phonezilla

This afternoon calls for some _Altered Beast_ from @iammatthewsweet

Come work on cool shit in Chicago.

http://bit.ly/9rYRE2 - UI developer (coding more than aesthetics)

http://bit.ly/9xbwdu - UI designer (aesthetic and interactive)

Sorry Ryan.

One thing to consider with S6 so far is that the flash-sideways events are happening in 2004, and the on island stuff in 2007. There’s a three year gap there, and I hope it’s accounted for in some way.

laze:

“You should get the Honda Odyssey^2, so you can play KC Munchkin in the back seat.” Who feels me?

He said this when I was talking about the Honda Odyssey, a candidate for Successor To The Element.

YouTube’s new dynamic closed captioning is very very very much in beta.

Cool - the new @tedleo album is available online today at @amazonmp3 and lala!

Giving the latest by my fave @tedleo a spin - _The Brutalist Bricks_. Stream it for free, buy it Tues.: http://www.myspace.com/tedleo

as many of you have guessed, air care will no longer be part of the method line, but you’ll still be able to find our air care products online and at a few retail partners. if you love our air care products, BUY THEM NOW because we don’t have any plans to reintroduce them.

Gosh darn it.

♫ Berry - Poi Dog Pondering http://lala.com/zjGfI (uses the same drum intro as Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition,” and that’s why I love it.)

As you can tell I’m into Poi Dog Pondering lately. _7_, their latest, is listenable, catchy, and diverse.

(via suttonhoo)

♫ Lemon Drop Man - Poi Dog Pondering http://lala.com/znoLI

If you were hoping the game would involve a cartoon-like Christopher Kimball swinging through the kitchen by a prehensile bow-tie, you might be disappointed.

Bummer.

mrgan:

I mean, where to start.

1. The new version of Microsoft Visio - which, in case you’re not cursed with a sucky office job, is a very popular diagramming app - includes a rip-off of Panic’s Transmit truck.

2. They didn’t just copy the icon, of course - they first ran it through the world’s worst autotracer (check out that front grill!)

3. All the other icons in the app are of this “quality”.

4. Visio also includes a groundbreaking feedback feature called Send-A-Smile/Send-A-Frown. It is of similar quality as well.

(via Cabel)

Filed under “Things that make me sad.”

Engineer 1: Man, I tell you this browser rocks.
Engineer 2: It does! It’s better than that crappy RAZR! High tech!
Engineer 1: For sure. Check this out - I can enter text in an HTML textarea and it’s super easy!
Engineer 2: And you can use the trackball to move around in that textarea!
Engineer 1: That’s right! The trackball is maybe the best part of our whole UI and it works great with textareas!
Engineer 1: Hey, what happens if a user needs to move over just one letter?
Engineer 2: They use the trackball of course.
Engineer 1: Perfect! But you know it’s not that precise, right? Like if someone is scrolling to the right and misses slightly… like just nudging the trackball up or down a bit… what happens?
Engineer 2: Well, we bump them back to the top or bottom of the whole textarea’s content.
Engineer 1: Why?
Engineer 2: Dunno. That’s how it was coded.
Engineer 1: Huh. Well, do we have cursor keys or something?
Engineer 2: No.
Engineer 1: So… huh. This trackball isn’t precise enough to really support letter-by-letter movement in a textarea, but we’re going to use it anyway.
Engineer 2: Right.
Engineer 1: And is that right - textareas don’t wrap text at all?
Engineer 2: Uh… yeah, they don’t.
Engineer 1: So someone could enter a paragraph as one really really long line of text, find a mistake about 500 characters in, and lose their place if they don’t precisely nudge the trackball in the right direction while editing a typo?
Engineer 2: That’s right.
Engineer 1: What about letting them enter a full-screen text editing mode, where we expand the textarea to fit the screen, wrap text, and let them really control what’s happening?
Engineer 2: But it passed our unit tests.
Engineer 1: Ah well. We’ll fix it later.