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

Mannahatta Project – Explore New York City in 1609

For anyone that knows New York, loves nature, maps or history, this is a terrific project: http://themannahattaproject.org/ “Have you ever wondered what New York was like before it was a city? Find out here, by navigating through the map below … Continue reading