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Vanonymous
“Also, the royals have been known to use the name Van Buren in situations requiring anonymity”
“TL; DR World is broken. fix it.”
“TL; DR World is broken. fix it.” – DanielRibeiro
Now I Don’t Need To Write This Myself.
Generation X is beyond all that bullshit now. It quit smoking and doing coke a long time ago. It has blood pressure issues and is heavier than it would like to be. It might still take some ecstasy, if it knew where to get some. But probably not. Generation X has to be up really …
“…the web is more cared for than owned”
As a follow up to my “Tomorrow It’s Amazon & Mozilla & Samsung” – a little self-promotion from your friends at Mozilla Firefox.
For the Win?
Back at the beginning of my career, my then creative director decided the best way to bring in new business to our nascent agency was to win design awards. Not knowing any better – we all cheered and put our collective nose to the grindstone. Developing the concept, the interactions, the flow, all for a …
CHICKEN NO MORE
“LAST STEP IS SMASH CAGE, LIGHT BARN ON FIRE. DO THAT, YOU WIN.” – FAKE GRIMLOCK Related: Notice, the animal in the top cartoon is a chicken and the animals, stuck in the barn are pigs. Reminds me of a story about the difference between a contribution and a commitment.
FOSS Abhors a Vaccuum
You know, I could have sworn we already had a Linux-based, mobile-optimized operating system, with a HTML/Javascript-based application development environment. I guess purgatory isn’t the same as open source.
Extracting iCalendar feeds from embedded Google calendars
This is an update to John Utell’s 2009 post with the same title. If the Google embedded Calendar URL something like: https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=GOOGLE-USERNAME%40gmail.com&ctz=America%2FChicago%22&mode=week…. The iCal feed is https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/GOOGLE-USERNAME%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics Now you know. (It should be – https://www.google.com/calendar/GOOGLE-USERNAME%40gmail.com – If only Google cared about good URL design)
Tracking you like it’s going out of style
“This means that Twitter has the ability to even track surfing habits (on Tweet button enabled websites) of users that have no Twitter account and have never visited a Twitter website before. When using the same browser to create an account at Twitter afterwards this collected data of the past can theoretically be linked to …
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