Death to Humans! Visions of the Apocalypse in Movies and Literature: Scientific American 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! (tagged: film […]
Climb On! by Lisa Katayama, at Boing Boing — Absolutely awesome article. I agree with every word. (Except about the Rubik's cube; I kind of hate the Rubik's cube.) Climbing feels like playing Tetris with my body. (tagged: climbing exercise mental geek ) HTML5 Elements and Attributes (tagged: html5 webdev documentation ) Efficient JavaScript at […]
UglifyJS at GitHub (via Badass JavaScript) — a new minifier/mangler/compressor utility running in Node.js. (tagged: code javascript compression Node.js minify ) A JavaScript implementation of the Content Aware Image Resizing algorithm at Badass JavaScript — this seems to keep coming up… (tagged: canvas html5 javascript image todo ) When does JavaScript trigger reflows and rendering? […]
An implausibly illustrated introduction to HTML5 Web Workers (tagged: javascript workers html5 webdev ) A Man, A Plan And A Sharpie: ‘The Great Typo Hunt’ at NPR (tagged: writing awesome english funny grammar npr ) The Self-Publishing Novelist: Report from the Trenches at SXSW 2011 PanelPicker (tagged: writing publishing sxsw ) 10 web revolutionaries at […]
40 billionaires pledge to donate half their wealth at msnbc.com — Let's check back in annually, shall we? (tagged: blog business news politics society charity ) My Biggest Fear as a Developer… at Beautiful Interfaces (via @rmurphey) (tagged: design ui ux ) HTML5 Fuzzies Zeldman on "HTML5": To encourage what should be encouraged, yet not […]
Perfection kills » How ECMAScript 5 still does not allow to subclass an array at Perfection kills (via Bad Ass JavaScript) (tagged: article javascript arrays todo ) HTML5: Changing the browser-URL without refreshing page at Spoiled Milk ApS (via Bad Ass JavaScript) (tagged: HTML5 pushState javascript navigation url ) Diffable (tagged: javascript diff ajax performance […]
Janet Fitch’s 10 rules for writers Careful w/ #2 though… (tagged: fiction language literature writing ) 11 Ways to Speed Up WordPress (tagged: wordpress optimization ) Nice Entity "Find your character!" — what a great idea (and a great design) (tagged: ascii Unicode webdev xhtml design entities reference typography cheatsheet ) Caching Improvements in Internet […]
Launch Pad Workshop report: Five best discoveries in astronomy over the past 20 years (tagged: science ) What Can You Tell Me About Ri? at Al Dente (tagged: rye whiskey todo ) The Only HTML5 Resources You Need for Getting Up to Speed (tagged: html5 webdev ) Dojo Confessions (Or: How I gave up my […]
Build Your Own Furniture: 9 Helpful Tips For Non-Carpenters at Wise Bread — resonates with me because I've been thinking about making a bookshelf or three… (tagged: woodworking carpentry DIY furniture essay todo ) Data URIs make CSS sprites obsolete at NCZOnline — yes please, anything to kill off sprites (tagged: css datauri webdev ) […]
Regex Syntax Highlighter at Flagrant Badassery (tagged: regex todo ) OpenSocial at Google Code (tagged: ajax api code documentation opensocial webdev javascript google framework todo work ) Sass "Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets" (tagged: code css sass framework generator Ruby tools webdev work todo ) Fresh SF Futures by the always fabulous Rudy Rucker (via B²) (tagged: […]