Naming and shaming sites that use black hat, anti-usability design patterns.
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links for 2010-09-20
This Infant Star Wars Yoda Halloween costume will be sure the force is with baby when he's dressed in this adorable Yoda costume for Halloween.
The Star Wars saga will at long last be released in a high-definition home video format as all six movies come to Blu-Ray in a Box Set in Fall 2011, as announced by George Lucas this morning at Celebration V. At the fan convention's Main Event, thousands of Star Wars fans braved the muggy heat of an Orlando morning to queue for a one-time only stage session between George Lucas and The Daily Show's Jon Stewart. Stewart asked Lucas questions submitted from the fan community, and one of the most frequently asked questions submitted online prior to the Main Event was about the saga's release on Blu-Ray.
"I wish I could say it was coming out this year," said Lucas, "but it will come out next year."
The set will feature all six live-action Star Wars feature films, with the highest picture and audio quality, along with extensive special features.
Star Wars fans were treated to a glimpse of bonus material, in the form of a long-lost deleted scene from Return of the Jedi.
Between Facebook sharing your vacation photos and friends list to the world, and Google tracking every search you've ever made, most of us have pretty much given up on the idea of privacy on the Internet. What is easy to forget is that real-world privacy is no better.
No matter how paranoid or how careful you are, if somebody wants to find you, and listen to what you're saying, they will. After all, we're living in a world where there exist things like…
Our friends at FilmDrunk are reporting on rumors that George Lucas has plans to produce a new Star Wars trilogy of movies. In 3D.
Of course, there's a high likelihood these rumors are just that. And, if true, this new trilogy could actually be pretty good, as word is George Lucas wouldn't be directing any of the films, and Steven Spielberg or Francis Ford Coppola might. Nevertheless, anytime the "In 3D" tag is attached to a sequel, it sounds an awful lot like an attempt to squeeze dollars out of a franchise that has long gone stale.
If that's the case, when did Star Wars lose its way? Or do you think an extra dimension is just the thing to enhance an epic story line that still brings as much heat as ever?
Some people claim that they never remember any of their dreams.
Those people are missing out on some of the best moments of their lives.
Email is taking up too much time in our lives.
Do yourself and your recipients a favor by making your emails 3 sentences or less.
If we all do it, imagine the time we’ll have to do other things.
If this was an actual email reply and not a blog post, it would have ended before this sentence started. I’ve been trying a new solution to email overload by limiting emails to 3 sentences or less. You can learn the details in just 5 sentences at three.sentenc.es. The basic concept is to treat all email replies like SMS messages. I take this one step further and try to write initial emails in 3 sentences or less whenever possible.
I first learned about 3 sentence emails from a post by Kevin Rose, where he lists 5 good email time saving tips.
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links for 2010-09-18
Clone Wars Adventures is a brand-new action-packed online game where you can experience the thrills and excitement of Star Wars™: The Clone Wars™ first hand.
The GTTV crew just revealed a new cut-scene from the highly anticipated sequel to the fastest selling Star Wars game ever: The Force Unleashed II
Starkiller encounters an Imperial greeting party upon arriving at the stronghold in search of an unnamed Jedi in this cut-scene from Force Unleashed II!
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links for 2010-09-17
Note to webapp developers: the + character is a valid part of an email address. Don't stop me from using it. And fix your broken CGI parsing so + isn't treated as space.
The + has a very useful meaning in almost all mailers: stuff after it is ignored. Ie, xyzzy@example.com and xyzzy+foo@example.com are basically treated as the same email address by example.com's mailer. Both addresses deliver to the mailbox owned by xyzzy. This has been a feature of sendmail for at least 10 years. It works in Postfix and qmail, too.
The plus sign makes it easier to track how your email address is spread around. If I ever get email to nelson+cheapviagra@monkey.org, I know who to blame. It's also helpful if you're debugging webapps and need to create email-keyed accounts.
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links for 2010-09-16
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The other day my fellow co-worker, Cameron, and I were discussing what the best way to style the hr tag? I usually try to use a div if I just need a line for presentation. But what if I need to style an hr that is used on an existing site. It is certainly easier to apply a simple style to the hr tag in the style sheet to make the change. However, each browser, as you can guess has a different way to render them. At first I thought it was Mozilla and the rest of its crew that was rendering the styles incorrectly. However, surprise surprise, it turned out to be IE that did it incorrectly in the end.
Here are my solutions and examples on how to get the hr tag to render the same in the popular browsers.
By default the hr tag is center-aligned. To align it left follow the example.
What I learned at work: During an interview about green design for our Climate Desk podcast, Dwell magazine editor Aaron Britt dropped a word on me I hadn’t heard before: Retronym. It means, “a word or phrase for something that now has to be specified because it is no longer identifiable in its original state.” For example, the retronym “acoustic guitar” exists only because there are now electric guitars. Other retronyms include digital clock, sit-down restaurant, black-and-white photo. You get the idea. Britt believes green design is a retronym because once upon a time homes were built with the environment in mind as opposed to how they are built now. The invention of the word has been attributed to former NPR president and Robert Kennedy press aid, Frank Mankiewicz, circa 1980. Thinking of retronyms is a good time killer and I believe a great Scrabble word if you get lucky.
Eric Schmidt has confirmed that we could be getting “Google Me” sometime this Fall. This Google Me service will introduce what Google calls “a social layer” into online search, video and Google Maps.
The Wall Street Journal and Reuters quote Google CEO Eric Schmidt saying the company will integrate social networking elements to its services.
What’s interesting to me is that this doesn’t sound like it’s going to be a stand-alone product — it appears the plan is to weave some social goodness into Google’s existing product base. Squeezing social stuff into their already successful products is probably Google’s best shot at getting widespread adoption — as I imagine it would be extremely difficult to get 500 million users to see the value in a competing service, and then decide to switch.
I am looking forward to see what Google’s got up it’s sleeve — and I’m hoping it’s going to knock my socks off. What do you think “Google Me” will look like?
There are many ways to play Super Mario Bros. 3. This… is not one of them. With Mario's 25th birthday just passed, it's nice to see some retro funniness coming out of the internet woodwork. This new video from YouTube's Master0fHyrule shows exactly how not to get to the secret area in the clouds of level 1-3:
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links for 2010-09-13
Sorry Comics are a collection of autobiographical stories from my life. I started this process in 2006 during a tumultuous break-up and I can't seem to shake the habit. Hopefully, you'll find them to be humorous, self-effacing, awkward, funny, uncomfortable and humiliating (for both you and me).
Incredible Star Wars Propaganda Posters
The first time I met William was at a friends house and he was showing everyone a documentary.
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links for 2010-09-12
The original Star Wars villain has mastered the lightsaber and the ways of Force. You will join him or die.
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links for 2010-09-11
The European Space Agency has just released images showing all the satellites and human-made debris now orbiting space as a result of 51 years of launching stuff since Sputnik. That's about 6,000 satellites up there—of which only 800 remain operational—plus thousands of other objects from launches and accidents. According to their mindblowing simulations things are getting a lot worse:
About 50 percent of all trackable objects are due to in-orbit explosion events (about 200) or collision events (less than 10).
Yes, we knew that there was a lot of crap out there, but not to this extent. According to the ESA, this is really bad news and urgent measures are needed. Explosions in space are not disastrous on their own, but because of the aftermath. One example: a geostationary satellite travels at 6,213 miles per hour. If it explodes, all the debris stays near the orbit, forming a cloud around the Earth within a few days, as this simulation shows:
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links for 2010-09-09
Websites are being used more and more effectively everyday to promote Products, Services, Ideas and countless.
A well-designed website is very important for the growth of a business and often to create a clear image of a brand.
Here are the 10 Awesome, inspiring and creative website design. There are many other awesome designs which we will be covering later.
There are many people who claims WordPress Blogs better than Blogger Blog. The main reason behind this is it’s flexibility and our capability to edit the core source of the WordPress blog, which is not available for Blogger Blogs.
There are several posts in internet who gives all those non-sense reasons to choose WordPress over Blogger, with some reasons like low quality themes, less flexible, no good plugins and author’s love over the money that he’ve invested in hosting for his blog makes him to post good articles. These kinds of reviews are usually done by WordPress Fans.
A blog in simple terms is a web log with some text, images, videos and audios. Where Pyra Lab’s Blogger is the first blog system in the world internet history. Later Google purchased it just 11 years ago. Later other blogging platforms started to rise up copying the features of Blogger.
Let’s get real for a second here. As far as web languages go, CSS is arguably the simplest. I mean, really, what could be easier than a simple list of properties affecting an element? And the syntax is almost like written English. Want to change the font size? There’s a font-size CSS property. How about the color? There’s the color property.
But despite its deceptively easy exterior, CSS is one complicated system, especially when you’re doing it in a professional, high-scale, high-performance level. The sheer number of ways to select an element is amazing; not to mention the number of properties you can apply to that selected element set and then how presentation changes when you’re talking about supporting multiple browsers and layout engines.
Top Ten Free Online Tools For Web Developers
In this collection I would like to show you very handy and useful online applications for developers and web masters. If you are a developer you will love these freely available online applications. Using them you can improve the quality and accuracy of your development work.
You might also like to view : Top 16 Free Online Tools for Designers or Top 20 Free Business Web Applications
I hope you’ll like them all!
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