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Perpetual nodesign in process…
the cobbler's shoes and all that.

Archive for the ' Notes ' Category

Smart Use of custom fields in WordPress

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Secondary HTML Content (WordPress plug-in) « C. Murray Consulting.
I can’t wait to see what we can do with post types. I’m just digging into WP after burying myself in a proprietary mid-tier CMS which is good for what it does but it lacks soooo much in comparison.

Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi?

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi?.

We Feel Fine

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

We Feel Fine / by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar.
An exploration of human emotion, in six movements
I simply love projects like this that are really just interesting robots.

dBelement – Amazing web app for iPhone (android?)

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

This is it … the now of applications? This Stanza/Kindle like reader for your mobile device does offline storage of books but it’s only a webapp, it’s not a binary, device specific application. Leaps and bounds, this is the future for general content applications. I have long thought it strange that publications release device specific [...]

inessential.com: On switching away from Core Data

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

Some very good explanations of Core Data vs. a database. Thanks!
inessential.com: On switching away from Core Data.

iui – framework for iPhone webapps

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

iui – Project Hosting on Google Code.

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Ian Coyle / Superheroes, Inc. / Design / Interactive / Letterpress / Denver.
Nice simple site…

Singing the Wrong Tune

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

In his op-ed piece titled “The Fat Lady Sung” Thomas Friedman says “Welcome to the lean years” and?talks in sweeping platitudes of our demise:
Indeed, to lead now is to trim, to fire or to downsize services, programs or personnel. We?ve gone from the age of government handouts to the age of citizen givebacks, from the [...]

Voltaire’s Candide : Online Exhibitions

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

Voltaire’s Candide : Online Exhibitions.
Comprehensive exhibition site… seemingly developed in Drupal btw.
On the Road with Candide uses The New York Public Library?s on-site exhibition Candide at 250: Scandal and Success as a jumping-off point for a unique online journey ? inviting the involvement of students, scholars, artists, and more. Check out a new kind of [...]

The Windows XP Calculator is so a…

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

The windows calculator is so awful I just got my iPhone instead … And had to twit

I have long wanted to rail at …

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

I have long wanted to rail at the flow chart it takes to watch a movie you buy: http://i.imgur.com/GxzeV.jpg treat ‘em like crooks and fools

Interesting … Live Stories format from Google

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

http://bit.ly/bBH2Ky. Interesting.

Me: tries to visit restaraunt …

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

http://bit.ly/bjuX89 Me: (tries to visit a local restaurant’s website via iPhone)
Restaurant website: I require Flash. Fuck off.

I believe anyone with a half s…

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

I believe anyone with a half serious publication should ban the word “fanboi” Serious. RT @crunchgear: iPad of paper – http://tcrn.ch/9dStSZ

RT @zefrank: an augmented real…

Monday, February 15th, 2010

RT @zefrank: an augmented reality dream :: http://vimeo.com/8569187 :: and some augmented reality reality from TED :: http://bit.ly/aVLORd