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if you are looking for a Unicode character, but you don't know what it's called - draw it!
if you are looking for a Unicode character, but you don't know what it's called - draw it!
Ever wonder what your iPhone thinks about you when you're not around?
Peter Oborne's letter on leaving the UK newspaper, the Telegraph. "There are great issues here. They go to the heart of our democracy, and can no longer be ignored."
An experiment that brings together the power of Google Translate and the collective knowledge of Wikipedia, to put into context the relationship between language and geographical space.
NY Times article on why you should really think about what you say and the consequences of your actions when you tweet or post something to social media.
Pinterest announced a partnership with Apple to launch "App Pins" tha'll allow users to install iOS apps on their devices without ever needing to leave the Pinterest app.
Subway is a set of 306 pixel perfect crafted icons, delivered in PNG, SVG, XALM, PSD, CSH, SKETCH, PDF, AI and EPS format, all for free!
"Bill C-51 is a problem not only because it fails to address longstanding limitations in oversight and accountability over CSIS, but rather because there are substantive provisions that raise real privacy and civil liberties concerns."
Swift 1.2 was released as part of Xcode 6.3 beta. This beta release includes a significantly enhanced Swift compiler, as well as new features in the Swift language itself.
"This new series of posts will explore what I call 'typeface mechanics', the behind-the-scenes work that makes typefaces visually functional. It is what placates the stubborn oddities of human perception, helps or hinders the user, and informs long-standing conventions of design."
Nice little collection of useful .htaccess tricks from various sources across the internet.
A page collecting unique viewport heights of visiting browsers. Pretty sure the 987654 pixel one isn't representative of typical visitors, though.
See Spot. Run.
Apple is finally killing iPhoto. Photos for OS X, the modern photo library that Apple built from the ground up for Mac computers, is making its debut. A developer seed version of Photos is being distributed to developers today, the company said. You can see a preview page up at Apple.com.
Neil Young joins Jimmy Fallon onstage for a great duet of a classic.
"From a policy perspective, there is no credible evidence that this will do anything other than leave Canadians with 20 years of no new works entering the public domain. Indeed, many economists have examined the issue and concluded that extending the term unsurprisingly does not create an additional incentive for new creativity. Moreover, studies in other countries that have extended term have concluded that it ultimately costs consumers millions of dollars in additional royalties, most of which are sent out of the country."
Bill C-51 allows CSIS to arrest anyone they suspect might commit a crime, even if they haven’t done anything. Canadians can also be detained for up to five years for simply “promoting” terrorism.