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 [...]
Hosting
About that taking a break thing
Shawn Blanc saw the same study I did and found this great looking Mac app for scheduling those breaks.
My college-aged self would have killed for this.
But now? An interesting curiosity. Wacom Inkling smart pen does drawing the old-fashioned way — sort of (video) — Engadget.
IT department on the Enterprise
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.
Sit down, dummy
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. [...]
The Boston Globe redesign
The Boston Globe had redone their web site with a very nice, clean, reading-focused layout that takes advantage of modern CSS techniques. If you’re using a modern browser, try resizing your browser window to roughly the size of an iPhone. The layout will reformat based upon the screen size. This is a super neat-o method to [...]
Purging and consolidating
I finished a little project this weekend. I had a rickety file drawer next to my desk. This file drawer came to live with me when I moved to Portland. It came disassembled in a flat box. Some assembly was required. It looked handsome enough on the web site. “Sturdy steel construction”, it said. It [...]
Here’s how it starts
It started with a table. A ratty table whose laminate top was peeling apart. “Free – great for patio” was scrawled on a sign taped to the top of the table. Yes, place this table on your patio where the wind, rain, and sun can finish what was started. After this table, there was another [...]
RGBA in IE 7 and 8
I found this little trick today for tricking legacy IE into using RGBA colors – that is a color defined with transparency. It seems to work fairly well, with some caveats, specifically potential font weirdness. http://kilianvalkhof.com/2010/css-xhtml/how-to-use-rgba-in-ie/
Vodka Nation | The Weekly Standard
I came across this article via the ever Daring Fireball and it quickly got picked up by the Metafilter. It’s a good discussion of how vodka became popular in the US, largely due to really good advertising. It also validates my opinion that vodka makes lousy martinis. Vodka Nation | The Weekly Standard.
