April, 2008 - vgs_rss

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3rd

1:21p	Despite a common heritage, the social, economic, and political differences...
1:21p	In The Year of Living Biblically, AJ Jacobs followed all...
1:21p	This short blog post by Sasha Frere-Jones about rock show...
1:21p	This is a surprisingly effective idea: using a Google Maps...
1:21p	● Regal
1:21p	According to a simple statistical analysis using computer simulations, a...
1:21p	Clothing libraries loan clothes out for free (or a small...
1:21p	A short list of What Every American Should Know About...
1:21p	A collection of pairs of photos, one taken just before...
1:21p	A profile of elaborate huckster Pat Robertson. Here's the introduction...
1:21p	Clayton James Cubitt's photographs of a manufactured vagina. Male to...
1:21p	A review of Outside (i.e. the outside world) as if...
1:22p	● Visual conversation layers
1:22p	Ooh, there's going to be a Dr. Mario game available...
1:22p	A golden oldie from Matt Jones in 2001: WebDogme. Two...
1:22p	The new design for UK coinage is fantastic. As you...
1:22p	Roger Ebert announces his return to his Sun-Times reviewing gig...but...
1:22p	Slowing down the playback of a 1999 Apple commercial = <a...
1:22p	I did embarrassingly bad on this Elements of the Periodic...
1:22p	A large list of interesting print catalogs for niche industries...
1:22p	Jonathan Hoefler on how a joke version of OCR-A with...

4th

7:04p	Bruce Bukiet is back with his annual mathematically modeled prediction...
7:04p	Fun little article by Grant Barrett about people saying words...
7:04p	People have a limited supply of willpower. The brain has...
7:04p	Kevin Kelly says that people whose fields have been Turing'd...
7:04p	Short interview with bassist Colin Greenwood about the State of...
7:04p	The bracket for Market Madness (aka the Fed 2008 Final...
7:04p	Recent research suggests that: There is no clear evidence of...
7:04p	● Getting into Momofuku Ko
7:04p	Review of Clerks, 14 years after it was released. Verdict:...
7:04p	Based on a paper about "copy-move forgery", a couple of programmers...
7:04p	Errol Morris returns to his Times blog for the first time...
7:04p	● Business guru Lenny Dykstra
7:04p	Preliminary results from a small Swedish study suggest that effects...

6th

7:21a	Google releases GWT for JavaScript 2
7:21a	jQuery gets Classy
7:21a	ECMAScript 4 Update: New Grammar, and No Tail Calls
7:21a	Fun with SVG and CSS Animations
7:21a	GChart 2.0: Give me some pie
7:21a	Ajaxian Roundup for March, 2008: IE 8, Acid3, and Performance
7:21a	The performance of your Acid 3
7:21a	OpenAjax Call-to-Action for Browser Wishlist
7:21a	What does the “Open Web” actually mean?
7:21a	IE 8 strict mode doesn’t allow for CSS opacity?
7:21a	Book review: Advanced Ajax by Lauriat (Part 2 of 2)
7:21a	Browser Update: Firefox 3b5 and Opera Mini 4.1 beta
7:21a	JavaScript, C#, and ExtSharp
7:21a	qGallery: Prototype gallery application
7:21a	But I’m not moving my mouse!
7:21a	GQuery: Java, GWT, and jQuery together
7:21a	Audible Ajax Episode 25: State of Ajax
7:21a	Popularity, History, and SCRIPT SHARED
7:21a	Dojo-Mini and the Feature Explorer
7:21a	ASP.Net Ajax Site and Silverlight

7th

2:41p	iPhone WebKit Goodness: 3D CSS Transforms and ontouch events
2:41p	JavaScript SAX Based Parser
2:41p	window.crypto: want crypto primitives in the browser? You may already have it
2:41p	Adobe Releases AIR for Linux, Joins LSF
10:10p	Flinging APIs in the Highlands
10:10p	Spket IDE 1.6.11 Released

8th

4:43p	JavaScript has staying power; Used in Stargate
4:43p	Pi.Debugger: Cross browser debugging
4:43p	Web Archeology: Java Pluglet API
4:43p	What does Google App Engine mean for Ajax developers?
4:44p	Chandler Server Upgrades to Dojo 1.0.2
4:44p	MooWheel: Unique Data Visualization
4:44p	JS Time Machine

9th

1:00a	A list of 63 must-have grunge fonts. Back in 1996,...
1:00a	Steve Zissou and friends, done with Legos.
1:00a	The new Coen Brothers film sounds interesting: Burn After Reading...
1:00a	How to catch a thief...of Netflix DVDs: After having to...
1:00a	Great set of photographs showing how the Space Shuttle gets...
1:00a	Gorgeous maps and infographics by Stefanie Posavec that map the...
1:00a	● Helicopter on a turntable
1:00a	Some poop in a cave in Oregon has been dated...
1:00a	Crayon Physics is PC-only so I can't play it, but...
1:00a	Photographer Eric Etheridge alerted me to a new series he recently...
1:00a	● Last 100 posts, part 9
1:00a	A chronological list of fears, from childhood through parenthood. (via...
1:00a	Some great photos of Americans commuting by Vincent Laforet using...
1:00a	Ten ideas for making NYC streets a more friendly place...
1:00a	I feel like I've posted this one before but the Google...
1:00a	Everything I Know About Hyman Victor is one man's remembrance...
1:00a	● A beautiful baby portrait
1:00a	Video of the top 50 soccer goals. A dubbed-from-VCR YouTube...
1:00a	Graphical demonstration of the hand signals needed to buy and...
1:00a	● A short review of Momofuku Ko - 1 reply
1:00a	Flickr users can now upload video to their accounts. I...

10th

5:20a	According to a poll of 109 historians, George W. Bush is...
5:20a	Andy redesigned waxy.org. For the first time since I started...
5:20a	New Improv Everywhere mission: make a local little league game...
5:20a	A list of quintessentially New York books. New York is...
5:20a	Interview with young designer Nikolay Saveliev, who is responsible for...
5:20a	For scientist Dr. Anne Adams (and composer Maurice Ravel), a...
5:20a	The web site for Errol Morris' new movie, Standard Operating...
5:20a	A list of "evil" human experiments, including the Stanford prison...
5:20a	This video makes me irrationally happy...I watched it four times...
10:01a	Take Control of Your Maps

11th

5:21a	Super Mario; 14KB of JavaScript
5:21a	A wishlist for Ajax APIs
5:21a	Getting feedback to the IE 8 team
5:21a	DOMAssistant 2.7 is Out, Strong Unicode Support and Enhanced Performance
5:21a	Canvas2Image: Save out your canvas data to images
5:21a	NetBeans now includes JavaScript support
5:21a	IE 8 Security Updates
5:21a	Dojo 1.1 Nice Features
5:21a	Gears and Web Standards
5:21a	Ajaxian Featured Tutorial: Hacking transparent PNG support into IE6 with IE PNG Fix, CSS and jQuery

12th

9:21p	As part of the the Takashi Murakami show at the...
9:21p	A nice appreciation of Primer, one of my favorite movies....
9:21p	It will take you literally hours to get through this list...
9:21p	Star Trek statistics: just how likely are you to die...
9:21p	Is the reflection in Dick Cheney's sunglasses a naked woman?...
9:21p	Awesome collection of folk graphics and photography protesting Flickr's...
9:21p	The economics of high-end prostitutes. Unlike their low-end counterparts, high-end...
9:21p	What the 44th president of the United States should do...
9:21p	An interview with Robin Wilson, the thoughtful frontman of the...
9:21p	This page generates names by combining the first and last...
9:21p	There Will Be Blood is out on DVD already. And...
9:21p	Ernest Hemingway on how he approached symbolism in his stories:...
9:21p	Good advice about whining: Whining should be telling you something....
9:21p	● Slow motion
9:21p	● Most heard songs
9:21p	In an effort to curtail healthcare spending, the Japanese government...
9:21p	A visual look at the top 10 trends in spring/summer...
9:21p	Six reasons why baseball is the best of all games,...

15th

10:00p	NY Times film critic A.O. Scott penned a short appreciation...
10:00p	Interesting timelapse visualization of fatalities in Iraq since March 2003....
10:00p	A wonderful (and wonderfully long) post by Dan Hill on...
10:00p	Google Earth now displays location-specific news from the NY Times....
10:00p	Cutaway drawings of the interiors of various Star Trek starship...
10:00p	Photo series of food that takes the shape of its...
10:00p	The Art of the Title Sequence, a blog highlighting good...
10:00p	20 respectable rock and rap acts that peaked with debut...
10:00p	Even Erik Spiekermann agrees that Helvetica is sometimes an appropriate...
10:00p	The iconic Birkin bag made by Hermes is supposedly so difficult...
10:00p	The last meal for the first class passengers on the...
10:00p	The 7th in a series of helpful posts for the time...
10:00p	Matt Jones argues that short looping videos are the real...
10:00p	Why Superman will always suck. Really, what lessons do the...
10:00p	Female leads are difficult to find in blockbuster movies.
10:01p	James Danziger on the photographs of the Florida teens accused...
10:01p	This timelapse video of man trapped in an elevator for...
10:01p	A mom let her 9-year-old son take the NYC subway...

17th

2:21a	Mozilla Fennec: The mobile browser wars
2:21a	Upside Down Text
2:21a	Java Plugin: The Kernel is back
2:21a	Dromaeo: JavaScript Engine Testing
2:22a	Joose expands with new ORM
2:22a	using.js: manage JavaScript dependencies
2:22a	Appcelerator on App Engine
2:22a	Server-side jQuery, E4X, and more with Jaxer
2:22a	Event Delegation for blur and focus
2:22a	CSS Gradients in WebKit
2:22a	jQuery and Prototype Benchmarks
2:22a	Mosaic Image Builder with Ajax
2:22a	Dojo XHR Plugins; How do you want your XHR today?
2:22a	JavaScript: The Good Parts
2:22a	Busy.js: Loading indicators with Canvas
2:22a	DOH, let me test my code!
2:22a	Last call for W3C XMLHttpRequest comments
2:22a	Three Helpful JavaScript Libraries

22nd

11:03p

Getting Started with Ruby on Rails

25th

1:43p	What is the future of Ajax applications talking to the data tier? - 2 replies
1:43p	JSONVid: Pure JavaScript Video Player
1:43p	iPhone Remote Debugger
1:43p	Ext JS 2.1 Released
1:43p	Now your mobile phones get to take some Acid
1:43p	Yahoo! BrowserPlus: Why wait for the news when you have strings?
1:43p	Reminded of speaking your YAHOO.lang
1:43p	Talking about JavaScript 1.7, 1.8 and 1.9 before we get to 2.0
1:43p	Google offers Search, Feed, and Translation APIs to Non Ajax Usage
1:43p	Making application modules communicate with each other using Decoupling
1:43p	OraoWeb: Quicktime + JavaScript
1:43p	Timeframe: Prototype date range component
1:43p	Embed your data- in HTML 5
1:43p	To GWT Ext or to Ext GWT?
1:43p	Taking Web Applications Offline, to the Desktop, and beyond
1:43p	WaveMaker Visual Ajax Studio for Mac
1:44p	TPHP: Your home page can be a JavaScript command line
1:44p	Using canvas to test your site with colorblind folk
1:44p	WebKit keeps going with CSS Masks
1:44p	JavaScriptMVC Test Plugin

26th

11:23a	A little something for my officemates: a guide to bakeries...
11:23a	BLDGBLOG has some photos of luxury hotels that were abandoned...
11:23a	If Smurfs are three apples tall, how do they fit...
11:23a	A suggestion from the inbox: watch the fascinatingly disturbing eagle...
11:23a	A new version of Buzzfeed launched late last night. It's...
11:23a	● Vengeance
11:23a	After boxing podcasting soundly about the ears... The stylistic arena of...
11:23a	Why is New York-style pizza so difficult to replicate in...
11:23a	Nice anecdote from a former line chef at the French...
11:23a	● The slipperiness of truth
11:23a	I've got Will Smith action hero fatigue, but HOLY CRAP does...
11:23a	The Expedition One crew, consisting of one American and two...
11:23a	Starcade was an 80s TV game show where contestants competed...
11:23a	Mister Disc is a portable record player, like a Walkman...
11:23a	The 92nd St Y has put the video of a...
11:23a	How NYC has been depicted in video games through the...
11:23a	● Ten things I learned this week, 01
11:23a	The 10 most appropriate weatherperson names...like Ray Ban and Storm...
11:23a	Gar, I missed another one of Tobias Frere-Jones' NYC Typographic...
11:23a	This season, baseball managers are being a bit more experimental...
11:23a	The One Day Poem Pavilion uses the sun to display...

27th

7:03a	CSS Variables are next?
7:03a	Immediate Translation and Mibbit
7:03a	Cuzillion: Performance best practices tool
7:03a	Ext JS and the fun with Open Source licenses

28th

9:42p	OpenEXT: The fork
9:42p	Ext JS responds with Open Source FLOSS Exceptions
9:42p	Java in JavaScript
9:42p	Coherent: Cocoa Databinding for Ajax
9:42p	FancyUpload: Swiff meets Ajax
9:42p	Aptana Cloud: Develop on your desktop, sync out to the cloud