2009.05.14 Julia Dales - Beatbox Battle Online World Champion
One of those things that I've always been amazed by. I'm not that orally talented to make those types of sounds that quickly. Very impressive, especially from such an unassuming person. #
One of those things that I've always been amazed by. I'm not that orally talented to make those types of sounds that quickly. Very impressive, especially from such an unassuming person. #
I really enjoyed Phoenix's previous album, and was thrilled to see a new one yesterday. As a band they've come much further than I would have suspected, especially considering their original roots (electronica?). #
Perfect. #
An old school computer punch-card bound notebook with green-lined computer paper, tied closed with a button and string? Yes please. I love this idea. I think it's well time for these to go beyond Etsy. #
While I'm on the note of typefaces, I particularly enjoyed two of the typefaces presented in this review - Calgary Script, as well as Dolce Thin and Dyna (technically two different typefaces). All three I can see as wonderful highlights to a piece of work, with the latter two being a bit more liberal and potentially interchangeable. Slick #
I really like this new free typeface. Vegur feels like it has a wider aperture, maybe encouraging a lighter feel than the standard sans-serif fonts. As an added bonus, I like how the dots to the lowercase i's and j's are rounded as opposed to squared. I'm no pro on this stuff, but it's fun to compare. The lightest version is my favorite. #
Although I use both Coda and Espresso, this theme by Joe Bergantine is great. I spend too much time staring at code not to be able to appreciate this (plus, who doesn't love the railscast theme?) #
Still on the trail of website thumbnail creation, but this time a self-hosted version. If I had a private server with my web host, I'd probably investigate this option a bit closer. It wants me to do more than I'm allowed to do on my host, but seems more accurate than a simple converter like khtml2png. Django, python, kvfb and CutyCapt... the latter two are the real hang-ups for me, since they require me to be able to install as sudo. #
Ever since ma.gnolia crashed I've been looking around for bookmarking options. Although I'm thrilled with my self-hosting, I'm looking around for options to capture screenshots, thumbnails, or just the text of websites (to accompany bookmarks) for my own safe-keeping. Although I'd prefer to host my own engine for this, if at this moment I had to pick a third party to handle it, thumbalizr would be it, since it lets you store the images on your own server. #
If you remember Contra like I do, or have heard a reference to the magical code… now certain sites on the interwebs give you a bit more too. #
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