January 2012
8 posts
Enyo JavaScript Application Framework →
The application framework from webOS is the first component to be open-sourced. I learned a little bit about it when I first got my Veer and played with the SDK. It’s pretty cool.
DIY Linux-based AirTunes Target -... →
This works exactly how it should: once running, the computer shows up as an AirTunes target in iTunes, and on any iOS devices with AirPlay support, and you can push audio to it. Audio streams without any lag, just like it should. I wonder if I can get it running on an ARM…
“@NixiePixel: “If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would...”
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“@hotdogsladies: “When permalinks are JavaScript’ed, only JavaScript...”
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English Pronunciation
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Fe0ffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!
English Pronunciation by G. Nolst Trenité
iPhone 4 in pure CSS3! →
No image resources!
December 2011
1 post
explorercanvas - HTML5 Canvas for Internet... →
Need HTML5 canvas? Targeting IE6-8? One line of JS to make it work.
November 2011
3 posts
To Five Smashing Years… And A Free Anniversary... →
Free eBook (pdf, mobi, epub) with the best (UI/UX/Design) articles from Smashing Magazine from the past 5 years.
Zoomooz.js →
Totally awesome jQuery plugin for making zoomable web interfaces (à la Prezi).
October 2011
5 posts
A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs - NYTimes.com →
By Mona Simpson, Steve’s biological sister.
zen-coding →
A fancy pants shorthand for HTML/CSS that allows you to type a lot less and auto-expand into full, formatted HTML code. It’s already supported in a lot of editors, including Espresso (my editor of choice). I’m going to try to learn the syntax, as it seems really fast.
Roboto is a Four-headed Frankenfont →
Google’s new font for Android seems to be ripped off of a bunch of others. The first thing I noticed was the lack of consistency in the exit angles of the c, e, a (top), etc. As a font noob, that’s one of the first things I can notice when identifying fonts. There’s a big update at the bottom that addresses just that.
LESS « The Dynamic Stylesheet language →
Interesting CSS derivative that uses js (or Node.js) to evaluate into CSS. It adds some cool things like variables, mixins, and nesting. Not sure if I’ll ever use it (not a huge fan of non-standard runtime bloat), but I do like the concepts.
The basic model for a successful early stage...
“The basic model for a successful early stage company is Hacker + Hustler + Designer. But… my definition of each might be different than others. So…
Hacker equals someone who wants (needs?) to build things and solve problems and come up with cool and efficient solutions to problems. A Hacker is not the same as an Engineer. A lot of Hackers are Engineers - but not all Engineers...
September 2011
7 posts
Volkswagen Beetle (German) →
Check out the crazy HTML5 effects going on here! Everything is scroll-based.
From the other side of the wheel « Spacing... →
A former non-driver’s perspective on non-driver road hazards (pedestrians, etc.)
Mike Kruzeniski – How Print Design is the Future... →
Hyperbole and a Half: The Alot is Better Than You... →
Deal with bad grammar using imagination!
August 2011
2 posts
DigiNotar certificate security issue →
DigiNotar, a Certificate Agent for SSL certificates, issued a valid wildcard certificate - allowing for man-in-the-middle and phishing badness on sites like Gmail without breaking HTTPS and setting off the usual red flags. Update your software and revoke DigiNotar’s root certificate trust to keep your info safe. The link includes some more information and instructions on disabling their...
July 2011
6 posts
Mozilla eyes mobile OS landscape with new Boot to... →
The key thing about this that I really like is that they’re aiming to improve web standards. Everyone so far has been about taking the web as far as they deem possible and then copping out with implementation-specific hacks. (Remember Google Gears? Thank goodness that’s gone, but the pattern lives on.) Mozilla aims to make the whole platform better with these efforts, and I can...
Find Patterns in text on Lion » Matt Legend... →
Super cool new interface to regular expressions in OS X Lion for find/replace.
Save sheet shortcuts in Lion » Matt Legend Gemmell →
Awesome little user interface consideration by Apple, and even more awesome of the Legend to pick up on it.
Plick Project →
Robotic components you can strap on to toys to make them do things.
Emscripten LLVM-to-Javascript compiler →
Compiles C/C++ code to javascript so it can be run in a browser. Some of the demos are VMs from other scripting languages, which is kind of amazing.
June 2011
3 posts
HP TouchPad Gets Savaged In Reviews →
This makes me so sad. I really want webOS to be something, but there’s a lot riding on this TouchPad launch and it’s not looking good.
May 2011
10 posts
Official Portal 2 Website - Music →
Download the Portal 2 soundtrack, free of charge.
TRIM Enabler for Mac →
Mac OS X doesn’t support TRIM until Lion comes out, and even then possibly only for Apple-installed drives. This patch removes the drive-specificity of the TRIM support, and installs the kernel extension to get TRIM support in Snow Leopard.
On TermKit →
A modern take on the Unix terminal.
X86 emulator, able to boot Linux, written in... →
Fusion PCB Service - $9.90 : Seeed Studio Bazaar →
Seeed Studio (an awesome hobbyist electronics shop in Shenzhen) has a PCB fab service. $10/10 5X5cm boards (yes, $1 each) and up from there. It’s cheaper to get 10 done there than just 1 done at a lot of other shops. Also: free shipping on orders over $50 for the whole site. These guys rock.
April 2011
5 posts
DIY Electrostatic Headphones by Andrew Radford →
High voltage next to your head! I’ve never heard of electrostatic headphones or speakers before. They use electrostatic attraction to modulate an acoustic diaphragm between two high-voltage (500V) acoustically-transparent planes. I might try building some of these, or at least a speaker. Seems like fun.
petewarden/iPhoneTracker @ GitHub →
iPhones keep a record of all of the locations they’ve been. It’s not sent to anyone (apparently) but it’s stored both on the phone and on the synced computer’s backup. This is an open-source app to check it out. (via @mattgemmell)
We are looking for a person with the following... →
Read this, you will like it (via @mayafish)
Scroll Reverser — get in practice for Lion →
pilotmoon:
You might have learned that a certain upcoming version of Mac OS X may have scrolling that is “bass-ackwards”.
That is, when you push up on your trackpad or mouse scroller, the page content moves up too, just like on iOS devices.
I made a very minimal little app that lets you reverse…
Think like you’re pushing the page around, and it actually makes sense. I think...