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IE Death March
End support for IE 6 by March, 2009. Just in time for my 30th birthday.
webdev  ie  microsoft  browsers  awesome  via:magnetbox  tumbl 
august 2008 by jimray
A more effecient milk jug throws consumers off
The new design is dramatically more efficient, doesn't require plastic shipping containers and is even cheaper, but more difficult to use at first. Still, I like the idea of pushing the new design as people should get the hold of it pretty quickly.
design  environment  via:magnetbox  usability  tumbl 
june 2008 by jimray
Better CSS font stacks
Upgrade your thinking on web typography
via:magnetbox  design  css  webdev  tumbl 
june 2008 by jimray
Who says type can’t be improved on the web?
A regex to replace the last space in a graf with an nbsp to avoid widows. That's just plain simple and smart, I love it!
design  typography  via:magnetbox 
may 2008 by jimray
Muxtape recommendations
A Yahoo pipe that recommends muxtapes based on your last.fm profile. Clever, that
via:magnetbox  mashups  music  awesome  tumbl 
april 2008 by jimray
The FAIL Blog is the new icanhascheezburger
funny  tumbl  via:magnetbox 
january 2008 by jimray
The cnnbreaking twitter account is pretty great disinformation
For when the real world is just a little to depressing
news  media  satire  twitter  fake  funny  via:magnetbox  tumbl 
january 2008 by jimray
Seattle Startup Weekend
Start a startup in a weekend! In Fremont!
seattle  startup  webdev  via:magnetbox 
december 2007 by jimray
Flare is an AS3 interactive visualization library that looks wicked brilliant
Easily create tree maps, charts, animated graphs, etc. From the Berkely Institute of Design.
via:magnetbox  visualization  actionscript  webdev  tumbl  flash 
october 2007 by jimray
BLT scented votive candles
Bacon = freedom
via:magnetbox  bacon  cooking  home  awesome  tumbl 
october 2007 by jimray
Uncov is everything I've always wanted in an anti-web2.0 blog
Biting and brilliant
via:magnetbox  web2.0  awesome  funny  satire  tumbl 
august 2007 by jimray
CSS workarounds for Internet Explorer < 7
Including transparent PNG's!
via:magnetbox  css  webdev  ie 
august 2007 by jimray
CNN.com's redesign tailored for advertisers
It's easy to be cynical about this, but it does underscore a point: that advertisers want "uncluttered" environments as much as readers do.
design  advertising  webdev  work  media  cnn  via:magnetbox  tumbl 
july 2007 by jimray
BBC integrates MusicBrainz in to their music site
CC licensed and microformatted as well! If I were the webmaster at KEXP, I would copy this in a heartbeat.
bbc  music  metadata  awesome  microformats  via:magnetbox  tumbl  media 
june 2007 by jimray
Who's doing what online
Creators, critics, collectors, joiners and spectators all broken down by generation. Nice infographic to boot.
online  culture  webdev  bloggers  visualization  tumbl  via:magnetbox 
june 2007 by jimray
OJR has a nice article on how people navigate slideshows, using the WashPost's player
"...perhaps the most interesting observation was the very low level usage of the non-linear approach (and when it was used, how few slides were observed.)"
via:magnetbox  media  photography  multimedia  tumbl 
june 2007 by jimray
Charlie Stross on shaping the future
2read  scifi  science  via:magnetbox 
june 2007 by jimray
Hyperlocal is just a fad, but what the word represents is nothing new
"It’s a fad term for the kind of nuts-and-bolts community coverage many daily newspapers abandoned in the wake of Woodward and Bernstein. It’s a fad term for building sites enhanced with granular databases and user-generated content."
media  newspapers  via:magnetbox  local  community 
june 2007 by jimray
Washington Post's Local Explorer is pretty cool
Only covers DC (obviously) but a really slick interface for all kinds of local data
newspapers  local  via:magnetbox  maps  washingtonpost  tumbl  media 
june 2007 by jimray
Google Gears - a browser plug-in to enable offline web apps
Get your Gmail on the plane! Kinda usurps the offline functionality that was supposed to be part of Firefox 3.0...
via:magnetbox  webdev  javascript  tumbl 
may 2007 by jimray
Creative Use of PNG Transparency in Web Design
With handy tips on cross browser support
via:magnetbox  webdev  design  css  browsers 
may 2007 by jimray
Beware the 'blogola'
Since most media organizations have rules around accepting gifts from those looking to curry favor, Hollywood has aimed its spin zone at bloggers. This should be fun to watch.
via:magnetbox  advertising  marketing  bloggers  weblogs  media  ethics  tumbl 
may 2007 by jimray
Foreign country + household item = deviant sex act generator!
You can even send in your own definitions of such favorites as the "Haitian hand mixer"
funny  sex  via:magnetbox  tumbl 
may 2007 by jimray
Transmedia newspapers
"Print isn't bad, it's fantastic with huge staying power but you've gotta produce something I'm gonna want to keep around." I, frankly, don't really buy the premise that newsprint can ever be anything but disposable, but I do like the comparison of movie
media  newspapers  via:magnetbox  tumbl 
may 2007 by jimray
More on branding of the VaTech shootings
This was a definite low point in broadcast news
advertising  broadcast  media  tumbl  via:magnetbox 
april 2007 by jimray
El Pais' citizen journalism page looks sharp
Yo! Periodista!
community  media  ugc  citizenjournalism  via:magnetbox 
april 2007 by jimray
Predictions of the Year 2000 from the Ladies Home Journal in 1900
Some of these are brilliantly prescient, some are sadly off the mark ("There Will Be No Street Cars in Our Large Cities. All hurry traffic will be below or high above ground when brought within city limits.")
via:magnetbox  culture  future  science  social 
april 2007 by jimray
Digg releases their official API
"Determine whether a story, identified by its URL, has been submitted to Digg and, if so, get details like the number of Diggs and comments it has received" - pretty awesome
digg  webdev  media  apis  webservices  via:magnetbox  tumbl 
april 2007 by jimray
'Most E-Mailed' list tearing New York Times' newsroom apart
So. Best.
via:magnetbox  media  funny  tumbl 
april 2007 by jimray
Paleo-Future - a look in to the future that never was
What people in the past thought the future would be like
via:magnetbox  funny  scifi  retro  history 
april 2007 by jimray
Paul Ford rethinks Harpers.org
157 years worth of archives, clever topics system, all yours for the low low price of $17/yr, plus you get a dead tree edition
via:magnetbox  design  media  magazines  tumbl 
april 2007 by jimray
Hyperlocal doesn’t mean being obsessive about every breath your city council takes
"What I want from my local newspaper"
newspapers  media  local  community  via:magnetbox  tumbl 
april 2007 by jimray
We don’t talk about citizen carpentry
Really excellent feedback to all the "OMg!! newspapers is dying!!1!" wankery of late
via:magnetbox  media  newspapers 
march 2007 by jimray
Modest Maps - Flash based maps
Pulls in tiled map data from Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, NASA, etc. Wicked, wicked cool
via:magnetbox  maps  flash  webdev  actionscript  opensource 
march 2007 by jimray
Google Book Search now integrates maps
See places mentioned in the book on a map.
books  google  maps  search  awesome  via:magnetbox 
january 2007 by jimray
Frog Design has started a blog
Interesting both in the subject and the fact that they're just now starting this
weblogs  design  via:magnetbox 
november 2006 by jimray
Footnote: The place for original source documents online.
Original source documents and tools to use 'em. Nifty.
research  history  via:magnetbox 
october 2006 by jimray
Season Shot - Ammo with flavor.
Is this for real?
food  hunting  weird  via:magnetbox 
october 2006 by jimray

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