February 2010
22 posts
QUIZ: Typeface or Body Part?
Do YOU know the difference between a ligament and a ligature? If someone said you had grotesque descenders, would you thank them or slap them?
In today’s fast-paced design world, you’re always just a tiny misunderstanding away from either a harassment suit or the best Rotary Club newsletter ever printed. Take our simple quiz and see if you’re ready for the challenges of modern...
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lonelysandwich:
An actual tritone is a musical interval that spans three whole tones, and because it normally sounds horrible and dissonant and creates tension to be resolved into a perfect 5th, it’s historically known as Diabolus in Musica, or “the Devil’s interval” and was even suppressed by the Church in the Middle Ages.
Oh, how I love me a good tritone. It’s...
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How can the iPhone SDK be NDA'd?
rentzsch:
I was talking to a friend, who made an interesting point.
For $99, anyone can sign up to be an iPhone Developer. Then, Apple provides you with supposedly confidential information.
I’m no lawyer, but it doesn’t seem right to claim information is confidential while advertising it for sale to the public at large.
Protected by copyright, sure. But confidential?
Well, it’s not...
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Tumblr Staff: Dashboard API: Part 1 →
Dashboard posts are now accessible from the Tumblr API, and there’s a shit-ton more coming to the API over the next few weeks days.
This is great news. Coincidentally, I emailed Tumblr Support a week ago asking for this exact feature, and I got the standard “we have no plans to implement that” response. Either I’m incredibly influential, or things have changed.
Creating and...
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A conversation I have every month or so
Me: (tries to visit a local restaurant’s website via iPhone) Restaurant website: I require Flash. Fuck off. Me: I just want to know how late you’re open. Website: Nope. Me: But I’m on my phone. Don’t you have a little “HTML Version” link up in the corner or something? Website: I’m ignoring you. Me: What if I’m on my phone because I’m out,...
Things people try to log into
Neven Mrgan responds to my explanation of the “Facebook Login” phenomenon with disbelief (sorry for changing your <ol> to a <ul>, Neven, but it was the only way I could interpose my comments):
I understand the annoyance with Facebook Connect, but this doesn’t explain the facts I find the most amazing in this story:
People google for “facebook login” to log in to...
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Things people try to log into
mrgan:
Regarding this morning’s amazing occurrence where people who had googled for “facebook login” and got taken to a news story about Facebook then assumed that the news website was Facebook itself…
Flickr user jimwhimpey posted screenshot of login pages for Facebook and MySpace; this resulted in comments from users trying to log in to those websites using small screenshots of them, or even...
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A stupid thing I once did on Twitter
On Super Bowl Sunday 2009, I announced a live-tweet of the greatest sporting event of our time:
Tonight only: @dwineman’s toenail clipping extravaganza. Live-tweet beginning at 6:28 EST. If you hate football, unfollow everyone but me.
Several hours of stupidity followed shortly thereafter, and it only cost me half a dozen followers. Since it reads better forwards than backwards, and...
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lonelysandwich:
Modulator-demodulator
When I...