I will not say which web search led me to this industrial signage site which sells magnetic letters in bulk, but suffice it to say that they are super cool and I am starting to think of interesting ways to commit terrifying yet probably harmless art projects with them.
You can buy any letter or number you want in any quantity, they come in several colors and you can get them from 1 to 8 inches high.
If only they weren’t so expensive. Hmmm.
I’m assuming that this shirt is going to be a good choice for a toddler who lives in Manhattan. Toddlers are all about blimps and giant gorillas that attack buildings.
Hooray! The Lifehacker book is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com!
From the wicked genius minds of my pals Rob and Chuck comes Radario, a product popularity mashup site that pulls in data from lots of different product review sites to create top 10 lists of products. Today they’re doing digital cameras, music players, songs, and movies, so if you’re in the market for any of this stuff you can check out what other people are looking at or clicking on across the Web.
This is my favorite kind of mashup, the kind of site that looks great, pulls in data from several sources, speaks to peoples’ passions yet has a clear business model without making users feel like they’re being smashed over the head with it.
Congratulations on launching this guys!
Our pals are returning from Burning Man with their photos. Those trousers are otherworldly, Joey.
This plaque is mounted on the 86th floor observation deck of the Empire State Building. Admire its ultimate and absolute coolitude.
Update: I enjoyed this so much I made a line tracing of it and turned the tracing into a T-shirt.
This is so awesome, a Tetris game using dynamic HTML that runs in the browser.
He used the Yahoo! User Interface Library in this as well.
The lighting on the stage (and my camera phone’s lack of flash) wasn’t conducive to capturing Bruce’s sleek contours, but I was really interested in catching the cool LED curtain that adorned the back of the stage. Me and Barr were sitting in the front row for this, trying to figure out if the patterns of lights on the curtain were capable of changing. His opinion was that it was a fixed array of LEDs, mundane, incapable of change. I decided that it would spring into action and transmogrify if we only stared at it enough. Sure enough, I was right, and it looked pretty cool. Now I want a miniature one of these for my rumpus room.
New version of Yahoo! Widgets (formerly known as Konfabulator) out today, download it here. Information on what’s new is in the press release. The "geek version of the press release," also known as the release notes, is here.
This is Lifehacker’s download of the today today, woo hoo!
I’m chattering with excitement because we’re taking in Corteo on Saturday. We bought the spendy VIP tickets as soon as they went on sale back in June — that’s how much of a Cirque freak I am. (If you’re really really into them, I think the VIP tickets are worth it, particularly since they only come around every other year.)
I’ve seen most of their touring shows and I’ve been to the permanent venue in Orlando to see La Nouba (which was my favorite of the shows I’ve seen, mainly because of the acrobatics and the music). I have yet to see the Vegas shows, though — need to make that happen sometime when family stuff permits.
They’ll be moving down to San Jose starting Jan. 19 so my south bay homies can check ‘em out.
This is just amazing…Justin did a few fully interactive skins on top of our new maps product to demonstrate how you can use Flash to tailor maps to look like your web site.
Also: new Yahoo! Maps APIs for developers, adding both Flash and Ajax APIs, geocoding, traffic, and the ability to embed maps on your own web site.
Party on.
All of BART on a map, yo. I’d have pimped this earlier in the week but I got sidetracked with some other stuff.
I wrote a tool to make creating simple maps like this super easy. I’ll be releasing this tool soon so everybody can play. Until that happens, if you can hack together an XML file and put it on a Web server, you can play, too.
I’ll be heading up to Portland tomorrow night with my whole team for OSCON. I’ll be giving a talk on Yahoo! Web Services and Konfabulator on Wednesday morning and I’ll be in the Yahoo! booth on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday. Stop by and say hi if you’re at the show.
Update: Here’s the description of the talk I’m going to give on Wednesday morning. This will be the first public demo of Konfabulator 2.1 as far as I know and definitely the first demo of our new comparison shopping API, which just launched on Tuesday.
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Super cool, if you’re a Flickr user you can go here to tell Flickr where your blog lives. Once you do that, whenever you’re browsing photos and you see one that you want to hork out of Flickr and post about on your blog, you just click the handy "blog this" button. (The photo you see at right is the Palace of the Legion of Honor in SF where we got married; I’m just using it to test this functionality and because it’s boss.)
Dead sexy! (Flickr also has APIs that support this functionality.)
Delivr is a cool new Web toy that lets you send postcards to your friends using Flickr photos.
It’s most excellent if you’re into the postcard thing, but it’s even cooler when you think of what’s behind all this — a boss API combined with some thoughtful attention to the intellectual property aspects of reuse (all the photos made available by Delivr are provided to the community by their authors under a Creative Commons license, so it’s 100% on the up and up).
Charles, the author, goes into more detail on what’s behind Delivr on his weblog. He says that the vast number of photos on Flickr might make Delivr "the biggest ecard site online."
Extremely cool article previewing new fonts slated to appear in Longhorn. I really like fonts, as I have mentioned here previously.
I’m being reminded of what a design dilettante I am since I’ve been doing a bunch of explanatory diagrams and mockups at work recently (mostly using Fireworks). I’m hoping that we’ll get to show off one of the two big monster projects my team has been working on in a few weeks or so — we’re not quite there yet but things are starting to come together nicely.
I was randomly searching for some stuff for a little personal project I’ve been working on when I ran across "I Remain," an archive of digitized documents at Lehigh University. At first glance it looks like this dry historical repository — and it is — but the things the curators chose to include is pretty interesting. It’s all ephemera — condolence notes, thank-you cards, and so forth. It looks like a work in progress; maybe when it’s done it’ll be a slightly more highfalutin version of Found Magazine.
A lot of the items in the archive are from former Presidents and congressmen, which reminded me of this weird job I had in college, typing up the memoirs of H. R. Haldeman (Nixon’s right-hand man). Haldeman was big on the details, almost freakishly so. His memoirs were published posthumously in 1994, so Haldeman didn’t have the chance to go back and edit them or anything. What you got went pretty much straight from his Dictaphone through my fingers and onto CD-ROM.
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