January 2011
12 posts
What your state is the worst at – United States of... →
In a survey of rankings from a variety of sources, Pleated Jeans maps the United States of Shame. Because all states must be bad at something. Go, California. If we’re the worst at air…
Internet Kill Switch Back On the US Legislative... →
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Ummmm, WTF?
suraj.sun points out a story at Wired that US lawmakers have revived the idea of a government-controlled “Internet Kill Switch,” which reads, in part: “The bill, which…
ZEN - HTML5-CSS3 Audio Player →
Whoa. that’s really nicely done!
Wilco Start Their Own Label →
Back in July of last year, Wilco guitarist Nels Cline revealed that the band had left Nonesuch Records and was starting their own label. Today, the band made good on that revelation and…
The Publican Partners with Lagunitas Brewing for... →
More beer…. Restaurants have been teaming up with local breweries to create house brews for a while now, so the news that The Publican would be working on another beer didn’t immediatley…
Michael Lopp Interviews Marco Arment →
Marco Arment, on Instapaper’s bookmarklet: The way it does this is ridiculous: instead of calling a simple
GET request to save the page, since an entire page’s contents
would quickly overrun any…
Best Movies of 2010 That You Probably Haven’t... →
As the year comes to an end, anybody and everybody are posting their best of the year lists. Most of these lists contain variations of the same 15 or 20
‘They Were There’ — Errol Morris Film for IBM →
30-minute film by Errol Morris, commissioned by IBM to celebrate the company’s centennial. Music by Philip Glass. I’ve only watched the first minute and I’m hooked. (Thanks to DF reader Scott…
Native CSS Variables: Welcomed Addition or Huge... →
The web development community received some big news recently. While not yet in the nightlies, experimentations are, once again, underway, which will, if successful, provide us with…
CTA unveils online train tracker →
New Web app estimates L arrival times Chicago train riders can now figure out how long they’ll need to stand under those french fry lights to keep warm on frigid outdoor platforms, thanks to an…
Good Code →
Design Driven Development →
Most of my thoughts about design spawn from asking myself what makes a project successful. Well, what does? Most will agree that good design does. This is not speaking exclusively about the graphic…