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Goodbye to the King of the Invisible
Dennis Ritchie has died. Ritchie was the Bell Labs Researcher who invented the C programmer language and teamed with colleague Ken Thompson to build Unix. Fellow Bell Labs alumnus Rob Pike described...
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The New and Improved Google Reader! Slightly Dingy and Now with Dark Patterns!
I use Facebook, but was not one of those people who grumbled about the latest changes. I accept that technology is about looking forward, convergence makes sense in many cases, and that improving the...
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Orientation Ratio
Folks well into Apple mobile development may have already run across Adam Lisagor’s take on the iPad’s aspect ratio. If not, here it is. To elaborate a little, the visualization points to more than...
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I’d Rather Have a Rocket Car
In the old days the future was about rocket cars. Now it’s about touch screens. This Microsoft production is one of the vision videos that’s been making the rounds: It’s cool, but also cold. And it’s...
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HTML Sunrise
Paul Irish AND Divya Manian have teamed up to create a superb visual explanation that shows browser support for HTML5 and CSS3. Rolling over each spoke of the sunrise (to mix a metaphor) reveals the...
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What’s This Mobile Thing For, Again?
With more and more folks jumping on the smartphone bandwagon, and clients asking for mobile as part of their redesign projects, it’s not unusual to see articles on how to make your site mobile, or the...
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The Cost of Research
As the rumble between intellectual property and free speech advances into the ring drawn by SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act), Michael B. Eisen draws attention to a fight on the undercard. Eisen,...
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SOPA Day
Wikipedia (English) is blacked out. Wikipedia is just one of many. Other sites, including Google, are acknowledging the protest. Kirby Ferguson explains. Update: This is off-topic for this blog, but it...
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Big Data in the House
The New York Times Sunday Review highlights Big Data. Big Data is that rapidly backfilling reservoir of web analytics and real-world sensor data. It is also a million rivulets of meandering incident,...
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Eulogy for a Dinosaur
The venerable Encyclopedia Britannica has ceased print publication: In an acknowledgment of the realities of the digital age — and of competition from the Web site Wikipedia — Encyclopaedia Britannica...
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