January 2011
January 31, 2011
- Pan full size images. A jQuery plugin. #
January 28, 2011
January 26, 2011
- Amnesia Connect. Connecting Microsoft Surface to smartphones and tablets. #
- The Antikythera Mechanism in Lego. A 2000-year-old analog computer rebuilt out of Legos. It predicts the year, date, and time of future solar and lunar eclipses accurately to within two hours. #
January 25, 2011
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threnody n.
- A poem or song of mourning or lamentation
- Line, a very nice concept phone. Just wondering how the side-slide controls will if you actually have to hold the phone. #
January 24, 2011
- 520 Grid System. For Facebook tabs (and other narrow sites). #
January 23, 2011
- Warpspire: URL Design. Great article on designing URL structures. Having worked on several news sites, I can tell you that you may not always get it right, but there's no excuse to break old URLs -- even when migrating hundreds of thousands of them. #
- How to prevent vanity URLs from colliding with future features?. On Quora. #
January 20, 2011
- Mozilla Seabird 2D. Nice concept phone. #
January 19, 2011
- Descriptive words A-Z. A strange and fascinating (if ill-formatted) list. #
- London postcodes. #
- Snippet. A jQuery-based syntax highlighter. #
- Chrome extension: Google Analytics Tracking Code Debugger. #
- LBJ Buys Pants. "In 1964, Lyndon Johnson needed pants, so he called the Haggar clothing company and asked for some. The call was recorded (like all White House calls at the time), and has since become the stuff of legend. Johnson’s anatomically specific directions to Mr. Haggar are some of the most intimate words we’ve ever heard from the mouth of a President." #
- Dubai Fountain, "Time to Say Goodbye". From the creators of the Bellagio fountain. #
- Surface detail. Mesmering fractal landscape. #
January 17, 2011
- NY Times: Stuxnet worm used against Iran was tested in Israel. #
- Flatworm. Last week's nature fact. See also the planaria article for Thompson and McConnell's biochemical memory experiments. #
- Parempi puolisko. Taloussanomien toimitussihteeri Annakaisa Vääräniemestä haihtui puolet kahden vuoden aikana. Painonpudotus antoi Annakaisalle uuden elämän ja lisää itsevarmuutta työtehtäviin. #
January 11, 2011
January 10, 2011
- MapReduce for idiots. Via Ryan. #
