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• Blue marble mortar and pestle
• iPhone programming book
• Black pants I bought for my mother's funeral on the 29th
• Photo album
• Super Mario Wii
• Bill Bisset book
• Wii classic controller
• Chocolates
• Young Avengers graphic novels x2
• Empty Computer box and manuals

Cloud is an acclaimed action flight game that allows players to realize their life long dreams of imaginative flight, manipulating clouds and creating weather. "A childhood dream simulator" is how many of its fans describe it. It is about a kid kept in the hospital daydreaming himself fly in the sky, making shapes out of clouds and eventually use rain to clean the world. The game was designed to evoke everyone’s fantasy about clouds and flight, and their best wishes towards the nature. The game is completed as a USC game innovation lab research project. It had over 500,000 downloads over the internet. And triggered a heated debate of whether video game is art.

You must disable "mouse pointer integration" to play cloud in a Windows XP operating system inside Virtual Box. And be sure to give the VM as much video memory as possible, enable acceleration and all the other bits and bobs. It's a five minute setup (after installing XP and VB) and totally worth it.

This sucks. When you start typing into a textarea field Safari automatically zooms into the field, obscuring everything else. And it displays the textarea field too wide, so the text is constantly scrolling left and right. Icky. And all the formatting options are off of the screen because of the stupid autoszoom.

• Elliott Kember dot Com

• Lightening Backgrounds in Lightroom
• Tracy Chapman - Official Website
  Tracy Chapman's website - the splash page is a giant colouring book. Awesome idea, but it's all flash, and plays music automatically.
• Of Tablets, Holy Writ, & Holy Grails | Bookfuturism
• On Formspring.me, Anyone Can Ask You Anything. And You’ll Love It.
  I think I should look into this or fun and fancy.
• WWW2010 – Raleigh: About
  I wonder if I can make this conference.
• WebFinger | BitWorking | Joe Gregorio
  Interesting use of web tech to broadcast services.

• 37 Fresh jQuery Image And Gallery Display Solutions | NETTED IT! - The Net's Best In One Place

• The Brick Testament

• Title Tag Crucial in Boosting your Search Rankings | Business Blogs
  "The title tag of your webpage is the one major on-page element that can really make a difference to your search engine rankings." From the "well duh!" side of the Internet.
  (tags: html, google)

• Alex Waterhouse-Hayward
• Official Google Blog: A new approach to China
  These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered--combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web--have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China. We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China.
  (tags: google politics business gmail)
• The finger, improved: Pogo Stylus answers iPhone's unasked question -- Engadget Mobile
  We kinda thought that the iPhone's interface was designed to be used and mastered without so much as a fleeting moment of longing for a pointing implement -- once you get past the keyboard's growing pains, anyway -- but we suppose the automatic mental association between touchscreens and styli can be a tough one to break. Enter Ten One Design's meticulously engineered $24.95 Pogo Stylus, which the firm says functions "like a fingertip" to integrate seamlessly with the finger-friendly UI used throughout the iPhone and iPod touch. Imagine that!
• Google I/O 2010
  May 19-20, 2010 Moscone West, San Francisco

  Google I/O brings together thousands of developers for two days of deep technical content, focused on building the next generation of web, mobile, and enterprise applications with Google and open web technologies such as Android, Google Chrome, Google APIs, Google Web Toolkit, App Engine, and more.

  
  
  
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  Basics of What Makes a Great Photograph
  
  
  Every image needs a basic structure. Without an underlying structure, it is just another boring photo. Every image needs strong underlying compositional order so that it grabs the eye from a hundred feet away. If it can't grab the eye from a distance, it will never be an interesting photo, regardless of how many fine details it might have. Details don't matter if there's no story behind it.
  
  
  
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  Make the Most of Chrome with These 13 Excellent Extensions - Chrome Extensions - Lifehacker
  
  
  Shortly after Google Chrome's Extensions gallery opened, we rounded up 18 worthy downloads. Now that Chrome's official add-on market has matured a bit, we've dug up more productive, annoyance-fixing, feature-adding extensions that you should consider adding to your collection.
  
  
  (tags: google chrome plugins)
  
  

• YouTube - Volodos plays Turkish March（Mozart,trans.by Volodos）
  Arcadi Volodos plays his own famous transcription of Mozart's Turkish March~from documentary DVD！
• Unrepentant » Blog Archive » Standards Are Not Just Stuff and Nonesense
  One thing that all the cutting edge designers and boutique shops keep forgetting is that this wonderful thing we know as the ‘web’ (complete with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and all the newly emerging goodies of HTML5) is also used in the most mundane of ways, on web sites that simply need to communicate information to the end user without being a showcase of CSS mastery, Ajaxian trickery or the cutting edge coding examples of <canvas>, <video>, etc., etc.
• Accessible HTML5 Video with JavaScripted captions - Opera Developer Community
  It’s great that HTML5 allows us to embed video into web pages that can then be displayed directly by browsers, without having to rely on third-party plugins. In the Opera 10.5 pre-alpha, this functionality has been added to Opera (on Windows and Linux; the Mac build is in development.)

  The elephant in the corner regarding all video — whether it be HTML5 or proprietary — is accessibility. What are conscientious developers to do to provide textual alternatives for those who can’t access the contents of the video? In HTML5 there isn’t an alt attribute on the video element as there is on img, but you can add "fallback content" between the tags like this:

  
  
  

• jQuery 1.4 Released – The 14 Days of jQuery
  In celebration of jQuery’s 4th birthday, the jQuery team is pleased to release the latest major release of the jQuery JavaScript library! A lot of coding, testing, and documenting has gone into this release, and we’re really quite proud of it.
• Annotated Zotero Group Bibliography Assignment « Brian Croxall
  In this semester’s Reading Media and Technology in Contemporary Literature and Theory course (I know, it’s an awful name), I have decided to ask my students to contribute to a group Zotero library. This has the advantage of teaching them a very useful tool as well as allowing us to share our knowledge with one another.

• First Day with Ubuntu at the Office | gaarai.com
• SSH Tutorial for Ubuntu Linux | gaarai.com
• mezzoblue § Illustrator to HTML5's Canvas
  So to start, from Illustrator (or any other vector editing application capable of doing so) export your artwork to SVG. You’ll find the SVG option in the Save As / Save a Copy dialog, and I’ve found the SVG profile you choose doesn’t really make much of a difference (though for the sake of argument I’ve been using 1.1).
• mezzoblue § Isolation
  For the next time you’re handed a less-than-ideal source image, here are a few of my tricks for isolating the part of the file I want to work with in Photoshop.
• Small Biz Social Media Series: Twitterfeed Tutorial | Kim Werker
  Twitterfeed is a free service that automatically posts a tweet to your Twitter stream when an RSS feed of your choice is updated.

• Three Plants that Give You Better Indoor Air - Plants - Lifehacker
  Kamal Meattle used three just three indoor plant species to increase oxygen, filter air, and boost general health at a a New Delhi business park. You too can use them to freshen your indoor space.

• Welcome to Gernot Katzer's Spice Pages
  On these pages, I present solid information on (currently) 117 different spice plants. Emphasis is on their usage in ethnic cuisines, particularly in Asia; furthermore, I discuss their history, chemical constituents, and the etymology of their names. Last but not least, there are numerous photos featuring the live plants or the dried spices.

• innerHTML for Mozilla (WebFX)
• Javascript properties | accessors | getter / setter « The Unwashed Meme
  Getter and setter functions are nice for data hiding, and even nicer when you can use them invisibly like plain data.

  I should have been using this a long time ago.

  
  
  (tags: javascript web)
  
  
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  Java Build Tools: Ant vs. Maven
  
  
  Because you never, ever, under any circumstances want to use Maven!
  
  
  

$frequencyIndicator = ($resultCount * $count) + $i++;

Quick: does $i++ return $i before or after incrementing? You shouldn't need to look crap like that up while reading code. Also, does ++ have a higher precedence than +?

• CoffeeGeek - Using a Siphon Coffee Maker
  A vacuum coffee maker works on the principle of expansion and contraction of gases - actually one gas, water vapour - is what allows the device to brew a full infusion style of coffee and filter the grounds efficiently, leaving a generally clean, pristine cup.

• The 'true story' of how Dr. King kept Uhura on Star Trek | SCI FI Wire
  Nichelle, for the first time, not only our little children and people can look on and see themselves, but people who don't look like us, people who don't look like us, from all over the world, for the first time, the first time on television, they can see us, as we should be!
  (tags: startrek, mlk uhura history startrek)
• Interoperable Annotation: Perspectives from the Open Annotation Collaboration on Vimeo

• The Setup

• 27 Resources to Open Up a Whole New Photography 2.0 World
  Ok, so you own a digital camera and you’ve taken more shots then you can count, and you’ve filled up more space on your hard drive than you have free.
• Make your own mossarium! Boing Boing
  Moss is awesome! And simple to keep alive even if you travel.

  Moss had its heyday back at the turn of the last century when both the US and the UK had their own bryological societies and people built mosseries into their homes where they could enjoy the greenery year round. It's simple to build a mini-mossery, or mossarium, in your own home.

  
  
  
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  A List Apart: Articles: Using SVG For Flexible, Scalable, and Fun Backgrounds, Part I
  
  
  Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) consist of circles, rectangles, and paths created in XML and combined into drawings on web pages. You can apply solid colors, gradients, and a sophisticated number of filters to SVG—although not all browsers implement all filter types. You can incorporate text, as well as images, and you can copy and clone your SVG as much as you want. Mostly, we use SVG for graphics programs, charts, illustrations, or animations. However, we can incorporate SVG into a site’s overall design—it’s a wonderfully versatile, web design capability that’s fun to use. In this introductory article, I’ll cover some important considerations for working with SVG, including browser support and accessibility. Read Part II to learn how to find and adapt SVG you can find online, or how to create your own SVG drawings and add them to your web pages
  
  
  

• Panopticlick
  Panopticlick tests your browser to see how unique it is based on the information it will share with sites it visits. Click below and you will be given a uniqueness score, letting you see how easily identifiable you might be as you surf the web.
• Official Google Blog: Unicode nearing 50% of the web
  About 18 months ago, we published a graph showing that Unicode on the web had just exceeded all other encodings of text on the web. The growth since then has been even more dramatic.