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First album recommendation for 2011! Professor Elemental is an Explorer, Scientist and Exotic Dancer with a chimp butler called Geoffrey. It’s important to know this as Geoffrey gets referenced a lot in the course of the ‘The Indifference Engine’, his new album. Never in danger of becoming a novelty act, the Professor tackles various themes such as animal experimentation, exploration, sinister village fetes and invention in his ‘steampunk hip hop’ style. It’s all bloody good fun that helps cheer up these gloomy winter months. … Read the rest here

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If you’re not aware of it yet, HTML5 boilerplate is a fantastic starting point when creating a new site with its namesake markup language. But where Boilerplate focuses on basic document setup, external files, scripts, and bug fixes, it strikes me that it doesn’t do much hand-holding when it comes to basic document semantic patterns. As I’ve been working more and more HTML5 into my projects, I’m noticing a common template emerging. I’m sharing this as a minimum viable starting point since I’m still getting comfortable with the new semantics myself. Combined with Boilerplate, I’m feeling more and more confident that I’m beginning to use HTML5 properly. Don’t consider it canonical by any means, there’s likely a lot of room for improvement and it’s most certainly wrong in places… Read the rest here

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So here it is again: the track listing to my annual compilation, ‘The Best Songs I Bought In 2010 Ever’. I’m quite pleased with this year. It all seems to flow nicely, and there’s a bit more variation than previous years. The Best Songs I Bought In 2010 Ever Throwing Bones by The Phantom Band from the album Checkmate Savage A Rumour In Africa by Errors from the album Come Down With Me We Have Love by Hot Chip from the album One Life Stand Stress Position by Steve Mason from the album Boys Outside The Pact (I’ll Be Your Fever) by Villagers from the album Becoming A Jackal Treat Me Like Your Mother by The Dead Weather from the album Horehound It’s The Weekend by Jason Lytle from the album Yours Truly, The Commuter Sigourney Weaver by John Grant from the album Queen Of Denmark Suffragette Suffragette by Everything Everything from the album Man Alive Evening Of Swing (Has Been Cancelled) by Half Man Half Biscuit from the album CSI : Ambleside Last Broadcast by The Soundcarriers from the album Celeste White Table by Delta Spirit from the album History From Below Hallogallo by Neu! from the album Neu 1 Paradise Circus by Massive Attack from the album Heligoland All To All by Broken Social Scene from the album Forgiveness Rock Record Pure As Snow (Trails Of The Winter Storm) by Mono from the album Hymn To The Immortal Wind I realise I’ve missed out compilations for 2008 and 2009. These exist so for completeness I’ll post them up in due course. … Read the rest here

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On Wearing the iPod Nano as a Watch : John Gruber, referring to an article by Nilay Patel : Relevant today because I just got my TikTok band for the Nano , as my reward for backing the wildly-successful Kickstarter project . The TikTok is everything I could have hoped for: the Nano fits perfectly and the wristband is supple and comfortable. But for the reasons outlined by Patel above, the current Nano just isn’t ideal for use as a full-time wristwatch. Not promising for me, as I believe my TikTok is sitting in my business UPS mailbox as I write this. The good news? I ordered the TikTok before shelling out cash for a Nano, which I still haven’t done… Read the rest here

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On Wearing the iPod Nano as a Watch : John Gruber, referring to an article by Nilay Patel : Relevant today because I just got my TikTok band for the Nano , as my reward for backing the wildly-successful Kickstarter project . The TikTok is everything I could have hoped for: the Nano fits perfectly and the wristband is supple and comfortable. But for the reasons outlined by Patel above, the current Nano just isn’t ideal for use as a full-time wristwatch. Not promising for me, as I believe my TikTok is sitting in my business UPS mailbox as I write this. The good news? … Read the rest here

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“Forever, then, is defined by the presence of two unique but necessary components: the physical ability to survive one hundred years (give or take a few), and the presence of a caretaker.” … Read the rest here

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“Forever, then, is defined by the presence of two unique but necessary components: the physical ability to survive one hundred years (give or take a few), and the presence of a caretaker.” … Read the rest here

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On Not Hiring : As the owner of a job board, it might seem a little wonky linking to an article that argues against hiring. On the contrary, Gabriel Weinberg’s article doesn’t advocate a no-hire strategy, but instead suggests hiring for the right reasons and at the right time: One approach I like that some of my portfolio companies are taking is to tie hiring decision points to traction milestones, e.g. once we hit $xK/month in revenue we’ll do our next hire. The nice things about this approach are that it allows you to a) manage the burn rate issue and b) take a long time to plan your hire. … Read the rest here

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Looking through the various cycling magazines, the majority seemed to focus on either Mountain Biking, Racing or health and fitness. I wanted to read something general, that wasn’t too heavy on the Lycra. I finally plumped for one, which was OK, but it just left me feeling that I should’ve spent even more money on my bike. Fortunately, I found 2 magazines online that fitted the bill perfectly: Boneshaker and The Ride . Both are magazines that you would buy simply because they are lovely objects to behold – beautiful design, commissioned illustration and print quality (they smell gorgeous). … Read the rest here

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In the reset revision draft I posted Monday , I got tripped up by some last-minute changes and I’m going to think out loud (so to speak, as it were) about possible solutions. The problem is that the presence of a in the first rule means that focus outlines on hyperlinks are removed. Thus in commenting out the :focus rule I restored default focus styles to form elements, but not hyperlinks. This wasn’t a problem up until roughly a day before I published, but last-minute tinkering brought it back. I’d say that’ll teach me not to tinker, but I hate to lie. I’ve come up with the following solutions. … Read the rest here

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NYT: The Words of the Year : I needn

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I acquired an 11

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Back in 2004, Christopher Schmitt asked me to share a CSS panel at SXSW alongside

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Now is a Great Time to be Unfundable : Bryce Roberts, venture capitalist: Wherever the

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Dropbox for Teams : Shared storage quotas, centralized administration, and

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Which Video DSLR to Buy? : Nobody does video DSLR reviews like Philip Bloom. Always extensive, and always with extraordinary sample videos. (Related, I

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Back Online : Mark Wyner

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Spacelog : This is fascinating. Original NASA transcripts from early space exploration. The transcript formatting reads like blog comments or a Twitter conversation. Every comment has a permanent URI

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One of the things I

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The Short Review The Boxee Box is a well made, beautiful piece of hardware that plays even large mkv files without complaining. However, it has a mass of regressions from the beta version: missing functionality, downgraded UI aesthetics & usability and online content is given more importance than your own files. All issues I have with Boxee Box are potentially solvable via firmware updates though! The Long Review After waiting 11 months for it be released, it was a shock when I discovered that the final Boxee Box UI had undergone so many radical changes. I cancelled my order, preferring to try the desktop software first to be sure that it still suited me as much as the beta. However, I saw some more reviews, spoke to the Boxee CEO Avner Ronen and saw his responses to the issues and felt confident again. So, the order was back on! There are many excellent reviews out there, and I will try not to cover the same ground as those, so make sure you also read: Engadget Crunchgear Matt Apps Next, let me state the conditions and criteria of this review. … Read the rest here