Archive
June 2008’s Posts.
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CSS variables
WebKit nightly builds support a much desired CSS feature
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Tyson Homosexual
When political agendas interfere with the news process, the names of Olympic athletes become schoolyard jokes
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A Netflix for magazines
Interesting concept allows you to rent magazines on a subscription
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Rogers destroying Citytv
Once North America's most innovative TV station, Rogers is systematically eviscerating the channel
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Canadian iPhone pricing
Rogers rate plan means my usage of the iPhone would cost me twice as much in Canada as in the U.S.
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Real 3-D holographic displays
Appropriately demonstrated using a Star Wars spacecraft
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Better CSS font stacks
An excellent collection of font collections to use to ensure everyone has the best chance of seeing the type the way you intended them to
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Happy Birthday UPC
Thirty years ago, the first product ever was checked using the Universal Product Code
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What every Web designer should know
Andy Rutledge goes throw the skills Web designers should have, and most are not what you would expect
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Noticing differences
When asked about the differences I’ve seen with the U.S. and Canada, my response has not been about the money, the accents, or the milk containers, but rather it involves the level of cultural tolerance.
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Eric's Trip: the movie
A low-fi documentary about the low-fi pioneers filmed by band member Rick White
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The secret vault of Lego
All the Lego sets ever made have been saved in one magical place
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Seattle's newest 'hood: Radio Point
Appears that the little triangle where I live is being contested by two different neighbourhoods
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about:robots
They have a plan
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Delaying news in the Internet era
NYTimes.com talks a bit about how Tim Russert's death was leaked online
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Preloading CSS images
A jQuery plug-in walks through CSS files to cache images to improve loading time
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Ice on Mars
Real, water ice and MarsPhoenix twittered the news
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Air India 182
June 22 marks on of Canada's darkest moments and people need to know why
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Examining the new Orlando Sentinel
Candid discussions about the dramatic new design of a Florida newspaper
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Visualizing a rendering engine
Three videos show how Firefox renders Web pages
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Number Stations reimagined
Video collage of a MySpace security process feels like the shortwave espionage broadcasts
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Firefox 3 already challenging Safari
Within 24 hours, Firefox 3 around a 4% marketshare (Safari has about 6%)
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David Crow on FreshBooks
Toronto Web tech don profiles the terrific online invoicing service
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NowPublic's logo
The more I look at this logo, the more brilliant I think it is
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TimesPeople FAQ
NYTimes.com social reading experiment is now in public beta
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The paragraph in Web tyopgraphy
Jon Tangerine loving details the ways to treat a paragraph on a Web page
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Good Bloomsday to you
Also known as the secret St. Patrick's Day
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Patterns for reputation systems
Yeahoo has added nine reputation patterns to its social-design related patterns offering
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AP boycott
AP has got the bloggers mad and if the latter are dedicated the former may really get hurt
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On Tim Russert
Not being American, the reason to Russert's death surprised me; this helps explain it
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On Ken Alexander's resgination
Douglas Brown offers an honest take on the Walrus editor
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globeandmail.com free
The product that occupied the least enjoyable chunk of my time at the Globe is now gone (funny how it wasn't mentioned when I met with them tho)
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BarCamp Seattle: The Father’s Day Edition
Sunday morning and another Seattle bus adventure means arriving once again late for BarCamp Seattle, thankfully, the sessions also got underway a bit later. Today begins (for me) with a discussion on social media design where I promote Pownce’s friend/fan and group pattern (potentially to be added to the new social media repository announced in the session) and will end with, apparently, Diet Coke and Mentos.
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First impressions of BarCamp Seattle
Probably a result of the venue, what with its actual class rooms filled with podiums, projectors, and microphones, the formality of this Seattle BarCamp is far more implicit than ever it was at the Toronto BarCamps (except for the one held, coincidentally, at the MSN Canada offices). Lots of hallway buzz, but the sessions have been sadly distracted by the jackhammering going on outside the Adobe building.
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Heading to BarCamp Seattle
This is being written on a bus (the 30) as I tardily trek to BarCamp Seattle — only the first of many differences between my experiences with the BarCamp scene in Toronto (although, coincidentally, on my way to the first Toronto BarCamp, I spotted some infamous graffiti on the outside of a Starbucks franchise).
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Analysing the new Canadian copyright bill
Mathew Ingram looks at the proposed legislation, and weighs it against the U.S.'s DMCA
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Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit
Wireframe stencils for a wide number of Web design elements
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Firefox Mobile concept video
Very interesting demo of a mobile Web browsing interface
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Seattle colder than Siberia
Travelling from Toronto's almost 40C weather to Seattle's low teens has knocked my body for a loop
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Media ethics and citizen journalism
Think piece from the New York Times about the need to identify oneself as a reporter
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Capitoll Hill garage sale
On June 14, 2008 there will be about a dozen sales happening throughout the neighbourhood
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CBC loses The Hockey Theme
Hockey Night in Canada will no longer have its iconic theme now that CTV has bought the rights to the song
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Beta TTC site
Looks like a corporate site designed by committee, and lacks any personality
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The Globe and Mail e-Edition Newsreader
My former colleagues put together a very usable interface for browsing an electronic edition of the paper.
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