Feb 2, 2009
These are links I found interesting for 26/01 through 30/01:
- GlimmerBlocker — Ad blocker for Safari implemented as a non-intrusive proxy.
- Noscope | Journal | Extra Image Tags Plugin — This is a very minimalistic Wordpress plugin, which finds all images you insert into your posts, and wrap them in extra divs, so you can style the hell out of them.
- The $300 Million Button — “It's hard to imagine a form that could be simpler: two fields, two buttons, and one link. Yet, it turns out this form was preventing customers from purchasing products from a major e-commerce site, to the tune of $300,000,000 a year. What was even worse: the designers of the site had no clue there was even a problem.”
- Cops Talk Funny — “From recruits in academies to senior officers and command staff, you talk funny when you take the stand. Is it in the water at the academies; is there a secret society where you're taught this special language?”
- Videogames outsell DVD and Blu-ray in 2008 — Retail sales of videogames overtook that of DVD and Blu-ray for the first time, as sales of packaged media grew 6 per cent worldwide to hit USD 61 billion in 2008, according to Media Control GfK International.
Jan 23, 2009
I’m trying Postalicious to automagically post my Ma.gnolia bookmarks whenever I have enough of them to post. I’ll need to fiddle a bit with the settings, so for the moment I’m doing a bit of manual stuff. Let’s see how this works and if I actually manage to write stuff between the generated link dumps…
I’ve already found some bug in the default templates that try to stick paragraph tags in silly places.
These are my links for January 23rd from 04:38 to 04:41:
- Dutch government study: net effect of P2P use is positive – The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs commissioned a study by research company TNO about how much Dutch Internet users download music, movies, and games, and what the social and economic effects of this downloading are.
- Practika: A Free Icon Set – Practika: a free set of 11 practical and useful high-quality icons, designed by DryIcons, especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The icons are available in resolutions 64×64px, 128×128px
Jan 10, 2009
Favorite quote of the month from this Techdirt article:
Law enforcement isn’t supposed to be easy in a free society. If the goal of society was to make law enforcement’s life easy, we’d get rid of all privacy rights entirely. The excuse that this is somehow “necessary” for law enforcement to do their job is a lie. It may mean they have to investigate crimes in different ways, but no blanket removal of privacy is ever “necessary.”
Apr 17, 2008
This World of Goo trailer kind of makes me want a Wii. The combination of cutesy looks (somewhat Tim Burton-ish) and ominous, melancholy epic music tickles my brain in all the right spots.
Apr 2, 2008
The new British coin designs are indeed very lovely. Via Kottke.
Mar 4, 2006
I don’t support Netscape, Firefox or any other webbrowsers since I believe that there should be one HTML standard and not a dozen. Pixels on the web
Ahahahahahahahaha!
Way to not understand what a web standard is, buddy.
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