February 2009
16 posts
No Line On the Horizon →
U2’s head-spinning 12th studio album, takes new experimental tangents and redefines the band yet again
Feb 28th
Sunday Browsing with the NYT “article skimmer” →
Neat little web app that lets you skim the paper.
Feb 19th
The president’s new helicopters →
The Pentagon is building new helicopters for the office of the president. And they’re hugely expensive, even in “government dollars.”
Feb 17th
Video: Zim’s food crisis →
From the Al Jazeera television network: Aid agencies warn that more people in Zimbabwe people will have to rely on food handouts as an acute shortage of food persists.
Feb 16th
Dubai’s economy is free-falling, maybe →
Maybe because new laws prohibit media outlets from reporting on the crisis.
Feb 13th
Giving up on Twitter →
Why I’m out.
Feb 12th
Debris Spews Into Space in Collision of Satellites →
For decades, space experts have warned of orbits around the planet growing so crowded that two satellites might one day slam into one another, producing swarms of treacherous debris.
Feb 12th
ZimFest 2009 comes to Boulder, Colo →
ZimFest in Boulder this summer!
Feb 11th
Mugabe Foe Sworn In as Zimbabwe Prime Minister →
Big-ish news out of Zim: After months of violence, negotiation, pressure and reluctant compromise, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was sworn in on Wednesday as the prime minister of a government…
Feb 11th
Bushfires in Victoria, Australia →
Photography of deadly Australian bush fires.
Feb 11th
The Sopranos, Uncensored →
A near-thirty minute video on Vimeo: “This is every single curse, from every single episode of the sopranos, ever.” (via)
Feb 11th
Rich Animation Using CSS in WebKit →
New CSS methods for animating elements.
Feb 11th
Custom Buttons →
Doug Bowman’s tale of the new buttons at Google: Until some future version of HTML gives us new native controls to use in a browser, at Google, we’ve been playing and experimenting with controls we…
Feb 10th
A better lipsum generator →
The Blind Text Generator: Handy options in this dummy text generator, including number of words or characters, specifying pixel width, number of paragraphs (with tags), etc. (via SimpleBits)
Feb 5th
Soon, Majority of Web Users Will No Longer Use IE →
I think we all know its inevitable, but this is just awesome. (thanks, Tim)
Feb 3rd
Zimbabwe sheds 12 more zeros →
The announcement will see Z$1 trillion reduced to Z$1 (US$0.33).
Feb 3rd