Jul
23
2008
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Walks through how to use a feature on the site ColourLovers.com that automatically creates a color palette based on a photo you provide.
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“Layoffs, a shrinking news hole and drops in circulation have created a grim climate for The Post and newspapers in general. Weymouth explains why she still has hope for her paper and the industry.”
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NYT designer Felix Sockwell describes the process he went through in designing the icons for the paper’s new iPhone app.
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Furniture and accessories geared toward small homes / apartments.
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“…customizable tray that can be used for carrying breakfast in bed, or in the bathroom as a special area to display your favorite perfume or jewelry.”
Jul
22
2008
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“How fast, and how treacherous, are the currents sweeping over The New York Times? This September, its home page … will start automatically displaying links to competitors’ takes on big news. That’s not your traditional paper of record.”
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Interview with one of the creators of ‘The Venture Brothers’
Jul
21
2008
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“A variety of topics are covered in the Census Atlas, ranging from language and ancestry characteristics to housing patterns and the geographic distribution of the population. A majority of the maps in the Census Atlas present data at the county level.”
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Stripped-down, one-take recordings of indie bands performing in the back of a London Black Cab. Bigger names include Death Cab for Cutie, New Pornographers and Spoon.
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“But for all of the places that Google Maps allows you to see, there are plenty of places that are off-limits. Whether it’s due to government restrictions, personal-privacy lawsuits or mistakes,” the site has obscured these 51 sites.
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“Light doodling or light drawing can be described as the simple act of capturing the trace of a narrow moving source of light using long exposure photography, long being defined as seconds or minutes.”
Jul
19
2008
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Dayo Olopade writes, “A survey of Obama in pencil, ink and paint shows artists are struggling to get the brother right.”
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“Hillary Clinton’s campaign had it all: near-death moments, hard-won triumphs, dysfunctional relationships —- and a staff consumed with infighting over how to sell their candidate.”
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“You’ve been carrying out the game plan for the old coach, a plan that might be modified or dropped. Everything and everyone is up for re-evaluation … You now have to prove yourself all over again.”
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McCain’s campaign uses version-tracking software to monitor changes to Obama’s Web site related to Obama’s stance on the war in Iraq.
Jul
18
2008
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“Even The Wall Street Journal’s famed stipple portraits (known internally as ‘hedcuts’) aren’t immune from the bummer that is the credit crisis.”
Jul
17
2008
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Peter Morville’s collection of design pattern screenshots
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“Seven years after the death of legendary Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham, her 42-year-old granddaughter has taken over control of the paper and is shaking up the newsroom.”
Jul
16
2008
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Google will index text w/in a Flash file, BUT “[if] your Flash file loads an HTML file, an XML file, another SWF file, etc., Google will separately index that resource, but it will not yet be considered to be part of the content in your Flash file.”
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New book about failed attempts to apply for U.S. statehood.
Jul
15
2008
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Erin writes, “For the duration of the month, I’m going to have battery-powered laptop weekends … I hope that this process helps me to better prioritize my time away from work and relax and rejuvenate to make my official work time more productive.”
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“There are many fun examples of art with typography out there, but type maps in particular are something that you don’t see often enough.”
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“The Capitol Letters Writing Center bills itself as ‘The Greatest Writing Center on Earth!’ … The Ringling Bros.-inspired operation hopes to fill a void in traditional literacy programs by bringing creative writing to District kids ages 6 to 18.”
Jul
12
2008
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Popular and electoral vote totals for every U.S. presidential election, dating back to Washington.
Jul
11
2008
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“Daniel Lyons, the former Forbes magazine journalist who wrote the blog The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs for the last two years, is moving on with his professional life and creative pursuits.”
birthday on haunted hill
After taking the scenic route back from Moab, we made it back to Denver by mid-evening. Our friends the Yees were kind enough to host us during our time in Denver, and they brought us to a great sushi restaurant and neighborhood gelato shop.
The next morning, fortified and rested up, we headed north to Estes Park, Colo., where our friend Aaron was hosting a surprise fortieth birthday party for our friend Pamela at The Stanley Hotel, perhaps best known as the inspiration for Stephen King’s The Shining. (The Kubrick movie was filmed in Oregon, but a television mini-series version of the book was filmed at the Stanley. There’s a channel in the Stanley’s guest rooms that play both in constant rotation.)
Aaron had started planning this event way in advance, sending out the first Evite back in January. Friends from all over the country attended — from Colorado, Arizona and D.C. — and Pamela’s family flew in a few days early from North Carolina.
Rob and I tend to be pretty plugged-in and open about what we’re up to, and as the date of the party approached, it proved surprisingly challenging to keep mum. On Twitter and Flickr, we maintained “radio silence” about the specifics of our whereabouts as best we could. There were a few slip-ups, though, and for a time we were worried about having spoiled the surprise.
But everything turned out fine — wonderful, even. And Pamela was indeed surprised.
photo of the day: sunset at balanced rock
Because I felt like posting another dramatic Moab photo… (I can’t emphasize enough how gorgeous that place was.) Taken at Balanced Rock in Arches National Park.
More Photos from Arches: June 11 | June 12
Jul
10
2008
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“Yahoo and Getty Images said Tuesday that they have entered into a partnership under which “Getty editors will comb Flickr in search of interesting images … Those who are included in the program will get paid at the same rates that Getty pays photograph
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Nice-looking Subversion client for the Mac. Much less intimidating than the command-line interface.
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If I was a piece of IKEA furniture, I’d be a table named ÄLLII.
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“Steve Heller … talks about the plethora of political merchandise offered by the presidential candidates — and what it says about them.”
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Cameron Adams compares handwriting samples of various typographers. “Do typographers exert some extraordinary control of the pen that laypersons don’t? Does a typographer’s handwriting influence the typefaces they produce?”
Jul
9
2008
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“For every day that Congress is in session, Capitol Words displays the most frequently used word in the Congressional Record.”
Jul
8
2008
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Nice cartogram / timeline of changing population densities.
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“Marcus Brauchli has been named executive editor of The Washington Post … Brauchli will succeed Leonard Downie Jr., who has run the newsroom for 17 years. He will also assume control of the paper’s Web site.”
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“Favorites include the boozy lemon rum cake with lemon buttercream, chocolate and peanut butter ganache, and carrot cake with cream cheese. For that special sweet tooth, Couture offers a bouquet of five or 24 cupcakes.”
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