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Great resource for printable cheatsheets for commonly-used WordPress variables and syntax. Great tool for site builders.
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Second set of resources for WordPress programmers for one-sheet references to syntax and other tools.
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Completely nerdly set of YouTube videos displaying Mario World levels hacked to run Rube Goldberg-style layouts.
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Think about how neat this idea is. Then, think about what it would be like if the government decided to install one of these detectors at every sewage entry point (read: every house) on your block. Scary.
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Another completely awesome coder shirt design from ThinkGeek. Wrote this on my office whiteboard as soon as I saw it this morning.
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It’s not MC Hawking, but it’s about as good and decidedly retro. Nice shirt.
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Great article on the font smoothing differences between Windows and Mac OS, continuing George Ou’s little tempest in a teapot.
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A Bay Area news report about the Silicon Valley office sport now known as Faceball. I’ve pointed it out here before. Why can’t more places be like this?
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Turn a Pilot G2 into a Mont Blanc catrdridged oen with a simple operation. I may give this a shot.
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Some presentation howto pointers from Merlin Mann; includes several links to other articles on the subject that are quite good and worthwhile reads. Keep the slides short, people!
Author Archives: Ryan Markel
links for 2007-08-23
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Unbelievable article about how Bungie has been calbrating the right amount of “fun” factor into Halo 3 and has learned from the mistakes of their past. Great article from a psychological and a design perspective.
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Neat-o utility that syncs two-way between iCal and Google Calendar. Would be nice to have the cross-platforminess of Google with the nice interface and utilty of iCal.
links for 2007-08-22
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Nice little battery of tutorials on how to get the most out of theming WordPress. Covers a range of topics from layout to PHP calls to typography with CSS.
–Arthur Koestler
“The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.”
links for 2007-08-21
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You can stop watching after you see Limozeen’s concert rider. It’s all downhill from there.
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Man, what? Please explain to me what kind of sense this makes in any universe.
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More information on one of the weirdest corporate moves in a while coming out of Hollywood. Follow the money, please.
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I’ll have more to say about this for sure, but the whole thing should be seen as a black eye on the NFL and their policies, and more decisive action should be taken by the league and by the Falcons. This is inexcusable.
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I’m surprised I didn’t link to this earlier. Grab an IP or range of IPs, and see what edits have been made to Wikipedia from that location. This is tailor-made for system administrators. (Hint over.)
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Return fire! Fox reveals that it still supports Blu-Ray and plans on releasing a decent grouping of titles before the end of the year.
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Ever wonder why designers repeatedly choose to use Macs instead of PCs for their uses? I doubt this is the primary reason, but it does a good job of demonstrating the basic differences in font rendering and scaling between the two operating systems.
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The response from the currently-winning camp to the Paramount/DreamWorks HD-DVD weirdness. I don’t understand this at all.
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Early basics on how to theme WordPress for your own site. There’s some pointers here that I’m paying very close attention to right now.
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Another tutorial, this time on working with WordPress calls to display posts and basics on how to manage the database query loop.
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