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Geek to Live: Carry your life on a thumb drive (or iPod)
a quick overview of making your survival software toolkit mobile on a thumbdrive; nice reading and worth the try for those working in various location, without laptops
(tags: mobile archiving productivity storage usb lifehack gtd)

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Read more: links for 2008-02-28

It all started by a crack in the floor …
and finally left me wondering about design practice
and collection process with a book about the Vitra Project…

Read more: Thoughts on a late Tate Friday evening

XWD(1) manual page
Xwd is an X Window System window dumping utility. Xwd allows X users to store window images in a specially formatted dump file.
(tags: __ofs server linux x11)

XVFB(1) manual page
Xvfb is an X server that can run on machines with no display hardware and no physical input devices. It emulates a dumb framebuffer using [...]

Read more: links for 2008-02-27

Farbtastic: jQuery color picker plug-in | Steven Wittens - Acko.net
a very nice color picker to be integrated wherever is needed, just adding a form/input and hop!
(tags: color colorpicker jquery code plugin javascript)

CSS Gradient Text Effect
use javascript, png and css to simulate gradients in a css compliant manner - nice!
(tags: css gradient)

mdfind2
a nice use of the [...]

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Pulp Fiction (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tarantino and Avary decided to write a short, on the theory that it would be easier to get made than a feature… the film became a trilogy, with one section by Tarantino, one by Avary, and one by a third director who never materialized. Each eventually e
(tags: workflow [...]

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delicious blog » casting the net wider
an insight - back in the days (2005!) - on how to insert metainformation in delicious’ bookmarks
(tags: del.icio.us metadata reference filesystem meta)

Ecrans - Site du jour
a daily selection of website from the french newspaper Libération; via Tex Server who has been linked from them
(tags: links zeitgeist)

The big computer company [...]

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cappuccinopc.com : star-466a thin client
a mini server; quite amazing stuff: my mac mini looks like big next to it
(tags: pc hardware linux)

Five simple steps to better typography - Part 4 : Journal : Mark Boulton
this post is about font size and how to determine it; very interesting reading for anyone presenting information on screen.
(tags: web [...]

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Microsoft researchers make me cry « Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger
emotion is what motivated this post - it’s pretty damn intriguing…
(tags: innovation microsoft news tools writing)

Tom Coates: Web of Data - ReadWriteWeb
website that are much more than websites
(tags: web2.0 api database mashup services technology trend)

Too many revolutions for Cyberspace | social media and green horses
an [...]

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Five simple steps to better typography : Journal : Mark Boulton
not your typical “What font should I use” typography but rather your “knowing your hanging punctuation from your em-dash” typography. Call me a little bit purist but this bothers me.
(tags: typography microtypography legibility graphicdesign)

Kinesis
Simon Geilfus website; lots of processinf coding - nice typographic (animated?) [...]

Read more: links for 2008-02-19

Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, v3.0
nice use of the background to display images, content; nice feature: hide menu which decluster the space to let the image gallery alone
(tags: interface image background)

Read more: links for 2008-02-17