December 2009
FreeHand vs. Illustrator →
The only designers I know who preferred Illustrator were those who never really learned FreeHand. It says here that FreeHand is the greatest app that ever died. Update: I’m getting an earful from…
Good Thing George Lucas Likes Family Guy [Family... →
Family Guy gets away with murder weekly, but that’s especially true when it comes to episodes (or entire movies for that matter) that satirize the highly litigious house of Star Wars….
Part of Rebellion #3 – Erosie →
It’s great to see that Christian Hundertmark, aka C100, is marching on strong with his Part of Rebellion series with Publikat. In the third installment of the series the attention shifts…
Most remote places on Earth. →
Most remote places on Earth.
How James Cameron Put Down a Mutiny on the Set of... →
Shared by Michael Heilemann
Didn’t know there was a book out. Been looking for a proper Cameron book for years.
Rebecca Keegan’s book, The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron, was recently released to coincide with the release of James Cameron’s
Work Around Menu Psychology at Restaurants... →
The New York Times has a great read on menu psychology and how the fonts, ordering, and descriptions of food is engineered to get diners spending more at restaurants. Read a different way, it’s…
Show The World What You're Drinking, With The... →
Remember those plastic glasses we had as kids, which changed color if liquid was inside? You’d quite often get them for 99c with a kid’s meal at a fast food chain. These are the next (grown-up)…
Gears of War studio demoes Unreal Engine 3 running... →
Also set to make an appearance on another mobile platform
Replacements for the lost screen sharing Bonjour... →
Back when 10.5 came out, this hint about enabling the screen sharing Bonjour browser was quite popular. Unfortunately, Apple disabled this very useful feature at some point during 10.5’s life cycle,…
Slaterspeed →
What can I say about Slaterspeed? As far as Urban Exploration goes, he seems to have done more than most and, more importantly for us, taken the best photos of his adventures. These…
CSS + jQuery: Highlight important keywords inside... →
A few days ago while working on a new UI component I had to come up with a solution to highlight identified keywords (using named entity recognition) inside of a chunk of user generated text. While…
K2 1.0 →
Yes. It’s true, revision 898 was the lucky number. For the impatient, go get it. What is K2? This is K2. You’re looking at it. K2 is a theme for WordPress based on experiences learned during…
K2 goes 1.0 →
It took long enough, but K2 just went 1.0. Oh what a feeling. Now to get the localization effort in a row and ready for 1.1.
Kandra and One Light… →
I work with Kelby Media a bunch, and, as I have said before, they are like family. So much so, the intrepid Scriv, their videographer, volunteered his lovely wife Kandra for a shoot we did not…
Daring Fireball: Why the HTML5 'Video' Element Is... →
I seldom post video to DF, but when I do, I refuse to embed Flash,1 I want the markup to be sane and standard, I want the video to play in popular standards-compliant web browsers, and I don’t want…
The Best and Worst Identities of 2009 →
2009 has been a great year for Brand New, with a bottomless source of new and redesigned identities from around the world, and we’ve all had good fun critiquing them in sickness and in health….
Rabbits nerve system by ROA →
Amazing use of the environment by ROA.
Nikon D90 Mirror Lock -Up? →
Mirror Lock up (MLU) what is it and does the D90 have it?
What: Mirror lock-up (often abbreviated to MLU) is a feature employed in many Single Lens Reflex (SLR) cameras. It…
WordPress 2.9, oh so fine →
I want to make you mine, all the time… oh wait. Hello. I’m here on behalf of the entire WordPress development team and community to announce the immediate availability of WordPress version 2.9…
Shaun Of The Dead Photoshoot →
Back in November, Total Film assembled at a secret location somewhere in London for a photoshoot to die for.
Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright, the team behind Total Film’s Comedy of the…
Funniest Video Ever! →
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20 Famous and Not-so-famous Logo Design... →
Colorful thoughts by pushOK-12
Whenever, we have to get logo designs, we simply access some of the top logo design galleries which we have on our finger tips….
Tank-Racecar Mashups are a Different Brand of... →
What do you get when you cross an oil tanker with a chopper? How about tank with a racecar or a taxi? You might end up with cartoonist Stan Mott’s surreal illustrations of imaginary vehicles. Stan Mott
There Is No Page Fold →
True. (Via Sam Soffes.)
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Craig Mod: 16 Days in the Himalayas With a... →
I love this: a photo essay and camera review together in one piece. Truly remarkable. Regarding the advantages of small viewfinder-less cameras, Mod writes: About halfway through the trip I…
New Years Eve →
Don’t know about you but I tend to leave picking what to do for NYE until the last minute, here are some options, hope every one has a good one!
Gentle Bren and Red Indie at Little Johnny Russells…
♥ Copenhagen: Police State (Meidell Vs. Doctorow) →
This morning saw a rather interesting discussion between my friend and colleague Brian Meidell and esteemed Boing Boing co-editor, Cory Doctorow. The debate is whether Denmark has turned in to…
Nikon Shotguns the Web With Goodness →
Hey, you. If you are a Nikon shooter and use CLS, you definitely want to head over to Nikon’s site for three new free lighting vids. Heck, even if you aren’t a Nikon type, it’s worth the…
X Factor - Killing In The Name Of - Rage Against... →
Photographer confusion over police stop policy →
The City of London Police has repeated its call for photographers to carry identification in spite of insistence by the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) that photographers do not need to…
“ACPO spokesman Andy Trotter told the BBC’s Jeremy Vine radio show on...”
– Photographer confusion over police stop policy news - Amateur Photographer
Video: A few photographs add up to a minor... →
CSS3 animations and their jQuery equivalents →
As you might know already, I’m not a big fan of animations that are added in CSS3. Yet, several people on Twitter told me why they really like the feature. At that point, I wanted to play around with…
Red Bull Racing's Sebastian Vettel Wishes You All... →
German Formula One driver Sebastian Vettel thanks his fans for their support over 2009 and wishes you all a very happy Christmas.
Red Bull Racing's Mark Webber Wishes You All A... →
Aussie F1 driver Mark Webber thanks his fans for their support over the 2009 seaosn and wishes them all a very happy Christmas.
Spec Ops: The Line 'Extended Debut Trailer'... →
Remember to click the HD button
Spec Ops: The Line is a provocative and gripping third-person modern military shooter that challenges players’ morality by putting them in the middle of unspeakable…