BeatnikPad Bagatelle
Miscellany from the wilds of the Web. Always fresh! (Newsfeed)
le 1, mai 2008
- CSS Homer, animated
- Homer created with just CSS and text. WOW.
le 28, avril 2008
le 21, avril 2008
- The Making of Bjork’s 3-D ‘Wanderlust’ Video
- It’s just amazing that there is actually not a lot of CGI in the video - puppets, baby!
le 17, avril 2008
- Milliways: Infocom’s Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- I don’t know how Andy got his hands on this, but it brings a tear of nostalgia to this old fart nerd.
le 18, mars 2008
- Neverland
- Urban exploration of Michael Jackson’s playground.
le 13, mars 2008
- Cover story: Blown away
- Fascinating story of the rise and abrupt fall of a Canadian internet company.
- Six-Word Reviews of 763 SXSW Mp3s by Paul Ford
- Too much music for one person.
le 12, mars 2008
- DOTHETEST
- Quite the fun and clever awareness test.
le 5, mars 2008
- “The Connection Has Been Reset”
- Fascinating article on how the Chinese Internet firewall works.
le 4, mars 2008
- Creating A Successful Online Portfolio
- I see so many portfolios from prospective employees that utter fail that I wish this was required reading.
le 3, mars 2008
- Jeff Healey dies
- Really, really sad news. Rest in peace, Mr. Healey.
le 22, février 2008
- Winners of the What is Graphic design poster competition | Veerle’s blog
- There’s some really lovely work here (and wow, great prizes!)
le 18, février 2008
- 1999: My Career Begins With an Epiphany
- Great explanation on design education and why design is important.
le 13, février 2008
- Mini-muscleman: Meet the world’s smallest bodybuilder
- Gotta love the human condition.
le 8, février 2008
- Macworld reviews CSSEdit 2.6
- CSSEdit is easily my favourite CSS editor on any platform.
le 4, février 2008
- The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Monkey Boy’s three-legged race
- Brilliant analysis.
le 1, février 2008
- Apple seeks iPhone visual designer
- Um, hello, dream job?
le 24, janvier 2008
- Edward Tufte on Interface design and the iPhone
- Interesting that he does his demo using a jailbroken iPhone.
le 9, janvier 2008
- NetNewsWire 3.1 is now freeware
- Considering this is (in my opinion) the best newsreader application for any platform, this is pretty big news.
le 28, décembre 2007
- Cintiq 12WX
- I wish I could draw so I could justify buying one of these…
le 15, décembre 2007
- Seeking landmark poster design
- Armin Vit asks for suggestions for their upcoming book.
le 14, décembre 2007
- Trajan is the Movie Font
- “Everywhere I look, it’s Trajan, Trajan, Trajan.”
le 13, décembre 2007
- iPhone Video proof of concept posted
- I just gave this a try and it definitely works — pretty exciting!
- Flickr now has stats!
- They’re only for Pro customers and they need to be turned on, but this is pretty darn cool.
le 4, décembre 2007
- Edit your photos! On Flickr!
- Flickr partners with Picnik - looks awesome.
le 20, octobre 2007
- WebKit Does HTML5 Client-side Database Storage
- Wow, this is amazing news.
le 18, octobre 2007
- Win & Regine Join Springsteen on Stage
- They do State Trooper and Keep the Car Running together. Very cool. (thanks, Greg!)
le 16, octobre 2007
- An Open Letter to Larry the Cable Guy
- Written by David Cross
le 15, octobre 2007
- I Heart Zappos
- A rare and touching example of customer service that went above and beyond.
le 4, octobre 2007
- Toys manufacture in China
- Wonderfully strange photos of employees in a Chinese toy factory.
le 30, septembre 2007
- Fowl Play
- Wired magazine looks at Robot Chicken and the studio responsible for animating the series, ShadowMachine
le 2, septembre 2007
- The Author Will Take Q.’s Now
- NYTimes article on virtual book tours containing a hat tip to my man Smokler. Cool!
le 13, août 2007
- First iMac calibration impressions
- DPReview forum post on attempts to calibrate the new aluminum iMac screens
le 11, août 2007
- World’s Weirdest Animals and Creatures
- J’aime le monde.
le 9, août 2007
- The Other War: Iraq Vets Bear Witness
- Unbelievably harrowing and ugly.
le 4, août 2007
- Syncotype your baselines
- Handy bookmarklet to help make aligning text and images easier
le 3, août 2007
- Code Collector Pro
- Interesting-looking “snippets+” application that stores code snippets and supports TextMate bundles
le 30, juillet 2007
- XRAY web developer’s suite
- WestCiv ports Style Master’s XRay feature to the web - this looks like a really nice implementation
le 29, juillet 2007
- Arawareru
- Wildly gorgeous “inspiration server” portfolio by Mamoru Kano
le 22, juillet 2007
- 75 Simple Pleasures to Brighten Your Day
- Note to self - do at least one of these a day.
- Walk Score
- Find out how walkable your home is via Google Maps. Very cool.
le 20, juillet 2007
- Ask a music scene micro celebrity
- Crazy - Steve Albini answers questions in a poker web site discussion forum?
le 16, juillet 2007
- Leaflets: iPhone apps that grow on you.
- Nice collection of iPhone widgets from the Blue Flavor folks.
le 14, juillet 2007
- FlickrShop
- Plugin that gives you the ability to post to Flickr from Photoshop.
le 13, juillet 2007
- Unintentionally Sexual Comics Covers/Panels
- Featuring too many awesome examples
le 12, juillet 2007
- Non-Top-Posting Reply Scripts for Apple Mail
- I love John Gruber.
le 11, juillet 2007
- One Year. One Family. No Chinese Products.
- A woman wrote a book about trying to live for a year without using any products made in China.
le 6, juillet 2007
- Paparazzi 0.5 is now in beta testing
- The full web page screenshot application gets a nice update with lots of improvements.
- Natural Hallucination
- Ow, my eyes.
le 4, juillet 2007
- Message in a Bottle
- Fast Company looks at the lucrative, crazy world of bottled water
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