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Entries for Monday, October 27, 2008

October 27, 2008

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”

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!

I got me a whatnot

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.

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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