David Emery OnlineSurviving (the inevitable) Z-Apocalypse
The first thing you want to do when you realise that people are dying, then standing back up, then trying to eat you, is get to a safe place (duh!).
Beautiful bit of illustration-come-design – I wish all of the internet looked like this.
Visit ➔iPhoto '09 and Domain Language
It matters if we call something an Event or a Milestone or a Deadline. And it also goes deeper than that. The names we choose shape our software. They define the way we think about it and the way our customers interact with it.
I was beginning to worry a little that spending slightly too long on naming interface elements was me just being a bit mental; it’s nice to know that either I’m not or at least not alone.
Visit ➔2008 Music Blog Zeitgeist Countdown is ON!
We compiled data from over 700 year-end blog posts, analyzed it, and released it into the wild so everyone can see what bloggers were excited about in 2008. You can listen to full previews of the albums via imeem and browse bite-sized reviews via Musebin. We’ve also shared the data we used to compile this list under a CC license so people can see what we are working with.
The awesome-as-ever Hypemachine music blog countdown has just launched – always a good read and I’m loving their use of all sorts of different services (imeem, Flickr, Musebin) for different aspects of the Best Albums countdown.
Visit ➔Chew Lips - Solo (Demo)
Very promising. From http://www.pinglewood.com/2008/December/321_Chew_Lips.html
Visit ➔Abandoned London
Lovely set of photos of a deserted London on Christmas day.
It looks so peaceful…
YouTube overlay HD ads
I think this is new – I certainly haven’t seen it before; YouTube is now running overlay ads over the top of HD videos. Click the link above to see it in-situ (you’ll probably need to click ‘Watch in HD’), or click the image below for a bigger view:
TUAW goes hands-on with Rolando
This looks absolutely lovely, although I’m not going to get it yet as I’ve just bought Sim City for the iPhone instead (which seems to be pretty good from the 10 minutes I’ve spent with it). It’s very encouraging that there are already got too many games to get for the iPhone – I think it’s very rapidly establishing itself as a very viable platform fo games developers.
Visit ➔2008 Greek riots
Brilliant photos from The Big Picture, as always. From a photographers point a view it’s interesting to note that some of the best photos in the series are technically quite poor – out of focus or very noisy. It’s always worth a reminder that it’s the moment you’re capturing that’s most important, not how you do it.
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