on the Xbox 360. Probably unlikely, but it seems like a good candidate for letting the community take over via an open-source or standards effort. How a Superbowl ad featuring Jay Leno, David Letterman and Oprah Winfrey came together. Choire Sicha, the popular former Gawker […]
Joanna Smith Rakoff describes her experience as an assistant at Harold Ober Associates, JD. Salinger’s publisher. Ultimately one of her roles ended up being a gatekeeper of Salinger’s personal life by replying to the many letters addressed to the author. Opera 10.5 snapshot build 9240 re-adds support for the W3C Geolocation API, reenables Opera Unite and Spell […]
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