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Citizenship: In praise of a second (or third) passport | The Economist
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january 2012
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Electronic music flowchart:
infographics  music  from twitter
january 2012
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"Hey Jude" flowchart: /via
infographics  music  from twitter
january 2012
Android Finally Gets Serious About Its Looks, Launches Official Design Portal | TechCrunch
Very nice site. RT : Android Finally Gets Serious About Its Looks, Launches Official Design Portal
from twitter
january 2012
I picked the best time to turn on the news. - Imgur
Beezow Doo-doo Zopittybop-bop-bop RT : I picked the best time to turn on the news. [r/funny]
reddit  from twitter
january 2012
(404) http://t.co/lx
RT : IAmA guy who has two of my pictures used to create popular memes without my knowledge. AMAA [r/IAmA] ...
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january 2012
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RT : Here's a tree remover [r/WTF]
reddit  flipboard  from twitter
january 2012
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RT : “Eels always look like they just told a joke and are waiting for a reaction.”
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january 2012
Compete To Death, or Cooperate to Compete? | John Battelle's Search Blog
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january 2012
Real-Life Examples Of How Google's "Search Plus" Pushes Google+ Over Relevancy
RT : Real-Life Examples Of How Google’s “Search Plus” Will Drive Facebook & Twitter Crazy by
from twitter
january 2012
40. William L. Snyder | genedeitchcredits
Rediscovered: Long-Lost of “The Hobbit” by Gene Deitch Fascinating background story:
Animation  from twitter
january 2012
Rediscovered: Long-Lost Version of “The Hobbit” by Gene Deitch | Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation
Rediscovered: Long-Lost of “The Hobbit” by Gene Deitch Fascinating background story:
Animation  from twitter
january 2012
The Friday Podcast: Who Killed Lard? : Planet Money : NPR
Who Killed Lard? Great story on Planet Money, one of my regular podcasts.
from twitter
january 2012
Superconductor: Mahler, Interrupted
Ringing phone stops New York Philharmonic. RT : I blushed just reading this
from twitter
january 2012
Exquisite Tweets
Paste in the URL from a single tweet in a conversation to get a one-page thread you can share or save. Or put together your own list of tweets, one URL per line.
twitter  tweets  saver  conversation 
january 2012
TweetSavr - View Tweet Conversations
This is a little app to let you view a twitter conversation in one place and permalink it for the future.

It intentionally doesn't do much. Give it the last tweet id in a conversation and it walks up the tree figuring out the conversation, then saves that for the future.
twitter  conversation  saver  permalink  tweets 
january 2012
TwimeMachine - Read your old tweets
Use TwimeMachine to easily browse through your old tweets (max 3200). Read what you said ages ago.
twitter  history  paged  archive 
january 2012
@fjordaan: Content strategy: Reasons to be gloomy
twitter  francois  #csforum11  csforum11  gloomy 
january 2012
Beyond guidelines: Advanced accessibility techniques
For ultimate accessibility though, try implementing some of these techniques too: Hidden text • Succinct, front-loaded and conventional link text • Visible font resizer • Place instructions first • Large headings • Focus state for links • Large link target
accessibility  tips  hidden  text  headings  font  resizer  focus  fitts  webcredible 
january 2012
HoHoHo! : Design : Brand Spanking New
Silk is still my first choice, unless I need larger icons. Silk alternatives
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january 2012
LED Icon Set (Download 512 Pixel Web Icons)
Silk is still my first choice, unless I need larger icons. Silk alternatives
from twitter
january 2012
Accessible HTML5 Forms – Required Inputs « Unrepentant
While we still don’t have a completely universal experience across all browsers, by doubling up the attributes we are ensured that the form input is as accessible as we can make it, while still taking advantage of the visual output that the ‘required’ attribute is starting to render. At this time then, the Best Practice is to still include both the aria-required and required attributes to your required form inputs.
accessibility  forms  required  html5  aria  john  foliot 
january 2012
Do invisible headings that aid accessibility harm SEO? - Stack Overflow
Do invisible headings that aid accessibility harm SEO? /cc
accessibility  from twitter
january 2012
Why do we pay sales commissions? - Fog Creek Blog
Among our many cherished verities and assumed assumptions is the widespread belief—nearly universal practice actually—that salespeople are to be paid commissions. It’s the way things are done. Stop signs are red. Salespeople get commissions.

But why?
commission  management  sales  fogcreek 
january 2012
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I pity my child as she learns to read. RT "Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet" English Pronunciation, a poem:
from twitter
january 2012
The Anatomy of Influence: Mapping the Labyrinth of Literature | Brain Pickings
Bloom, who for the past half-century has been exploring that ecosystem as a Yale literature professor and contemporary culture’s most significant literary critic, offers insight on 30 of the world’s most iconic writers, from Shakespeare to Joyce to Emerson, and examines issues ranging from the role of “creative misreading” in the joy of literature to the supreme fiction of the romantic self to the influence of a mind on itself.
harold  bloom  anatomy  influence  watchlater 
january 2012
CV Dazzle: Open-Source Camouflage From Computer Vision by Adam Harvey
RT : CVdazzle: Makeup and fashion to avoid facial recognition The sci-fi world of identity countermeasur ...
from twitter
january 2012
Perfection kills » Profiling CSS for fun and profit. Optimization notes.
I wanted to see the kind of impact these nice UI elements have on performance.
css  optimization  performance  css3  profiling 
january 2012
How the Dutch Got Their Bike Paths | Brain Pickings
This fascinating short documentary traces the rise of The Netherlands’ famous bicycle paths and examines the sociocultural factors that enabled it, from mass protests to government policy.
netherlands  bicycle  paths  cycling  watchlater  dutch 
january 2012
The Myth of Japan’s Failure - NYTimes.com
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january 2012
Ian Fraser: The Economist Loses the Plot With This Shallow, Pro-City Propaganda « naked capitalism
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january 2012
Microsoft, Defying Image, Has a Design Gem in Windows Phone - NYTimes.com
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january 2012
40. William L. Snyder | genedeitchcredits
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january 2012
A Responsive Design Approach for Complex, Multicolumn Data Tables | Filament Group, Inc., Boston, MA
In responsive web design, one of the toughest design problems to solve is how format complex tabular data for display on smaller screens. In this post, we'll explore an experimental approach to rendering a complex table, using progressive enhancement and responsive design methods, that displays comfortably at a wide range of screen sizes, provides quick access to the data, and preserves the table structure so that data can still be compared across columns.
responsive  tables  data  filament 
january 2012
Daphne Oram | An Electronic Music Pioneer
electronic  experimental  music  synth  Daphne  Oram  watchlater 
january 2012
Typography Effects with CSS3 and jQuery
css  css3  jquery  typography  blur  departure  airport  fold  animation  sun  shine 
january 2012
xkcd: Extended Mind
When Wikipedia has a server outage, my apparent IQ drops by 30 points.
xkcd  wikipedia  funny 
january 2012
All Of Area Man's Hard Work Finally Pays Off For Employer | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
All Of Area Man's Hard Work Finally Pays Off For Employer Devastating Onion.
from twitter
january 2012
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In Hyde Park watching Lionel (Brockley Bubbles) do his thing.
from twitter
january 2012
Wolfe+585, Senior - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Reading about Wolfe+585, Senior, who must have hated filling in identification forms.
from twitter
january 2012
Christopher Hitchens: Charles Dickens’s Inner Child | Culture | Vanity Fair
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january 2012
Wikipedia:Unusual articles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Latter link via Wikipedia:Unusual_articles
from twitter
january 2012
Toilet paper orientation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia's ridiculously thorough article on toilet paper orientation
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january 2012
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You'll never look at a map of the USA the same way again. RT : Great image. Americas Obesity Problem
from twitter
january 2012
BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - The Internet Millionaires' Club
RT : Sad tales of internet millionaires and affiliate marketing. Listen to great BBC Radio 4 documentary
from twitter
january 2012
Between the Lines - Features - Los Angeles magazine
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january 2012
Josh Sullivan: Css3 progress bars
I made CSS3 progress bars. They are light-weight, requiring no javascript. They look great on iOS devices and they're incredibly simple to use and customize. No images are used.
css  progress  bars  indicators 
january 2012
Cool Tools: ScanCafe
This service will digitize your old slides, negatives and photographic prints at high quality and at a very cheap price. I've been using them to scan my 30-year backlog of photographs and I have been delighted with the results. I've used other services to scan my old photos; ScanCafe is by far the best deal. Their prices are fantastic. To scan a slide is just 24 cents, a color negative 19 cents (at the time of this writing).
scancafe  kk  cooltools  digitise  photos  slides  india  service 
january 2012
Cool Tools: AlphaSmart Word Processor
Looks like a great device for undistracted long-form writing Lightweight word processor with 4-line screen /via
from twitter
january 2012
MetaFilter | Community Weblog
My colleague made the MeFi sidebar! RT : How to say "Battlestar Gallactica" in a Cockney accent.
from twitter
january 2012
Google+ Is Going To Mess Up The Internet
RT : some really good points about G+
from twitter
january 2012
WCAG 2.0 Techniques for PDF « Adobe Accessibility
These techniques provide a clear path for demonstrating that a PDF document can meet the most current accessibility standard from the W3C.
PDF  accessibility  acrobat  wcag 
january 2012
Stewart Lee - Princess Diana - YouTube
Probably my favourite Stewart Lee moment, and possibly my favourite piece of stand-up ever.
comedy  watchlater 
january 2012
This morning I received an anonymous email from a dog kidnapp... on Twitpic
RT : Yesterday I received an anonymous email from a dog kidnapper. Here is the transcript.
from twitter
january 2012
Surviving Election 2012: An Information Diet for a Sculpted, Toned Mind - Clay Johnson - Technology - The Atlantic
"Anything we want to be true we can find online" – internet law everyone should know /via
confirmationbias  from twitter
january 2012
(403) http://eirikso.com/2011/01/05/one-year-in-2-minutes/
You're probably snowed under, but here's another one for your consideration: (1 year in 2 minutes)
from twitter
january 2012
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I downloaded Misunderstood Pigs. That probably didn't count towards the total.
from twitter
january 2012
Space Exploration History: The Space Shuttle and the Horse's Rear End
Specifications and bureaucracies live forever. Or, how a horse's ass influenced the space shuttle.
from twitter
january 2012
Buy Fisher & Paykel DD60DCHB6 Built-in Dishwasher, Black online at JohnLewis.com
It has a somewhat unusual 2-drawer design: The rotating arm is at the bottom, below all the dishes.
from twitter
january 2012
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Is this dishwasher overloaded? Would you expect this to wash clean? (Troubleshooting poor dishwasher performance)
from twitter
january 2012
(404) http://t.co/jS
RT : Sad to hear cartoonist Ronald Searle has died. His fantastic "Layman's Guide to the Starlet's Anatomy" ...
from twitter
january 2012
Code Year
Been learning JavaScript basics with Codecademy in 2011. Let's see how far it can get me in 2012.
from twitter
january 2012
’n Brief en die stemme uit die verre verlede | Die Burger
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january 2012
Pinocchio Scene by Scene | Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation
Disney  Pinocchio  storyboards  animation 
january 2012
Making of Pink Floyd's Money
watchlater  from iphone
december 2011
The Thorium Dream
thorium  watchlater  from iphone
december 2011
McKean Draws a Sexy "Celluloid" - Comic Book Resources
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december 2011
Monster and Bug - YouTube
My idea of having fun on New Year's Eve:
animation  from twitter
december 2011
Low-tech Magazine: How to downsize a transport network: the Chinese wheelbarrow
Fascinating account of a transport innovation that passed Europe by: the Chinese wheelbarrow #longreads
longreads  from instapaper
december 2011
The ‘trouble’ with Android | Stephanie Rieger
RT : so appreciates this post from : The ‘trouble’ with Android
from twitter
december 2011
Epeus' epigone: We'll be Fruitful, Virile and Fertile, they can keep Viral
Viral marketing vs fungal marketing: /via
from twitter
december 2011
Stopmotion animation project ideas for kids - stopmotionanimationchildrenkidscraft | Ask MetaFilter
Have ideas to share for stop-motion animation projects to do with kids?
AskMefi  from twitter
december 2011
I am Salman Khan founder of Khan Academy-AMA : IAmA
RT : I am Salman Khan founder of Khan Academy-AMA [r/IAmA]
reddit  from twitter
december 2011
Sao Paolo outdoor ad ban
Sao  Paolo  outdoor  ad  ban  watchlater  from iphone
december 2011
Social media in the 16th Century: How Luther went viral | The Economist
from instapaper
december 2011
Crowd dynamics: The wisdom of crowds | The Economist
from instapaper
december 2011
The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value - Forbes
The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value How to save capitalism
from twitter
december 2011
Time to end the war on drugs - Richard's Blog - Virgin.com
RT : Richard Branson: end the "war on drugs"
from twitter
december 2011
An atheist at Christmas: Oh come all ye faithless | Life and style | The Guardian
Amen. : How atheists might get through - and even enjoy - Christmas:
from twitter
december 2011
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The calm before the unwrapping storm. (Doesn't look like this anymore.)
from twitter
december 2011
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