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I'm Jason Long from Black Ant Media and these are some of the things I'm finding interesting from the world of web development, design, UI concepts, and anything else.

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June 29
If you’ve got several hours with nothing else to do, try working you way through the 1200+ entries in the Summer ‘09 Mozilla Labs Design Challenge. The contest is for coming up with a better browser tab design/concept. Sounds cool, but I think I’ll wait for the winner or a finalist list.
If you’ve got several hours with nothing else to do, try working you way through the 1200+ entries in the Summer ‘09 Mozilla Labs Design Challenge. The contest is for coming up with a better browser tab design/concept. Sounds cool, but I think I’ll wait for the winner or a finalist list.
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June 24
Steven Frank’s awesome iPhone unboxing parody.
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June 23
The Nike Experiment: How the Shoe Giant Unleashed the Power of Personal Metrics Nice Wired piece on the Nike+ revolution - there’s even a quote from Panic’s Cabel Sasser. A few years ago, I was pretty serious about cycling and I think it’s safe to say that most cyclists are tech/gear geeks. I’ve been running lately instead and I’m definitely in the minority in terms of loving charts, graphs, tracking average heart rates, mileage, etc. I need that constant feedback showing my improvements. I just bought a Garmin Forerunner today so I can amp up my exercise geekery by an order of magnitude - look out!
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June 19
Deploying ExpressionEngine from GitHub with Capistrano Dan Benjamin writes another top-notch tutorial, this time helping to plug a gaping hole in a serious EE workflow. Speaking of EE, it looks like 2.0 will finally be seeing the light of day on June 30th.
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June 11
A nice, lightweight (5.8Kb !) jQuery library that implements tabs, tooltips, overlays, a carousel effect and more.
A nice, lightweight (5.8Kb !) jQuery library that implements tabs, tooltips, overlays, a carousel effect and more.
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June 5
Interesting interview with the team at OOOii about how they use Flash and After Effects on movies like Star Trek, Minority Report, The Island, etc.
Interesting interview with the team at OOOii about how they use Flash and After Effects on movies like Star Trek, Minority Report, The Island, etc.
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June 4
RoamBi - a slick looking data viz app for the iPhone.
RoamBi - a slick looking data viz app for the iPhone.
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June 3
Google I/O Videos Catch the sessions from last week’s conference.
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June 1
Slashfilm has a great collection of easter eggs in Pixar’s Up. I thought the movie was awesome as well, but that’s no surprise - I’ve never met a Pixar flick I didn’t like.
Slashfilm has a great collection of easter eggs in Pixar’s Up. I thought the movie was awesome as well, but that’s no surprise - I’ve never met a Pixar flick I didn’t like.
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The site for Infinite Summer is now live. If you haven’t heard of this, it’s a sort of book club for David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. The reading starts on June 21st and the idea is to read 7 pages per day 75 pages per week and to complete the tome on September 22nd. I’ve read all of DFW’s non-fiction and I got through about 350 pages of IJ several years back. I think I’m going to give this a try and see if I can get through the entire thing.

The site for Infinite Summer is now live. If you haven’t heard of this, it’s a sort of book club for David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. The reading starts on June 21st and the idea is to read 7 pages per day 75 pages per week and to complete the tome on September 22nd.

I’ve read all of DFW’s non-fiction and I got through about 350 pages of IJ several years back. I think I’m going to give this a try and see if I can get through the entire thing.

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