Yostivanich

“We have brain­stormed on the most impor­tant design issues and asked design­ers across the globe what design deci­sions they often have to make when design­ing a port­fo­lio web­site. We also asked design­ers what ques­tions they would like answered or ana­lyzed in our case study. In the end, we came up with a bag of 40 solid portfolio-related ques­tions — sorted, grouped and ranked accord­ing to impor­tance. Finally, we searched for a good mix of estab­lished design agen­cies and well-designed port­fo­lio web­sites of small and large agen­cies.” Really good read.

“But doing either of those things means you’re miss­ing out on some great typog­ra­phy options. Font stacks can make it pos­si­ble to show at least some of your vis­i­tors your site’s typog­ra­phy exactly the way you intend with­out show­ing every­one else a default font. Read on for more infor­ma­tion on using and cre­at­ing effec­tive font stacks with CSS.”

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“The new NBC/Wall Street Jour­nal poll is filled with fas­ci­nat­ing data. But with Obama cur­rently under pres­sure from mil­i­tary com­man­ders to increase troops in Afghanistan, the poll’s num­bers on that war may be the most omi­nous. The sur­vey finds that a total of 51% oppose a troop increase, 19% strongly, ver­sus only 44% who sup­port one. The poll also finds ris­ing pub­lic pes­simism about the war, with 59% less con­fi­dent that it will be suc­cess­ful. Bot­tom line: Obama — who’s in the process of decid­ing whether to increase troops, or to scale back the Amer­i­can pres­ence there, as Joe Biden report­edly wants — is now find­ing him­self trapped between com­man­ders and the public.”

“In this tuto­r­ial we are going to make a slick con­tent slider for a com­puter shop, with the help of jQuery and the Mop­Slider plu­gin. The slider is going to be gen­er­ated with PHP and we are using a plain txt file as a data source for the note­book configurations.”

“Regard­less of my views on con­tent cen­sor­ing, I don’t think that’s the real story here. My real issue with this is the hypocrisy of Apple’s expla­na­tion for the cen­sor­ing. They said that the iSin­gle­Payer app was too polit­i­cal, but they allow other, far more polit­i­cal apps. Like a “Con­ser­v­a­tive Talk­ing Points” app.” Apple once again proves they do crazy stuff.

“I’ll say it again: the public’s deal with the BBC is: we pay you the licence fee, you give us pro­grammes, we can do what we want with them within the con­fines of copy­right law. The stu­dios promised that they would boy­cott US free-to-air tele­vi­sion unless they got a ver­sion of this (called the “Broad­cast Flag”). They didn’t get the Broad­cast Flag, and they didn’t boy­cott. They have share­hold­ers to answer to, and those share­hold­ers won’t put up with cor­po­rate tantrums that promise no licens­ing rev­enue until the rest of the world rearranges itself to the company’s convenience.”

” The Sen­ate voted Wednes­day to spend $2.5 bil­lion on 10 mil­i­tary cargo jets that the Obama admin­is­tra­tion does not want. The 64–34 vote came on an amend­ment to the defense appro­pri­a­tions bill.” Those con­ser­v­a­tives sure don’t want to spend money.

“I’ve said this before on this blog and I’ll say it again. Tra­di­tional local media com­pa­nies; radio sta­tions, TV sta­tions, local news­pa­pers, and the like, are in a tough sit­u­a­tion. Each of those busi­nesses had a monop­oly or near monop­oly on their audi­ences a decade ago. Now none of them do. The own­ers and oper­a­tors of these busi­nesses have been trained to think their strengths are local and rel­e­vant con­tent, their monop­o­lies or near monop­o­lies on dis­tri­b­u­tion (spec­trum in the case of radio and TV), and their brands. All of these assets are wan­ing quickly. But there is one asset that is still quite sig­nif­i­cant and the value of it is grow­ing, not shrink­ing. It is their large, well trained, and well con­nected salesforces.”

“Here are some inno­cent tips and tricks to get your web­site to load faster behind the scenes. Most of them are either sim­ply good prac­tice or tools to help you out along the way.”

“PDFAmigo lets you cre­ate inter­ac­tive, fil­l­able PDF forms in your browser.”

“This guy paints him­self… no trick pho­tog­ra­phy … no pho­to­shop …he just paints him­self…” Very cool.

“Bet­ter pack some cash on your next trip abroad. Amer­i­cans are find­ing that their credit and bank cards aren’t as con­ve­nient as they once were while trav­el­ing over­seas. The prob­lem: Amer­i­can cards lack a spe­cial chip, now com­monly used in many for­eign coun­tries, caus­ing the cards to be rejected by some mer­chants and kiosks. But the United States bank­ing indus­try has no imme­di­ate plans to adopt the technology.”

“But when it comes to sci­ence, it’s per­fectly ok to not have the fog­gi­est idea what you’re talk­ing about. After all, it’s “com­plex and eso­teric,” and not the sort of thing respectable peo­ple need to con­cern them­selves with knowing…”

“A few calls later and I found that a num­ber of IT guys I know are gen­uinely excited about installing Win­dows 7 in their shops, guys for whom Vista didn’t even reg­is­ter. We’re about see an IT renais­sance, and it will be dri­ven by Microsoft.” I agree.

“While it may sound as anachro­nis­tic as a witch­craft trial, blas­phemy remains pun­ish­able by death in coun­tries like Pak­istan and Afghanistan. In addi­tion, Ire­land recently intro­duced a defama­tion law mak­ing blas­phemy pun­ish­able by fines up to 25,000 euros ($37,000). What’s more, six U.S. states (Mass­a­chu­setts, Michi­gan, South Car­olina, Okla­homa, Penn­syl­va­nia and Wyoming) have laws that, in some way, pro­hibit or reg­u­late blas­phemy, noted Ron Lind­say, a lawyer and pres­i­dent of the CFI Inter­na­tional in Amherst, N.Y. CFI also cites efforts by the United Nations to intro­duce anti-blasphemy res­o­lu­tions that many say would cur­tail free speech about religion.”

“This lush coastal nation of 10 mil­lion, rich in min­er­als and trop­i­cal fruits, and dark at night from lack of elec­tric­ity, has known harsh dic­ta­tors and army shoot­ing sprees in its 51 years of inde­pen­dence. Neigh­bors to the north and to the south have expe­ri­enced bloody civil wars; Guinea, the for­mer French colony that angered Charles de Gaulle with its refusal of part­ner­ship, and locked up tight for decades under tyrant ide­o­logues, was too bru­tal­ized to unravel. But it has never known a week, or even a 10-month period, quite like the last one.”

“Laporte said he has costs of $350,000 a year with seven employ­ees now but rev­enue of $1.5 mil­lion and that rev­enue is dou­bling annu­ally. It will increase more as he announces new means of dis­tri­b­u­tion (to the TV; he believes that pod­cast­ing is too hard for the audi­ence).” Impressive.

“I wish you had some kind of (free to join) com­mer­cial part­ner pro­gram that would make it really easy for me to build a Twit­ter prod­uct and share rev­enue with you.”

“But any move­ment which also crit­i­cizes the Pres­i­dent for giv­ing a speech to school­child­ren, which cheers when the United States loses its Olympic bid, is mostly just engaged in the busi­ness of throw­ing a bunch of Kaká at the wall and see­ing what sticks. I don’t know whether it’s unpa­tri­otic — but it’s pretty freakin’ dumb.”