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Category: Links

  • Pictos by Drew Wilson

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    [Three Hundred and Twenty-four vector icons for user interface design][link] for a measly $29. Hell of a deal. [link]: http://pictos.drewwilson.com/ “Pictos”

  • Facebook’s Descent Into Unknowing Parody

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    Their [deactivation page][emo] is emotional blackmail at its most absurd: [emo]: http://facebook.com/deactivate.php “Deactivate Facebook” The National Lampoon was way ahead of Facebook in this department, as evidenced by this January 1973 issue of the magazine: The Lampoon was joking, of course. Facebook not so much.

  • Introduction To Online Payments

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    [Required reading if you’re working on the web today][link], doubly so if you’re selling things. Spoiler: It’s a bitch. [link]: http://blog.meatinthesky.com/introduction-to-online-payments-tldr-its-a-to “Introduction To Online Payments – TL;DR: It’s A Total Bitch – Meat In The Sky Blog”

  • The App Store: Revenge Reviews

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    [Garret Murray, developer of the Ego app for iPhone, on what he calls “revenge reviews”][link]: Reviews posted to the App Store by users who accidentally purchased an app, misread it’s description, or otherwise made a mistake. I hadn’t thought of this: >People brought up a great point the last time I complained about App Store…

  • Second IE9 Platform Preview

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    [Microsoft seems to be running with HTML5 in a real way][link], and that is really great news for people who make websites. It’s got a [not-great ACID3 score][acid], right now, but it’s nice to know they actually give a shit. For once. [link]: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2010/05/05/html5-and-same-markup-second-ie9-platform-preview-available-for-developers.aspx “IEBlog : HTML5 and Same Markup: Second IE9 Platform Preview Available…

  • Eliza Gauger’s Handmade Button Packs

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    [Sets of 5 buttons, each unique and handmade by the artist.][link] It is her birthday, [so buy something][buy]. [link]: http://toxoplasm.org/gibberings/?p=1204 “GIBBERINGS – Birthday Buttonsanity Biscounts” [buy]: http://toxoplasm.org/buttons/ “Eliza’s Buttons”

  • An Interview with Jerry Casale on the Kent State Massacre

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    [Jerry is one of the founders of DEVO][link], and Kent State was a catalyst in changing his worldview: >All I can tell you is that it completely and utterly changed my life. I was white hippie boy and than I saw exit wounds from M1 rifles out of the backs of two people I knew.…

  • Illustrated Editions of The Hobbit

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    [Focusing on the illustrations in the different worldwide versions of The Hobbit][link]. The Swedish ones ([1947][1947], [1967][1967]) are especially lovely. [link]: http://pblancho.free.fr/ “Hobbitish – Worldwide illustrated Hobbit editions” [1947]: http://pblancho.free.fr/sw2/index.html “1947 Swedish Edition of the Hobbit” [1967]: http://pblancho.free.fr/sw1/index.html “1967 Swedish Edition of The Hobbit”

  • Google Voice for iPhone and Palm WebOS

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    [Written in HTML5, no need to interact with the App Store at all][link], it’s available immediately. Funny how that works out. [link]: http://googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/google-voice-for-iphone-and-palm-webos.html “Google Voice Blog: Google Voice for iPhone and Palm WebOS”

  • Face.com Opens Developer API

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    [A very impressive facial recognition API][link]. How long before this is used to identify political protestors? [link]: http://developers.face.com/ “face.com developers site. face.com for developers”

  • Terry Pratchett on Doctor Who

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    [Terry, who as he says himself was “there at the beginning”:][link] >The unexpected, unadvertised solution which kisses it all better is known as a deus ex machina – literally, a god from the machine. And a god from the machine is what the Doctor now is. A decent detective story provides you with enough tantalising…

  • The Evolution of Jack Torrence

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    [’nuff said.][link] [link]: http://cargocollective.com/maxbrown/363939/-What-The-Old-Timers-Used-To-Call-Cabin-Fever “What The Old Timers Used To Call Cabin Fever – Orange Year”