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Web standards checklist
Very similar to our in-house checklist.xkcd
Best geek web comic ever. Hit theGoogle Gadgets as Widgets
Software from Google lets you run their Gadgets as dashboard Widgets.Sno Ninja!
Awesome art poster for your consumption.What does Accessibility mean?
Accessibility is usabilityAso Brain Games
Play online version of Setters Of Catan for free online, thanks to Java and carefully changed names.Daily Links
Wonder Woman Wardrobe War contest
Contest by fans to redesign Wonder Woman's costume, with commentary by the comic's writer, Gail Simone.Giant Atari Joystick
Commissioned by Jon Gibson for the i am 8 bit art show in LA, this is exactly what you think it is: a big, 15x scale, working Atari joystick!Spaz Chicken
Some great, simple shirts.Google Getting Green Get it?
Tech company analysts don't seem to understand Google's motivation for going green... Its the Green!Daily Links
Local Music Community Unites Against AIDS
For a good time and an even better cause.Terminal Commands for Hidden Settings in Leopard
Change the menubar to solid white, for instance.Bastet
Tetris on unix!Zelda on Game Boy
Its comes with source code!Books vs Documents
This is exactly the problem I have with60 Unite For Children
Some fantastic artists. An even better cause.CandyBar 3
Panic.com has updated it's icon swapping app for Leopard.Scalable Media Hosting with Amazon S3
Nice overview of using S3 for media files on your current web site.332 helpful links for webdesigners
This site pretty much lays out my bookmarks in a really nice way.Daily Links
LucasArts Games Emulation for iPhone
Run classic games like Day Of The Tentacle and Full Throttle right from your iPhone. Now I want one more than ever :)ies4osx
Windows just became completely unnecessary.NHL Tournament of Logos
Some great concept designs on all your favourite teams.Boing: The World's Most Effective Speed Bump
German commercial of unknown product. The concept is pretty funny.Crate Review System
Rating video games based on how long it takes for the player to run into the first crate or barrel.Apple Mail in Leopard Attachment Vulnerability
Fun exploit via mail attachments returns to Leopard. You have been warned. Exercise caution (as always) with attachments.Lying In The Gutters
Plenty of stuff to peruse this week, with news of multiple X-Men origin feature films to come, possible editorial changes to come at DC, a look at illegal downloads and possible issues with Marvel's legal download system, Rich's photo tour of NYC and much more!New Images from "Watchmen"
Director Zack Snyder released today new images from his feature film adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' classic graphic novel "Watchmen," including a picture of what appears to be Rorschach himself.Banner Blindness
Mr. Nielsen on what most of us know already.You're not looking for them, but I found your two dogs.
One my favorite cragislist posts.Daily Links
favikon
Nice little tool for making favicons - those little icons in the URL of most modern web browsers.Foamee
Dan Cederholm makes owing someone a beer way too easy to keep track off now.A Preview of OmniFocus
The internet is saturated in GTD (Getting Things Done) mania, a system created by Religious Figure GTD Guru David Allen.Daily Links
Yummy FTP 1.7: The Fastest FTP Client Ever?
Version 1.7 of Yummy FTP, which is - obviously - an FTP client, has just been released by Yummy Software.10 Absolute
Good advice for an size of web operation, actually. :)Daily Links
Interesting hobby
Who says there is no more magic left in the world?Monopoly Releases Special 'Regular Monopoly' Edition
It is on my Christmas list.PostSecret
Postsecret AwesomnessFor our southern Super-Villain friends
Happy Thanksgiving!It must be getting close to dinner-time
Twitter can help!Plush Badger
Perfect for those that had that damn song stuck in their heads. Mushroom, mushroom!Peach
A neat blender teamFive Drinks Bartenders Hate To Make
For your Friday evening enjoymentDel.icio.us Widget
A dashboard widget to post directly to your Del.icio.us account.Typography
To love or not to loveSupermarket
For our design inclined brethren - a must visit.Daily Links
Amazing Metroid Cosplay
Jenni Kspacecadet design
Awesome people. Great site. Just launched. Go!One for Ross' alter ego
Courtesy of MandoluxBonds*
Social commentary without words.mandolux
Gorgeous desktop wallpapers.Design doing
Our favorite scripting author talks about the importance of the written word and knowledge of the tools of our trade.Interesting Web Browsers You Have Never Heard Of | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine
A Giant List of Web BrowsersToronto as a Half-Life mod
City 7: Toronto Conflict is a Half-Life mod featuring several familiar Toronto landmarks, which allows you to realize your age-old fantasy of running around the Eaton Center, heavily armed, fighting bad guys and invaders. City 7: Toronto Conflict, is an action packed Half-Life 2 mod with a variety of unique levels and game play. Explore what has become of City 7 in areas like Dundas square, Eaton Center , Mel Lastman square, St. Michael's Hospital and TTC system under the Combine rule. This version features Gordon Freeman as the main character, stuck in Toronto due to a teleporting accident in Kleiner's lab. Try to escape this war torn city by finding any type of teleporting technology and send him back to City 17. Despite our small development team and short production time, we managed to get halfway to the CN tower and have already created 2-3 hours of fun and action packed game play! We want toDesktopia: Time Specific Wallpaper for Your Desktop
Everyone wants an interesting desktop.Toronto as a Half-Life mod
City 7: Toronto Conflict is a Half-Life mod featuring several familiar Toronto landmarks, which allows you to realize your age-old fantasy of running around the Eaton Center, heavily armed, fighting bad guys and invaders. City 7: Toronto Conflict, is an action packed Half-Life 2 mod with a variety of unique levels and game play. Explore what has become of City 7 in areas like Dundas square, Eaton Center , Mel Lastman square, St. MichaelFITC Road Show - Winnipeg 2007
On Saturday, November 17th I had the pleasure of attending FITC (Flash in the Can) at the Ramada Marlborough Hotel in downtown Winnipeg. Off all the other places this conference is held (Toronto, Chicago, Hollywood & Amsterdam) it landed in Winnipeg for yet another exciting year. It’s a unique event which has one track of presentations geared towards technical speakers and another track geared toward inspirational creative speakers.
"On the global stage, FITC stands as an original event company, and is recognized as one of the top in the industry. FITC has three goals within the Design and Technology space: to Inspire, to Educate, and to Challenge. This is accomplished by assembling the movers and shakers within the industry, and presenting them through presentations, panels, Q&A sessions, workshops, evening mixers and our awards show, all squeezed into very intense events." - FITC Website
The day began with registration at the door (along with spify Mediatemple lanyard for each person in attendance). I was surprised at small number of booths (I think it should have been at least doubled), some of which included New Media Manitoba, IC Group, MTS, Assiniboine Community College and Critical Mass.
The crowd waited in anticipation for the start of the speaches with opening remarks given by Shawn Pucknell (Director of FITC). The first speach I attended, also a highlight of the day, was titled "Democraticizing Ideas" by Kerry James and Tim Scollick of Critical Mass. I thought that this was one of the more relevant speachs to what I do. They discussed the designer and developer relationship, talking about the problems that a designer ecounters with a developer (vica-versa). The bottom line that I got out the presentation was that if you are a designer then it’s important to have a good idea of what a developers job entails, what challenges it presents and how can you create a great design to meet technical requirements. And if you are a developer then it’s important to know where designers are coming from, think of ways to guide them through your process and think of solutions that co-excist with their creations.
There was also a very interesting speech titled "Music, 3D Environments & Social Media - Where is it all headed?" given by Ron Lamourex, president of www.cafesonique.com presenting about 3D communities onto the web on how it has worked for them. Interestingly enough the company is Winnipeg based. I also attended two action script speeches which talked about what is new with actionscript 3.0. These tips will definitley be useful when the times comes around for me to do something quick in flash.
My two highlights were at the very end of the day when Erik Natzke gave a speach titled "Beyond the Knowledge: The art of playing" and Joshua Davis gave another speach straight after titled "New Works". It was really neat watching these guys present becuase they both in their own ways captured the audience with their incredible works generated in actionscript (it’s really neat seeing ther art as a result of their code and mathematics). Each had his own story to tell which made it even more interesting.
All in all I feel fortunate to be able to attend such a great day full of great speakers right here at home.
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Vikings are warm
This has to be one of the best hats I have ever seen.TWO BILLIONTH on Flickr
See above.Wide vs. Deep
Gregg Knauss on being a programmer and a manager and why they are not for everyone.Bombing Run Approach by the Rebel Alliance's Lone Prototype
Seven F over at Panic.com puts the Kindle in the right technological context.Image Comics Solicitations for February, 2008
Image Comics has released images and solicitation information for comics and products shipping in February, 2008, including the first new issue of "Scud the Disposable Assassin" in more than 10 years!Rock the Halo theme free for Guitar Hero III
Like the Pilgrims and Native Americans breaking bread together, Microsoft and Activision are giving Xbox 360 owners something to truly be thankful for tomorrow: the Halo theme (MJOLNIR Mix edition, featuring fretwork by none other than Steve Vai) is coming to Guitar Hero III.Leopard, Spaces and Multiple Safari Windows
Leopard introduced the average user to virtual work spaces, known simply as Spaces in OS X. These virtual work spaces can contain as many applications as you like in an effort to keep you organized. The general concept of Spaces as a simple implementation for the masses is a good one.
My main issue with spaces is that you can not have seperate windows from an application in more than one space. an obvious application that I would personally like to have in a few different spaces is Safari. It would be nice to have a single window open in my web development space as well as having a window open in my communication space.
Presently there is the option within the spaces preference pane that lets you assign an application to be available in all spaces, or locked into a single space no matter which space you launch it in. That doesn’t really address the need to have a window in space 1 and space 2, but not in 3 and 4 (or more).
To work around this present limitation I’ve found a little trick. Here is what you can do to get single instances of Safari into various spaces: use the dashboard to launch the individual windows.
Yup. That’s it. Just go to the space you want a Safari window to appear in. Hit F12 to launch dashboard. Use the google widget, or any Safari launching widget like Junior Mint, to pop a new Safari window into the current space you entered Dashboard in. Rinse and repeat in each space you want a single window of Safari.
This doesn’t really fix spaces, but it solves the browser window issue for me anyhow.