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Thoughts on Flash
A letter from Steve Jobs, summing up his point of view on the whole Apple Adobe Flash thing.26 Free Progressive and Experimental Fonts
These fonts might be pushing the limits of traditional type design, but the results are stunning.StarCraft II Mac beta client available for download
If you have a Mac and a Starcraft II beta key, this is what you've been waiting for!Which Email Clients Support CSS3?
As more email clients join the fray, CSS3's applications in email will certainly become wider-reaching than pretty shadows and rounded corners.Evolution Timeline
Pretty awesome to think that homo sapiens are only a evolutionary anomaly at this point.Adobe 'shifting focus' from Apple
In response to Apple CEO Steve Jobs' explanation on why his company refuses to let Adobe Systems' Flash Player on his company's iPhone, Adobe's chief technology officer sounded an upbeat tone and said the company was moving on without Apple.
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Cook Your Meat in a Beer Cooler
The WorldjQuery Sparklines
Sparklines are my favouriteHomemade PopTarts
I might have to actually try my hand at making these, they look delish!chillout song
Sometimes the internet is unspeakably awesome. Thanks ZeFrankDaily Links
Transmit 4
Best FTP app on OS X gets even better.Should I have bought that Apple Product?
Apple product vs how much Apple stock would be worth instead. Silly but interesting.Peace-vase
Awesome industrial design.Personal Best
Drink a Slushie Before Hot-Weather Workouts - going to get slurpees for the girls before soccer this summer.Daily Links
Google Chrome to Support the Web Open Font Format
Work on adding WOFF support to Chromium is already underway, though there’s no timetable for when the new features will make it into a shipping version of Google Chrome.Canada's Heritage Minister ready to bring back DMCA-style copyright, throwing out results of copyright consultation
The copyright bill may still be several weeks away, but reintroducing Bill C-61 with only minor tweaks - a bit more flexibility for recording television shows or transferring content from one format to another - would leave in place the core provisions of the bill that generated widespread discontent.
The once ubiquitous floppy finally being axed by Sony
Sony, one of just a few companies that still produce the archaic computer storage media, has announced plans to end production of floppies in March 2011.jQuery Masonry
Yup. This is awesome. We will be digging into this in very short order.Daily Links
Twaggies Needs Your Tweets
Because who doesn't like a visual?Daily Links
Announcing CakePHP 1.3.0 Stable
This next instalment of the CakePHP line brings a myriad of enhancements, fixes and structural changes to the framework designed to ease your development experience and extend the capabilities of CakePHP.Daily Links
Emotional Interface Design: The Gateway to Passionate Users
As users let their humanity show online, frontiers of communication are opening for web designers.Happy Earthday 2010
Kyleigh woke me up this morning with "Happy EARTH DAY!" and a song about earth. It was pretty cool actually, even though it was 6am. So to honour that childhood enthusiasm, we are going to assemble the Visual Lizard BEST of Earthday right here.
The Official Earth Day Site
Head on over to http://www.earthday.org/ and jump in. They have several initiatives going on right now. Post your Act of Green on their homepage, sign the responsible climate declaration, and check out the Earth Day 2010 campaign.
Sustainable Sushi Pocket Guide
We eat a bit of sushi around here. This is a supper handy guide we use to try and keep our sushi habit as green as possible. Thanks Earth Defense Fund!
Urban Forest Map
This site is an awesome idea that is starting to happen. While not directly an Earth Day initiative, the site is attempting to map every tree in San Francisco. Every single tree! The best part about the site is that it is user driven and leans heavily on Google Maps to do handle the heavy lifting. Hopefully their beta opens to the public soon and we can start mapping our awesome urban forest here in Winnipeg.
40 Years of Earth Day Posters
What a great look back in time. Awesome.
Do your part for the planet. It is the only one we have.
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Apple CMY display design could be boon for print production
Apple has filed for a patent on an idea to help those whose bread and butter still involves printing: make the monitor display CMYK.The White House: open-source Drupal developer?
Not only is the Obama White House using plenty of open-source software, its technology team is contributing back to the community.CSS3 Support Checklist
Very handy~!Design Swap
A little bit like Layer Tennis, but with personal consequences: Two designers face off, each redesigning part or all of the other’s site."And Then There Was Salsa" on Vimeo
Watch it at Vimeo. Pretty cool.
CakePHP 1.2.7 released
In addition to all the excitement with CakePHP 1.3's release candidate run and upcoming release, the development team has been working on minor updates to CakePHP 1.2.1Password for Windows Beta is now available
If you are a 1Password user who also works with Windows have I got some good news for you!Daily Links
The iPad Pad
Awesome design on this simple piece of cloth.8-Bit Soap
This game cartridge soap packs 8-bit power in every shower! (And is twice the size & weight of the other GEEKSOAP bars.)Nice Web Type
How to use CSS @font-face - must read!Steam UI update officially rolling out next week
Following the success of the Steam UI beta, Valve has announced that all users will officially get the new-look game service next week. The official update will roll out on Monday, April 26.Akihabara
HTML 5 Arcade. Bring a webkit browser.Broken McAfee DAT update cripples Windows workstations
McAfee pushed out a virus definition update, 5958, at 06:00 PDT that causes false positive identification of the critical Windows system file svchost.exe.2010 Winnipeg Bicycle Auction
Every year the city recovers hundreds of stolen and lost bicycles that are never claimed… this is what happens to them.Winnipeg E-Waste Depots
Starting May 1, 2010, there will be 29 e-waste depots around the province. Ten of them will offer year-round services.Adding Facebook ‘Like’ Buttons to Your Site Is Damn Easy
Basically, Facebook is offering up a set of widgets that you can drop into any web page to make that page more “Facebooky.”Hatetris
Easily one of the meanest Tetris clone you've ever played.Daily Links
14 Fresh and Useful jQuery Plugins
If you’re a developer, you know what a joy working with jQuery can be, especially the convenience of plugins.HTML5 presentation
Written in HTML5 no less. Make sure you have a modern browser for this link!Bike & Bus Program is Back
Winnipeg transit riders can now bike to their bus stops, then rack their bikes on the bus to join them for the ride. Sportsworks bike racks are installed on all Route 60 Pembina buses.