This is really, really awesome, and really, really significant. Replace IE’s rendering engine with WebKit via one simple plug-in.
Great article on the ins and outs of three dimensional imagery. Still doesn’t change my opinion that well-shot conventional cinematography is more impressive than the novelty that is Avatar.
This is one of the most useful articles I’ve read in a long time. As we work on focusing, strengthening, and simplifying Newsvine, the concepts discussed by Lukas ring true. “Saying no” has never been a strong suit of mine. It’s very helpful to remember how important of a quality it is. (via fullstopinteractive)
Newly released video of the space shuttle Challenger disaster: It was 24 years ago, I was in 5th grade, but I remember it like it was yesterday. School was stopped immediately and they wheeled out televisions in every classroom for us to watch the news footage. It’s great that this video has been released, but holy crap, how do you tuck something that away for two decades???
New ways of searching are almost never as useful as old ways of searching. Spezify is pretty awesome though. It’s a visually interesting, never-ending, horizontally and vertically scrollable, topic explorer. I don’t think I’d use it for digging deep on anything, but to get a quick visually rich sampling of a topic, it’s quite fun (via tiff, a long time ago actually, over email).
Reminds me of my favorite logo design advice: “Never waste a stroke”. (via gruber)
The best hockey team intro ever: Or as Tyler says “The Alaska Nanooks are my new favorite hockey team”.
Rachel’s right, this is the best thing ever. At least, once you get the joke. Being the old fart that I am, I had no idea why this was funny until I spent about 30 seconds figuring out what a Team Jacob was and and then it was only a matter of time before, well… it would seem this poor girl confused Pat Robertson, douchebag supreme, with teen heartthrob and Twilight “star” Robert Pattinson.
Interesting. I just assumed “switching to Team Jacob” meant converting to judaism.
I have no idea if these guys are any good or not, but this is the best example of a design agency site I’ve seen in a long time. It’s clean, extremely readable, very well-written, friendly, free of fluff and hyperbole, and contains clear calls to action. If you own your own agency and are trying to drum up work, you could learn a lot from how these guys present themselves. (via CSS Beauty)
Avatar: The Making of the Bootleg Makes me want to skip the whole 3D thing and support the Canal Street cinematographer’s guild.
According to Frank W. Sweet, it all goes back to cereal.
Very thorough writeup. It’s almost time to walk sIFR peacefully into the sunset. (via oxygensatchel)
A great HDR Tutorial from Wolfgang Bartleme (aka “The Austrian Wolf”). One of these days, I’m going to start shooting this way… probably after it’s an automatic function of the camera though.
Where Should I Eat? Fast Food Edition: A nice flowchart. Good to see Jack-In-The-Box getting some props. Pretty tough on Arby’s though!
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I don’t get it.
If you’re going to make IE render like Chrome (or Webkit), why not just install Chrome?
Jeff: Because my mom doesn’t know how to install Chrome, doesn’t know what Chrome is, and doesn’t really even want to know. She does know how to click “Ok” on a plug-in installation dialog box though.
Your mom uses Windows? ;)
It’s unlikely that “your mom” would discover that plug-in without you telling her about it either. So my point is that those that are oblivious, are ignorant, don’t care, etc. would have to have someone like yourself who does care show them what to do (or do it for them). And chances are you’ve done that a long time ago.
Good point, she doesn’t :). But other moms do.
I don’t think you are understanding how this plug-in is delivered. You embed the ActiveX control in your page, just like you would with Flash, and visitors are prompted — just like Flash — to click OK and have it quickly installed. There is a reason why Flash install and upgrade rates are so high (typically, 14 month after release, over 90% of computers have the newest version installed)… it’s because of how seamless it is. Moms don’t need to know about any plug-in or where it is… they just need to click OK, as they do all the time.
T-shirt idea: “Mom, can I skateboard on the dining room table? Click [YES]“