July 2009
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Grant Morrison Interviews →
I don’t want to link to every interview in del.icio.us, so I’ve started a blog on Tumblr to which I’ll post links to Morrison interviews I find. May still post some here, of course.
June 2009
38 posts
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Mac OS X 10.4: How to prevent .DS_Store file... →
I’ve read this isn’t a problem for 10.5 (Leopard), but good to note for future reference.
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Twitter Favorites and Retweets
I think Twitter clients should adopt a new practice: show me tweets that people I follow mark as “favorites” in my timeline. Most clients already provide a view that shows me posts from my friends, replies to me, and my direct messages. Favorites are fairly underutilized by Twitter clients. Favrd collects tweets that have been starred by multiple people for some fairly entertaining...
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HD Movie comparisons →
Side-by-side, you can see the difference between Apple TV, cable, and Blu-Ray videos, even though they’re all billed as “HD”.
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While ripping apart the new movie, Roger Ebert very adroitly explains the problem with how the movie Transformers look:
From its origin as a children’s toy through its evolution in
TV animation (1984) and the 2007 movie. It has grown
steadily more complex, apparently feeding on larger and
larger junk yards. [The movie Transformer] is now too much
to comprehend, especially in...
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A Rooting Interest in the Bottom Line →
The Nationals are seeing a great surge in attendance from visiting fans rooting against them. It’s easy to get to DC from Philly, New York, or Boston, and it’s cheaper to get good seats here.
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The blue and the green →
Wild optical illusion.
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Sour Outlook – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily... →
The next version of Outlook takes a major step back in Web compatibility.
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stevenf.com - My loving homage to every breathless... →
Hilarious. Worth watching all the way to the end to see every single thing that’s inside the box.
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Stanley Kubrick 1928 - 1999 →
Amazing archive of essays.
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YouTube - Arrested Development Documentary: Final... →
Despite my love of the show, I think the number of episodes it ended up being is about perfect.
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Why the newspaper still beats the Amazon Kindle →
Sadly: “But both versions of the Kindle are missing what makes print newspapers such a perfect delivery vehicle for news: graphic design.” Hopefully they can improve on this in time.
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Innovative Nintendo game help system to debut this... →
I actually really like this idea. I hate giving up on a game I paid good money for, but no matter how hard they try, there will be frustrating levels that you just want to skip.
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Tilting at Windmills on the Captain America 600... →
Long but interesting piece on how Marvel intentionally kept information from its retailers in the hopes a slow news day would sell comics, despite the retailers not knowing how many issues to order.
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Glyphboard →
Handy webpage you can add to your iPhone’s home screen that lets you copy special characters to the phone’s clipboard.
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Dinosaurs saying, "hey." →
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Jeff Bezos: Kindle Books and Readers Are Separate... →
I’m glad to hear this. A standard of some sorts for ebooks would help people designing devices know what their users are going to see, so that eventually ebook designers know what constrains they’re dealing with.
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An Error Occurred Communicating With Netflix
I’ve been using Netflix’s Instant Queue feature on my TiVo for a few weeks. It works fairly well except for occasional stops to rebuffer, but last week I started getting this message: “An error occurred communicating with Netflix. Please try again.” I called Netflix support and they had me delete the Netflix connection from my TiVo’s “Video on Demand” menu...
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Easter Eggs in Pixar’s Up →
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iTunes Script to Download Available Purchases →
If you subscribe to a season pass of a show in iTunes, you can set Mail to run this script whenever you get an email that a new episode is available. It’ll have iTunes download the episode and then delete the message.
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Viewing a TV death in four acts →
The stages that a TV show goes through during its life.
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(Just doing some fanciful thinking about an iPhone with video.)
If a new iPhone comes out that has a built-in video camera, it’s not a leap to imagine they’d introduce an iChat app with it that lets you transmit video while you talk. Problem is, the camera’s on the opposite side of the phone from the screen, so if you point it at yourself, you can’t see the other...
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Marie Mundaca on designing books for David Foster... →
Book design is likely one of the most underappreciated arts, but I find it fascinating.
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How many balloons would it take to lift a house... →
I can just see Mythbusters trying to get the budget to buy all those balloons.
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Green Day on The Tonight Show →
Green Day appeared on Tuesday night’s Tonight Show, and it was an amazing performance. This is why they’ve been my favorite band since I was 14.
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Mix an Exploding Drink - Wired How-To Wiki →
Freeze Mentos into ice cubes and serve them in Diet Coke. Preferably at an outdoor event, I’d think.
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The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien - Twitter... →
Loved this bit from Tuesday night.
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Cool Guys Don't Look at Explosions →
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Movies In Frames does 2001 →
Great way to pick out a motif.
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Kindle Content Design (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) →
As I’ve argued before, I think newspapers could go far on the Kindle (and other such devices). There are some good guidelines here for design, but I wonder how they’d change between the Kindle and the DX? With the DX you can more closely copy the print layout. Would that be better?
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The Personal Journal Of Doogie Howser, M. D. →
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Terrorism, Domestic and Foreign →
I dislike using “terrorist” as a boogeyman label, but there are some interesting questions here.
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Star Wars: The Old Republic Video Game, E3 09:... →
It’s got me wanting to know more. Specifically, will it run on my MacBook in Windows mode?
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The Office - Personas →
Defective Yeti wrote an unsolicited script for The Office.
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The One Fiber Optic Cable No One on the Dig for... →
What happens when your construction project accidentally cuts a government communications line?
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Licence to chill: Ice lolly shaped like James Bond... →
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xkcd - A Webcomic - Troll Slayer →