In a word: Brilliant.
An animated series (in classic Hanna-Barbera style) about a series of pointless -yet hilarious- conversations between the hosts. It started as a comedy audio show in the UK but was later adapted into the animated television version by HBO, debuting in 2010 (just about a month ago). Do not miss.
What a gorgeous —and convenient— little backpack.
Dan Benjamin’s Internet broadcast network. I have been listening to his shows for the past few weeks and like his style.
Some photographs I have taken that represent some of what my eyes see every day. Captions in spanish, this was an email I sent some speaking friends a while ago.
Nuestro gato, Telmo Rodriguez en mi silla favorita:
Un loco, sentado en la cera:
Mi bicicleta al frente de nuestra casa:
Un hotel que queda al lado de mi oficina:
la intersección donde lisa trabaja
una “soda” donde hacen un desayuno riquísimo
el desayuno de esa soda:
un artista y a alguién que no le importa
nieve en el parqueo de mi oficina
asi se pone la llanta de mi bici cuando hay nieve
unos maes caminando en una calle que está cubierta de nieve
no sé como explicar esto. el edificio del fondo es una escuela. talvez eso lo explica:
tratando de fotografiar la nieve:
I’m only using Coda and TexMate, but this is dope.
(Via Derek Punsalan)
I may be late here, but this is a very interesting move. It seems he’s dropped all of his old content for a more visual approach. The entire thing is almost completely void of any words, yet the content takes over the entire website and it feels as if he is communicating in a better way.
The main navigation that fades in and out as your cursor moves over the header is very interesting, it almost feels like a game. Notice the side menu and the centered comments layout too.
Not only do I like this for the many interesting ideas presented from a blog layout point of view, but I really appreciate the content here. Don’t miss his Creativity post, which seems to be the only piece in which Kanye writes, yet there are no actual words rendered, it’s another image.
Font Squirrel’s awesome tool to generate @font-face declarations (including setting up your fonts) has received a lot of press recently, and it is well deserved.
I don’t recall when I came across it, but I have come to rely on it for many things. From using it to test use cases and actually refine my own implementations of @font-face to letting it take over in recent client projects. In fact, it’s powering the very post titles you’re looking at right now (which in turn are using the amazing League Gothic).
One project that is relying on this is Young Diplomats‘ new website. A labour of love between Salazar Studios and Hightop has ended in this amazing design taking full advantage of modern browsers to render a font that would never have been possible months ago.
Not to mention the HTML5 video implementation that successfully enables native playback of the intro video on several platforms (speaking of which, it is still not completely clean since the code is a bit messy and not as easy as one simple <video> tag, but clearly that’s where things are heading).
Way to go, Font Squirrel. Typekit is fun, but for those of us who want full control, there’s nothing better.
A linux utility to manage brightness on Apple Cinema Displays. I got it to work perfectly on my Ubuntu set up.
(I have been experiencing an incredible error in my OS X set up for the past 2-3 months that I haven’t been able to crack. It seems to be a random system freeze where nothing crashes, the computer simply locks up and remains somewhat responsive (ie. the mouse works). It’s a long story that I’ve been documenting for a while and hope to fix soon enough.)
For now, I have jumped back on Ubuntu for the next week or two full time while I get through some important projects. I spent some time today setting up all my stuff, including my two external Apple Cinema Displays but there is no support for brightness control through the system. Thankfully somebody has written up a piece of code to solve the issue. It’s called ACDControl and I am documenting it here for my own future reference:
Examples:
acdcontrol --detect /dev/hiddev*
Perform detection, which HID device is actually your display to be controlled.
acdcontrol /dev/hiddev0
Read current brightness parameter
acdcontrol /dev/hiddev0 160
Set brightness to 160. Note, that brightness setting depends on your model. Generally, this parameter may get values in the range [0-255].
acdcontrol /dev/hiddev0 +10
Increment current brightness by 10.
acdcontrol /dev/hiddev0 -- -10
Decrement current brightness by 10. Please,note --!
I want to share these in case you are interested in the same things I am.
Mark Pilgrim’s Dive Into HTML5 has already proven extremely useful to me through the website and the published chapters (on HTML5 video in this case). Mark is a great writer and this is one book I can’t wait to read. Pre-order it now.
The other book is Craig Hockenberry’s iPhone App Development: The Missing Manual. What you should know: Craig is one of the first iPhone developers and is behind the amazing Twitteriffic, his track record is fantastic and his website Furbo is a valuable resource. SUffice to say, the book should cover everything you need to know about this.