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A five year old on well-known brand marks.
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Shit White Guys Say…to Asian Girls
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Party Rock Anthem - Literal MSPaint
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Flash Works On Touch-Based Devices (Video)
Adobe Platform Evangelist Lee Brimelow shows how Flash on touch devices handles mouseover (hover) events. It handles them just the same as Safari on iPhone does — it dispatches a mouseover event on the first touch, and a click event on the second.
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60 Minutes: Conan O’Brien
Conan’s first TV interview since being ousted from NBC.
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PomplamooseMusic’s Channel
Discovered these guy today. Too awesome.
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Creativity Loves Blowing Constraints out of the Water
Entertaining and inspiring video on what happened when someone teaching an entrepuership class at Stanford gave small teams five dollars and two hours to make as much money as they possibly could.
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DIGITALKITCHEN’s Shark Week ads
I really hate how Discovery always plays up the shark attack angle with their Shark Week promos, instead of conservation, understanding, and admiration for these magnificent creatures. That having been said, these commercials are brilliantly executed. They’re downright terrifying.
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New York Nearest Subway Augmented Reality App for iPhone 3GS from acrossair
Ladies and gentlemen, your future has arrived. Please mind the gap as you board.
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http://iphun.tv/
iPhone game reviews with the awesome @seanbonner.
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Elliot Jay Stocks: How to Design a Portfolio Site
I plan to redo the portfolio portion of this site, with my new focus on freelance and contract work, so I’m anxious to watch this. I trust EJS implicitly!
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Twitter Road Trip: Interview with @missrogue (Tara Hunt)
I just read Tara’s new book, The Whuffie Factor, and found it to be really brilliant advice for any business, or even individual, looking to raise their profile on social networks and IRL in this “Web 2.0 world.” In this little interview, Tara outlines hey five keys factors to “raising whuffie,” and gives a really nice overview of what the book is all about. Tara is everything social media gurus should be, but usually aren’t. After the book talk, she discusses what she believes is “the greatest idea she’s ever had in her life” (and I cant argue with her): a karaoke tour across America, which she calls Whuffaoke. I’m going to try to meet up with Tara and the gang for at least one of the stops — and you should, too.
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Cat Workout
My good buddy Tara Brown and her hubby Sean Bonner are the proprietors of a great new series of workout videos wherein you use your cat for resistance. Yes, your cat. Don’t have a cat? Don’t worry, there are other cat-like instruments that can be used in lieu of a domestic feline.
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Nicole Sullivan: Object Oriented CSS video on YDN
Really great talk by Nicole Sullivan on what she calls “Object Oriented CSS.” This is more or less the methodology I started using a coupe years ago that got me talking about what I called CSS “frameworks,” and I still believe it’s the best way to write, re-use, and maintain CSS. Nicole has some great tips, including some I hadn’t heard before. You can also view the slides on Slideshare.
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Online Advertising without Douchebaggery
> Say you’re EA sports, makers of the Tiger Woods videogame franchise. And you see a video on YouTube, where some kid is mocking you for a bug in the game that lets Tiger walk on water. Here’s exactly what you do.
Pretty funny, and smart, stuff.
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Photoshop for iPhone
Sweet! Via Emily, on Twitter.
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People in the Middle for Obama
Nicely done site full of video interviews from “common sense” people who are voting for Obama.
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Microsoft: I’m a PC, and I’m Creepy as Hell
Sometimes I wonder how Microsoft is so incredibly bad at “getting it.”
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Playing Columbine trailer
New documentary on video game controversies. Want to see.
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LOST Season 5 Official Promo trailer!
Game on, bitches. (Thanks, Morgan!)
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Newsvine’s Mike D. interviewed
Nice short interview with Newsvine founder and close personal friend Mike Davidson. Good stuff.
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Content Aware Scaling in Photoshop CS4
Wonderfully useful feature. Want.
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DjangoCon 2008: Pinax
James Tauber’s talk about Pinax at DjangoCon is a really great look at Django’s killer feature: reusable apps. Pinax is basically a collection of reusable apps — some of which were built for Pinax, and others which are independent of it — that allow one to put together a site very quickly (especially if your site is centered around social networking, as that’s much of what Pinax provides at this point). The basic concept is to separate bits of functionality (friend relationships, commenting, tagging, voting, registration, etc.) from what James calls the “domain object.” The domain object is what makes your site unique. For flickr, it’s photos. For Newsvine, it’s news stories. For Cork’d, it’s wine. If Pinax can provide all the non-domain object bits, all you have to do it build your domain object, and you’re set. Even if you’ve no interest in writing Django apps, it’s a good discussion of modularity and how this stuff works when it’s done right.
I was also surprised and excited to see that the approach I’ve taken with Savoy. While Savoy is more content management oriented (and Pinax is more focused on social networking), the basic structure of the two projects is very similar. Savoy has a set of third party apps it pulls in, as well as a set of “core” apps that are required. On top of that are “contrib” apps that are all optional. So, you simply install the core apps, then pick and choose which contrib apps are appropriate for your project, and you’re off to the races. I’m working to make all of these apps as reusable as possible. This is an ongiong process, and chances are the first will release won’t be as reusable as I’d like. But, pluggability will always be a primary goal. Finally, you can of course run your own apps alongside Savoy’s apps. Some apps even have hooks to integrate your own apps where appropriate (for example, the aggregator app, which runs my tumblelog, will aggregate content from any model of your choice, not just those that Savoy itself provides).
If you’re interested in building a social sort of site, or how best-of-breed reusable Django apps are built, definitely check out Pinax, and James’ talk about it.
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DjangoCon 2008 Keynote: Adrian Holovaty & Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Probably the single most relevant DjangoCon talk for most Djano developers, this fireside chat with Adrian and Jacob really covers the bases on where the framework will go in the future. As a sidenote, it also is a nice showcase of Jacob and Adrian’s personalities: they’re both really, genuine nice guys who are bright as hell but not at all opposed to criticism or other views (traits, which, in my view, have permeated the entire Django community). I’ve had my arguments with both dudes, but in the end, I love ‘em both. Great guys.
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DjangoCon 2008 Keynote: Cal Henderson on “Why I Hate Django”
Cal’s well-received talk from DjangoCon is very funny while making some great points. Most of his “serious” complaints about Django revolve around massive scaling, which he deals with on a daily basis at Flickr (which has both a huge data set and huge traffic). The reality is that none of the hot shit frameworks right now (Django, Rails, Cake, etc.) offer a lot of built in niceties for this level of scaling, and this is why (or at least part of the reason) we have a few notable sites built on them that haven’t managed to scale well at all as they’ve gotten more popular (coughTWITTERcough). The big question, of course, is: should a general-purpose framework like Django or Rails cater to the top 100 websites in the world, or should they focus on the needs of the other 99.9%? I don’t know the answer (and Cal says he doesn’t, either), but it’s an interesting topic. Plus, did I mention Cal is funny?
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Saturday Night Live: Palin / Hillary Open
You sort of expected Tiny Fey would look exactly like Sarah Palin, but wow did she ever nail the voice and mannerisms. Hilarious.
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Obama on The Late Show with David Letterman
Obama is funny. I like that.
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Zack and Miri Make a Porno Teaser Trailer
Red-band trailer for the upcoming Kevin Smith movie staring Seth Rogan. Looks fairly amusing.
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Eric Florenzano’s Setting up a Django environment screencast
Eric’s got a terrific screencast about setting up a Django development environment on Mac. He goes through it step-by-step from the very beginning, and it’s all very easy to understand. There are a million different ways to set up your dev enviroment, but I really liked some of the things Eric was doing in his setup — it’s actually making me rethink the way I usually set mine up.
There’s also a screencast of Eric’s app django-pagination, which looks really sweet. I’m definitely going to look into it more and see if it’s appropriate for my projects. You should, too.
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Malcom Gladwell on hiring
Great video of Malcolm Gladwell talking about the challenge of hiring in the modern world. While some of his sporting examples are a little questionable, I completely agree with the basic premise that the combine, and other similar measures of performance in other industries, are inherently flawed. I would add, too, that I think the way we promote people to management in the United States is idiotic. The idea that someone who performs very well in his/her job makes them a good candidate for a promotion to management is flatly absurd. The skills needed to be a great manager are drastically different — and in some cases, at odds with — the skills needed to be a great worker.
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The Website Is Down
Hilarious video presentation by Josh Weinberg. If you’ve ever had to work in technical support, you’ll love this.
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Ice T vs. Soulja Boy
So basically, Ice T said Soulja Boy sucks, and Soulja Boy came back with a long-winded video that basically called Ice T out of touch with the modern game. But more importantly, Soulja Boy noted that the last time he saw Ice T, he was acting in an episode of Law and Order. Soujla Boys said, “How you gonna make a song called ‘Fuck Tha Police,’ and then 20 years later, you’re playing the police on TV?”
Which sounded like a really good point, until about 10 seconds later, when I remembered that Ice T didn’t make a song called “Fuck Tha Police” — Ice Cube did (with NWA, of course).
I guess they’re both out of touch with the other’s generation. Via Rex.
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Romany Malco: Little Boxes
In the past four days, I’ve watched two and a half seasons of Weeds, and I’m really enjoying the show. In particular, I love the theme song (Malvina Reynold’s “Little Boxes“) which, in seasons two and three, is performed by a different artist for each episode. But here, Romany Malco (who plays Conrad on the show) drops his own entertaining version. Thanks to Bret, who pointed me to this on a comment on this site.
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Qik Video Streaming Finally Comes to iPhone
Qik, which is totally rad, is now on iPhone. It looks like it’s just a demo of an unofficial app for jailbroken iPhone, but it’s probably safe to assume a more “legit” version will be coming soon. Awesome.
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BLU > MUTO
Sarah pointed me to this stop-motion animation today, and my jaw dropped. It’s incredibly beautiful, but beyond that, I can’t even begin to conceive how difficult and tedious it must have been to make. Truly an amazing work.
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Mirror’s Edge video
Wow. This parkour-inspired game looks like a ton of fun. Amazing visuals. via Wilson.
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Touching Them All
I actually welled up here in the office when I watched this video of the incredible display of sportsmanship that went down when Western Oregon’s Senior softballer Sara Tucholsky hit her first career homerun in a conference championship game, only to blow out her knee as she rounded first base. “You hit the ball over the fence — you deserve it.” Awesome story, man. Awesome. via Kottke.
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Synchronization
An interesting video of synchronization of five coupled metronomes in Lancaster University. Trust me, it’s more interesting than it sounds.
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Prince covers Radiohead’s “Creep” at Coachella
For the three of you out there who still aren’t convinced that Prince is the greatest artist of our time. via Rex
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Video: How Hillary Can Still Win
How Hillary Clinton can still defeat Barack Obama and win the Democratic Nomination. Via B-Tizzle’s Bullshit.
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Jeff Croft
I’m a digital product designer and developer in Seattle, WA. I currently work with nGen Works, and recently co-founded Lendle, a Kindle book sharing service.
Some of my clients include Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Copious, The New York Review of Books, The Lawrence Journal-World, and the University of Washington.
I’ve authored two books on web and interactive design and spoken at dozens of conferences around the world.
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