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Brilliantly executed

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That’s some seriously insane (but totally valid) CSS by Román Cortés.

And now I’m feeling thirsty.

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Seeeeeee ittttttt onnnnn www.yooouuutuuube.com

Weirdly brilliant, yooouuutuuube.com takes a YouTube video and cuts it all up into some bizarre lomo action sampler-like strips. I used the Doves‘ excellent Black and White Towns video to try it out but I think it’d probably work better with psychelic or cheesy 80s videos.

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  • action sampler, flash, video, weird, youtube

 

Most comments suck, which is why I don't bother with a commenting system around here

A good topic for discussion on It’s Nice That. I think I may drop by and anonymously comment on how awesome the topic is…

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  • anonymous, blog, comments, discussion, meme

 

YouTube as your website — clever!

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The question is, how much time and energy do I want to spend chasing these guys… My sense is that most of them live in basements floored with carpeting remnants, living on Funions and discount beer.

›› Gotta love Stephen King

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The A List Apart Survey results are out. Last year, the results were published as a PDF, which was a bit of an anti-climax from a standardista perspective. But this year, they’ve got it all out in bread-and-butter HTML and CSS, the highlight of which has to be Eric A. Meyer’s mind-numbingly beautiful, yet accessible, CSS work for the graphs. Plain insanity, if you ask me, but it’s top-drawer production-grade code.

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Awesomely brutal and wickedly judgemental 'splash' pages for those who are discovered to be using Internet Explorer 6

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Vote for your favourite Warp tracks to create The Definitive Warp Album

Warp Records are asking fans to vote for the tracks they want to see in the upcoming 20th anniversary Warp compilation. I’ve already voted for Aphex Twin’s Alberto Balsam and Squarepusher’s Port Rhombus

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Nothing personal, former Facebook friends: I’ll miss those wall updates about doing dishes and changing the kitty litter… But most of all, I will miss those hundreds upon hundreds of baby pictures that remind me daily of how insanely happy I am that my kids aren’t babies any more.

›› Absolutely hilarious piece by Steve Tuttle at Newsweek

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  • baby, facebook, photos, social networking, time, waste

 

What the hell happened, Larry? All the data lost? No backups? No backup of backups? Lots of people are bummed out but seriously folks, it’s data on a free service — what did you expect? There are more severe that you can lose in times like this.

Of course, I am sad my bookmarks are all gone, but I am gonna give it a few more days before switching back to my old, inactive delicious account.

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  • backup, bookmarks, cloud, computing, data, disaster

 

Spotting the flu season online with Google

It seems I am not the only one who Googles my symptoms before heading to the doctor. Google Flu Trends tracks search terms to predict when the flu will hit certain areas within the United States — an epidemic indicator, if you like. While it’s a good idea and could be extended to pseudo-prediction of epidemics and pandemics, this kind of ’searchsourcing’ will only be useful if Google remains insanely popular.

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Virtually "window shop" the latest and greatest in Amazon.com books, music, videos, and games

Amazon.com introduced Windowshop.com last week, their take on a virtual ‘window shopping’ experience. It lets you zoom and pan through Amazon content, like their best seller lists in music, books, video and other categories. One would guess their inspiration was the Cooliris application, but Amazon’s Windowshop seems tame in comparison. It seriously lacks the ‘wow’ factor of a slick psuedo-3D environment that Cooliris has.

With shiny, image-driven interfaces popping up everywhere, 2008 might be remembered as the year of the visual search. If visual search breaks into the big-time, Gesture based navigation might be the next big thing that may follow into the mainstream.

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  • 3D, image, search, shopping, user interface, visual

 

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