The Daily Report
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Filth & Glory. NYC in the 70s.
Transit Authority K-9 Police use German Shepherds on the subway to deter crime. ~ image copyright © Allan Tannenbaum The body of Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious, is carried from the…
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HTML5 For Web Designers
WHEN MANDY BROWN, Jason Santa Maria and I formed A Book Apart, one topic burned uppermost in our minds, and there was only one author forthe job. Nothing else, not even “real fonts” or CSS3,…
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Letter to My Trainer
Dear Hannah: I am having my second major gout outbreak since I was diagnosed with the disease two years ago. An angry red ball filled with uric acid has disfigured my right toe, pushing it…
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Happy 15th birthday, DragThing
On 1 May 1995, young James Thomson released the first version of DragThing, “the original dock designed to tidy up your Macintosh desktop.” On 1 May 2010, a still young James Thomson celebrated his product’s…
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Get a real guitar, hippie
As seen on Flickr.
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A Feed Apart preview
Ali Ali describes the design process behind the forthcoming revision to A Feed Apart, the official Twitter aggregator for An Event Apart. Read about it now, experience it very, very soon.
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Big Web Show No. 1 up!
FOR YOUR viewing and listening pleasure, The Big Web Show’s Episode 1: Web Fonts is now online. Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin grill Ethan Dunham of Fontspring and Font Squirrel and Jeffrey Veen of Typekit…
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Steve Jobs and Me on Flash
Assume I retweeted Steve Jobs’s thoughts on Flash. Note Steve’s concluding paragraph: New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus…
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Live Today: Web Fonts Dialog
Update! Final audio and video are now available for your listening and viewing pleasure. Live today, Dan Benjamin and I grill Ethan Dunham of Fontspring and Font Squirrel and Jeffrey Veen of Typekit and numerous…
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Swiss Design
Swiss Origins – Graphic Design Highlights, 1933-1970 at Aqua-Velvet.
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State of Web Development 2010
The report from Web Directions’ second “State of Web Development” survey covers “technologies, techniques, philosophies and practices” employed by today’s web professionals. Download the complete (anonymized) set of responses in CSV format, gaze fondly at a…
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More Mod on the Digital Book
A Reading Heatmap: Key passages illuminated by layering all readers’ highlights for the same text. LAST MONTH, he wowed us with Books in the Age of the iPad, a call to make digital books as…
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Roll your own iBooks with ePub
In A novel concept: Roll your own iBooks with ePub, Macworld’s Dan Moren tells how to create your own e-books as easily as you export a PDF or GIF from an authoring program like Office…
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Like Buttons Falling From the Sky
CNN announces what you should know about Facebook’s changes: Buttons with the word “like” and a thumbs-up icon on them are going to start popping up all over the Internet [web]. By clicking one, you…
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Even Money
When a designer has no client, (s)he can sometimes do the best work. MONOmoda reviews a US money redesign by Michael Tyznik. The use of the Amendments to the Constitution is quite striking and smart.…