I’ll be giving an intro to semantics in HTML at Boulder Digital Works tonight. Slides for the class are available for download on SlideShare.
If you’re particular about these things, the focus will be on “semantics” with a lower-case “s”. In other words, the quick, dirty and practical approach of HTML5 tags, well-named classes and Microformats.
CSS3 Text Lens-blur. Lovely.
8th Continent Soymilk has done a delightful rebranding of their line. Reminds me of one of my favorites, Alexander Girard.
Video JS: an open source HTML5 video player under the MIT license.
The source code is pretty straighforward and the UI is nice. It is remarkable how much simpler it is to create a themed video experience with HTML5, instead of Flash.
You know who does some great illustration work? Dan McPharlin. Year One: a new piece for the Life in 2050 exhibition.
Google is now serving up @font-face web fonts. Paul Irish has the scoop on the API.
They’ve also released a web font loader API, a library developed in conjunction with TypeKit.
A can of Arizona Kiwi Strawberry “juice” has the sugar content of 7 bowls of Froot Loops.
The all-in-one almost-alphabetical no-bullsh** guide to detecting everything: javascript feature-support checks for everything new in HTML5.
You may remember all the hoopla about WordPress and the GNU. I never really understood the confusion around the GNU license terms. Yet as a non-lawyer, there is a lot I don’t know about open source and licenses. You may be in the same boat. Well, wonder no more: FOSSFAQ is an open-source FAQ site from the fine folks at RedMonk.
It has become fashionable nowadays to speak of the subjectivity or the relativity of truth. I find such talk ridiculous at best. Let’s go back to Randall Dale Adams. He found himself within days of being executed in “Old Sparky,” the electric chair in Walls Unit, Huntsville Texas.
There is nothing post-modern about the electric chair. It takes a living human being and turns him into a piece of meat. Imagine you – you the young journalists of tomorrow – being strapped into an electric chair for a crime you didn’t commit. Would you take comfort from a witness telling you that it really doesn’t make any difference whether you are guilty or innocent?
— Errol Morris, Berkely Commencement Speech
It’s almost like we live in a “reality” with “causes” and “effects”.
The new HTML5 parser in Firefox’s nightly builds renders inline SVG and MathML. SVG is an XML vector image format; MathML, an XML vocabulary for advanced math.
“Two engineers walk into a bar.” The <blink> tag is born.
The massive 1,000-point dip in the market today was reportedly caused by a typo.
…numerous sources said that a trader entered a “b” instead of an “m” for million in a trade possibly involving Procter & Gamble, a Dow component. The trader reportedly placed a sell order of $16 billion, instead of $16 million, worth of e-minis, futures contracts tied to equity indexes.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Beautifully Banal, posters of classified ads. The tasteful interaction design of the page is stunning, let alone the posters.