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Baguette Dropped From Bird's Beak Shuts Down The Large Hadron Collider (Really) | Popular Science

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:44:00 +0100

Baguette Dropped From Bird's Beak Shuts Down The Large Hadron Collider (Really) | Popular Science:

Closure Tools - Google Code

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:33:31 +0100

The Closure tools help developers to build rich web applications with JavaScript that is both powerful and efficient. The Closure tools include:

A JavaScript optimizer
A comprehensive JavaScript library
An easy templating system for both Java & JavaScript

Reblog with the design books on your bookshelf? (via...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:09:23 +0100

Reblog with the design books on your bookshelf? (via justinbland)

courtneyc: I’m always excited for client launches, but this one...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:44:11 +0100

courtneyc:

I’m always excited for client launches, but this one is particularly cool. The Rent The Runway beta launched this week. It’s like Netflix for dresses: rent a dress, wear it, and throw it back in the mail. I took a Brian Reyes dress for a spin at a recent wedding and it was awesome. Congrats Jenn and Jenny! [And if you’d like an invite let me know at courtney at hardcandyshell dot com]

wow, great innovative idea! Good looking website too.

Frank Chimero

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:20:14 +0100

Frank Chimero

A New Bible for Interactive Designers: 'The Times' Innovation Portfolio

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:18:45 +0100

A New Bible for Interactive Designers: 'The Times' Innovation Portfolio:

slantback: The New York Times interactive group creates an online encyclopedia of all their stunning inventions.

It’s an amazing resource, having all these projects collected in one place. But the site wasn’t just created as a bit of self-congratulatory eye candy. Rather, it was made to help sell advertisers on the interactive content—and show them all the tantalizing advertising opportunities they offer.

jacob: I would definitely have to place this photo in the top...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:11:49 +0100

jacob: I would definitely have to place this photo in the top ten best images on The Internet.

whileyouwereout: my super über wonderful girlfriend made me...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:01:46 +0100

whileyouwereout:

my super über wonderful girlfriend made me this for my birthday party invitation.
the red nose is scruffy (a.k.a. psoriasis)

BRILLIANT! Also: congratulations!

POP goes your head

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:54:46 +0100

POP goes your head:

Only one day of voting left for my design on threadless! I am so eager to know what the final score will be!? If you have not yet voted, please do!

nevver via NewsToday

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:22:09 +0100

nevver via NewsToday

twin peaks via laura9

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:32:52 +0100

twin peaks via laura9

jenbee: Which @20x200 size is just right for you? NICE

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:08:13 +0100

jenbee:

Which @20x200 size is just right for you?

NICE

"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. - edvard munch"

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:21:36 +0100

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. - edvard munch”

- (via lolila)

I think you'll find that the universe pretty much covers everything

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:00:43 +0100

I think you'll find that the universe pretty much covers everything:

DO NOT CLICK THE LINK IT WILL RUIN YOUR ~~LIFE~~ EVENING

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It could have just said “people”… The daily...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:32:11 +0100

It could have just said “people”… The daily irrelevant » Cartoons

Great understated design via pootee

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:29:11 +0100

Great understated design via pootee

dailymeh: The above is a very snappy graphic floating around...

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:35:58 +0100

dailymeh:

The above is a very snappy graphic floating around the web that supposedly illustrates why net neutrality is a big deal. It delivers its message effectively. It will leave people properly horrified. It’s also a boogey man that doesn’t reflect the real dangers of a world without net neutrality.

Yes, in the extreme, without net neutrality, ISPs could offer internet access modeled on cable tv: you pay for the “channels” (websites) you want to see. But this isn’t going to happen. People are too used to how the web works. No one would buy the above plan. ISPs aren’t stupid. They aren’t going to make a move that separates them from ninety nine percent of their customers. The above will never be the norm, for perfectly obvious commercial reasons.

The real danger with the lack of network neutrality is the idea that packets aren’t created equal. ISPs will never blatantly censor every website except for a few hundred that you paid for — that would simply make no business sense at all. But what they might do is a lot sneakier: they might subtly change the internet under us. By prioritizing packets from certain servers or to certain places, the openness and competetiveness that we all know and love on the internet could be destroyed. If YouTube videos suddenly load twice as fast as videos from every other video site, everyone else is at a tremendous competitive disadvantage. Suddenly it isn’t enough to create a superior service to eat market share from one of the big players; suddenly you need to bribe the ISPs to get your packets equal priority, because there’s no way anyone is going to use your web service when the big players are loading twice as fast or half your packets are lost. The low barrier to entry on the internet would be gone. The openness of the internet would vanish. Competition between websites would be reduced. And yes, it might very well be that your ISP decides that packets containing criticism aimed at them should be downprioritized and ones that praise them should be given the deluxe treatment.

A better analogy than the “channel plan” above might be a bunch of mobsters who demand protection money. If the internet is a street, then the mob will hamper those stores (websites) that don’t pay, while favorizing the big players who can afford to pay huge sums in protection money. A small mom-and-pop store isn’t going to have much of a chance at competition, despite better pricing or superior products, if the store keeps getting break-ins, fires, muscle types skulking at customers, or if customers who shop at the store keep getting mugged so that on average, only half of what is bought there ever make it to the customer’s home. Those chain stores are going to look mighty tempting in that scenario. Internet packets are the same way.

Or perhaps someone invents an entirely new use of the internet, but the ISPs put the technology at such a disadvantage that it never sees widespread adoption. Google, which is championing net neutrality — though China continues to be a blemish on their reputation for opennness — thinks that prioritizing the type of data contained in a packet is ok. While this is less severe than the mob-like system above — video might get priority over text, but not YouTube over Hulu — it does mean that entirely novel uses of the internet that we can’t even imagine at the moment could be at a disadvantage.

These, I think, are the things that could realistically happen in the near future. They might not happen, but so long as there’s no legislation that prevents it, they could, and whatever is potentially profitable will probably come to pass at one point or another.

"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once."

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:56:26 +0100

“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.”

- Albert Einstein (via reluctantbuddha) (via lalilaloba) (via stefantueshaus) (via kirstenbecken)

I had a spare half hour so I created a design for a T-shirt for...

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:06:36 +0100

I had a spare half hour so I created a design for a T-shirt for the Threadless / POP Life competition. It;s as close as I will come to visiting the exhibition, I’m afraid.

I was afraid this design would be rejected as I designed it ‘over the shoulder’, but it got accepted, so everyone VOTE for this design POP goes your head over on threadless.

(BTW this is not me; this picture is one of the presentation pictures Threadless sends in the submission kit. Mmh, Ok.)

Advertising Is the Price You Pay for Not Being Creative

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:51:20 +0100

Advertising Is the Price You Pay for Not Being Creative:

No, not you, but the company / service that needs to advertise

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