Big Bang Technology

This is crazy. I really want to try it with my keys.

(Via Jason Kottke.)

Max is gone to Seattle for 3 weeks. This is his office replacement.

Kim Cameron strives to solve these questions in part one of his presentation on Project Geneva. Very interesting and explained in pretty basic english.

Jeremy Keith wonders about the new audio elements and tries to figure out ways to not auto-load the files:

There appears to be no way of stopping this through the DOM. There’s a whole slew of properties that can be specified in the markup or manipulated with [removed]

One thing he could try is showing a proxy that gets replaced when the user interacts with it by creating the audio element via the dom. Of course this would require javascript, but would solve the problem for a great majority of users.

Big Bang Technology will be there most of the day. Should be interesting.

Looks like Phill Ryu is at it again...

(Via Shaun Inman. Again.)

Seeing this post just made my day. I LOVE stuff like this.

(Via Shaun Inman.)

You know it would be Thanksgiving this weekend if you were living up here.

Thanks to Dick Hardt for posting this video.

Fairly interesting list of responses from some big time CSS players.

While Max is posting serious articles. I can't help but try to offset it a little bit.

(Via Andy Baio.)

If you don’t like the music on the radio, start a band. If you don’t like the way existing publications are defining your profession, start a magazine.

Happy birthday A List Apart!

I’ve been thinking a lot about good copywriting lately (And I’m taking a course at Seattle’s School of Visual Concepts on the subject), so I thought I’d share a few good, if not a little obvious, points about what constitutes good copywriting. And good writing in general…

Some simple advice from Tiffani Jones of Blue Flavor

An excellent example of tilt-shift video. (Via cubicle 17)

Seth Godin on current events:

Growth is frightening for a lot of people. It brings change and the opportunity for public failure. So if the astrological signs aren't right or the water is too cold or we've got a twinge in our elbow, we find an excuse. We decide to do it later, or not at all.

(Via Airbag Industries.)

I gave a talk this morning at BarCamp London 5 about CSS Systems, a new term that I am using to define a top-down approach to architecting a site's CSS.

A CSS System is a reusable set of content-oriented markup patterns and associated CSS created to express a site's individual design. It is the end result of a process that emphasizes up-front planning, loose coupling between CSS and markup, pre-empting browser bugs and overall robustness. It also incorporates a shared vocabulary for developers to communicate the intent of the code.

(Via Natalie Downe.)

The belief that all browsers should see the same design often requires us to resort to presentational markup, forked CSS and JavaScript DOM wizardry

At Big Bang Technology, we've started taking this very seriously. IE6 is on the chopping block.

(Via blog.)

We help you raise money for your ideas. How? By giving you the tools to connect deeper with your network and audience.

This looks like it could be interesting.

This is the most fun I've had watching a commercial in a long time.

watch until the 15 second mark; inspired by the HEMA ad?  

(Via Waxy.org Links.)

I think I'll be getting some of these:

The Wireframe Graph Paper Notepad is made for visual designers, interaction designers, and information architects designing for the screen. The notepad has 50 sheets at 8 1/2 x 11 inches on white 70# paper, glued on the left side. The ink is a non-photo blue (cyan) so that the grid lines and any sketch lines made in non-photo blue pencil can be knocked out when scanned and processed in graphics software.

(Via urlgreyhot - michael angeles.)

For anyone who hasn't heard of Fire Vox, it is a free, open source screen reader extension for Firefox that works on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Among other things it has support for WAI-ARIA and the CSS3 Speech Module, and is a good alternative to VoiceOver if you're on a Mac and need a screen reader for web browsing (or testing).

(Via 456 Berea Street.)

This is amazing.

(Via Andy Baio)

My brother just started taking part-time computer science classes at the University of Toronto and we've been talking about the stuff he's learning, most of it is beginner python and intro to object oriented programming etc. Looks like this might be a great resource for people like myself who have been programming for years, but don't have a proper science degree.

(Via Tantek)

Just one brief announcement today. Hot on the heels of an extended Anivers, Jos Buivenga releases Museo Sans, the other half of his incredibly popular Museo:

(Via simplebits.)

I'm not sure that I need ANOTHER web browser, and this is just a stop-gap until the real mac version comes out, but good on the crossover folks for releasing this.

(Via Magic)

One of the main detractors from Gears for me was the lack of migrations. This doesn't seem to be a problem anymore!

(Via Simon Willison's Blog)

We've got something new and cool in the works and I'm excited to be able to tell you a little bit about it today!

Before the end of the year we are planning to release a new service for content delivery. This new (and as yet unnamed) service will provide you with a high performance way to distribute popular, publicly readable content to your customers all over the world, with low latency and high data transfer rates.

This is great news. I've just been involved with a project that used Akamai and I think they will finally have some cheap competition to shake things up.

John Resig:

My podcast with @boagworld is up, with transcript: http://boagworld.com/podcast/135/ Talking about why you should use JS libraries.

(Via jeresig.)

what do you wish would happen by the end of today?

(Via Andy Baio.)

Today the IE team  is pleased to announce the availability of Internet Explorer Beta 2 in 21 additional  languages. The languages released today are fully localized versions of the IE8 English Beta 2.

Good for them.

(Via IEBlog.)

We’ve released an updated beta of Adobe AIR for Linux. This includes 1.1 functionality and the encrypted local store, so for those of you having to retype your password into applications on Linux, that should go away.

(Via Ryan Stewart.)

Bluff is a JavaScript port of the Gruff graphing library for Ruby. It is designed to support all the features of Gruff with minimal dependencies; the only third-party scripts you need to run it are a copy of JS.Class (about 2kb gzipped) and a copy of Google’s ExCanvas to support canvas in Internet Explorer. Both these scripts are supplied with the Bluff download. Bluff itself is around 8kb gzipped.

(Via Gruber)

I always watch Democracy Now. It's the only daily news program I trust.

Dion Almaer shares his interesting slides about Google Gears, HTML 5 and the Open Web.

Want to win an all-expense paid trip to any Carsonified event? Check out the Carsonified Golden Ticket post. This seems like a really great idea and should drum up some good press for the many Carsonified events.

I downloaded cappuccino the day it came out and have been slowly working my way through the framework. Having zero experience with Objective-C it's a little jarring, so it's great to hear they are committed to creating more examples and adding to the existing documentation. Congratulations on 10k!

(Via Cappuccino Blog.)

I really found this presentation insightful. One thing I didn't know about is Natural Docs which I am definitely going to look into.

(Via beep)

Hilarious. Why should we care about standards anymore when they can't finalize a spec until 2022! How can we speed this up?

So Apple rejects an iPhone app because it competes with functionality in the desktop version of iTunes.

(Via cubicle 17.)

I watched the screencast of this recently. I find this weird. Sproutcore is a javascript framework that uses ruby for generators and easy framework creation. Sprouts is an actionscript project generation and configuration tool. I wonder who thought of the name first?

I was supposed to be pushing to staging but I hit the wrong button. Oops =)