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Making Sense of Color Codes [Nettuts+]
HTML color codes are a common and crucial piece of modern web design. While most sites nowadays are designed largely in part with images, colors are particularly important when you need to come up with a color hex value on the fly while coding. In this guide, we will learn the fundamentals behind color coding, ultimately providing you the power to come up with colors without the use of a color picker.
How to Take Extraordinary Photographs, Part 2: Composition
I think that most “rules” of photographic composition are followed to rigidly, but this well-written article does have a lot of good points, especially those explaining the reasoning behind some of…
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Posted: 04 Feb 2010 10:00 AM PST
[the] “scaly-foot gastropod has its own tricks. To fight back, it long ago evolved a particularly cool defense structure: It takes the grains of iron sulfide floating in the water around it and incorporates it into the outer layer of its shell. ” I have to agree with the person who posted this: “Beyond awesome. This is Darwinian evolution mixed with, like, Burning Man.”
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Posted: 04 Feb 2010 08:04 AM PST
“Last December, the government of North Korea unexpectedly revalued its internal currency, the North Korean won, at a rate of 100-to-1 and capped the amounts that residents could exchange old currency at 300,000 won (approx. $90 U.S. on the black market). This effectively wiped out many peoples’ savings and killed the nascent market economy that had begun to emerge after a series of economic reforms starting in July, 2002.” North Korea sucks. Big time.
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Posted: 04 Feb 2010 05:57 AM PST
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Posted: 04 Feb 2010 04:47 AM PST
“While it can be argued that correlation does not imply causation, the trends revealed by these statistics, in relation to IQ, impoverishment, divorce, crime and political beliefs seem too consistent to refute.”
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War and Peace
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Posted: 03 Feb 2010 03:43 PM PST
“War and Peace is a one-button 2-minute game that replicates the major game mechanisms found in Civilization. As in Civilization, you have to choose carefully which technologies you research, when to build up your cities and when to be more aggressive, depending on which kind of victory you’re shooting for (conquest, domination, or spaceship). You just do it with a single button.”
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Posted: 03 Feb 2010 12:43 PM PST
“For those of us who grew up as weird kids in the 1980s, the work of Berkeley Breathed was as important as those twin eternal pillars of weird-kid-dom: Monty Python and Mad magazine. In a word: seminal. In two words: fucking seminal.”
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Posted: 03 Feb 2010 12:22 PM PST
“Spray-on liquid glass is transparent, non-toxic, and can protect virtually any surface against almost any damage from hazards such as water, UV radiation, dirt, heat, and bacterial infections. The coating is also flexible and breathable, which makes it suitable for use on an enormous array of products.”
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Posted: 03 Feb 2010 06:05 AM PST
Great article on the OV-10 Bronco aircraft…
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Posted: 02 Feb 2010 09:23 AM PST
“avoid misspellings or a bad turn of phrase with After the Deadline’s excellent grammar and spellcheck Firefox extension.” Use F7…
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Howto: Use Google to find MP3s [Raptor Rapture]
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Posted: 31 Jan 2010 09:26 AM PST
Not too effective, but could be useful as a bookmarklet…
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Posted: 31 Jan 2010 08:53 AM PST
“The Jedi lose the Clone Wars, bigtime. They not only don’t defeat the robot army, they are all killed. By their OWN TROOPS. Consider that for a moment: this is a show for children about a war which will end with the good guys getting shot in the back by their own soldiers. The fact that a lot of the young fans might not know that doesn’t make it better; arguably, it makes it worse.”
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Posted: 31 Jan 2010 08:49 AM PST
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Posted: 31 Jan 2010 06:20 AM PST
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Posted: 30 Jan 2010 10:19 AM PST
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Posted: 30 Jan 2010 10:12 AM PST
“Is your browser configuration rare or unique? If so, web sites may be able to track you, even if you limit or disable cookies.” My browser “appears to be unique among the 324,315 tested so far.” Figures…
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Posted: 29 Jan 2010 07:39 PM PST
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Posted: 29 Jan 2010 07:28 PM PST
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Posted: 29 Jan 2010 07:23 PM PST
Cliff Chiang recreated some classic ‘80s album covers with comic book superheroes. Brilliant!
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Posted: 29 Jan 2010 06:59 PM PST
“In this project, you’ll find WanderingBert (That’s me!) endeavouring to draw as many batman villains as possible. Even the obscure and mostly unknown ones. And even the dumb ones that may look interesting but suck as actual villains. Even them.”
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Selleck Waterfall Sandwich
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Posted: 29 Jan 2010 11:30 AM PST
I don’t think I’m nearly drunk enough to appreciate this blog…
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Posted: 29 Jan 2010 09:27 AM PST
Wow.
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Posted: 29 Jan 2010 06:14 AM PST
Asshat.
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Posted: 29 Jan 2010 05:36 AM PST
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Posted: 29 Jan 2010 04:17 AM PST
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Posted: 28 Jan 2010 06:18 PM PST
Hilarious.
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“The Persistence of Star Wars” by Salvador Dali is an awesome piece of “art.” 😉
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Posted: 28 Jan 2010 03:45 PM PST
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Posted: 28 Jan 2010 03:35 PM PST
Madonna looks remarkably like Johnny Depp’s portrayal of the Mad Hatter… 🙂
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Posted: 28 Jan 2010 12:28 PM PST
Interesting history behind it…
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Posted: 28 Jan 2010 10:47 AM PST
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Posted: 28 Jan 2010 08:50 AM PST
The EFF released this tool to demonstrate that your “browser footprint” can easily uniquely identify you, even if you employ privacy tools like Incognito browsing (Google Chrome) or Private Browsing (Mozilla Firefox). I don’t know if Microsoft IE has something analogous or not…
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Posted: 28 Jan 2010 08:47 AM PST
Don’t piss off Mark Twain.
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Posted: 28 Jan 2010 06:34 AM PST
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Posted: 28 Jan 2010 05:46 AM PST
I think I am guilty of occasional bouts of cenosillicaphobia… 😉
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Posted: 28 Jan 2010 05:16 AM PST
“Here’s the Top 20 movies of all time … by number of tickets sold”
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Posted: 28 Jan 2010 05:06 AM PST
Didn’t see this coming… 😉
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Posted: 28 Jan 2010 05:05 AM PST
The iPad looks pretty cool to me, but this post brings up some good points…
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Posted: 27 Jan 2010 12:14 PM PST
“At the root of this idea is overwhelming recent evidence for horizontal gene transfer – in which organisms acquire genetic material ‘horizontally’ from other organisms around them, rather than vertically from their parents or ancestors. The donor organisms may not even be the same species. This mechanism is already known to play a huge role in the evolution of microbial genomes, but its consequences have hardly been explored. According to Woese and Goldenfeld, they are profound, and horizontal gene transfer alters the evolutionary process itself. Since micro-organisms represented most of life on Earth for most of the time that life has existed – billions of years, in fact – the most ancient and prevalent form of evolution probably wasn’t Darwinian at all…”
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Posted: 27 Jan 2010 05:45 AM PST
“Firefox 3.6 has yet another secret feature that could significantly improve your web browsing on Windows: scroll acceleration.” You need to change two values in about:config, and it seems to work pretty well…
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