October 2010
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Vaporize Any Website →
Erik Rothoff put together a simple bookmarklet that turns any website into a astroid-like game where you and your spaceship take on ads, images and links. Try it out on the Tumblr dashboard, there’s plenty to shoot at there.
Remember: It’s cooler if you make your own sound effects.
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September 2010
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“A great company is more likely to die of indigestion from too much opportunity...”
– —Packard’s Law Via Delivering Happiness
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“The key skill of the innovator is error recovery not failure avoidance.”
– Randy Nelson, Pixar
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Lettering.js →
A useful jQuery plugin developed by Dave Rupert and Trent Walton for the forthcoming Operation Condor, that splits an HTML element into its component letters, words or lines for easier CSS styling. From the announcement:
We developed a really simple, lightweight, easy to use jQuery plugin, we’re calling it “Lettering Dot JS”, and we’re releasing it today for free over on Github. Let me demo it...
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“Innovation is almost insane by definition: most people view any truly innovative...”
– — Ben Horowitz
Via Signal vs. Noise
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WatchTokyo Timelapse - inter // states
Incredible time-lapse video of Tokyo at night by photographer Samuel Cockedey and music by Paul Frankland, aka Woob. Tokyo is certainly one of my favorite cities to visit—especially at night. I have some great memories going there years ago while working at 2Advanced to help them get the 2Advanced Japan office open.
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IRON MAN II "Molecule Discovery"
VFX Supervisor Jose Ortiz recently posted his contribution to IRON MAN II while working at Prologue in Los Angeles, CA.
The hologram needed to be an advanced piece of technology. This needed to be more refined than the original movie. This was a very challenging shot due to its design process. The molecule animation tied in the overall mood and feel. As the hologram look developed, it told...
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WatchLive Drill Day 2 - We Hit Water
On the second day of their September project the charity: water team hit water providing clean water to the Bayaka people for the first time. This well is the first of 210 projects that will be the result from all the contributions raised during the September campaign. Find out more about charity: water, their branding and transparency, and their September...
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“Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the...”
– George S. Patton
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How To Properly Apply for a Design Position →
Things that matter
Work quality in your portfolio
Are you a cool person
Do I know anyone who knows you
Things that don’t matter: your resume and school you graduated from—if you graduated.
Read the rest of the post by Mike Davidson
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WatchThe Big Idea is Less Ideas
Creative people have an incredible gift of being able to come up with ideas out of thin air, but often this creativity can kill all of our progress and ability to ship your ideas. Are you guilty of the idea generation trap?
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Building a Custom HTML5 Audio Player with jQuery →
Ben Bodien, who also masterminds a lot of the jQuery, HTML5, and CSS3 material for Authentic Jobs, explains what it took to make Tim Van Damme’s audio player design for The Box a reality.
Via Cameron Moll
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“Online video creators, advertisers and producers have an unhealthy fascination...”
– Screw Viral Videos. You Heard Me. Pass It On via Wired
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Idea Shaping →
One idea at a time. Preferably one you love.
The 26 year-old serial entrepreneurs Spencer Fry—creator of Carbonmade—shares his thoughts on focusing on one idea at a time and fighting off entrepreneur A.D.D.
Thankfully, there is a cure for “Entrepreneur’s A.D.D.” and that’s to fall in love with a single idea, what I like to call an “I’m in Love Idea”....
