Local Ann Arbor band My Dear Disco has changed their name to Ella Riot (read more about it here), and this is their first new song/video under that name. It’s a great song, a crazy video (shades of OKGo), and has some fun shots of downtown A2.
These folks are my neighbors, kitty-corner across the street. I wish I knew them better than I do, since they’re pretty damn good.
First, from Harry Roberts, a clean way to do that loverly ribbon thing that has been so popular the last few years. Uses images, but the markup is muy simple. Also links to a pure-html+css way of accomplishing same but involves a lot of HTML5 wrappage.
Second, from Nicholas Gallagher, we have an overview of creating different, subtle effects with drop shadows, from curled corners to single horizontal folds.
Last, from Dustin Cartwright, we have a little toy keyboard. It’s not useful, but it sure is cool.
Thanks, fellas!
Mostly so I don’t forget. But if you’re using the dev builds of SublimeText2—and why shouldn’t you be?—you might derive value from them, too. Or point out things to me, more like.
— Steve Jobs, unexpectedly hosting his company’s introduction of the iPad2. What was most interesting to me, beyond this statement, was his repeated deployment of the phrase “Post-PC”. I’m excited to make that move.
So, I had previously combined all of my various shell hackery and pimpage into a collection of files loaded by my ~/.profile script. I recently discovered bash-it, a totally groovy theme-based shell “framework”, and in installing it on my personal machine I had to also discover the difference between ~/.profile and ~/.bash_profile—bash-it is wired to use .bash_profile by default.
Apparently, your shell will use whichever of ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile it encounters first… and given that it looks at things in alphabetical order, it will prefer the .bash_profile. It doesn’t load both. So if you’re like me, and added a bunch of stuff to your .profile file, you’ll have to source the .profile in your .bash_profile if and when you create one.
Just a quick tip… and another shout-out to bash-it. My prompt is now all kinds of pimp’d: shows me the source-control status of the current folder and my current rvm ruby and gemset. Nice!
Easy, clean plugin that allows you to trigger events based on the user’s scrolling activity on your page. Very nice.
I am a huge fan of the increased usability of the documents curated by our various standards groups. Nice work, Ben Schwartz!
Dead Island Trailer. Wow, it’s… everything @daringfireball said it was going to be: haunting, brutal, moving. All in a game trailer.
This is a window that popped up when attempting to purchase an eBook directly from Penguin. Holy hell, if you need that wall of text as a disclaimer you’re doing digital media wrong. Just let me buy something that will work with my gear, people.
This is pretty impressive work, and will open the doors to all kinds of folks to play with creating interactive online maps. Very nice. It’s a bit of a chore to install right now, but it’s still “in progress”. (Oh, and it is built on nodejs. Nice.)
