“Groovy Mother…” :: Entries for Monday, October 27, 2008

Entries for Monday, October 27, 2008

➠ October 27, 2008

Finding it hard to concentrate on main work project when there’s a cool hacky idea nipping at my heels to be built.

Posted to Twitter at 4:12 p.m.

Has everyone already done the joke about Microsoft’s “cloud services” being literal vapourware? Yes? OK, I’ll shut up, then.

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Posted to Twitter at 3:37 p.m.

FiveThirtyEight.com: The Three Ashleys

I mostly enjoy FiveThirtyEight for the statistical geekery, but some of the blogessays posted are great too. I really enjoyed this one by Sean Quinn on “The Three Ashleys”

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RjDj

Echoing Andy Baio’s advice on Twitter: “If you have an iPhone, go install RjDj Single (it’s free), pop in your headphones, start it up, and go back to whatever you were doing.” S’bloody AMAZING!

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Filed under : amazing! : iphone : music : rjdj

The Google Earth iPhone app is not only impressive to look at; It also turns your iPhone into a portable space heater. #feeltheburn

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Posted to Twitter at 1:50 p.m.

I got me a whatnot

Spent some birthday cash creating my own custom Muppet Whatnot on the FAO Schwartz website. I'm thoroughly excited at the prospect of having a Muppet of my very own.

Unrelated: I am 32.

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Filed under : CONSUME! : muppet : muppets : muppet whatnot : whatnot

typeface.js -- Rendering text with Javascript, <canvas>, and VML

Amazingly clever piece of hackery. Embed fonts seamlessly in your pages in a manner that works with all released major browsers (including iPhone), but degrades gracefully. Need to do some playing with this…

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Filed under : canvas : css : hackery : javascript : typography

After a weekend of pretty much nothing but videogames, kind of glad to be back at work and exercising other parts of my brain.

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Posted to Twitter at 10:37 a.m.

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