Wednesday, June 22, 2011

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2  I think we all know that add-ons have grown integral to the Firefox experience — and popular, to say the least — but we didn’t know just how popular until now. Today, Mozilla said through its blog that 85 percent of Firefox 4 users have installed add-ons. Mozilla equates this to more than 60 million people using its add-ons every day. But before you start rolling your eyes, Mozilla adds-on, “Thi
TechCrunch • 3 hours ago
2  I’ve been living in London for 3 weeks now, and it has rained nearly every single day. Wouldn’t summer be so much better if instead of rain, ice cream and sprinklers came falling down to Earth? The only thing that would be better is unicorns pooping marshmallows! Hoping to make all of your childhood dreams come true, Royal College of Art student and designer Cathrine Kramer teamed up with nanotech
The Mobile Application Mark... • 3 hours ago
16  Bitcoin, for those not aware, is a completely digital currency -- one where exchanges between individuals are largely anonymous and secured through cryptography, and one that has seen its hype-meter go off the charts in recent months. That, inevitably, has had some people waiting for a fall, and it took a big one this week. While things have since bounced back, the value of the currency on the
Engadget • 2 hours ago
2  Sales of smartphones powered by Google’s Android mobile operating system passed 10 million units in South Korea this week, after sales data was released by mobile carriers operating in the country, Yonhap News reports. Figures put the country’s largest mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. at 6.18 million subscribers with Android devices as of Monday, KT Corp. reports 2.06 million, with the smallest opera
The Mobile Application Mark... • 3 hours ago
10  Watch out Skype, Google Chrome is comin' for ya. Not long after releasing WebRTC audio and video chat software as open-source, Google has started to integrate these capabilities into its prized browser. Looking to move past the played out features of Gmail and Google Voice, the company is planning for WebRTC to be a frontrunner for video conferencing and online chatting. The software was intr
Engadget • 4 hours ago
Thin film coating makes everlasting energy a piezoelectric possibility
14  Let's be honest, it's no big secret that we're running out of dead dinosaurs to fuel our lives. And with recent natural catastrophes proving atomic energy isn't what you'd call 'safe,' it's a good thing the researchers down at the RMIT University in Melbourne have been hard at work figuring out how to turn you into a self-sustained energy source. Marrying piezoelectrics with a thin film microch
Engadget • by Joseph Volpe • 6 hours ago 
Serious Sam: The Random Encounter is seriously an RPG
6  Yes, for its third of the Serious Sam Indie Series, Super Crate Box developer Vlambeer made an RPG. These new screens of Serious Sam: The Random Encounter reveal a game with both exploration and combat delivered in a 16-bit Final Fantasy-style. Of course, because it's a Serious Sam game, it's a Final Fantasy-style RPG populated by impossibly beefy dudes with big arms, bigger sidearms, and gian
Joystiq • by JC Fletcher • 9 hours ago 
Tilera's new 100-core CPU elbows its way to the cloud, face-melt still included
26  Hundred core chips might not be breaking news -- especially if the company announcing it is Tilera -- but what if that new multi-core CPU drew an insanely lower wattage and set its sights on powering a few cloud server farms? Well, that's exactly what chip maker Tilera has up its silicon sleeve. "Co-developed with the world's leading cloud computing companies" -- take a guess who that might inc
Engadget • by Joseph Volpe • 10 hours ago 
Japanese researchers develop 'swimming' endoscope, we suggest being nicer to your doctor
28  Sure, pills that survey the wild and nauseating gastric landscape have been done before -- but how about one that can "swim" to input from a doctor-controlled joystick? A team of Japanese researchers have successfully achieved just that, with a newer, smaller, creepier version of a device they call "Mermaid." Ariel jokes aside, the tadpole-shaped accessory has successfully self-propelled itsel
Engadget • by Dante Cesa • 10 hours ago 
Lytro Launches to Transform Photography with $50M in Venture Funds
4 video Love photos but utterly bored by wave after wave of iPhone photo sharing apps? Lytro is the company for you. This is also the company for anyone who thinks Silicon Valley has fallen into a rut of innovation-less posing. And it’s the company for anyone who complains that the Valley is more about media and marketing than brass-knuckles, hardcore technology. This is the company that jaded, cranky, ra
TechCrunch • by Sarah Lacy • 10 hours ago 
Verizon's tiered data plans won't affect grandfathered customers after all?
10  Yesterday's revelation that Verizon may soon be enforcing usage-based data plans came as a slap in the face to many, but there may be at least one speck of sunlight shining through the dark clouds above. Screenshots appeared today, purportedly from employee communications, that would go a long way toward assuaging our worst nightmares: Verizon is indeed planning to mirror AT&T's polic
Engadget • by Brad Molen • 14 hours ago 
Self-published Kindle author breaks one million in sales, legs might have something to do with it
16  Our big, bad digital era's been caught red-handed overturning media industry business models before, so it comes as no surprise that publishing houses have a new headache on-hand. Straight outta sunny Seattle comes word that Amazon has welcomed its first self-published author to the "Kindle Million Club." John Locke (so this is where he wound up after going to that quasi-'heaven') is the luck
Engadget • by Joseph Volpe • 15 hours ago 
Firefox 5 is officially released, how are you liking it?
10  Why it seems like only yesterday that our little Firefox had its last major upgrade. As expected, the browser turned 5.0 today, and you can celebrate by downloading it now from Mozilla's site. We'd like to know how your test drive of the update is going so far. Let us know in the poll and the comments below.View PollFirefox 5 is officially released, how are you liking it? originally appeared on
Engadget • by Brian Heater • 18 hours ago 
Dry ice makes graphene cheaper, greener, and by the (relative) boatload
26  Dry ice isn't just great for keeping steaks cold and filling your bathtub with fog, it may also play a major role in producing the miracle metal graphene. Researchers at Northern Illinois University have discovered that burning magnesium in frozen carbon dioxide produces a thin layer of the hyped-to-the-lattices carbon nanostructure. The so-called dry-ice method has several advantages over prev
Engadget • by Terrence O'Brien • 21 hours ago 


12  Nice article on Firesheep in action.
Schneier on Security • 1 hour ago
34  As my regular readers already know, I'm in the process of writing my next book. It's a book about why security exists: specifically, how a group of people protects itself from individuals within that group. My working title has been The Dishonest Minority. The idea behind the title is that "honesty" is defined by social convention, then those that don't follow the social conventions are by defi
Schneier on Security • 20 hours ago
28  Good paper: "Sex, Lies and Cyber-crime Surveys," Dinei Florêncio and Cormac Herley, Microsoft Research. Abstract: Much of the information we have on cyber-crime losses is derived from surveys. We examine some of the difficulties of forming an accurate estimate by survey. First, losses are extremely concentrated, so that representative sampling of the population does not give representative s
Schneier on Security • 1 day ago
 

4  I love this thoughtful table design by Elda Bellone. Born as part of the designer’s “open object project,” tABLE consists of two overlapping tables that merge together seamlessly thanks to perfectly carved spaces in the lower table’s legs. Need an extra surface? Simply pull the upper table off to form two entirely separate and useful entities. Once apart they can be placed side by side, overlappin
Yank
o Design • 4 hours ago
4  The VT36, is geared towards business professionals looking for a unique transportation alternative to the gridlocked streets of seaside cities like New York, Singapore, Shangai, and Dubai. The bullet shaped 36′ long speed yacht aims to provide a quick link between marina systems & business districts while providing simple comfort to passengers. Swivel seats can be adjusted for face-to-face mee
Yanko Design • 5 hours ago
2  I spotted this really great lace felt blanket by Room 39.Then, I spotted that really cool headboard, which is also by Room 39. It’s made of felt and sticks to any surface.Share This: Twitter | Facebook | Discover more great design by following Design Milk on Twitter and Facebook. © 2011 Design Milk | Posted by Jaime in Home Furnishings | Permalink | No comments
Design Milk • 17 hours ago
4  The EVA chair has got everything covered when it comes to children’s seating. Besides being aesthetically playful & vibrantly colored, EVA is also soft, flexible, & super durable for even the roughest horseplay. What’s more is that the flat-pack design arrives as a planar surface & is formed into shape by fastening the symmetrical halves together with string; something kids & paren
Yanko Design • 5 hours ago
2  SHORT++ from Adi Marom on Vimeo. SHORT++ explores the possibility of making height an interactive variable that can be modified in real-time and how it would reshape interaction between people. The interactive robotic shoes are being activated by an iPhone application. Designed by Adi Marom.
swissmiss • 15 hours ago
2  All I can think about besides moving is that I can't wait to take a vacation after it's over.  A "sit around and read a book all day" type of vacation that is actually relaxing.  I wish I knew Atlanta based designer Ginny Magher because I am completely in love with her 18th-century farmhouse, Le Mas de Baraquet, in Provance, France, and would beg her to let me stay there  I came
Habitually Chic® • 19 hours ago
Kindergarten in Guntramsdorf by G.O.Y.A.
2  If I had to go back to kindergarten, I’d want to go to this one, please.Designed by G.O.Y.A. (Group of Young Architects) and located in Austria, this modern kindergarten school has large panoramic windows that offer views to the tree-lined landscape and movable walls to create large spaces for events.Photos by Kurt Hoerbst.Share This: Twitter | Facebook | Discover more great design by following De
Design Milk • by Jaime • 19 hours ago 
Case Study "Year Zero" by Pawel Nolbert
2  The "Year Zero" piece from Pawel Nolbert was part as Ars Thanea's submission to the same-titled book for the design festival OFFF 2011. The specialty about it is the Type which was made out of plaster by Pawel himself. <!--break--> Year Zero by Pawel Nolbert Details Case Study The typography was created from a plaster poured into a letter forms cut out of paper, then foiled not to get t
Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and... • by aloa • 21 hours ago 
Brabant Quarter-Hour Watch
8  The Brabant Quarter-Hour watch, designed by Dutch designer Coen van Ham of COEN! design agency, was inspired by the relaxed lifestyle of North Brabant, The Netherlands.Coen explains that the idea of this quarter hour isn’t about being late, it’s about extending a courtesy to people to give them the time they deserve to show up. The design of the watch highlights this quarter hour with a red quarte
Design Milk • by Jaime • 21 hours ago 
2011 Year You Were Born NYC Card
2  Do you have NYC friends that had a baby in 2011 or are just about to have one? This 2011 Year You Were Born Letterpress Card would make a lovely gift!
swissmiss • by swissmiss • 22 hours ago 
DEX by Reinier de Jong
6  DEX is a small, minimalist desk by Reinier de Jong that has a side drawer unit and a small frame.The drawers can be pulled out completely to accommodate a printer and feature just a hint of color. The top is made from a combination of laminate and aluminium.DEX is only for sale at Reinier de Jong Design.Share This: Twitter | Facebook | Discover more great design by following Design Milk on Twitter
Design Milk • by Jaime • 23 hours ago 
GRID-IT by Cocoon
100+  Cocoon has launched two products that feature an organizational system called GRID-IT that fits nicely into your laptop bag, briefcase, and luggage.The GRID-IT Wrap is made of neoprene and is available in 7” tablet, iPad, and MacBook Air, and can hold power cables, sunglasses, gum, pens, and all kinds of doo-dads. It comes in black, red or gray.The Sleeve² is made of Deflexion, which is a more hea
Design Milk • by Jaime • 1 day ago 
roxanne daner
24  Kate, Amy and I have been researching designers for our special summer project, and one of my favorites was part of an excellent article just published online at Good Magazine. Good rounded up 25 of their favorite female designers and illustrators (a must-read), and it was great to see Roxanne Daner included. Roxanne is based in LA, and I’ve been sort of obsessed with her hair-based artwork for a
Design*Sponge • by Grace Bonney • 1 day ago 
Staple by the Date
44  Computers have made me such a lazy person that managing paperwork has become a difficult chore for me. It gets worse when the filing needs to be done chronologically. No magic wand to help me out here, but something like the Date Stapler will surely work. It’s the combination of a stapler and date stamper. Nifty organizer I tell you, every office should have one!Designer: Gonglue Jiang----------
Yanko Design • by Radhika Seth • 1 day ago 
Tuesday Total Textures 76
8  Tuesday Total Textures is post series that will bring a new life to your Tuesdays. Every week I'll be posting some free hi resolution textures that you can download to use in your projects. Check out this week's free textures, download the ones you like and start making your texture collection. <!--break--> For more texture visit http://abduzeedo.com/tags/ttt Suggestions What type of texture
Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and... • by paul0v2 • 1 day ago 


14  You might have noticed all the new magnet icons everywhere? These are \"magnet links\", a link that lets you download a torrent directly in your BitTorrent client, instead of your browser. Most clients supports this (uTorrent, Vuze, rtorrent, whatever) and will get the relevant torrent data over the DHT network. And DHT? It\'s a de-centralized peer to peer network that all modern clients j
The Pirate Bay - Blog • 32 days ago
70  HDCP MASTER KEY (MIRROR THIS TEXT!) This is a forty times forty element matrix of fifty-six bit hexadecimal numbers. To generate a source key, take a forty-bit number that (in binary) consists of twenty ones and twenty zeroes; this is the source KSV. Add together those twenty rows of the matrix that correspond to the ones in the KSV (with the lowest bit in the KSV corresponding to the
The Pirate Bay - Blog • 43 days ago
16  February 2011, MAFIAA Lobbyists began a massive attack against the European Union. Defending the union were seeds and peers of The Pirate Bay along with the Telecomix, Anons, and the Pirate parties. The MAFIAA relied on an aggressive battle plan, utilizing modern communications such as radio and telefax to direct troops in the field. The Allies, for their part, assumed a defensive
The Pirate Bay - Blog • 44 days ago
2  We got a song sent to us. The song, \"Peace of Mind\", was written in connection with the Swedish Governments introduction of a new law in December 2010. This law says that everything in public service will be previewed by the state before getting approved. This law was added without people being properly informed, and despite strong oppositions from both politicians and key players within Swed
The Pirate Bay - Blog • 49 days ago

2  Clayton Morris isn’t grading on a curve: So should you buy this device? I can’t in good conscience tell you to go out and spend $499 on this half-baked experience when the fully baked iPad experience can be had for just a few dollars more.   ★ 
Daring Fireball • 13 hours ago
2  Final Cut Pro X arrived in the App Store today, and though it’s one of the most expensive apps at $299.99, it’s also topping the Paid and Grossing app charts right now. That’s because it’s a relative bargain compared to Final Cut Pro 7, which was only available as part of the $999.99 Final Cut Studio suite. That kind of price drop will not only help encourage pro customers to upgrade, but it shoul
TheAppleBlog — Apple and iO... •14 hours ago
8  Great-looking hardware and what appears to be a true, modern mobile touchscreen OS. Watch the video, it’s only two minutes long and it’s worth it. They’ve made a phone with zero buttons on the front face. No ship date or pricing announced, although the NYT reports it “will sell unsubsidized for the equivalent of about $670 to $760 for 16 and 64 gigabyte models”. So here’s where Nokia stands. Four
Daring Fireball • 14 hours ago
2  Dear Aunt TUAW, Why do all iPhone alarm clock apps have to simulate an old and unattractive 7-segment display? Or the old, cheap, unattractive flip-clock display? I understand the gee-wiz factor of emulating these classic displays, but aren't we way past that point? I would love to see a simple, attractive and reliable alarm clock app for the iPhone without 7-segment or flip displays. Does suc
360iDev: Saurik on the mobi... • 13 hours ago
2  Verne G. Kopytoff, reporting for the NYT: The raid was on a hosting facility in the United States used by DigitalOne, a company based in Switzerland. It was not immediately clear what the F.B.I. was looking for. In a note to one of its clients, a DigitalOne employee, Sergej Ostroumow, said: “This problem is caused by the F.B.I., not our company. In the night F.B.I. has taken 3 enclosures with
Daring Fireball • 14 hours ago
6  Andre Torrez: Get Things Done without wasting money. Work hard. Do it yourself. Do a good job and you’ll be rewarded (did I mention I also grew up Catholic? Hah!). Because of this I didn’t want to take someone else’s money for an idea that could only happen if I took full responsibility. Mlkshk is a great site, and I love the way Andre and his wife are determined to get it off the ground wi
Daring Fireball • 15 hours ago
LogMeIn goes disk -- and saves my weekend
2  Ages ago, we posted about LogMeIn's new file management and transfer capability. It wasn't until this weekend that it sunk in how utterly brilliant this feature is. Look at me. I'm a parent to a teenager. (Yes, there's proof.) When visiting Fort Collins over the weekend, disaster struck. I'd copied over the new "9 Lives of Chloe Whatsherface" to the iPad but I'd forgotten to transfer that all
360iDev: Saurik on the mobile application ... • by Erica Sadun • 15 hours ago 
Windows Phone 7 on the Carriers’ Pay-No-Mind List?
2  Michael Gartenberg, on Twitter: At VZW and ATT stores to compare plans, both steered me to iPhone and Android devices. Followed by: In both stores when asked about #WP7 was told “you don’t want that”. In one instance was “corrected” and told it was called Windows Mobile. Here’s a website — Windows Phone Tattletale — dedicated to documenting poor retail treatment of Windows Phone 7 devi
Daring Fireball • by John Gruber • 18 hours ago 
Samsung Galaxy Tab ‘Book’ App
4 video Why do people think Samsung rips off Apple? No idea.  ★ 
Daring Fireball • by John Gruber • 18 hours ago 
Jay Yarow on Why the BlackBerry PlayBook Doesn’t Support Email
2  Jay Yarow: Turns out it had to skip native email support on the PlayBook because its architecture can’t support two devices with one person’s account, according to a source. Here’s how our source explains it: “The Blackberry email system is the BES — which is the source/focus of all the famous BB security. The BES email server has the concept of one user = one device (or they call it PIN).”
Daring Fireball • by John Gruber • 18 hours ago 
1Password 3.6 adds Lion support, drops Leopard/PowerPCs
2  1Password 3.6 is out now with a plethora of changes. Most notably, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion is now supported while OS X 10.5 Leopard and PowerPC support has been dropped. David Chartier writes that the number of 1Password customers who are using Leopard or a PowerPC-based Mac has fallen into the single digits. Dropping Leopard/PowerPC support enables developers to shrink 1Password's size by 12 perc
360iDev: Saurik on the mobile application ... • by Megan Lavey-Heaton • 18 hours ago 
Seven Months Flashless
4  Shadoe Huard: It has been 7 months since I’ve followed John Gruber’s advice and abandoned Adobe Flash. Put simply, the experience has positively affected almost every facet of using my computer. It’s faster, cooler, runs longer and most importantly, it’s infinitely less prone to infuriating me. Along similar lines, Peter N Lewis (of Stairways Software fame), yesterday: Months ago I follo
Daring Fireball • by John Gruber • 19 hours ago 
Egregious Dropbox Authentication Bug Yesterday
2  Yesterday I saw this report from Christopher Soghoian, alleging that for a period of time yesterday, anyone was able to log into any Dropbox account using any password. It struck me as too astounding to be true. Alas, it was true, and the hole was open for four hours. Everything appears to be working properly now, but I suggest all Dropbox users check their account events log.  ★ 
Daring Fireball • by John Gruber • 20 hours ago 
Final Cut Pro X launches, $299 in the Mac App Store
4  Apple's professional video editing/production flagship app has been rebuilt from the ground up and repriced for the Mac App Store. Final Cut Pro X is now available for $299.99 via the store, and the accompanying Motion and Compressor apps are $49.99 each. This pricing represents a dramatic drop versus the previous edition of the suite. FCP X is a completely new version of the editing app,
360iDev: Saurik on the mobile application ... • by Michael Rose • 22 hours ago 
Apple's infrared 'camera kill switch' patent application hits a nerve
32 Picture this: You're out for a stroll on the streets of Vancouver when suddenly you find yourself caught up in a depressed mob of hockey fans. Riot police are striking a young man with their batons near a squad car. You pull out your iPhone to capture a video of this seeming abuse of force -- only to see a flashing message on the screen that says 'Recording Disabled.' Earlier this month, Paten
360iDev: Saurik on the mobile application ... • by Michael Rose • 1 day ago 

Best Buy has joined Amazon, Apple, and Google in the Great Cloud Race of 2011 by announcing their own Music Cloud. More »
Gizmodo • 25 min
This isn't a contract, folks—you can sign up to the newly-priced GoPhone plan for as long as you want, and also text Mexico, Canada and 100 other countries for free, as well. [BGR] More »
Gizmodo • 32 min
Throwing their weight behind yesterday's tantalising news that the iPhone 5 will feature a completely redesigned look, Bloomberg has reported alleged specs of the iPhone 5, plus spoken of a higher-res iPad 3 and affordable iPhone for developing countries. More »
Gizmodo • 57 min
4 A photo album showing never-seen-before photos of Hitler and the Nazis has surfaced with photos dating back to 70 years ago. Its current owner has no clue who the photographer was, but judging by the level of access he was given, he must have been someone.UPDATED More »
Gizmodo • 1 hour ago

So you want to say something and get heard from anywhere. The best way to do this is with Twitter and its widgets. We will be talking about a profile widget, that shows your latest tweets, and a search widget, that runs a custom query search and shows all the results. They have a pretty simple customization when you generate them, but what many people haven’t noticed is that you can make advanced
1stwebdesigner - Graphic an... • 2 hours ago

Since you last heard from us, we have been busy tackling the many challenging aspects of the HunchWorks design. We’ve been busy tackling the many aspects of the HunchWorks design as part of our four week volunteer efforts for Global Pulse. There is a lot of work to do and we’d love some help from you, the design community. What is HunchWorks, again? HunchWorks is a place where people can create an
Adaptive Path • 16 hours ago

ThemeTrust has offered to give a premium WordPress theme to 10 lucky readers of the Vandelay Design blog! The winners will get the theme of their choice plus support. ThemeTrust provides themes that are beautifully designed and easy to use. At the moment they have 8 themes available, ranging from portfolio themes, to corporate/business themes, to news and blog themes. ThemeTrust is run by He
Vandelay Design Blog • 17 hours ago
Imagine you're a researcher working with farmers in Uganda. Your years of experience tell you that something is not right this year. It's not unusual for the harvest to be a week late, but this year, it’s three weeks later than usual. If only there was a way for you to share this hunch and investigate it with your peers. This is where HunchWorks comes in... This week we begin sketching out
Adaptive Path • 15 hours ago
La pubblicità è l’anima del commercio. Ma soprattutto, da quindici anni a questa parte, la pubblicità è l’unico modello di business che funziona per generare ricavi nell’ambito dell’editoria sul Web. Mentre i modelli di sottoscrizione a pagamento delle news stentano a decollare e riscontrano una fredda accoglienza da parte degli utenti, i blog di ogni dimensione e le testate giornalistiche on-li
Woork Up • 16 hours ago
Advertise hereBugs come in all different forms. Most people use the term for pretty much all insects, and in this article we’ve handpicked some amazing digital art. These pieces have all been made by artists with great skill in many different disciplines. If you would like to take a closer look at digital art featuring bugs then please take a moment to review this article below! Spider by Antoni
Psdtuts+ • 22 hours ago
Set Up An Ubuntu Local Development Machine For Ruby On Rails
   So, you want to develop Ruby on Rails applications? While loads of (introductory) tutorials are available for developing Ruby on Rails applications, there seems to be some uncertainty about setting up a lean and up-to-date local development environment. This tutorial will guide you through the steps of setting up an Ubuntu local development machine for Ruby on Rails. Pa
How To Market Your Mobile Application - Sm... • by David Boot • 1 day ago 
Ultimate Round Up of Free Photoshop Patterns
4 Photoshop users can save a lot of time and create beautiful designs by using patterns. Photoshop’s presets (like brushes, styles, patterns, custom shapes, and gradients) are highly-powerful tools when used effectively. Whether you are creating your own custom patterns or using pre-made patterns that you have downloaded for free or purchased, having an arsenal of patterns at your disposal will allo
Vandelay Design Blog • by Vandelay Website Design • 1 day ago 
6 Things Designers Should Do in Summer To Keep Themselves Fit And Healthy
6 Summer’s here – ready or not. For some of you it has certainly brought some changes but some of you haven’t even noticed the new season’s here. I live in a resort town couple of minutes from the sea so summer has definitely changed my daily routine. I’ve spent nearly all these past days by the sea and acquired a quite red skin color which hurts a bit. For that reason I’m now at home and sharing th
1stwebdesigner - Graphic and Web Design Bl... • by Daniels Mekšs • 1 day ago 
Guidelines For Working With External Code Libraries
64    Working with code that was created by some other person or organization is routine for developers, but it can be one of the most demanding activities, particularly if you’re still learning. From using code libraries to working on a team of developers, there are bound to be times when you need to get to grips with code written by someone other than yourself. Whether you’
How To Market Your Mobile Application - Sm... • by Sue Smith • 1 day ago 
Three must-see college graduation speeches
32 It's graduation time in many parts of the world, and that means long ceremonies and a lot of speeches. The graduation speech is a tough gig; most speeches are soon forgotten, assuming they made any impact at all. The 2005 graduation speech by Steve Jobs garnered a lot of attention at the time, and is still talked about today, having been downloaded millions of times. If you have never seen Jobs's
Presentation Zen • by Garr • 1 day ago 
Free Style Guides Icon Set For Writers And Editors
72    Today, we’re excited to present you with a free icon set, called Style Guides. Perfect for websites with an editorial flair, Style Guides features 14 high-quality icons ranging from 32×32 to 512×512 pixels. Designed by Thomas McGee of WinePress of Words, this set has been exclusively released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. Adapted and expanded from a previous s
How To Market Your Mobile Application - Sm... • by Thomas McGee • 2 days ago 
10 HTML Entity Crimes You Really Shouldn’t Commit
70 It has been over a couple of years since I posted my HTML tag and usability crimes posts, both of which are amongst the most popular articles here on Line25. There’s something about this title people just can’t resist! Let’s take a look at ten crimes you may be committing in your HTML content. These won’t exactly land you a life sentence, but I bet almost every one of us will be guilty of at least
Line25 • by Chris Spooner • 2 days ago 
Useful Resources, Tools and Services for Web Designers
100+    Productivity is a crucial asset of professional Web designers and developers. We regularly look for new resources, tools and services to make the search of these ever-growing techniques easier. Once we have a reasonable number of useful resources, we prepare them in a handy overview for your convenience. In this post we present some of the useful resources and tools for
How To Market Your Mobile Application - Sm... • by Smashing Editorial • 5 days ago 
Five Useful Interactive CSS/jQuery Techniques Deconstructed
100+    With the wide variety of CSS3 and JavaScript techniques available today, it’s easier than ever to create unique interactive websites that delight visitors and provide a more engaging user experience. In this article, we’ll walk through five interactive techniques that you can start using right now. We’ll cover: Animated text effects, Animated images without GIFs, More
How To Market Your Mobile Application - Sm... • by Jon Raasch • 5 days ago 


2 The purpose of the course is to cultivate the sensibilities necessary for effective planning practice. This objective rests on one key assumption: that a set of key sensibilities creates the right mindset for practice.
MIT OpenCourseWare: New Cou...• 1 day ago
15.975 U-Lab: Leading Profound Innovation for a More Sustainable World is an interactive and experiential class about leading profound innovation for pioneering a more sustainable economy and society. The class is organized around personal reflection practices, relational practices, and societal practices. It focuses on the intertwined relationship between the evolution of capitalism, multi-stakeh
MIT OpenCourseWare: New Cou...• 1 day ago
2 15.810 Marketing Management is designed to serve as an introduction to the theory and practice of marketing. Students will improve their ability to develop effective marketing strategies and assess market opportunities, as well as design strategy implementation programs. In addition, students will have the opportunity to communicate and defend their recommendations and build upon the recommendatio
MIT OpenCourseWare: New Cou...• 1 day ago
This course introduces writing, graphics, meetings, oral presentation, collaboration, and design as tools for product development. The communication instruction is embedded in design projects that require students to work in teams to conceive, design, prototype and evaluate energy related products. The communication instruction focuses on the communication tasks that are integral to this design pr
MIT OpenCourseWare: New Cou...• 1 day ago

Making a really good CSS sprite image usually isn't trivial work. There are all kinds of tools to help with it. My favorite of them has been SpriteMe. I describe my typical workflow for using that here. Sprite Cow might be my new favorite though, can't wait to try it. With it, you design your own sprite (♥) and you use the sweet Sprite cow interface to get precise CSS background positions for the
CSS-Tricks • 9 hours ago
Firefox offers users complete control over the look and functionality of their Web browser with a gallery of hundreds of thousands of add-ons. With the launch of Add-on SDK and Add-on Builder Beta, web developers  need only knowledge of HTML, JavaScript and CSS to create great add-ons for Firefox that are restartless by default. The Add-on SDK enables local development of add-ons through a comman
Mozilla Hacks - the Web dev... • 22 hours ago
Preview of the windowing improvements in 3.4.0 One of the active areas of development in YUI 3.4.0 is in Windowing components. By taking advantage of YUI3′s modular architecture, we’re building components that can be mixed and matched by developers to create some awesome windowing solutions. In 3.4.0PR2, we’re releasing some of these modules, like modal widgets and synced WidgetPositionAlign. We’
Yahoo! User Interface Blog • 1 day ago
As you may know, I wrote JavaScript in ten days. JS was born under the shadow of Java, and in spite of support by marca and Bill Joy, JS in 1995 was essentially a one-man show. I had a bit of help, even at the start, that I’d like to acknowledge again. Ken Smith, a Netscape acquiree from Borland, ported JDK 1.0-era java.util.Date (we both just drafted off of the Java truck, per management orders;
Brendan Eich • 10 hours ago
2 Today, three months after the release of Firefox 4, we release Firefox 5, thanks to our new development cycle. Developers will be able to create richer animations using CSS3 Animations. This release comes with various improvements, performance optimization and bug fixes. CSS3 Animations CSS Animations (check out the documentation) are a new way to create animations using CSS. Like CSS Transitions,
Mozilla Hacks - the Web dev... • 22 hours ago
68 It always amazes me just how fast modern browsers and their JavaScript engines are. And how creative people get when trying to make things work inside a browser instead of relying on a plugin that our end users would have to install (and more importantly constantly keep up to date). The latest thing that make me go “wow” is jsmad (source on GitHub) by Amos Wenger, Jens Nockert and Matthias Georg
Mozilla Hacks - the Web dev... • 3 days ago
Screen Resolution ≠ Browser Window
26 When I tweeted this and then followed up with this, I got comments like this. That comment has a perfectly valid point.We often talk about screen resolution, which is not the relevant statistic when thinking about what space our website's visitors have available. The relevant statistic is browser window size. So why do we talk about screen resolution so much? Well probably because in the most popu
CSS-Tricks • by Chris Coyier • 4 days ago 
Useful :nth-child Recipes
46 I get a little giddy when I come across perfect uses for :nth-child or :nth-of-type (read about the difference). The better you understand them, the more css nerdgasms you get to have!In these simple "recipes" (really: expressions) I'll arbitrarily use a flat list of list items and randomly chosen numbers. But it should be fairly obvious how to alter them to get similar selections.Select Only the
CSS-Tricks • by Chris Coyier • 6 days ago 
Mobile browser shares Q1 2011, part 1/2
24 It’s past time we took a look at the Q1 mobile browser market shares in the twelve countries I selected back in January. Although there are no huge movements towards or away from certain browsers, a few trends we saw in the Q4 2010 figures continue, and a few new trends may be taking off. Overview The countries are Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Poland,
QuirksBlog • by ppk • 6 days ago 
A Whole Bunch of Amazing Stuff Pseudo Elements Can Do
70 It's pretty amazing what you can do with the pseudo elements :before and :after. For every element on the page, you get two more free ones that you can do just about anything another HTML element could do. They unlock a whole lot of interesting design possibilities without negatively affecting the semantics of your markup. Here's a whole bunch of those amazing things. A roundup, if you will1.Give
CSS-Tricks • by Chris Coyier • 8 days ago 
Refactoring Javascript with kratko.js
44 Understanding the concept of code refactoring is one of the best things you can do to become a better programmer [1]. It all started a couple of weeks ago when I — once again — looked at the growing, stinky mess that my code has become. It’s a few thousand LOC app with various interactive widgets and controls all on one page. Even though a lot of functionality was encapsulated in these separately
Perfection kills • by kangax • 8 days ago 
Code injection, error throwing
30 In a blog, Opera Software Developer Relations team member Tiffany B. Brown looks at code injection, error throwing and handling and mobile debugging. She notes Opera Dragonfly and its remote debug features provide a way to debug mobile sites from their desktop. Brown mentions WebKit’s recently added remote debugging capabilities, folded into Google Chrome developer tools. Pointed to as well are Bu
Ajaxian » Front Page • by jvaughan • 11 days ago 
YUI Theater — Jenny Donnelly: “Introduction to Git”
30 video YUI uses Git to host all of its project code, and all of its open-sourced code is hosted on GitHub. Git is an exciting departure from traditional version control systems like CVS and SVN because the notion of distribution is embedded in its DNA. YUI engineering manager Jenny Donnelly (@jennyd) gives an introduction to Git and how to use it in the real world, including branching and committing, a
Yahoo! User Interface Blog • by Jenny Donnelly • 12 days ago
Color Animate Any Shape with a Knockout PNG
28 You normally don't think of <img> as having a background color, but they certain can have that property. It might come up if say, you wanted two borders around your images. You could use border for one and simulate the other by giving the image a background-color and padding. Or maybe you set the background to a bright red color so that missing images are bold and obvious.There is another re
CSS-Tricks • by Chris Coyier • 14 days ago 
The Story of the HTML5 Shiv
62 Heard of Sjoerd Visscher? I would venture to guess you have not; however, what he considered a minor discovery of his is at the foundation of our ability to use HTML5 today. Back in 2002, In The Hague, Netherlands, Mr. Visscher was attempting to improve the performance of his XSL output. He switched from createElement calls to setting the innerHTML property, and then realized all the unknown non-H
Paul Irish • by Paul Irish • 28 days ago 

Filed under: Game mechanics, MMO industry, Opinion, The Daily Grind, Miscellaneous Evaluating an MMORPG is a tricky business. Massively has a long-standing editorial policy that frowns on "reviewing" massively multiplayer titles. I say "reviewing" with quotes because it's difficult to write about games in a completely review-free manner, and everything from opinion pieces to straight-up news sto
Massively • 6:30 PM UTC+6
Today's collection of independent game links includes more indie game previews, a couple of development updates, the usual round-up of interviews with developers from around the 'net. (image source) RGCD: Super Puzzle Platformer "Described elsewhere on the net as Mr. Driller in reverse, Super Puzzle Platformer is all about blasting blocks, collecting points and avoiding untimely death by falling
IndieGames.com - The Weblog • 5 hours ago
Paragon Studios' superpowered flagship MMO City of Heroes is surfing the ever-growing trendwave of paid online titles moving into the free-to-play market. The developer has announced City of Heroes Freedom, a free version of the seven-year-old game which will launch later this year. The MMO will follow an increasingly popular model, giving free players access to a partial list of areas and feat
Joystiq • 7 hours ago
Bad jokes aside, this interview that the Indie Game Magazine recently conducted with Chris Swan of IndieCity has left me rather curious. Due to achieve full implementation in July, IndieCity is a new distribution platform, one designed exclusively for the indie games market. According to the interview, the creators of IndieCity intend to have it become the 'one-stop shop for all things indie ga
IndieGames.com - The Weblog • 2 hours ago
I couldn’t resist.  New stuff in the Incarna expansion made me want to peek back into EVE Online. The patching took a while, so I haven’t had much time to poke around, but I did get a view of one new feature, the captain’s quarters Gone are the hanger views of your current ship. No more ship view... Instead, when you log in, you are in your new quarters. Your new home You can move around, but the
The Ancient Gaming Noob • 6 hours ago
We tried to convey the Rise of Nightmares experience from E3, though our attempt likely came up short. So, we came up with this crude facsimile. It's simple, watch the video after the break and, every time you see a zombie, pretend to bash its head in with a pipe. It's almost like the real game!Continue reading Play along with this Rise of Nightmares trailerPlay along with this Rise of Nightmar
Joystiq • 8 hours ago
Serious Sam: The Random Encounter is seriously an RPG
Yes, for its third of the Serious Sam Indie Series, Super Crate Box developer Vlambeer made an RPG. These new screens of Serious Sam: The Random Encounter reveal a game with both exploration and combat delivered in a 16-bit Final Fantasy-style. Of course, because it's a Serious Sam game, it's a Final Fantasy-style RPG populated by impossibly beefy dudes with big arms, bigger sidearms, and gian
Joystiq • by JC Fletcher • 9 hours ago 
Gaikai partners with Walmart.com
If you're a game streaming service like Gaikai that's looking to partner with online retailers, Walmart.com seems like a pretty good option. (In case you're reading this on a mobile platform that can't see italics, we put them on those last three words to emphasize that were were understating the point. Classic Joystiq!) The retailer has, according to VentureBeat, added Gaikai in-browser game
Joystiq • by Justin McElroy • 10 hours ago 
The Joystiq Indie Pitch: Ring Theory
Being a giant, beloved video game site has its downsides. For example, we sometimes neglect to give independent developers our coverage love (or loverage, if you will) as we get caught up in AAA, AAAA or the rare quintuple-A titles. To remedy that, we're giving indies the chance to create their own loverage and sell you, the fans, on their studios and products. This week we talk with Glen DeBiasa
Joystiq • by Justin McElroy • 11 hours ago 
YouTube and the Holy Grail
It was one of those strange junctures in life. I walked by my daughter, who was sitting at her computer, to see what she was doing.  Her iMac sits in a corner of the family room, so is pretty visible but I make regular close passes to see what is going on.  The old eyes are not what they once were. It turned out that she was on YouTube watching the Ministry of Silly Walks sketch from Monty Python’
The Ancient Gaming Noob • by Wilhelm Arcturus • 12 hours ago 
PSA: Duke Nukem Forever demo on XBL, Steam
If you weren't one of the millions who had some obligation to their forgotten childhood to buy Duke Nukem Forever during launch week, now you can test drive the relic on Steam and Xbox Live.Continue reading PSA: Duke Nukem Forever demo on XBL, SteamPSA: Duke Nukem Forever demo on XBL, Steam originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms
Joystiq • by Alexander Sliwinski • 12 hours ago 
PSN Tuesday: Castlevania: LoS 'Resurrection' DLC, Bionic Commando: Rearmed sale
Okay, now it's just too quiet. The PSN update is lean this week. There's the Castlevania: Lords of Shadow "Resurrection" DLC, a nice discount on Bionic Commando: Rearmed 1 & 2, a Virtua Tennis 4 Move demo and some other random goodies. Overall, though, not a major update. However, despite the lack of content in this week's update, we definitely hope you've picked up your f
Joystiq • by Alexander Sliwinski • 13 hours ago 
Suspected LulzSec member arrested
Filed under: Culture, MMO industry, News items, Miscellaneous Shhh. You hear that? It sounds like laughter. Lulzing, in fact. Could it be Ryan Cleary's future cellmate? Who's Ryan Cleary, you say? According to a news blurb at PC Gamer, he's the 19-year old chap recently taken into custody by the FBI and Scotland Yard and accused of spear-heading the LulzSec-sponsored DDoS attacks against EVE Onl
Massively • by Jef Reahard • 13 hours ago 
Receipt Racer: Race Along A Roll Of Paper
12 As spotted by sister site GameSetWatch, Receipt Racer is a collaboration between developers Joshua Noble and undef, and is possibly the most clever idea we've seen in a good while. Using a receipt printer and projected light, the duo were able to create a game that you can play on receipt paper. A race track is randomly printed onto the receipt paper, and as it fires out of the machine, you can
IndieGames.com - The Weblog • by Michael Rose • 18 hours ago 
Summer Solstice 1-Day Sale: Sword & Sworcery $1.99/$0.99, Album is 'Pay What You Can'
4 Is it wrong that I immediately jumped for my digital wallet the moment I found out that Jim Guthrie's Sword & Sworcery LP: The Ballad of the Space Babies is temporarily available under the 'Pay What You Can' model? I mean, I haven't actually gotten around to playing the game itself thanks to being phenomenally backlogged but I do love the music. Either way, I think both the
IndieGames.com - The Weblog • by Cassandra Khaw • 23 hours ago 
College Street.
[daily dose of imagery] • 5 hours ago

~ superboo ~ posted a photo: Berkeley Pier, Jun 2011 Shot of the remains of the extended Berkeley Pier from my Sunday morning shoot with Steve. This is the typical shot from the end of the pier, but the Golden Gate Bridge was obscured by clouds so I was able to isolate the pier remains from the elements that are normally visible in the SF bay area (hills, bridges). All comments, critiques a
Uploads from ~ superboo ~ • 11 hours ago

6 Travel Planning Are you much of a travel planner?  I kind of am… I think I’m accidentally kind of an expert on this… people always ask me these questions and I should write a little ebook or something.  I have one loosely planned… maybe 2013 or something!  But I do have a title… it’s a quote from Buddha:  ”It’s better to travel well than to arrive.” Daily Photo – The Keyhole to the Old City This i
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Category Reminder I’m usually pretty good about tagging the daily entries with categories.  If you see one that interests you, just click on the tag at the bottom.  For example, this one is in China, so clicking that will take you to all the China photos.  I only put up about 15 per page, so if you click “Previous” at the bottom, you’ll get another set of 15, and so on. Daily Photo – Shopkeeper in
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64 King and Ontario, at 8:30am.
[daily dose of imagery] • 1 day ago
~ superboo ~ posted a photo: Berkeley Pier, Jun 2011 Met up with Steve for some early morning shooting at the Berkeley Pier on Sunday. We wanted to make our way out to the end of the pier before sunrise but noticed a group of people about halfway down the pier. Steve's photog-spidey sense kicked in and we didn't risk going further until more light was present. We tried spying on the group
Uploads from ~ superboo ~ • 1 day ago
Lovers in the Park
86 Trinity Bellwoods Park.
[daily dose of imagery] • 3 days ago 
Light Waves
100+ Silky Water effect caused by long exposure, seen from Toronto Island's Ferry. My next Photowalk/Creative Urban Photography workshop is next weekend. There might be one spot left. Check out the other dates as well if you're interested. Click for more info.
[daily dose of imagery] • 5 days ago 
City under Clouds
100+ Toronto seen from Ward's Island.
[daily dose of imagery] • 7 days ago 
City Lights and Water
100+ Toronto seen from The Islands Ferry.
[daily dose of imagery] • 8 days ago 
Glass Dinner
100+ Seen from Queen Street west of John.
[daily dose of imagery] • 9 days ago 
Summer Valley
90 Trinity Bellwoods Park's Dog Bowl.
[daily dose of imagery] • 13 days ago 
Don't Look Down
100+ A view from the top floor of X Condominium Building. Thanks Melineh!
[daily dose of imagery] • 15 days ago 
Parliament Planet
100+ This is the first collaboration photo on ddoi. Spacing's Matthew Blackett needed a small planet version of Ottawa's Parliament (like this one I did for Toronto's City Hall). I didn't have it and the deadline was too tight for me to go to Ottawa. So the super talented Ottawa-based photographer Justin Van Leeuwen took on the task of taking all the photos I needed to create this image for the cover.
[daily dose of imagery] • 16 days ago 
Waiting
100+ Queen Street East.
[daily dose of imagery] • 17 days ago 

Even if you’ve never been to Paris, it’s obvious that the city has a special allure that no other city in the world has, and a multitude of books get written about Paris by past and present residents. Readers look for answers to how French women miraculously stay so slender, or offer guidance for mastering the eternally sun-drenched foods of Provence (which don’t hold back on the lavender, althou
David Lebovitz • 2 hours ago
From Serious Eats: New York VIEW SLIDESHOW: Birreria, Eataly's Rooftop Beer Garden: So Recommendable, Once You're In [Photographs: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt] Birreria On the roof of Eataly: 200 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010 (at 23rd Street; map); 212-937-8910; eatalyny.com/eat/birreria Service: Gracious and helpful (once you're s
Serious Eats • 14 hours ago
From Slice [Photographs: Donna Currie] When people talk about using baking stones for pizza or bread, the one issue that consistently rears its ugly head is the need to get the pizza—or bread—onto the stone. Pizza peels are made for the task, but it takes a certain amount of practice and confidence to get the unbaked item off the peel and into the oven. A dusting of cornme
Serious Eats • 18 hours ago
This Friday, June 24th, I’ll be hosted by Colette, the coolest store in Paris, as part of their Cooklette series. It was one of the first places in Paris that really wowed me when I first walked into it years ago, and I’m excited to be leading an Ice Cream Sundae Party in their Water Bar restaurant. After the event, from 6:15pm to 7pm, there will be a book signing of the new UK edition of The P
David Lebovitz • 6 hours ago
From Recipes [Photograph: Donna Currie] I recently spent two days baking at the King Arthur Flour Baking Education Center in Vermont. Two days, a bunch of bloggers, and a whole lot of flour later there were vast amounts of bread, scones, pies and pizza produced, some of it in a ginormous wood-fired pizza oven. When I got home, I
Serious Eats • 15 hours ago
From Recipes Sometimes we just crave tons of butter, cheese, and carbs, because, well, it tastes good. Macaroni and cheese is one of the unhealthier foods around, but there's a reason it's at the top of our lists. Aren't we all sort of born with a desire for macaroni and cheese? I was skeptical but interested in this healthier va
Serious Eats • 18 hours ago
When Coriander Made It Into Our Ice Cream
It is hot. In the 100s hot.I am counting down the days when we will be traveling to Vermont and later to the Basque Country. Meanwhile, we continue to eat cherries and all sorts of berries by the handful.And then, there are ice creams and sorbets."Can you help me pick these green seeds from this cilantro plant?" I asked Jon a few weeks ago. "See the flowers? That means there will be no more cilant
Cannelle et Vanille • by noreply@blogger.com (Cannelle Et Vanille) • 18 hours ago 
Cook the Book: Barbecued Lentils
From Recipes [Photographs: Josh Shaub] In the Small Kitchen by Cara Eisenpress and Phoebe Lapine is by no means a vegetarian cookbook, but it has a focus on the simple and budget-friendly, so the majority of recipes end up being meat-free. Serving these Barbecued Lentils at a recent dinner brought back memories of college veg
Serious Eats • by Caroline Russock • 18 hours ago 
Snapshots From Blue Hill at Stone Barns
From Serious Eats: New York VIEW SLIDESHOW: Snapshots From Blue Hill at Stone Barns [Photos: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt] Dinner at Blue Hill at Stone Barns is a unique experience, to say the least. Situated in the beautiful Pocantico Hills about 45 minutes north of the New York City, the restaurant is located in the middle of a fully fu
Serious Eats • by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt • 19 hours ago 
Gontran Cherrier's Rye and Red Miso Bread
My biggest heartache as a temporarily nomadic cook, traveling from kitchen to kitchen while my own is being renovated, is that I've had to put my bread baking aspirations on hiatus. I'd been baking a weekly loaf of pain au levain since I first got my sourdough starter two years ago, so not being able to do so leaves a gaping hole in my routine. And while my starter Philémon marks the days on t
Chocolate & Zucchini • by clotilde • 19 hours ago 
Atlanta: In and Out of Love with Andy's Burger from Cafe 640
From A Hamburger Today [Photographs: Todd Brock] Cafe 640 640 N. Highland Avenue, Atlanta GA 30306 (Map); 404-724-0711; cafe640.com Cooking Method: Grilled Short Order: The beefy burger with rich toppings impressed in miniature form, but proved to be too much as a full-size menu item Want Fries with That? The shoestring fries were crisp and enjoyable Price: Andy's Bu
Serious Eats • by Todd Brock • 22 hours ago 
Chili with Chocolate
2 I used to wait tables in a vegetarian restaurant many, many years ago, and one of the items on the menu was Cashew Chili. I would say about one-third of the customers would look at the menu, then look up at me, and ask – “Are there really cashews in the Cashew Chili?” It was hard to respond to that. Although the answer “Yes” seemed pretty obvious (at least to me), it was hard to say “Yes, the C
David Lebovitz • by David • 1 day ago 
Honey Apricots With Pineapple Sage Financiers & Some Farmers Market Fare...Plus, An Awesome Macarons & Photo Workshop!
When we dropped our friend J. at the airport yesterday, it felt a little like dropping off your kid to camp. Mind you the kid has just turned forty years-old but that sparkle in his eye about finally... Visit my blog for the rest of the story, pictures and delicious recipes!
Tartelette • by noreply@blogger.com (Helene) • 1 day ago 
rich homemade ricotta
100+ A few years ago, I made ricotta for the first time. I suspect a good lot of you just read that — the part where I made cheese/played cheesemaker/fiddled with curds and whey in my shoebox kitchen, not because I maybe forgot about a carton of milk for a few weeks in the back of the fridge and conducted an unintentional science project, but just for a good time — inched your cursor to the little X o
smitten kitchen • by deb • 3 days ago 
dobos torte
100+ Last week, when it was ninety million degrees in New York City and all the sane people were cracking open fire hydrants, grilling on their roof decks and/or sticking their faces in their wheezing air conditioner units, I looked around my shoebox kitchen, with its half-counter and miniature oven, considered the sheer volume of items left on my to-do that I’d never get done and said, “Clearly, this
smitten kitchen • by deb • 8 days ago 
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With all the products on rotation in my routine (and yours too, I assume), it can be difficult to tell which ones are actually working: a serum one morning, a cream the other, and that fancy eye concentrate? It’s really only given a chance to shine every fourth night, when I remember to apply it. And then, you know, you’re on to the next potion before a bottle’s finished. That’s the thing abou
Into The Gloss • 2 hours ago
I finally am able to write you without running like in the past days :) I have a lot of outfits and photos of the last days to show you, starting with these ones shot last Saturday, first day of the Milan men fashionweek. Since I had an important exam on Monday morning I wasn't able to attend all the fashionshows I was invited to, but I hope you'll understand how hard it has been to say no in this
The Blonde Salad • 3 hours ago

Love, Nicole – Captured by Aram Bedrossian, Aussie model Nicole Trunfio strips down for the premier issue of LoveCat Magazine. With sultry makeup by Brian Bracero and soft waves by Sabrina Rowe, Nicole is the very definition of seductive in fetish accessories and lingerie inspired ensembles. (...)Read the rest of Nicole Trunfio by Aram Bedrossian for LoveCat Magazine #1 (12 words) Email Fashion
Fashion Gone Rogue: The Lat... •13 hours ago
Jil’s Leading Lady–Daria Strokous snags another season with Jil Sander, starring in the label’s fall 2011 campaign, lensed by Willy Vanderperre. Shot under the creative direction of Raf Simons, Daria is styled by Olivier Rizzo. Finding herself all out of sorts, fall’s campaign reflects the geometric nature of a wonderful autumn outing from Simons. (...)Read the rest of Jil Sander Fall 2011 Camp
Fashion Gone Rogue: The Lat... • 3 hours ago
It's been quite a while since I've blogged about Olivia Palermo. This is mostly because the UK fashion press are obsessed with her, and as a result I've grown a little bored of seeing her face all the time. Also I've been less impressed by her fashion choices in recent months. But, I adored what she wore to the New York screening of The Ledge, last night. The Victoria Beckham dress is gorgeous.I b
Coco's Tea Party • 5 hours ago
Today, Prince William turns 29 and will celebrate quietly at his home in Anglesey, North Wales, where he's just having a "normal working week." This day makes him the same age as the most interesting person he knows, and possibly the most interesting person in the world*: Kate Middleton! Onto the news about her, which is why you're really reading this: People reports that Kate is working on
The Cut • 15 hours ago
On the Street....Before Pringle, Milano
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The Sartorialist • by The Sartorialist • 16 hours ago 
Shiro Itoh of Take Ivy, Florence
I know Take Ivy is a big hit. I see that book everywhere I go.What I didn't realize was that Sartorialist alum, Shiro Itoh, is involved with the project.When I was in Florence last week, I ran into him. He very generously gave me an advance copy of the next edition, which will reach US audiences sometime next month.For all of you prepsters; mark your calendar. Take Ivy 2 (actually, Take Ivy 8 -
The Sartorialist • by The Sartorialist • 16 hours ago 
Zuzanna Bijoch by Craig McDean for Interview June/July 2011
Heaven Snake - Photographed by Craig McDean, model Zuzanna Bijoch dons reptilian prints for July’s Interview Magazine. Stylist Karl Templer covers Zuzana in sleek yet elegant looks, giving her a second skin with labels including Yves saint Laurent, Gigi Burris, Aquilano Rimondi, Louis Vuitton, Chloé, Prada and Gucci. See the accompanying film at interviewmagazine.com (...)Read the rest of Zuzann
Fashion Gone Rogue: The Latest in Editoria... • by Deja • 17 hours ago 
Erin Heatherton by Enrique Badulescu for Elle Russia July 2011
Neon Girl – Erin Heatherton gets sporty in this swimwear shoot by Enrique Badulescu published in the July issue of Elle Russia. Outfitted by Anne-Marie Curtis in summer brights from Jil Sander, Mark Fast, Miu Miu, Moncler, Prada and others–Erin is a beach beauty in the surreal photographs. / Re-print of Elle UK June 2011 (...)Read the rest of Erin Heatherton by Enrique Badulescu for Elle Russia J
Fashion Gone Rogue: The Latest in Editoria... • by Joanna • 17 hours ago 
Film | The Making of Louis Vuitton’s Fall 2011 Campaign
Creative director Marc Jacobs shares the vision behind Louis Vuitton’s fall 2011 campaign in this behind-the-scenes video showcasing the set and previously unseen stills from the final advertisements. / See the preview here. Email Fashion Gone Rogue | Follow @fashgonerogue on Twitter© Joanna for Fashion Gone Rogue: The Latest in Editorials and Campaigns, 2011. | Permalink | No comment | Add to
Fashion Gone Rogue: The Latest in Editoria... • by Joanna • 17 hours ago 
U.K. Authorities Determine the Cadbury Ad Referencing Naomi Campbell Is Not Racist
After Naomi Campbell scolded Cadbury for its chocolate-bar ad, saying that it offensively compared her to a chocolate bar, the U.K.'s Advertising Standards Authority has determined the ad is not racist. The organization is a bit of an odd one, regulating everything from dances in perfume ads that they think (but do not at all, let's be real) promote heroin use, to whether or not casting thin
The Cut • by Amy Odell • 17 hours ago 
Archive and Renew
At the Pringle of Scotland A/W 11-12 show during London Fashion Week as I was exiting, I quickly glanced over the Central Saint Martins x Pringle Archive Project that was laid out at the entrance to the venue and knew instantly that it had to be blogged about.  Then I was stopped by the all-too-familiar 'Press Embargo' warning from the PR.  Boo. Good things come to those who wait though,
Style Bubble • by susie_bubble • 19 hours ago 
News Flash: Men Care About Their Weddings, Too
You know what weddings are full of? Flowers, usually; tulle, quite possibly; unlimited free booze, hopefully; psychos, definitely. In modern times the wedding has become the domain of the psycho, popularly called a "zilla" thanks to reality-TV wedding shows about "bridezillas" that exploit nutty and eccentric altar-bound ladies. Today, Good Morning America looked at the bridezilla's alter
The Cut • by Amy Odell • 19 hours ago 
Regina Feoktistova by Xevi Muntané for Harper’s Bazaar Spain
Beach Story – Regina Feoktistova continues to rule the beach for the May issue of Harper’s Bazaar Spain. Lensed by Xevi Muntané and styled by Leticia Riestra, Regina soaks up the sun in standout pieces from the likes of Emilio Pucci, Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana and Herve Leger by Max Azria. (...)Read the rest of Regina Feoktistova by Xevi Muntané for Harper’s Bazaar Spain (0 words) Email Fashion
Fashion Gone Rogue: The Latest in Editoria... • by Joanna • 19 hours ago 
video Bruce Springsteen may have been on the covers of both “Time” and “Newsweek”, but he was positively unknown. This was half a decade before MTV, long before Reagan legitimized greed and money became more important than music. The only way to hear the music was to buy it, or to wait for your favorite radio station to play it. And the stations only played the hits, “Born To Run” was ubiquitous, bu
The Big Picture • 58 min
The MBA reports: Mortgage Applications Decrease in Latest MBA Weekly Survey The Refinance Index decreased 7.2 percent from the previous week. The seasonally adjusted Purchase Index decreased 2.8 percent from one week earlier. ... The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages increased to 4.57 percent from 4.51 percent, with points decreasing to 0.91 from 1.04 (including the
Calculated Risk • 1 hour ago

4 This post is from GRS staff writer Donna Freedman. Donna writes a personal finance column for MSN Money. She also writes about frugality, intentional living, and life in general at her own blog, Surviving And Thriving. The holidays are about six months away. Why wait until the last minute to shop? Answer: You shouldn’t. And you won’t have to if you have a decently stocked gift closet. Some people
Get Rich Slowly - Personal ... • 1 hour ago
The long autumn of Roger Federer – http://t.co/HBi0OmQ -> How Farming Made Us Shorter http://goo.gl/fb/QnbmD -> The American fixation on oversized houses http://nyr.kr/lFZ3Ts ->
Paul Kedrosky's Infecti... • 58 min
I always find it interesting how ideas travel through society. Sometimes they are infectiously passed along like a virus; other times they spontaneously appear in multiple places at once, as an obvious and logical response to situations. This has been on my mind this week. The second slowing of the US economy, the problems in Europe, the slowing (not slow down) in China, all trace their path to th
The Big Picture • 1 hour ago
Bloomberg reports China Money Rate Reaches Three-Year High as Bill Sale SuspendedChina’s money-market rate climbed to the highest level in more than three years as a worsening cash crunch prompted the central bank to suspend a bill sale.The seven-day repurchase rate, which measures interbank funding availability, has more than doubled since June 14, when the People’s Bank of China ordered lenders
Mish's Global Economic ... • 2 hours ago
AIA: Architecture Billings Index indicates declining demand in May
Note: This index is a leading indicator for new Commercial Real Estate (CRE) investment. From the WSJ: Momentum Gone in Design Services The Architecture Billings Index decreased again last month, dropping to 47.2 during May from 47.6 in the previous month [according to the American Institute of Architects (AIA)]. ... "Whatever positive momentum that there had been seen in late 2010 and earlier t
Calculated Risk • by CalculatedRisk • 8 hours ago 
Irvine: Luxury Condos become Rental Apartments
From the O.C. Register: Luxury Irvine condo towers go rental (ht SGIP) The luxe new high-rise condos at Astoria in Irvine’s Central Park West are no longer for sale — they’re for rent. ... The apartments at Astoria, once priced to sell from $415,000 to $779,000 – along with homeowner association (HOA) dues ranging from $915 to $965 a month — now rent beginning at $2,590.This is part of the Centra
Calculated Risk • by CalculatedRisk • 11 hours ago 
Peak Uranium
Peak uranium doth approach.
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed • by Paul Kedrosky • 13 hours ago 
Interactive Map: Employment History Since 2001 by Job Type
When it comes to jobs, this is the weakest recovery ever except for health-care.In the first of a two-part series, please consider the following interactive map, using Tableau Software, with data courtesy of Economic Modeling.This interactive map may take a bit to load. Please give it time on a slow connection. Change in Employment by Industry: '01-11 In a followup post I will look at job gain
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis • by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Shedlock) • 16 hours ago 
Misc: ARMs Comeback, Greek TV, and More
• From Tara Siegel Bernard: Borrowers Wade Back Into Adjustable-Rate Mortgages. CR Note: We have to remember that not all ARMs are bad - just like not all "subprime" is bad. During the bubble, many borrowers didn't understand the product and were frequently qualified at an absurdly low teaser rate - if they were qualified at all, with little or no proof of income. As long as people understand the
Calculated Risk • by CalculatedRisk • 17 hours ago 
Time for Plan B; Unfortunately there is No Plan B
How long can the ECB kick the can down the road? How big a hole will Greece dig before the ECB, the EU, and IMF realize that "Plan A" (austerity will fix problems by 2013), cannot possibly work? Is the amount the EU, IMF, and ECB willing to throw at Greece unlimited?Those are the questions on my mind as I read How the Euro Became Europe's Greatest Threat on Der SpiegelIn the past 14 months, politi
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis • by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Shedlock) • 17 hours ago 
The Who, Why, and How of Twitter
Tweeter infographic shows at-a-glance what the Twitter ecoystem has become since it launched in 2006.”
The Big Picture • by Barry Ritholtz • 18 hours ago 
Existing Home Sales: Comments and NSA Graph
A few comments and a graph (of course): • There was no mention of the "benchmark revision" that was supposed to be announced this summer (Summer starts now!). I was hoping for at least a mention on the timing of the release. This revision is expected to show significant fewer homes sold over the last few years (perhaps 10% to 15% fewer homes in 2010), and also fewer homes for sale. Hopefully
Calculated Risk • by CalculatedRisk • 20 hours ago 
When’s the last time housing prices were this low?
click for larger graphic Source:Mint Life June 16, 2011
The Big Picture • by Barry Ritholtz • 20 hours ago 


Filed under: Biodiesel, Ethanol, Legislation and Policy, USAFor 2012, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is once again upping the level for how much renewable fuel the U.S. should use in the Agency's Renewable Fuel Standard program (aka RFS2). The EPA's proposed targets are: Biomass-based diesel (1.00 billion gallons; 0.91 percent) Advanced biofuels (2.0 billion gallons; 1.
Autoblog Green • 6:33 PM UTC+6

Rajkumar Bhattacharya: E-Miglia EV RallyElectric car rally commences August 2 To prove that e-vehicles are not only clean but can bring an adrenalin rush to you, E-Miglia, as it has been christened, would set out on its track on August 2nd from Munich and reach St. Moritz in Swtizerland - a distance of 800 kilometers. The everyday vehicles will be tested on a zero-emission scale of reference.
Ecofriend • 1 hour ago

Ann Maria Cleetus: Wave WashConcept design by Kim Min Seok Everybody wants to look their best on the day when they are going to hit the spot-light or when they are sure to be the center of attraction. You will start your preparations at least a week in advance to look flawless and dress charming. On that happening day while hurrying, you bump into the waiter only to realize that you have Bloody
Ecofriend • 2 hours ago
4 Do you live out of your car? Now you can quite literally do so with designer Jon Salerno’s Habitat micro home, which uses a small car docked underneath to add another room of living space. Salerno’s Habitat is 100 square feet, which when added to the reconfigurable space inside the car totals 132 square feet. Read the rest of Jon Salerno’s Habitat Micro Home Uses a Car as an Extra Room Per
INHABITAT • 35 min
Neha Gargi: Plat-OEnergy harvesting system by Sustainable Marine Technologies Attempting to make tidal energy available for commercial purposes, Sustainable Marine Technologies has devised a new 85 meter long Plat-O system having 5 one-megawatt horizontal-axis machines which can be connected to an existing mooring system. The design is planned in such a way that it would be relatively lighter t
Ecofriend • 1 hour ago
On Thursday morning, GE will host a day-long event where it plans to announce the latest winners of its $200 million smart grid challenge that are specifically focused on energy use in the home. Expect to hear about both investments and $100,000 awards to promising home energy innovators. GE first launched its smart grid challenge a year ago, in conjunction with Emerald Technology Ventures and Roc
Earth2Tech — Cleantech, Gre... • 7 hours ago
New Uncontacted Amazon Tribe Discovered in Brazil
Photo: FUNAI In the dense rainforest of the western Amazon, researchers from Brazil's Indian protection agency have identified a new tribe of uncontacted indigenous people. Authorities say the remote group likely numbers around 200 members, living in traditionally built huts, called malocas, surrounded by small farms of nuts, banana, and corn. Although they are isolated from the outside world, t
TreeHugger • 10 hours ago 
Tesla Roadster owners race 'round Hong Kong for Japanese earthquake victims
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Tesla Motors, Asia Right-hand-drive Tesla Roadster - Click above for high-res image gallery Hong Kong's Tesla Roadster owners have organized an electric rally for the 26th of June. The owners aim for this event to showcase the Roadster's phenomenal on-road performance and to be the most fuel-efficient rally ever held in Hong Kong. The race will stretch across Hong
Autoblog Green • by Eric Loveday • 12 hours ago 
AAA to deploy charger-equipped roadside service vehicles by late summer
2 Filed under: Etc., EV/Plug-in On Friday, AAA told members of the Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA) that it has a fully functioning, charger-equipped roadside service vehicle that's ready to swing into action soon. AAA says that it will officially unveil its charging station on wheels at the Plug-In 2011 Conference & Exposition in Raleigh, NC on July 18th and expects to deploy i
Autoblog Green • by Eric Loveday • 13 hours ago 
Infographic: Who's Winning, Walmart or Amazon?
2 Walmart is fresh off a Supreme Court victory in its labor practices case, but take a quick look at some of the trends in this graphic and you might conclude its very business model will become a relic long before sex discrimination is. Walmart is a business behemoth, no doubt about it. It's doing great, making a healthy profit, growing well. But old fashioned brick-and-mortar retail may not b
GOOD • by Alex Goldmark • 14 hours ago 
Holy Environmentalism Batman! The Dark Knight’s Greener Batmobile
2 Holy environmentalism Batman! Considering the Dark Knight has a personal fortune of $7 billion, you would think that Bruce Wayne would have made a greener version of the Batmobile a long time ago. However, this task has fallen to designer Gordon Murray, who took it upon himself to create a much sleeker, more environmentally-friendly vehicle for Mr. Wayne. Read the rest of Holy Environmentali
INHABITAT • by Timon Singh • 16 hours ago 
Airline Pilots Ditch Paper for iPads and Save Millions in Fuel
2 At least two airlines are switching from paper to iPads in the cockpit, Marketwatch reports. Doling out gadgets may seem more like a recruiting perk than a sustainability decision, but pilots have to carry up to 35 pounds of paper with them in the cockpit on each flight. Swapping out those manuals, maps, and other documents to lighten the load could add up to $1.2 million in fuel savings, accord
GOOD • by Alex Goldmark • 18 hours ago 
New Giant Crab Species Discovered in Costa Rica
2 The new crab is a member of the Johngarthia genus, like this related Johngarthia lagostoma. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons Biologists conducting research in Costa Rica have discovered a new species of land crab. The crab, named Johngarthia cocoensis, was found on Cocos Island, located nearly 350 miles off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. The species is notable, researchers say, because o...Rea
TreeHugger • 18 hours ago 
Report: Mazda attempting to strip 720 pounds from next-gen MX-5 Miata
2 Filed under: MPG, Mazda, Lightweight 20 years of the Mazda Miata - Click above for high-res image gallery According to Edmunds' Auto Observer, which in turn cites a "senior insider," Mazda engineers have been tasked with cutting at least 720 pounds from the MX-5 Miata before its debut in 2012. That means - are you ready for this? - that Mazda engineers are attempting to transform a 2,500-pound
Autoblog Green • by Eric Loveday • 19 hours ago 
The Internet Dethroned! We Now Waste More Time on Mobile Apps than the Web
2 We spend a lot of time staring at screens. And now, for the first time, people who own smartphones spend more time staring at their little screens than the medium-sized screens on their desktops.  According to the mobile app analytics firm Flurry, smartphone users spend an average of 81 minutes-a-day using mobile apps, compared to 74 minutes on the internet via their computer. This is meant to s
GOOD • by Alex Goldmark • 20 hours ago 

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