March 2010
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Spotify iPhone app update coming soon →
Just got my update. Nice that it now scrobbles, but the starred thing doesn’t seem to be enabled yet.
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Almost got my trainers ruined today when a bus ran over a puddle.
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WatchThe Check–in War: Gowalla vs. Foursquare
Personally, Gowalla. Partly because when I first joined Gowalla, Foursquare didn’t allow user–created spots, so there wasn’t much point for me if I wasn’t in one of their supported cities. That’s irrelevant now since it’s no longer the case. But I still don’t like Foursquare.
For me, the experience of Gowalla is just...
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HTML5 & CSS3 Checklist →
chrisbowler:
For de[s]igners embracing CSS3 and HTML5, check out this handy browser comparison chart.
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Watching F1: 2010 Australian GP
BBC’s stream full screen on the MacBook Pro on my desk, me in bed under the duvet with iPhone in hand doing my morning Internet checks. I’m comfy.
BBC’s using Fireflies as background music for one of their features!
John Travolta was at qualifying yesterday?
McLaren’s factory is so frickin’ cool.
Love that the BBC actually explain to us how things work....
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“The cat’s courage is only as strong as the dog’s chain.”
– @owlcity
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China Hands Down New Rules on Media Coverage of... →
B. Forums, blogs and other interactive media sections:
It is not permitted to hold discussions or investigations on the Google topic
Interactive sections do not recommend this topic, do not place this topic and related comments at the top
All websites please clean up text, images and sound and videos which attack the Party, State, government agencies, Internet policies with the excuse of...
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“It’s called a presentation, not a PowerPoint read–a–long.”
– @leeclowsbeard
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Bungie Reveals Halo: Reach's All-Encompassing... →
Investments, Challenges, and Commendations. Sweet.
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Custom Scrollbars →
webkitbits:
Beautiful Pixels has posted a nice little summary on adding custom WebKit scrollbars to your site. Will have to add some here soon… (via strake)
Might do this sometime. And by “might” I mean if and when I get round to starting last summer’s summer project.
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Me real beauties: Cap’n Jack bans false breasts →
The Times:
In a request to casting directors circulated around Los Angeles last week, the film–makers say they are seeking “beautiful female fit models. Must be 5ft 7in–5ft 8in, size 4 or 6, no bigger or smaller. Age 18–25. Must have a lean dancer body. Must have real breasts. Do not submit if you have implants.”
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Sources said this was the first time such an edict had been passed on a...
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“I also was at a Ferrari charity event this week raising money for a hospital...”
– Michael Bay
Since when did Ferrari have to do product placement?
(via Autoblog)
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Hong Kong's air pollution reaches record levels →
BBC:
The record levels follow severe sandstorms thousands of kilometres to the north around the Chinese capital.
Officials said the sandstorms had exacerbated Hong Kong’s worsening smog problems.
A spokeswoman for Hong Kong’s environmental agency said that the API - a ratio based on the concentration of pollutants in the air, including sulphur dioxide and lead - was at...
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Oh well, found two more assholes on Forza: itchy h0le and thunderball 79.
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What Makes a Fart →
Fascinating.
(via Gizmodo)
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How realistic is new Polanski film “The Ghost”? →
BBC:
“I don’t think the film is accurate in every detail, but by and large I think the law is reasonably well represented and presented,” [Christian Wenaweser] says.
“On balance I would say that it helps the larger public understand how international criminal justice can work.”
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Safari 4 in Safari 4 →
webkitbits:
Joshua Jones has made an experiment in WebKit which clones the Safari 4 interface with CSS3 and does not use any images.
Don’t know how webOS apps’ interfaces get composed, but this feels to me like taking Palm’s approach to creating apps one step further. Any out there have a CSS–based UI?
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The Amazing Matchstick Aircraft →
Step 1: Take a razor blade and slice a wooden matchstick in half (make sure to leave the red tip intact).
Step 2: Use glue, and the remaining half of the matchstick to design your plane.
Step 3: Catch a bunch of flies and put them in a jar. Place the jar in the freezer, and in…
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Watching F1: 2010 Bahrain GP
Weren’t tire blankets going to be banned this season? Did someone change their mind or were the BBC commentators talking rubbish last year?
Everybody has the first three letters of their surname as their abbreviation, but Schumacher’s is “MSC”?
Wonder what Glock’s talking about with Richard Branson. Kinda hard to see Branson understanding the technical stuff.
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EMs and IFRAMEs
staff:
Those funky IE–only <iframe> attributes we were injecting in themes have been adjusted to be 100% valid XHTML. Same for the Submit, Ask, and Answer forms.
We also switched the Rich Text Editor to use <em> and <strong> tags instead of <i>s and <b>s.
fuckyeah.
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“Really excited about today’s release of Gowalla for webOS. Pre and Pixi...”
– @jw
Time’s running out. Will need to decide soon whether I want to try a different smartphone once my iPhone contract runs out next month.
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WatchA Trailer for Every Academy Award Winning Movie Ever
thedailywhat:
Short blurb describing the video above as being a rather observant parody trailer in which actors self–referentially reenact many clichés often utilized by academy award-baiting films.
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Oscars Babylon: Tales from the Academy awards →
Facts and trivia. Always fun.
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Uphill, Both Ways (Multiplayer Madness Remix) by C...
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Sexual orientation terms now permitted in Xbox... →
Translation: moar devastating Xbox Live rapes.
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What happened to all the official Microsoft steering wheels for the Xbox? Why aren’t any of the major retailers carrying it anymore?
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The Dark & Disturbing World of Thomas the Train →
Zach Dundas:
Jowly, dressed in sinister undertaker’s garb, stentorian and bullying, this Topham Hatt commands the railroads. Thus, he rules all of Sodor as a kind of industrial–feudal dominion. (I have recently learned that Topham Hatt also answers to the icy Orwellian sobriquet “The Fat Controller.”) … Certainly, he wields unchecked authority over Thomas and the other trains, enforcing a...
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