September 4th, 1994 (1)
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"Message to my future self. You were at Silvercup Studios tonight. It had been a long shoot and nothing much was going according to plan. When the director wrapped you walked up onto the set, a beach scene, took off your shoes and built a sand castle when nobody was watching. In the car home you passed a bar and remembered they had a photobooth. The place was closing up, but you decided to tell ...
A little truth before bed (41)
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ST. PAUL, Minn. — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth. Some examples: PALIN: "I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending ... and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress 'thanks ...
YouTube Comment Snob hides badly spelled, profane, poorly capitalized YouTube comments (2)
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Here's an idea whose time has come: YouTube Comment Snob is a Firefox plugin that nukes comments with too many spelling mistakes, weird capitalization or punctuation, and too much cussin'. It works pretty damned well, too. As XKCD has pointed out in the past, YouTube has the worst, just the worst comment-areas on the Internet. YouTube Comment Snob (via Making Light)
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marya said:
I've seen this story making the rounds and keep forgetting to share it. This is brilliant. I hope more and more sites will adopt this. Also, the Merlin Mann "pause" idea... where your social networking incoming activity gets held for you while you take a little break. Brill.
Katrina, 3 years later: Banksy throughout New Orleans. (32)
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Jonno D'Addario says: Over the past few days, Banksy street pieces have been appearing around New Orleans. This one is in my neighborhood, and the timing seems to coincide with the third anniversary of you-know-what this week. Someone else took a photo of this one in the Uptown neighborhood of New Orleans. It references a local (in)famous anti-graffiti crusader named Fred Radtke, aka "The Grey Ghost", whose one man mission to eradicate street art and ...
Katrina, 3 years later: Banksy throughout New Orleans. (2)
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Jonno D'Addario says: Over the past few days, Banksy street pieces have been appearing around New Orleans. This one is in my neighborhood, and the timing seems to coincide with the third anniversary of you-know-what this week. Someone else took a photo of this one in the Uptown neighborhood of New Orleans. It references a local (in)famous anti-graffiti crusader named Fred Radtke, aka "The Grey Ghost", whose one man mission to eradicate street art and ...
YouTube Comment Snob hides badly spelled, profane, poorly capitalized YouTube comments (43)
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Here's an idea who's time has come: YouTube Comment Snob is a Firefox plugin that nukes comments with too many spelling mistakes, weird capitalization or punctuation, and too much cussin'. It works pretty damned well, too. As XKCD has pointed out in the past, YouTube has the worst, just the worst comment-areas on the Internet. YouTube Comment Snob (via Making Light)
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Malcolm said:
awesome idea. Might use this
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Jason Matthews said:
yes please, more of this! needs to be brought to bear on digg and a certain local newspaper's comment section as well.
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Jay said:
Brilliant! :)
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Thomas said:
I'd be interested to see the algorithm powering the Comment Snob. Also would be fascinating to see how this works with other languages besides English.
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ydant said:
So... this would leave one comment on the whole site?
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Jeremy Jarratt said:
Almost the worst. Break.com has the worst comments on internets.
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Jeff Schmidt said:
classic
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MikeD said:
Brilliant! I hope this works for other sites too.
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marya said:
I've seen this story making the rounds and keep forgetting to share it. This is brilliant. I hope more and more sites will adopt this. Also, the Merlin Mann "pause" idea... where your social networking incoming activity gets held for you while you take a little break. Brill.
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Chris said:
Looks fantastic - lots of other applications too!Didn't someone joke a while back about writing an idiot filter for the Internet? I'm glad someone took them seriously.
Classic Colors: Art Nouveau (1)
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Art Nouveau was an international art movement during the late 1800's that focused on decorative arts such as glass work, interior design and jewelery, along with other departures from tradition in design, painting and sculpture. The movement was characterized by an elaborate ornate style of flowing curvilinear forms that frequently depicted leaves and flowers. The book-cover by Arthur Mackmurdo for Wren's City Churches (1883) is often cited as the first realization of Art Nouveau Key ...
An Unexpected Category in the Yellow Pages (1)
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I happened to be using the old-school Victoria Yellow Pages to look something up today (house cleaners, if you’ve got a recommendation, email me). While browsing…er…paging to what I was seeking, I encountered page 222:
Reduce Social Network Hair-Pulling with a "Pause" Button [Social Networks] (14)
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FriendFeed introduces a new feature on their beta site: a "Pause" button "fake following" mode, which lets you follow someone without seeing their updates. In a similar vein, productivity guy Merlin Mann proposes that all social networks build in a "Pause" button, which would protect you temporarily from a stream of unwanted updates for a certain amount of time without de-friending folks. Along with a "Pause" button for social networking, we also want a "Snooze" ...
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marya said:
Yes, please.
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Erez said:
A pause button. Yesterday I read about RSS readers "forcing" users to "clean" them up... We are an obsessive race.
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ke9v said:
Cool! It's a condom for chatty friends!
Reduce Social Network Hair-Pulling with a "Pause" Button [Social Networks] (2)
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FriendFeed introduces a new feature on their beta site: a "Pause" button "fake following" mode, which lets you follow someone without seeing their updates. In a similar vein, productivity guy Merlin Mann proposes that all social networks build in a "Pause" button, which would protect you temporarily from a stream of unwanted updates for a certain amount of time without de-friending folks. Along with a "Pause" button for social networking, we also want a "Snooze" ...
Andrea Canalito's Cupcake Fawns (3)
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Check out these creepy-cute cupcake fawn sculptures by Andrea Canalito. They're part of her MFA thesis show entitled Twinkle Twinkle Baby. Via Who Killed Bambi? [Read this article] [Comment on this article]
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From the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz: DENVER, Aug. 25 -- Jon Stewart ripped the cable news networks Monday as a "brutish, slow-witted beast" and castigated Fox News as "an appendage of the Republican Party." Wearing a gray T-shirt and a healthy stubble, the "Daily Show" host told reporters that Fox's fair-and-balanced slogan is "a (expletive) you to people with brains" and that only "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace "saves that network from slapping on ...
Architects: 1998 called and it wants its web sites back (19)
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I’ve been poking around a lot of architects’ web sites lately and I’m thoroughly surprised at how bad they are. It seems almost without fail that they are either blowing my browser window up full size, asking me to read light grey 9px text, overflowing with obfuscatory flashterbation, teasing me with custom designed scrollbars that don’t behave as you’d expect, or asking me to evaluate their work based on postage stamp sized photographs. It really ...
egg press 2009 calendar (2)
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for me, it’s never too early to start thinking about a 2009 calendar. each year i try to commit to using a paper version and always end up displaying them rather than actually using them (my google calendar ends up doing the heavy lifting). but this new offset print calendar from egg press is way, way too gorgeous to pass up. i’m digging all the rich colors and the reasonable pricetag. you can pick up ...
Dishy lamps (3)
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Jim makes some cute lamps from Ikea. He writes, "The first is a lamp I made for my sister’s kitchen from an Ordning colander. I’m pretty sure the base is from someplace else (Target). I have never lived within 2 hours drive of an Ikea, so I tend to stock up cool-looking stuff in hopes that I find a use for it. Pretty straightforward project, but with especially pleasing results due to the industrial look ...
Proposed Ballot Design (4)
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On Nov. 4, most ballots will repeat design mistakes made in previous elections. Many of these errors are avoidable. This year, the United States Election Assistance Commission released ballot design guidelines. Using these guidelines, AIGA developed this feature to identify common design problems and offers improvements. How Design Can Save Democracy, By Richard Grefé and Jessica Friedman Hewitt (thank you olga)
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marya said:
I want everyone I know to read this article and contact the powers that be to demand that our ballots become simpler to read, understand, and fill out. The AIGA guidelines are brilliant, yet totally obvious. It's crazy that ballots AREN'T designed the way they propose. Get it together, America. Smarten up by simplifying ballots.
Nine Things You Should Never Pay Full Price For [Saving Money] (45)
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Personal finance writer Mary Hunt believes there are some things you should simply never pay full price for. Among them? Pets, cars, software and games. Buy a purebred puppy from a breeder in California and you will spend at least $700, plus vet bills. Adopt a previously owned puppy from the animal shelter for about $175 including spay/neuter, vaccinations and fees. Savings? Oh, about 78 percent I've had shelter and pure bred pets over the ...
