February 2012
3 posts
To boldly go where Helvetica Neue has gone before
Friends don’t let friends use Helvetica when Helvetica Neue will do. But on OS X, Helvetica Neue Bold has a strange and infuriating trait: it shifts the baseline and increases the leading (line height) of the type by 1 pixel compared to Helvetica Neue Normal. Don’t believe me? Check it out — watch the text dance up and down:
This manifests itself everywhere in OS X (starting in...
Fluid grids, orientation & resolution independence →
Mac OSX Lion’s scroll breaks the web →
I agree—this is one of the worst decisions Apple made with Lion.
January 2012
28 posts
The Secret of American Health Care →
Hint: it’s already pretty socialist
How Hollywood is inadvertently helping Netflix... →
Kurt Andersen: From Fashion to Housewares, Are We... →
(via Instapaper)
Romney income calculator: How long would it take... →
The answer is probably “not long”.
FBI seizes MegaUpload, loses opportunity →
The inimitable Ryan Greenberg dishes out some design advice to the FBI.
Y Combinator: Kill Hollywood →
Why iPhones aren't made in the USA →
Mission Impossible: IKEA Protocol →
This really irritated me too.
Don’t Stop at SOPA →
Many of the worst aspects of SOPA and PIPA are already happening.
Saudi Arabia. Nigeria. Venezuela. Canada? →
Sorry, iBooks, paper books still win on specs →
Microsoft keeps it old-school with a pricey text... →
Working in solitude on the decline →
Insider Baseball by Joan Didion | The New York... →
From 1988, a teardown of the entire American presidential nomination process.
The Authenticity Hoax - Blog - Why authenticity is... →
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genuinely brilliant essay (Progressives and the... →
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Fever Dream of a Guilt-Ridden Gadget Reporter →
“I want to see it all catch fire. I want to pour gasoline in the ducts and light a long fuse, and watch from the street as it burns and burns and burns.”
Just One. →
Lindsay Schauer on dining out, alone
Emigre Web Fonts →
Mrs Eaves was one of my favourite go-to typefaces for a long time — it’s now available for use on websites.
The Conservative Europe →
Europe isn’t nearly as liberal as American conservatives like to think, says Matthew Yglesias.
How to nap →
I’ve never been a napper — my mom said I stopped taking naps at 9 months — but now I feel like I’m missing out.
IE7 Buttons Extra Padding Bug →
“The button element in IE7 adds padding proportional to the amount of text within the button.” Oh, IE7, you joker, you. The solution: overflow: padding.
My Guantánamo Nightmare
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/opinion/sunday/my-guantanamo-nightmare.html?_r=1&src=tp
(Source: http://twitter.com/olivia/status/156209681625391104)
10 New Year’s resolutions for designers →
WatchAmateur color film of San Francisco, 1955
Code Year →
Make your New Year’s resolution learning to code.
Sign up on Code Year to get a new interactive programming lesson sent to you each week and you’ll be building apps
and web sites before you know it.
Iowa: The Meaningless Sideshow Begins →
The Post-Iowa Challenge: Providing information or... →
December 2011
20 posts
Leaked Details of How Facebook Plans To Sell Your... →
I “like” the tag above the headline: “It’s Zuck’s world, we’re just living in it.”
A Day in the Life of a Shy Guy →
The Year I Learned to Love Zooey Deschanel (and... →
Louis CK's Shameful Dirty Comedy →
Anyone but Mitt Romney graphic: The GOP nomination... →
This fantastic National Post data visualization from a month ago has some surprisingly strong parallels with the kind of stuff my colleagues and I did on the now defunct Trendly. (via We Love Datavis)
The Defense Bill Passed. So What Does It Do? |... →
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Does Alcohol Improve Your Writing? →
The test group, with an average blood alcohol content of 0.09, wrote significantly more words than their sober colleagues, and a higher percentage of their sentences included figurative language and novel word combinations.
Death of a simile →
Font swap in iBooks →
Four new much-nicer, more legible fonts in iBooks
“It was never the object of [patent] laws to grant a monopoly for every trifling...”
– Supreme Court Justice Joseph Bradley, 1883 (viaCRS/LII Annotated Constitution Article I, via Andrew Plotkin)
Melinda Gates discusses fighting poverty in the... →
Welcome to the Age of Overparenting - Boston... →
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Derek Boogaard - A Brain ‘Going Bad’ - NYTimes.com →
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Derek Boogaard - Blood on the Ice - NYTimes.com →
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Cutting their own throats - Charlie's Diary →
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Browse vs. Search: Which Deserves to Go? →
Loving the new embedded tweets feature
You can now embed tweets in a webpage.
Loving the new embedded tweets feature. attaboy.tumblr.com/post/139291954…— Luke Andrews (@attaboy) December8, 2011
Derek Boogaard: A Boy Learns to Brawl →