Glad the court finally figured out what was pretty plain to see from the outset of the case.
Maybe now the new guy will end these programs once and for all. Maybe.
Earth Hour 2010, before and after
The Big Picture on Boston.com has posted a before and after series of images from around the world during Earth Hour 2010.
[via Cameron Moll]
Why you can’t work at work
Last Friday I got sucked into watching some of the hilarious promotional videos that 37Signals had done for their recently released book, Rework. And because YouTube is a magnetic vortex I got sucked into watching several other insightful videos and interviews with 37Signals’ Jason Fried.
Then as the dawn of a new work-week arose, Fried was back in the spotlight with a video I’d somehow missed. In this clip from a longer interview Fried explores the impact of distractions in the workplace. Continue reading
Barack Obama looking at awesome things
It’s amazing what can be done with some White House press photos and a little Photoshop.
Now if we can only get him to conclude his next presidential address with “Thunder, Thunder, Thundercats, HOOOOO!“
Lost + Saul Bass
What if Saul Bass had done the opening title sequence for Lost? It would probably look something like this.
[via Cameron Moll]
Daily color palette
Jacobo Zanella tracks the colors he wears daily on his website using surprisingly interesting pixel charts. I wonder if we’ll see something like this in the 2010 Feltron Annual Report.
[via Information Aesthetics]
Lego boardroom table
I need one of these.
Job #1: Get boardroom
Job #2: Get Lego boardroom table
Paris like you’ve never seen it before
The site Paris 26 Gigapixel is a project where 2,346 individual photos were put together for a crazy high-resolution self-guided tour of the city of Paris.
[via Information Aesthetics]
Kindle for the Mac
This was a no-brainer for Amazon. If you can’t get a Kindle into the house, at least you can still sell them some e-books.
[via Engadget]
No dashes or spaces
It’s amusing to see what kind of little things can really get under a person’s skin. And then the lengths they’ll go in an attempt to right that wrong.
Credit card numbers are always printed and read aloud in groups of (usually) four digits, and when verifying a number after entry (which involves looking back and forth between the card and the web form) one uses the spacing to resynchronize.
If there were some security or integrity reason for disallowing these characters, I guess I’d buy it, but I’ve not found a single good reason for it. The consensus among those that I’ve spoken to is that it’s nothing but lazy, sloppy programming. I completely agree.