Mr. Stephen Fry helps out around the office by announcing to my colleagues which development environment is about to be updated.
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My work ordered a keyboard for me. It arrived in a box. Nice.
Updated IE9 gradients with rounded corners
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 [...]
Quick peel garlic
I found this wackiness on the metafilter: How to Peel a Head of Garlic in Less Than 10 Seconds from SAVEUR.com on Vimeo. It totally, mostly, works. (I had a few cloves left unpeeled. They were the strongest. The deserve to live.)
Facebook in the news
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 [...]
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 [...]
