Someone has finally decided to try and shame CNN into getting rid of all the salacious, non-newsworthy content they love to prominently position on their home page. And I couldn’t be prouder.

I would’ve never thought I could get excited about an FTP application but here I am, wishing tomorrow was here so I could download Transmit 4 when I’m mildly coherent. The guys at Panic are ridiculous.

Subway ridership in New York City changed quite a bit in 2009 for a variety of factors (ie. job losses, sovaldi new stations, cheap expanded routes, sickness etc). The New York Times infographics staff has collected some of those reasons with the data in a handy-dandy map.

There is a wealth of knowledge buried within the results of the tests that have been so graciously shared with the world.

[via Cameron Moll]

I have only two things to say about the Adobe vs. Apple platform “war“, because everything else has either already been said [over and over and over again] or wasn’t worth being said and isn’t worth repeating.

1. Isn’t it interesting that the web standards crowd (including myself) has thrown their support behind Apple, but moreso just against Adobe and Flash, when the one great thing that Flash offers is what so many in the web standards community strive for… a uniform experience across multiple browser platforms. Not a knock against web standards at all, just an observation.
2. If there is still any confusion about where this goes from here, who wins and who loses, just take one look at Facebook and MySpace. Flash is obviously the MySpace of this showdown, allowing users to take their platform and customize it, make it their own, and create whatever self-destructive, franken-app they’d like. On the other hand there’s Apple, who like Facebook has retained a measure of control over the landscape, forcing participants to adhere to their design sensibilities and effectively saving individuals from themselves. This isn’t the first [or second] time two companies have faced off like this, and it won’t be the last. This won’t make or break either company. But we’d all be better off if it came to a swift conclusion.

In closing I’ll end with a line from John Gruber.

Unfortunately, for Adobe, I mean, they’ve pretty much just gotta suck it.

Sad but true.

Want to see what your website looks like on an iPad but don’t have one? Let iPad Peek help.

[via Swissmiss]

UNIQLO has always had a knack for combining the bizarre with the visually interesting when it comes to their web presence and applications. But this new site which combines their new line, cheap the city of Paris and Japanese ballet dances is equal parts mesmerizing and confounding.

[via clusterflock]

A new site by Dan Cederholm and Rich Thornett, Dribbble, tipped off this weekend. Dribbble is most often described as Twitter for designers because the focus is on brevity and interaction, which is facilitated by commenting and tagging on the small snippets of designs in progress that “players” share.

Dan has done a great job getting a who’s who of design to buy into the site. Even more impressive is just how stunningly well-made the interface is. The details make the difference and Dan has nailed all of them.

The site has been in private beta for months, but it’s now visible to the public in all it’s glory. For the time being, membership is still invitation only. Now how to get one of those coveted invites…

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.

Navigate New York City in only 8 bits.

[via Kottke]