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Up There

9 May 2010

Gorgeous.

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The Impossible Bloomberg Makeover

28 March 2010

The only valid reason explaining why the Bloomberg design will not change is the behavior of its users. Users who favor complexity and clutter over efficiency and clarity to sustain a fictive status symbol.

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Things don’t get much better than Eric Snider’s “Snide Remarks”

1 March 2010
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The appendices of the CSS specification are in alphabetical order

24 February 2010

The game is afoot!

Also, I’m super stoked about the CSS 2.1 appendices.

Also, I just lost the game.

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A History of Obama Feigning Interest in Mundane Things

18 February 2010

No, I never thought I’d see this much wire in one place.

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Engineers at Home

12 February 2010

On the button seek-time latency front: if I’m nuking something for 6 minutes or less, I’ll hit minute plus x 6 instead of hunting for the numbers and the start button.

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American Pixels

20 January 2010

Beautifully pixelated images.

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Permanent Brunch has a bacon bar

19 August 2009

What more can you ask for? You must eat here next time you’re in New York City.

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The Fruit Is A Lie

12 August 2009

We all know, I think, that a tomato is a fruit not a vegetable… So I was prepared for a shock, but not the magnitude of what I actually found.

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Wait. Kindles are only three hundred bucks?

21 July 2009
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You should be reading Neven Mrgan’s Tumbl

30 June 2009
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Microsoft’s Browser Comparison Chart

19 June 2009

I’ve been using the wrong browser all along. Check out these stats on Internet Explorer!

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“Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.”

5 April 2009
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If you read one thing today, make sure it’s this blog post

28 March 2009
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Read this blog: The Scooter Lounge

12 March 2009
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Tuscan Whole Milk, 1 Gallon, 128 fl oz

7 March 2009

This makes me happy.

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A Simple Pledge Poster from Lure Design

28 February 2009

I promise.

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“We wanted an easier way to add Google Analytics to our pages and our javascript, so I decided to write a jQuery plugin.”

24 February 2009

Amazing. Thanks for making the internets a better place, squareFactor :)

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Pepsi & Mountain Dew Throwback

22 February 2009

I’m in. I’ve gotta get me a case of that Mountain Dew.

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Converting to git-svn: A collection of links

14 February 2009

Everything you need to know to make the switch.

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Install this Firefox extension: Tabs Open Relative

26 December 2008

Firefox extensions…. Fixing things Mozilla got wrong since 2004®

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I’ll just look at a couple more websites.

14 December 2008

Fun fact: this webcomic was one of the “couple more websites” I looked at this time.

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It’s important to remember that the user isn’t a marionette.

4 December 2008

Wade Shearer, on the not-so-semantic difference between ‘user experience design’ and ‘interaction design’.

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Should I use tables for layout?

15 November 2008

View the source on this one :)

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MR. PRESIDENT: I look forward to being disappointed in new ways.

10 November 2008

Brilliant :)

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If you want a peek into what goes on in my head…

1 November 2008

Check out this new Wordle to see everything I’ve bookmarked on Delicious in the past couple of years. (Click on a word to see the links).

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“I will do one thing today”

7 October 2008

I really dig this todo list. I’m a list sort of guy, and sometimes my lists get a bit unweildly. This notepad seems like a clever solution to my priority problems…

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What we can learn about usability…

30 September 2008

Stop giving people choices. And if you can’t do that, at least stop making iPhone apps, kthx?

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This is why I read Seth Godin

18 September 2008
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History of the browser user-agent string

11 September 2008

In the beginning there was NCSA Mosaic, and Mosaic called itself NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1), and Mosaic displayed pictures along with text, and there was much rejoicing…

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The Strand Race

30 August 2008

Great job on this one, GuerilLA. I’m still grinning :)

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In Case of Zombie Attack, Break Glass

28 August 2008

this is one hundred percent awesome.

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Google is almost as good at math as I am…

23 August 2008

399999999999999 - 399999999999998 is pretty simple, right?

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teehan+lax has an amazing PSD of iPhone GUI resources

22 August 2008

everything’s editable. this is hot. they even made it 160 dpi so it prints the exact size of an iPhone screen :)

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“I call dregs”

1 August 2008

Calling “dregs” is actually a great marketing strategy. It lets the community know that you’ll backstop them, you’ll worry about what’s left, and you’re happy to be generous.

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Medialets is tracking iPhone App Store metrics

23 July 2008

Check out the top apps from the App Store. Medialets is tracking based on genere, price and more. They provide a much clearer picture than Apple of what’s hot and what’s not, for the apps they’re integrated with.

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I need this shirt.

4 June 2008

“Robots No Follow” … This phrase could save your life one day. And the shirt is made from 100% awesome.

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Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is available.

19 May 2008

Get it. If you’re already using Firefox, this one’s crazy faster and the memory leaks are fixed. If you’re still using the browser that shipped with your operating system, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.

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You will enjoy this song: the power of the beat compels you

25 April 2008

I can’t get enough of this guy. Check YILA feat Scroobius Pip — “When I grow up I want to be an astronaut…”

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‘skine.art.

18 April 2008

After looking at this site, I’m almost ashamed that I only do lame things with my Moleskine. Like writing in it.

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Meat Loaf’s potential to do things (for love)

13 April 2008

clever.

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Stranger Photos Have Happened

10 April 2008

An interesting experiment in social media… Leave a disposable camera in public with a note that says: “I attached this camera to the bench so you could take pictures. Seriously. So have fun. I’ll be back later this evening to pick it up.”

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Best use of Mario Paint ever!

31 March 2008

Best use of Mario Paint ever!

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Making The Web A Better Place, One Campaign At A Time…

27 March 2008

Save A Developer. Upgrade Your Browser.

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LISTEN TO THIS SONG

19 March 2008

Dan le Sac VS Scroobius Pip’s “Thou Shalt always Kill”

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HELP WANTED… waitress with “EXPERIENCE”. Night Shift

13 March 2008

From The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks.

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Here’s a great reason to stop using Internet Explorer 6

4 March 2008
(Hint: if you’re using IE 6, don’t click the link)
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Shrine of the Mall Ninja

2 March 2008

If you want to laugh at somebody, try laughing at the sheep out there who go to the mall unarmed trusting in me to stand guiard over their lives like a God.

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killer deal on a second gen Blue Ipod Nano.

29 February 2008

Blue Ipod Nano :: NOT FOR RESALE :: Our Price: $8,500.99

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BRINGO: Stop Talking to Machines and Talk to a Real Human

21 February 2008

BRINGO dials the 800 number, navigates the phone tree for you, and gives you a call when you’re connected to a human. Brilliant.

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“Witch” window switcher by many tricks

5 February 2008
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What exactly justifies making SMS messages sixty one million times more expensive than ISP data and 200x more expensive than TCP?

28 January 2008
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NBC Universal has an XML schema for DMCA infringements

26 December 2007
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Download The Dark Knight trailer, in high def

16 December 2007
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Do websites need to look exactly the same in every browser?

16 December 2007
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@Ted Boren: That was your own headhunter…

16 December 2007
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Mouse cursor IRL

3 December 2007
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55: A Meditation on the Speed Limit Around the Perimeter

25 November 2007
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This bro is intense… Guitar Hero III, crazy song, turned up to eleven.

15 November 2007
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The Nerd Handbook

14 November 2007
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Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments

20 December 2006

People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the ability to realize it.

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My name is Justin and I make the Internet. I'm @bobthecow on Twitter. I'm also a hacker, coder and general nuisance at OpenSky, the hippest curated shopping site around.

Projects

  • Manipulate Coda — A text manipulation plug-in suite for Panic’s Coda
  • coda-cli — Shell integration for Coda
  • FastTab for Coda
  • Color schemes for Coda (and SubEthaEdit)
  • PHP Docblock generator plug-in for Coda
  • Git integration plug-ins for Coda
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