wTNINAMZo6702wmyhh6sFXUp samreich: Dear Tumblr, Thanks for including me in your Staff Picks section. In return, here’s original AOL voiceover artist El Edwards doing custom sounds for Tumblr. I hope you can include them in version 4. Thanks again, Sam
March 2008
Monthly Archive
Mar 5
2008
∞ Could an unemployed psychologist win the Netflix challenge? It seems to me that incorporating psychology into a recommendation engine would definitely improve it. (via Slashdot)
We Can’t All Be Tolkien…
I have always figured that Tolkein was the exception:
“Now, I realize this sort of de-romanticizes my world building process: those of you who imagine I have a detailed bible of the entire history and ethnography of the OMW universe will be undoubtedly disappointed to learn that I mostly just make stuff about that universe, as needed, as I go along. But what can I say. We can’t all be Tolkien and develop three different languages and five thousand years of history for our worlds before we feel sufficiently comfortable to tell a story in the place. Nor, really, would I want to be: That’s just too much effort.”
—John Scalzi: Things I Don’t Know About My Own Universe
Mar 4
2008
∞ Are table based layouts the next big thing? With CSS tables being included in IE 8, it seems to be an idea whose time may come. (via Simon Willison)
∞ i love typography: A Guide to Web Typography. Four things to remember to really make web typography stand out.
∞ Natalie Jost shares a tip for automatically inserting a photo and caption into posts using wordpress. I will be using a similar technique for my photoblog.