November 2010
16 posts
BBC - Spot The Fake Smile →
What was your score? I got 15 out of 20.
YouTube5 Safari Extension →
A must-have if you use Safari daily. Replaces Flash video with the HTML5 equivalent on Youtube and Vimeo. Beautiful player.
20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web →
What a great design! Here’s what John Gruber had to say about it.
Hard-Coding Bias in Google "Algorithmic" Search... →
Benjamin Edelman:
I present categories of searches for which available evidence indicates Google has “hard-coded” its own links to appear at the top of algorithmic search results, and I offer a methodology for detecting certain kinds of tampering by comparing Google results for similar searches. I compare Google’s hard-coded results with Google’s public statements and...
Daring Fireball: How Israel Handles Airport... →
In the US, they search for weapons. In Israel, they search for terrorists.
Finder: zoom into photo previews in Columns view
finermac:
In the Finder’s Columns view, you can Option-click a photo in the Preview column on the right to zoom into it. You can then use two-finder gestures to pan around, Option-click to zoom in further, and Option-Shift-click to zoom back out.
This works on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Anyone have word on previous versions?
via Cabel Sasser
What Your Choice of Camera Says About You →
Just as the clothes you choose to wear, the food you like to eat, and the people you associate with say something about you, so does the camera system you buy into. The following observations are based on close association with the various groups of camera owners and from having belonged to each group at one time or another. Those who belong to the “lacking any sense of humor” or “offended at...
“Dead Drops” →
‘Dead Drops’ a new project by Berlin based artist Aram Bartholl. ‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. Aram is ‘injecting’ USB flash drives into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space.
Are they serious?