16 things tagged “interesting”
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Monday August 22, 2011
Web Operations 101 For Developers
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Tuesday July 12, 2011
Skeuomorph
"A skeuomorph is a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues to a structure that was necessary in the original" -
Monday July 11, 2011
Rethrick Construction
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Monday July 4, 2011
They Made Me An Offer I Couldn’t Refuse | Thought Palace
"The first version of Stickies was written by Apple employee Jens Alfke and included in System 7.5 in 1994. Apple planned to acquire it from him, but discovered that they already legally owned it under the terms of his employment." -
Tuesday June 28, 2011
Designing GitHub for Mac — Warpspire
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Wednesday June 22, 2011
How To Run A News Site And Newspaper Using WordPress And Google Docs - 10,000 Words
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Monday June 20, 2011
A List Apart: Articles: A Dao of Web Design
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Scott and Scurvy
How the cure for Scurvy was found and then lost. -
Tuesday June 14, 2011
Log.io - Real-time log monitoring in your browser
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Monday May 23, 2011
The deep end of the pool
The problems of making computer Science more accessible to the majority of students who don’t already have either programming experience or a strong aptitude. -
Thursday May 12, 2011
A brief overview of technology behind Alpha.gov.uk | Alpha.gov.uk team blog
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Tuesday March 29, 2011
Paint Moss Graffiti - Step-by-Step Guides for Offbeat DIY Projects - Popular Mechanics
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Saturday February 5, 2011
The Geek-Kings of Smut
"After once being the best thing that ever happened to porn, the Internet is now wreaking havoc: destroying some fortunes, making bigger ones, and serving as a stimulus plan, in more ways than one." -
Thursday January 27, 2011
Swords to ploughshares - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Swords to ploughshares is a concept in which military weapons or technologies are converted for peaceful civilian applications." -
Saturday January 22, 2011
scraplab — Admiralty Chart Correction Tracings
"Ships will subscribe to the service through a third party, and receive the latest copy of the book when they dock at port. They tear out each page, and apply the relevant changes to their paper maps with a pencil and transfer paper. They’re paper map diffs, if you like." Amazing. -
Friday September 10, 2010
Clever arrow shim for pointing boxes
David Singleton posted a photo:
Using stylized ◢ ◣ UTF8 characters.
Used on heatmap.mozillalabs.com/, and apparently flickr too.