found_drama

via @johnjosephadams — though I take issue with: [1] how many movies there are (since so many movies are usually so bad); [2] The Andromeda Strain (whose scale is hardly apocalyptic); and [3] that Adams' The Wastelands collection is missing!

at Los Angeles Times:

Blockbuster has lost a total of $1.1 billion since the beginning of 2008 and has been severely hamstrung in efforts to grow its business due to interest payments on $920 million in debt.

Heh. Maybe they shouldn't have been so soft on late fees?

…don’t try and hide a wrapper behind HTML5 bling by using a section, that’s wrong.

at Nettuts+ (via @devongovett)

via PL — worth the link for the recommended reading

via Ajaxian —"The best IDE for Web development with JavaScript, HTML and CSS"

at Pink Tentacle (via Boing Boing)

at Boing Boing

at Ajaxian — well that's… phreaky.

at Ajaxian

Like Gus Mueller said: "Wowsers."

via @stoyanstefanov

at Boston.com — simply incredible

Must read. But later.

at Slate Magazine (via DF)

via JR

at Ajaxian

at Omnivoracious — looks pretty awesome

at The Boston Globe (via /.):

W2 Group’s Weber said such a rebranding is “a bit old-fashioned’’ and a new name is unlikely to impress consumers. “I think the public is smarter than that now,’’ he said.

Glad to hear them at least acknowledge that. Re-branding is a terrible idea unless you plan to back it up with real changes. As an unhappy-but-basically-locked-in Comcast customer, I hope this is the real thing.

At The Buffalo News — sad news.

FemaleScienceProfessor:

I miss the beauty of real books and the the variety of fonts and book designs. And I miss having a physical sense for how long a book is. The Kindle method of reporting the % of each book read is deeply unsatisfying. However, I find the Kindle pages very easy to read and navigate, and clicking to turn the page can be extremely handy when you have a large cat pinning down one your arms.

3.0 released

at O'Reilly Media — two things I use all the time and utterly fail at retain their syntax: any flavor of regex and grep.

"Web design Q&A" (via Stack Overflow)

by Brandon Walkin (via DF)

at WordPress Plugins (via DF) — sounds right up my alley

by Jeffrey Zeldman (via DF) — sage advice

500 Internal Server Error

at Al Dente

Doesn't look like it's been updated in … a while … but probably worth skimming and/or for to brush up…

at The Telegraph — the underlying theme? "shrink or die"; but then there's this (naïve?) optimism:

"Much of the land will be given back to nature. People will enjoy living near a forest or meadow," he said.

Here's to hoping the land isn't already toast from pollutants and toxins.

for H.:

Over the coming weeks and months I'll display a growing collection of works created by invited contributing artists and myself. We share a love and admiration for Sendak's work and the pieces we present here are done as a tribute to his life and legacy. ¶ Simply put, like a visual love letter to the book, with Terrible Yellow Eyes I am seeking to celebrate and promote the original masterwork by Maurice Sendak in the best way I know how — with pictures.

via lepht — some cool stuff here

at CSS Class

"Conclusion: Not Ready" — hope you like font tags!

at The Millions (via B²): It was funny when the proverbial They did this for Palin's sentences; interesting to see it here for Obama's.

Uh… What he said?

Why do we use floats for layout, anyway? clear. That’s pretty much the whole answer. The unique in-flow/out-of-flow nature of floats means they interact with each other and with the normal flow, which means they can be cleared, which makes them useful.

at Carrer Blog

"Your money at work." (Let's make every penny count, people.)

at TUAW

via /.

at COSMOS magazine (via /.)

at Wired Science

via Slashdot (via lawnczar, others)

at Ajaxian: neat!

The Sigma they reference also sounds pretty damn hot. (Plus, the Sigma lens is for Canon bodies.)

by Lebbeus Woods (via B²): this movie would have been far more interesting. Then again, I said that when I heard about the alternate William Gibson script as well.

via DF: it's all about the spit-and-polish, baby.

via DF: I agree with Gruber that:

none of these apps scale to handle the needs of advanced users, but I disagree that it’s necessarily a problem. [...] …Apple’s unstated policy this decade has been that they’re going to knock themselves out making outstanding software that does the simple things for typical users very well.

It's not a problem if that's the scope to which you're limiting the project. That said, the "problem apps" cited are the ones targeted at (e.g.) "[t]he user with 200 photos today" and not necessarily "the user with 2000 a year from now"; that's a different realm of user with different needs. Echoing J.G. again: that's "where the third-party opportunities are."

via DF (and re: A.P.): like Anderson, the data I feed into VoodooPad follows at least a loose structure to begin with (i.e., dated pages serve as daily logs/journal entries with hyperlinks to common reference items (e.g., projects, knowledge subjects, etc.)) so I reject the faulty preposition that "everything buckets" are ipso facto Not A Good Idea. This is not to say that Payne's argument is not without some merits (i.e., the old axiom about garbage coming out when you put garbage in) but Anderson has a good counter-point in that average users utilize such a small percentage of their clock cycles anyway that we (as engineers) are doing them a disservice by not off-loading some of that work onto the CPU.

This is what I'll be reading (eating?) from now on. Also: this makes me want a bacon-wrapped double-stuffed Oreo®, drizzled with a prime rib fat reduction.

Didn't I flag this as "check this out" once before? Worth checking out…?

at instantShift: I don't know if these necessarily qualify as "hacks" (tricks, maybe?) but useful tips.

at Yahoo! User Interface Blog

via Mom: weird to see these; just plain weird.

at A List Apart

at stopdesign

Extensions like these make me wish I could get over my distaste for Firefox. (There. I said it.)

at Curious Expeditions (via Neatorama)

looks really fraggin' good

at Swivel Featured Graphs :: once again: go VT!

via LifeHacker (among others) :: open source SVG editor (and Illustrator alternative). "Draw Freely."

via LifeHacker (among others) :: open source SVG editor (and Illustrator alternative). "Draw Freely."

at ReadWriteWeb