notebook of maxfenton

✌ Last Great Thing — What's the last great thing you saw?

Thu, 17 May 2012 13:13:48 -0400

✌ Last Great Thing — What's the last great thing you saw?:

“I Don’t Understand White People”by Tasneem Afridi I love Afridi’s video for two reasons. First, of course, I love it for its content. As an old white guy, I grew up in a world where…

✌ Explorable Explanations

Tue, 15 May 2012 17:18:18 -0400

✌ Explorable Explanations:

What does it mean to be an active reader? An active reader asks questions, considers alternatives, questions assumptions, and even questions the trustworthiness of the author. An active reader tries…

Nullsleep on IUMA on Archive.org

Tue, 15 May 2012 16:39:11 -0400

Nullsleep on IUMA on Archive.org

✌ Storyboard

Tue, 15 May 2012 16:04:59 -0400

✌ Storyboard:

View post No one really knows why the “Fuck Yeah X” blog phenomenon became so popular — nor why it’s still going very strong in terms of raw numbers. As for ultimate…

✌ A List Apart: Articles: Responsive Images and Web Standards at the Turning Point

Tue, 15 May 2012 15:36:22 -0400

✌ A List Apart: Articles: Responsive Images and Web Standards at the Turning Point:

The goal of a “responsive images” solution is to deliver images optimized for the end user’s context, rather than serving the largest potentially necessary image to everyone.…

Photo

Tue, 15 May 2012 03:14:11 -0400

notes.unwieldy: Plagiarism

Mon, 14 May 2012 22:57:10 -0400

notes.unwieldy: Plagiarism:

unwieldy:

As we were all taught in grade school and college, plagiarism isn’t okay. Even worse is attempting to defend it.

Yesterday, I wrote a short article about The $144,146,165 Button. I did the research via several sources, compiling it together to produce this interesting statistic. It was on the…

✌ Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived - The Oatmeal

Mon, 14 May 2012 16:16:03 -0400

✌ Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived - The Oatmeal:

An ode to the father of the electric age.

✌ Media Queries with Sass 3.2 - Anthony Short

Mon, 14 May 2012 12:47:53 -0400

✌ Media Queries with Sass 3.2 - Anthony Short:

A little known feature of the upcoming Sass 3.2 release is the @content rule. What this does is allow you to add blocks to your @include statements. Here’s an example: @mixin awesome { .sauce {…

For the moms in all of us.

Sun, 13 May 2012 18:51:36 -0400

For the moms in all of us.:

believermag:

Jon Cotner and Claire Hamilton take a walking tour of moms in New York.

✌ Double Fine Adventure by Double Fine and 2 Player Productions » Episode 2: A Promise of Infinite Possibility — Kickstarter

Fri, 11 May 2012 17:05:50 -0400

✌ Double Fine Adventure by Double Fine and 2 Player Productions » Episode 2: A Promise of Infinite Possibility — Kickstarter:

What is Kickstarter? We’re the world’s largest funding platform for creative projects. Learn more! Update #9: Episode 2: A Promise of Infinite Possibility 87,142 Backers $3,336,371 pledged of…

✌ Casey A. Gollan: Notes + Links

Fri, 11 May 2012 01:18:42 -0400

✌ Casey A. Gollan: Notes + Links:

In the past month or two there has been a brain-tingling conversation about data ownership, forgetting and archiving among the bloggers and twitter-ers I follow. I ve been clipping lots of brilliant…

✌ Letterology: A Signmaker's Textbook

Mon, 07 May 2012 14:13:08 -0400

✌ Letterology: A Signmaker's Textbook:

Der Praktische Schildermaler (The Practical Signmaker), Series 2, by Hans J. Jedlitschka, 1910, printed by Friedrich Wolfrum and Co., of Vienna and Leipzig. This volume is a portfolio of 32 color…

✌ Brad Frost - Google+ - I suck at git/github and need to get a lot better. I asked…

Thu, 03 May 2012 14:47:24 -0400

✌ Brad Frost - Google+ - I suck at git/github and need to get a lot better. I asked…:

Post date: 2012-05-02 - PublicI suck at git/github an

TV on the Radio - Second Song

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:55:58 -0400

TV on the Radio - Second Song

TV on the Radio - Keep Your Heart

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:55:55 -0400

TV on the Radio - Keep Your Heart

believermag: French Believers! We’re pleased to announce the...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:15:03 -0400

believermag:

French Believers! We’re pleased to announce the publication of Le Believer by the wonderful Inculte Editions. Le Believer #01 features interviews with Don DeLillo, Steve Carrell, and Daniel Clowes, with essays by Zadie Smith, Stephen Elliott, Porter Fox, and more! Le Believer will be published quarterly and has been called “un mook”, a small ufo-like hybrid of a book and magazine.

"Readability is looking for a talented community support person to help us manage our passionate,..."

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:18:09 -0400

“Readability is looking for a talented community support person to help us manage our passionate, growing userbase of readers, publishers, and developers. And where better to look than to our…”

- Readability needs help with Community Support. Interested? http://bit.ly/IyTI51

"The Weight We had been on a long journey but I couldn’t see it anywhere. There’s a stage in a..."

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:11:13 -0400

“The Weight We had been on a long journey but I couldn’t see it anywhere. There’s a stage in a product cycle where you know it’s going to ship. Where you can see the end. It’s right…”

- The Digital Physical http://bit.ly/JF1ucG

"Image: Alexandre Singh, collage from Assembly Instructions (Tangential Logick), 2009The metaphor of..."

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:11:51 -0400

“Image: Alexandre Singh, collage from Assembly Instructions (Tangential Logick), 2009The metaphor of the brain as a database (or, if you prefer, the database as a brain) flatters and anthropomorphizes…”

- Illuminated Manuscripts http://bit.ly/IcbKdg