April 2008
68 posts
How Our Eyes See →
An addendum to “The ideal camera”
Nikon vs. Canon →
A nice, long article on kenrockwell.com that goes well beyond a simple comparison between Canon and Nikon DSLRs. I’m about a fourth of the way in, but it’s already good enough to post. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do!
Pixen 3 →
A nice bitmap editor for Mac OS. Does layers and animations too!
March 2008
22 posts
Can you name Elements of the Periodic Table? →
Can you name the U.S. states too?
Common typographic mistakes →
This appealed to the budding typographer in me. It might be pedantic for just about everyone else :)
Coding Horror: I {entity} Unicode →
Double-Click Must Die →
Snippet:No developer would ever double-click on a button, because developers have too much GUI knowledge: only a single click is supported on this GUI element, so a double-click doesn’t make sense here. Users, on the other hand, aren’t burdened by this detailed knowledge of the GUI. Many users never fully learn the distinction between single-click and double-click. So they give up and...
BoomsticK—Flash game →
Surprisingly addictive.
Making an elegant résumé →
Such a big difference from some simple tips.
Housing price visualization →
A nice heat map of housing prices in the Bay Area (click on the Heat Map checkbox above the map). Actually, this works for the whole US, apparently. I’m going to use this to figure out where I can rent the biggest cardboard box to live in.
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Engineers Explained →
Examples Of Bad Press For Engineers Hindenberg. Space Shuttle Challenger. SPANet(tm) Hubble space telescope. Apollo 13. Titanic. Ford Pinto. Corvair.The risk/reward calculation for engineers looks something like this: Risk: Public humiliation and the death of thousands of innocent people. Reward: A certificate of appreciation in a handsome plastic frame. jingc: Engineer lies: “I have to have...
Function of (X) - A Very Scientific Blog →
A play on the xkcd graphs. Could be a bit funnier, but still amusing.
Comments! →
Well look at that; the always-useful J has cured one of my biggest peeves about link-posting: comments! Thanks J! jingc: I’ve used Disqus to add comments to this tumblog. Please comment on what you found interesting/boring!
Athenaem logo →
It’s not for Caltech, but it might as well be. The letters are clean, and the ligature well-utilized. Using the embossed book as a horizontal break is also very clever.
Letterpressed bird →
Should it just be called birdpress then? There is something about the third dimension that makes letterpress so appealing to me. I think its the clean lines that result along with the potential for tactile richness.
Delayed Echoes →
I might as well make my first link point to the inspiration for my Tumblr account… Thanks, Jing!