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more logo niceness, this time prompted by an email from HTF anouncing their fabulous new slab serif
January 2008 Archives
Woolworths stores to stop selling HD DVD | Reg Hardware
Gosh, I know this format war is totally life-defining but I must be getting old or something. Try as I might I just can't seem to give a shit...
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Thanks to Alex Moore for pointing me at this one. Nope, Alex it wasn't the one I was thinking of but this is great nonetheless :-)
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Wow, and on the same theme thiese guys have provided a serious list of vector logo sources: http://www.brandsoftheworld.com
http://www.Logotypes.ru
http://www.logotypes.lv
http://www.lalogotheque.com
http://www.fcklogo.com.ar
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...and how did I not know about this? I have wanted this type of resource for years. I've been finding colours in nature, photographing them then sampling in photoshop. This makes life a looot easier...
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Love this resource, now if I could only find the link to that Russian guy's site with vector files of all the logos
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understanding that logo and how we got here...
I just love this shit :-)
Virgin Galactic Unveils Design For SpaceShipTwo
We never got the future they promised our parents. To quote Leo McGary: "where's my jet pack?" It's heart warming to see money spent on insane crazy projects like this.
Of course, for his next trick, Richard branson could focus on building a network of major sea defenses for the UK. The idea would be to protect the land itself against erosion but primarily create a physical support for tidal, wind and wave energy generation...
I mention it because the Dutch started their latest high-tech sea defense network after the storm tide of 1954 so they've got a bit of a head-start on us.
That, and they didn't finish until 1997 so c'mon Richard let's get building ;-)
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So Mike is gonna get all co-creative and online. "Record labels are dead" might be a bit of a simplification but if anyone can find a new way he's our dude:-)
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...and of course he did a video of the label's vivking burial. Of course he did...
Not sure how this happened, but I seem to have turned 45 today and Kilohapoabillyohna spotted the event and sent me this lovely card.
Thanks:-)
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great headphone with integrated iphone jack and mic - i want i need them now droool...
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OK interesting stuff on Opera on iPhone but check out that Movable Type template. Love the use of buttons for the individual archive previous and next links as well as the handling of categories and comments. If templates like this one were open-sourced,
Governments (well, the current UK government) don't get it. The public doesn't seem to get it, but large budgets and serious, long-lasting political decisions continue to be lobbied for and won on a partial understanding of tech issues... arstechnica has a nice post on the "Hillary hacked NH?" story
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personally, I like car 1 seat 76 but I think this guy likes the electricity in car 4?
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more fun reading from the pages of http://scienceblogs.com/purepedantry/
So hopefully by now you will have noticed the in-your-face red stripe at the top of the page and made a note of my new number (07515661655).
So I can take it down and resume normal service.
It's Stevenote - 5.
I'm now pining for an iPhone hardware update: a better camera, a hardware camera button, 32Gig storage, etched or rubberized grips, no disgusting pimp-my-handset chrome surround. OK?
So when I first started being interested in markup, I used to spend a lot of time trying to get non Western characters to work in web pages and imagining all sorts of crazy systems to support the transparent publishing across many weird and wonderful languages with their equally unique fonts.
Then unicode support became routine and I guess I stopped being so amazed when it worked;-) So the state of play is both wonderful and a little crap: I can now be spammed in Kanji, Cyrillic or even English if the lottery folk think that's what I'm most likely to read...
I love it that The Lecture List is still running (thank you thank you Chris) and that people are still posting this kind of event: Did we really land on the Moon?
In this talk, using real Apollo video footage and a series of simple demonstrations, we will take a closer look at the science behind "moon hoax" claims, and ask whether we really did land on the Moon.
Well, I don't know about you but I'd sure like to find out :-)
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Banksy Paris mods
Alex over at artflutter just posted a link to an mp3 of the Banksy Paris Hilton Danger Mouse Remix I mentioned in an earlier post which is great because the link I posted to the pics no longer has em but Alex has posted a full set of liner mods.
Thanks Alex :-)
I've been thinking quite a bit about colours since before Christmas and have been trying to build a couple of colourways. In the process I've been playing with swatch books and boy, the whole pantone colour system has continued to grow in size and complexity since I first started designing stuff (hey Daniel, you remember buying sheets of stickyback Pantone color to make comps with?). Now you can even get an expresso set.
Not exactly the colour scheme I was looking for but with my birthday in late January a treat may be in order:-)
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CHI
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and another, wonderful what you get in your mail...
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toutes les infos shadoks avec en prime l'arithmetique: compter en shadok :-)
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Paroles, mp3, tous ce qui faut y compris la version "gabelle" (pour l'histoire de la taxe sur le sel)
Well, I've been following Scoble's tweets today and it would appear his Facebook account was shut down (disabled). facereviews makes the point that this is a good thing in the sense that we do want FB to monitor it's pages for scraping.
One of the many posters in this hale of twittiblogging (I think it was Ian Betteridge but I've lost the link) gives the following example: just because you post your email on your blog doesn't mean you'd allow others using it or adding it to their address book or doing something commercial with it (I'm paraphrasing from memory).
I have to say I disagree with this, if information is to be shared publicly then all uses of the public domain should be equally allowed or restricted. If I post my email on my blog (or indeed my phone number) it is primarily intended for those that have a genuine need for it. Nonetheless I also accept that I will have to shoulder the burden of added spam, lack of privacy, identity theft or whatever else might come of its existing in the public domain. In other words, I accept both good and evil uses of my publicly posted data.
In Scoble's example, while he is legitimately trying to recover his social data, as a side effect of this scrapping he will also grab data from those he has shared with. This data is in the public domain and its posting forms the expectation of a social contract. That is, those that post information to Facebook (myself included) are building a sort of social creative commons and we need to accept that sharing this data effectively means placing it in the public domain.
Like most things, this contract only works if the benefits of having the data flow both in and out of the social utility.
So I used to think I was subverting from within. That's bollocks, of course. David always reminds me of that. I've decided I'm not going to work in advertising again, the daily round of social network metrics and the constant quest to shove us through some absurd value funnel (ad agencies are still in the process of discovering the creation of unique value, not exactly at the cutting edge of stuff really...) just goes against my belief in a collaborative internet.
A new-year's prediction from Zero Influence really cheered me up. Dave reckons that this year will "reward participation that does not seek measurement nor reward�
You go girl!
OK, so I occasionally hack some bits of Javascript around to see if manipulating bits of the DOM can produce interesting, unusual or accessible interactions... These last couple of years I've started looking at frameworks and libraries which on the whole make the job a lot nicer (from Dojo to Prototype via jQuery and Mootools).
So anyway, here's a nice example I was sent by one of the brainy bunch on the jQuery list. Here's the requirement I started writing with:
- walk the dom and perform an action on every form object input type=submit (every instance of a submit button on the page)
- for each instance, calculate the length of the "value" attribute (the text in the submit button)
- assign a class to each submit button on the basis of the size of the above value attribute
That is one big-ass script with loops a gogo and a bunch of "if then else" constructs no? Well, this guy has done it in a script which is only 107 (one hundred and seven) characters long:
$('input:submit').each(function(){
var len=this.value.length;
$(this).addClass(len<5?'S':len>20?'L':'M');});
It's both confusing and wonderful and I'm still trying to understand exactly how the whole thing works but if you're interested in this sort of stuff here's the example page
Ta very much Mr Wizzud:-)
