This family in japan owns a pet king penguin, and they’ve trained it so that it will walk all the way to the fish market with its little backpack to get fish everyday. it’s super cute… via @jina
Recent Distractions
Host Your Own Awful Party For Windows 7
“Clearly meant to have a lively, “fun” feel, the painful video is so over-the-top bad we thought it first it must be a hoax. But Microsoft’s in-house blogger has been touting these events, which are being organized by an apparently well-established marketing company that specializes in getting people to shill products to their friends at sketchy “house parties.” Said marketing company owns the YouTube channel where this video appeared.”
Microformats DevCamp
This will be the first ever microformatsDevCamp. This is an event for authors, designers, publishers, developers and engineers building pages, sites, and tools with microformats, is just around the corner, at Automattic in San Francisco.
This is a fantastic opportunity to come out and mingle with other microformatters, learn what it’s all about and share your ideas. Come out and meet the Object Adjective team. Looking forward to seeing you there.
ufbday4 Recap
First and foremost, thanks to everyone who made it out to the Microformats 4 Year Birthday Bash in San Francisco. It was a huge success and it was great to see you all, new faces and old. And a really big thanks to the other sponsors of the event, Ribbit and Spinn3r.
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Bookmarks
- Opera Logo with CSS
Great demonstration of CSS3. David Desandro recreates the Opera logo, entirely out of CSS and provides a great example of elliptical border radius. - PopSci Archives
137-year archive for free browsing. Each issue appears just as it did at its original time of publication, complete with period advertisements. - 2010: Living In the Future
Back when I was a boy, I bought a children's book at my town's library book sale called "2010: Living in the Future" by Geoffrey Hoyle. - Layers: Screen Capture for Mac. PSD Compatible.
Layers captures every window, every palette, every menu and status bar icon, every icon on the Desktop, and saves them in editable Photoshop layers. - iPad Application Design
Excellent tips and advice for designing touch experiences for the iPad. - Typeface made from Franz Kafka's handwriting
'nough said. Gorgeous typeface. - kyle van horn dot com
Fine letterpress printing - Showcase of Great Web App Interfaces
The web applications that were selected to be part of this showcase are based on usability, simplicity, colors and overall layout. - Type Directors Club
We are an international organization for all people who are devoted to excellence in typography, both in print and on screen. - 441 – Sense of POPOS: Secret Spaces of San Francisco « Strange Maps
Scattered across the centre of San Francisco are almost seventy semi-secret spaces, privately owned but open to the public.
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