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September 2009

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Sep 25, 20091 note
#bbcolors #douce nuit #bbedit #colors #colours
If only all fashion spreads were like this → behance.net
Sep 25, 2009
Dust storm in Australia → boston.com

Amazing shots (as usual) on The Big Picture

Sep 23, 2009
The League of Moveable Type - League Gothic → theleagueofmoveabletype.com

Slowly but surely, the League of Moveable Type is releasing quality typefaces into the public domain. This one’s a beaut. (via hicksdesign)

Sep 23, 2009
“From a faster Javascript engine, to support for current web technologies like HTML5’s offline capabilities and

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—Chromium Blog: Introducing Google Chrome Frame
Sep 22, 2009
#google #chrome frame #ie
JSNES: A Javascript NES emulator → benfirshman.com

I think this pretty much ends any debate about JavaScript being a real programming language.

Sep 17, 2009
“Now that I’ve see live action 3-D done as well as it’s likely to be done for some time. I realize more than ever this truth: The 2-D process creates a perfect illusion of depth. The 3-D process interferes with that achievement by adding additional information that reduces the illusion of depth, creating distinct planes within the image which our minds are forced to recognize and process. If there is a future for 3-D, and I hope there isn’t, it’s in animation, which isn’t supposed to look real in the first place, and not in live action, where it’s a distracting abomination. If you’re a director with something to say, don’t let your process interfere.” —Roger Ebert’s Journal
Sep 17, 2009
"First subpixel typeface, ever" → typophile.com

An x-height of 3 pixels is madness, but this is impressive work.

Sep 15, 20091 note
“The noun octopus is often made plural in English as octopi, originally from the mistaken belief that all Latin nouns ending in -us take -i to form their plural. However, this is only correct for Latin masculine nouns of the second declension. For Latin fourth-declension nouns, such as manus, the singular and plural forms both end in -us. For third declension nouns such as octopus, the plural is less regular. The noun octopus in Latin is a third-declension noun borrowed from the Greek. Although octopuses is generally considered correct in modern English, its plural in Latin is actually octopodes.” —From the Wikipedia entry on “Hypercorrection”
Sep 15, 2009
Sep 9, 2009
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Sep 9, 2009
⌥⌘O

Warning: extreme Mac Siracusian nerdery ahead.

If you’re an old-school Mac user, then you may prefer your Finder to be set to “Always open folders in a new window.” (Consult your Finder preferences to change this.) Personally, I prefer it that way because I like to arrange certain icons and size certain windows just so, whereas with the default setting, folders open in the same window and icons arranged according to whatever the settings happen to be at the time. (This is also one thing that infuriates me about using Windows.) My Home folder is sized the way I want, with the icons the size I want and in the order I want. That sizing makes no sense for any of the subfolders, however.

Nevertheless, this setting leads to one problem — an almost comical proliferation of windows on your desktop every time you go digging for files the old-fashioned way. (The modern way would of course be to simply use Spotlight, but sometimes one doesn’t know what the file is called that one is looking for, and not all files can be indexed by content.) Since I also prefer a clean desktop, I generally like to close each folder window as I open one of the folders inside.

Before Leopard — going all the way back to before there was even OS X — you could get a window to close itself while you opened a folder by holding down the Option key as you double clicked — or if you’re a keyboard-happy person, as you pressed Command-O or Command-Down. Same went for Command-Up (to open the parent folder). The old window would disappear and the new window would open at the size and location you last left it.

In OS X 10.5 (Leopard), Apple mucked around with the Finder, and made it so that the Option key no longer did this useful thing. Instead, holding down Option would open the new folder in the same window, and thereby merely replace the contents but keep the same size, location and icon settings. Basically they made the Option key a way to temporarily reverse the entire preference for new windows. I did not like this, and I reported it as a bug early in Leopard’s existence. Apple even acknowledged it as a bug (rather than an intentional change), but it didn’t get fixed through Leopard’s entire eleven-version release cycle.

Happily, Snow Leopard returns some, though not all, sanity to the Option key shortcut. Command-Option-O will open a folder in a new window and close the current window.

What Apple still hasn’t fixed (and I’m guessing they never will now) is ⌥⌘↓ and ⌥⌘↑. Holding down Option with these shortcuts still merely causes them to replace the current window rather than the close/open dance.

Sep 8, 2009
#option #finder #windows #always open in a new window
Sep 3, 2009
Credit where credit is due

The OS X installer for the latest version of Adobe Flash Player (10,0,32,18 according to Adobe’s hare-brained version-numbering scheme), is the nicest installer Adobe has ever produced. It asked me politely to quit two applications (presumably ones that were using Flash), and then it took about 5 seconds to finish up. No reboot, no re-launching Safari (although this is probably due to Snow Leopard).

Thanks, Adobe. You’re learning!

Sep 2, 2009
#flash player #not awful #this just in
Sep 2, 2009
#firefox #flash #updates
Blu-Link Universal Remote Control for PlayStation 3 by SMK-Link → blu-link.com

Awfully tempting to buy one of these. (via The PS3 Hub)

Sep 1, 2009
Book: Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja by John Resig → jsninja.com

This could be an invaluable resource: a JavaScript book by one of the language’s masters.

Sep 1, 2009
Helvetical → iamadtaylor.com

De-uglifying Google Calendar, with inspiration from Jon Hicks’ Helvetireader

Sep 1, 2009
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