This is a nice little article discusses my new favorite search engine, DuckDuckGo. DuckDuckGo’s best two features are: It has no features It respects your online privacy Well. It’s not true that it has no features. DuckDuckGo just focuses entirely on web search. It doesn’t litter the page with garbage-ey social features and doesn’t filter your [...]
Microsoft is promoting an HTML port of the popular iPhone game “Cut the rope” as a part of their marketing and promotion of Internet Explorer 10. It works well in Safari (and probably Chrome too). They include a ‘behind the scenes’ page where they discuss some of the technologies used. It’s fairly interesting but includes some [...]
I recently updated my update on working around Internet Explorer 9’s deficiencies with gradients and rounded corners. Based upon feedback from a friendly reader, I tweaked the HTC script to work when gradients are applied on hover or mouseover states – the sort of styling you might want to use on a big, friendly, rounded [...]
Poe’s law states: Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that someone won’t mistake for the real thing. This article “Typekit: Remaking the Matrix” was linked around yesterday by people I respect. A lot of dumb things are published on the internet, and [...]
Mr. Stephen Fry helps out around the office by announcing to my colleagues which development environment is about to be updated.
Update to the update: I’ve made a slight modification to the HTC script to handle mouse-over / hover events better. By “better” I mean “it handles them now.” Thanks to the reader who suggested it. Some time ago I wrote up a hacky way to work around an annoying IE9 bug. The full write-up has [...]
Facebook is starting a Political Action Committee. (Facebook, and most major tech companies employ lobbyists – Facebook has been ramping up their presence in DC) Facebook is scaring Dave Winer – Dave Winer writes about ‘frictionless sharing’ – a feature of where sites who partner with Facebook can automatically post to your news feed (and [...]
Shawn Blanc saw the same study I did and found this great looking Mac app for scheduling those breaks.
Architecture firm – ai3 – has remodeled their office to look like the interior of a television space ship. Fancy. 2001 A Space Odyssey + Star Trek = ai3′s SuperGroup Office – Core77.
Cornell University Ergonomics study recommends that standing at your desk for computer work isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. It’s a short article – here’s the nut: Stand up after every 20 minutes and move for 2 minutes. Sitting all day is obviously bad for you, but standing all day isn’t much better. [...]
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