From National Geographic, comes the Public Profiler, an interactive world map of surnames. Where do you have family? Was surprised to see “Grogg” so prominent in Switzerland… A great-looking product from Adobe, Adobe Nav, let’s you use your iPad as … Continue reading
Category Archives: environment
Global Warming, Coming to Continent Near You
Care at all about what’s going on with our planet? I just watched an interesting, if not completely and thoroughly depressing, Charlie Rose interview with Bill McKibben, author of many, many books about the environment, including Eaarth. Bill had much … Continue reading
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A nice CSS3 article from Brothercake showing how to (subtlety) apply text-shadow for a slightly embossed effect. Now, note, I am not talking about the old-school drop shadow we all hate, that looks like your browser is having a seizure. … Continue reading
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If you’re a web developer, I can just about guarantee that you use Firefox to do your business, am I right? But I’ll also guarantee that you’ve started getting sick of it too, right? It has gotten soooooooo sssllloooowwwww lately… … Continue reading
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Still working my way through the backlog… But I’m back down to under 250! :-) As Cameron says, “Now this is a reading experience only iPad (currently) could deliver.” Be sure to watch the video… Awesome… Anyone get a little … Continue reading
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Use stored underground wind to replace coal? Or attach a kite to boat for electricity? The idea that designers should know how to code is a hot topic lately. The next time you have a few hours to read a … Continue reading
One Scary-Ass Look into the Future: External Rewards and Jesse Schell’s Amazing Lecture
For a scary look into our future, spend 28 minutes watching (or at least listening to) this video from the DICE 2010 Summit. Are we really predestined to be tracked, every move we make, every step we take? And is … Continue reading
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With Unicode practically owning the web, A List Apart brings up a good question: What happens when you have a dynamic search (you know, ), and people search for words like “López” or “Lørgensen”? Well, Carlos Bueno has a really, … Continue reading
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For you designy-types out there, the Vintage Ad Browser is pretty fun to scroll through. The About page claims they are all real ads from days gone by, so, I guess they are… Also quite entertaining is the Cover Browser… … Continue reading
The Girl Effect: Improve the Fate of the World…
The video may be a little clunky, but the message is pure (not to mention quite possibly the truest path to fixing nearly everything wrong with this planet…). Check out the Girl Effect website and video. They are well worth … Continue reading