February 2012
7 posts
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“The graffiti artist who took Facebook stock instead of cash for painting the...”
– Not bad for some graffiti huh?
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Boarding Pass Usability
This recent blog post from Delta shows off their new boarding pass design. It’s nice to see an airline paying attention to the usability of the boarding pass. Those things are a mess. This design is very clean and easy to read. The gate, time, and seat immediately jump out at me.
Apparently the white space will facilitate the consolidation of up to four flights on a single boarding pass...
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“Facebook has become the largest platform for display advertising on the Web in...”
– Wow, that’s insane. This is according to comScore so I’m not sure how accurate that number is.
January 2012
6 posts
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Exit Through The Gift Shop
I watched this on Netflix last night. It’s a Banksy documentary featuring Thierry Guetta, a French “filmmaker” turned “street artist”. Lots of great art throughout the film.
I’m beginning to partially buy into the theory that this is all a creation of Banksy and is his ultimate art piece. You have to see it to understand the conspiracy theory.
Highly...
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My Permissions
I found a really great site today that helps check what applications have access to your social network accounts. I was surprised at the amount of applications that had full access to my Google and Facebook accounts. At MyPermissions.org I was able to quickly access all of the different permission pages that are usually buried very deep. No registration necessary, just start clicking the icons to...
December 2011
2 posts
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Pinball Archive: Videos →
By far the most comprehensive set of videos showing game play for tons of pinball machines. These are all filmed at the PAPA headquarters in Carnegie, PA.
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iOS: A visual history →
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about iOS is how similar the OS as it exists today is to the OS as it existed 2007, yet the number and breadth of features that Apple has baked in since then is mind boggling. Far from suffering from the “feature creep” that typically bogs down operating systems over time, iOS has managed to stay relatively snappy and is more internally consistent...
August 2011
7 posts
Spin! →
A progress spinner with no images. Nice.
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America the Story of Us →
I’ve been watching this on Netflix lately. Awesome series.
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Is the Desktop Having an Identity Crisis?
Good read on what Apple and Microsoft are doing to their desktop operating system roadmaps.
Both new operating systems reflect a tectonic shift in personal computing. They incorporate elements from mobile operating systems alongside more conventional desktop features. But demos of both operating systems suggest that users could face a confusing mishmash of design ideas and interaction methods.
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Online Regular Expression Builder →
I find myself using regular expressions more and more these days. Here is a neat tool that helps you build and validate them on the fly.
Warning: It’s 100% flash.
July 2011
4 posts
January 2011
2 posts
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Is Facebook Temporary?
So it’s not that MySpace lost and Facebook won. It’s that MySpace won first, and Facebook won next. They’ll go down in the same order.”
Is Facebook Temporary?
November 2010
1 post
WatchPacific Pinball Museum
August 2010
2 posts
“The interface should not be full of excise UI elements that force a user through...”
– Great post by Francisco Inchauste
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Transformer Owl
March 2010
2 posts
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Another 13.1
So I ran another half marathon. It was the Miami Beach 13.1. Well I attempted to run it. I probably should have stopped when I got foot pain at mile 1. The weather was too nice to pass up…oh well. I got through it and got my medal! I’ll be taking a Brett Favre style retirement from running for a while.
I’m looking forward to running this race again. Hopefully next year I can...
ASP.NET 1.1 Web Services and jQuery
While working on a project today I figured out how to use jQuery’s $.ajax functionality to consume an ASP.NET 1.1 web service. I was always under the impression that this wasn’t possible. However, this is quite easy. By default an ASP.NET 1.1 web service will accept an HTTP GET, HTTP POST, or HTTP SOAP. Calling a 1.1 web service is as easy as:
$.ajax({ type: “POST”, url:...
January 2010
1 post
August 2009
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Ms. Pac Man!
I just picked up a Ms. Pac Man cocktail. This is the first arcade game I’ve ever owned. I’ve spent a few years looking for a Ms. Pac Man cocktail. It’s in great cosmetic shape. The only thing that bugs me is the control panel. At some point someone hacked up the original art and added a few buttons to convert it to a 60 in 1. I plan to replace the art with something nice and...
March 2009
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infoBar 1.0
I created a simple plugin for jQuery that displays an information bar that looks similar to what most browsers are doing to show messages to a user today. I needed to create something that showed my custom messages when necessary. Total development time on top of jQuery was about 15 minutes. This is the best framework ever!
infoBar is easy to use. Here is what you do:
showInfoBar(‘This is...